For 10 points, name this energy lowered by catalysts and which reactants must surpass in order to become products.
The 1992 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Rudolph Marcus, added a reorganization parameter, lambda, to this quantity, which allows for charge conservation. Bligaard et al. showed that volcano curves result from the fact that this quantity, for many molecules in dissociative chemisorption, depends linearly on the reaction energy as specified by the Brønsted -Lowry-Polanyi equation. The Elovich equation gives the rate of adsorption when temperature and this factor are held constant. Marcus relates the standard free energy of a reaction with this type of free energy. A pre-exponential (*) steric factor is raised to an exponent of this quantity divided by the gas constant times temperature to give the reaction rate constant in the Arrhenius equation. For 10 points, name this energy lowered by catalysts and which reactants must surpass in order to become products.
The 1992 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, Rudolph Marcus, added a reorganization parameter, lambda, to this quantity, which allows for charge conservation.
activation energy