In an elementary process, a species having sufficient energy to become an
activated complex, but which does not have the structure of the
activated complex. If it is not inactivated by collisions it can become an
activated complex and pass at once into products, after undergoing vibration.
Source:
PAC, 1996, 68, 149
(A glossary of terms used in chemical kinetics, including reaction dynamics (IUPAC
Recommendations 1996))
on page 164
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