Equation 3 · Part 7 · How Chemical Dynamics and Catalysis Actually Work
Starting index or lower bound: j
What this part means
This label says where the repeated addition, multiplication, or accumulation starts. Read its value or condition together with the article’s description of the index.
Its job in the formula
j appears in the bound of this sum. The bound states where the repeated operation starts, ends, or which values it includes.
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The passage around this formula
When a reaction can plausibly form more than one product — partial versus complete oxidation, a straight-chain versus branched hydrocarbon, hydrogen versus oxygen evolution as a side reaction — “selectivity” names which pathway wins, and IUPAC defines it with no vocabulary that presumes anything about the catalyst’s intent: fractional selectivity for a given product is the extent-of-reaction rate toward that product divided by the sum of rates toward all products, = / , and relative selectivity between two products is simply the ratio of their two rates [ 2 ] . Selectivity is therefore a kinetic competition among simultaneous pathways, decided by which transition state…
Learn the underlying idea
Σ adds a collection of terms. Π multiplies them. The lower and upper labels tell you which terms belong to the collection.
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