Preferred Label : concerted process;
IUPAC definition : Two or more primitive changes are said to be concerted (or to constitute a concerted
process) if they occur within the same elementary reaction. Such changes will normally
(though perhaps not inevitably) be 'energetically coupled'. (In the present context
the term 'energetically coupled' means that the simultaneous progress of the primitive
changes involves a transition state of lower energy than that for their successive
occurrence.) In a concerted process the primitive changes may be synchronous or asynchronous.;
Origin ID : C01234;
See also
Two or more primitive changes are said to be concerted (or to constitute a concerted
process) if they occur within the same elementary reaction. Such changes will normally
(though perhaps not inevitably) be 'energetically coupled'. (In the present context
the term 'energetically coupled' means that the simultaneous progress of the primitive
changes involves a transition state of lower energy than that for their successive
occurrence.) In a concerted process the primitive changes may be synchronous or asynchronous.
