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A catalyst lowers the activation energy needed for a chemical reaction to occur by providing an alternative reaction pathway involving intermediate complexes between the catalyst and reactants. This diagram shows the catalyzed reaction pathway proceeding through a transition state complex TS'-M that is only stable when bound to the catalyst, as opposed to the higher energy uncatalyzed transition state TS. The catalyst then facilitates the conversion of substrate S to product P.

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A catalyst lowers the activation energy needed for a chemical reaction to occur by providing an alternative reaction pathway involving intermediate complexes between the catalyst and reactants. This diagram shows the catalyzed reaction pathway proceeding through a transition state complex TS'-M that is only stable when bound to the catalyst, as opposed to the higher energy uncatalyzed transition state TS. The catalyst then facilitates the conversion of substrate S to product P.

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TS

E
uncatalysed

TS'-M ∆G‡

catalysed
S ‡
+ ∆Gc
M I-M I-M

S-M

∆Go

P
+
M

P-M

reaction coordinate

M'
catalyst
precursor

S
substrate

M
active rev.
[S-M] [S'-M]
catalyst
off-loop
species
P
product

[P-M] [I-M] [M'']

intermediate deactivation
product

A catalyst lowers the activation energy for a chemical reaction. Here the uncatalysed
conversion of substrate S to product P passes by way of the high-energy transition state TS.
In this case the metal catalysed version goes via a different transition state TS’, which is very
unstable in the free state but becomes viable on binding to the catalyst as TS’-M.

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