NONEQUILIBRIUM SOLVATION IN CHEMICAL-REACTIONS .2. RATE-CONSTANT

The stochastic equations of motion describing liquid-state reaction dynamics, which were developed in the previous paper, are used herein to calculate the reaction rate constant. These equations involve the consideration of both the intrinsic chemical conversion and the solvent adjustment accompanying the conversion on the same basis. Special attention is paid to the situation where the solvent adjusts very slowly, such that it is this adjustment which controls the reaction rate. For this limiting case the effective solvation coordinate becomes the reaction coordinate.