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→CO_2 is found to belong to type Ⅳ, not totype Ⅰ;and (iii) there may be some special correlation between α_1 and α_2. Finally the neces-sary discussions are carried out.
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→CO<sub>2</sub> is found to belong to type Ⅳ, not totype Ⅰ;and （iii） there may be some special correlation between α<sub>1</sub> and α<sub>2</sub>. Finally the neces-sary discussions are carried out.
基金
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
