Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry
Energy profile:
A plot of the progress of
reactants
to
products
(the
reaction coordinate
) versus energy (
Gibbs free energy
G
or
enthalpy
H
).
Energy profile for the
S
N
2
reaction of
methyl iodide
with
methoxide ion
.
Related terms:
Transition state
,
activation energy
,
E
a
,
E
act
,
Δ
G
,
Δ
G
++
,
exothermic
,
exergonic
,
endothermic
,
endergonic
,
thermodynamically spontaneous
,
K
eq
,
equilibrium constant
,
reaction rate
,
reactant
,
reaction coordinate
,
product
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