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The 68 pages that link to Catalysis, each with the reason it gives.

• Chemical bondRelated: Catalysts alter the pathways and energetic costs of breaking and forming bonds.

• Chemical kineticsRelated: Catalysts change reaction pathways and lower kinetic barriers without changing equilibrium.

• Chemical reactionRelated: Catalysts provide alternative pathways with lower activation barriers.

• Transition stateRelated: Catalysts accelerate reactions by providing pathways with lower-energy transition states.

• Organic synthesisRelated: Catalysts can improve reaction rates, selectivity, and resource efficiency.

• Transition metalRelated: Transition metals can bind reactants and access changing oxidation states along reaction pathways.

• Organic chemistryRelated: Catalysts make many organic reactions faster, more selective, or possible under milder conditions.

• Activation energyRelated: Catalysts provide pathways with lower activation barriers.

• Green chemistryRelated: Catalysts can improve selectivity and reduce reagent, energy, and waste demands.

• Density functional theoryRelated: Surface calculations use density functional theory to compare catalytic reaction steps and binding energies.

• Reaction mechanismRelated: A catalyst changes the available mechanism by providing a pathway with a lower activation barrier.

• AbiogenesisRelated: Catalysts could make prebiotic reaction networks fast and selective enough to persist.

• BASFRelated: BASF makes catalysts for chemical manufacturing and emissions control.

• Jöns Jacob BerzeliusRelated: Berzelius coined the term for the action he called catalytic force.

• Chemical industryRelated: Catalysts make many industrial reactions faster, more selective, and less energy-intensive.

• Chemical reactivityRelated: Catalysts change reaction pathways and rates without changing the reactants’ identities.

• Chemical recyclingRelated: Catalysts can steer breakdown reactions toward chosen products and milder conditions.

• PeroxidesRelated: Metal ions and enzymes can accelerate peroxide decomposition or redirect its reactions.

• Surface-area-to-volume ratioRelated: Porous catalysts expose large active surface areas relative to the amount of material.

• Wilhelm OstwaldRelated: Ostwald investigated catalysts and helped give catalysis a quantitative foundation.

• Chemical decompositionRelated: Catalysts can accelerate decomposition without being consumed in the overall reaction.

• Chemical inertnessRelated: Catalysts can make reactions proceed even when uncatalyzed pathways are too slow to detect.

• ChemistryRelated: Catalysts change reaction pathways and rates without being consumed overall.

• Atom economyRelated: Catalysis can enable pathways with fewer unwanted products and improved material efficiency.

• ChemisorptionRelated: Chemisorption can bind reactants to catalytic surfaces and alter reaction rates.

• PhysisorptionRelated: Catalytic surface reactions often involve chemisorption, unlike adsorption that remains purely physical.

• Rate-determining stepRelated: Catalysts change pathway barriers and can shift which step controls turnover.

• Noble metalRelated: Gold, platinum, and palladium catalyze reactions while resisting destructive chemical change.

• Organic reactionRelated: Catalysts offer alternative pathways that can change rates and product selectivity.

• Reversible reactionRelated: A catalyst speeds both directions and does not change the equilibrium composition.

• Group 10 elementRelated: Nickel, palladium, and platinum surfaces and compounds catalyze many industrial reactions.

• NanostructuresRelated: Nanostructures can expose many reactive surface sites per unit mass.

• Crystallographic defectRelated: Defect sites can expose reactive atoms or alter surface electronic structure.

• Friedrich BergiusRelated: Catalysts helped make hydrogenation of coal practical at high pressure.

• Group 11 elementRelated: Copper, silver, and gold surfaces catalyze reactions in industrial and laboratory settings.

• Pre-exponential factorRelated: Catalysts can alter prefactors as well as activation energies.

• Activated complexRelated: Catalysts change reaction pathways and lower the barrier to the activated complex.

• Surface analysis (materials science)Related: Catalytic activity depends on surface composition, adsorbates, and active sites.

• Chemical phenomenaRelated: Catalysts can make otherwise slow chemical phenomena proceed at observable rates.

• Plug flow reactor modelRelated: Plug-flow balances predict conversion in continuous catalytic reactors.

• Reaction rate constantRelated: Catalysts commonly increase observed rate constants by providing lower-barrier pathways.