STUDIES ON THE TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTY OF POTENTIAL ENERGY PROFILE OF ELEMENTARY REACTIONS

摘要

In the present paper cusp catastrophe is used to model the topological property of poten-tial energy profile of elementary reactions, and four typical situations, which can be trans-formed into two types, have been systematically analyzed with 58 independent elementaryreactions. The main results obtained here are （i） the concept of activation energy is brieflydiscussed and extended; （ii） the reaction O+ CO→CO₂ is found to belong to type Ⅳ, not totype Ⅰ;and （iii） there may be some special correlation between α₁ and α₂. Finally the neces-sary discussions are carried out.