Preferred Label : chemical reaction;
IUPAC definition : A process that results in the interconversion of chemical species. Chemical reactions
may be elementary reactions or stepwise reactions. (It should be noted that this definition
includes experimentally observable interconversions of conformers.) Detectable chemical
reactions normally involve sets of molecular entities as indicated by this definition,
but it is often conceptually convenient to use the term also for changes involving
single molecular entities (i.e. 'microscopic chemical events').;
Origin ID : C01033;
See also
A process that results in the interconversion of chemical species. Chemical reactions
may be elementary reactions or stepwise reactions. (It should be noted that this definition
includes experimentally observable interconversions of conformers.) Detectable chemical
reactions normally involve sets of molecular entities as indicated by this definition,
but it is often conceptually convenient to use the term also for changes involving
single molecular entities (i.e. 'microscopic chemical events').