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In keeping with the spirit of wiki and wikipedia as I see it, as much detail as you can pump out is encouraged. Put it out there, and if necessary, it can be refactored later. The concern I have about where to focus on reaction mechanisms is that, phenomologically, catalysis can happen, and be observed, without any reference to reaction mechanisms--you throw some stuff in, and the reaction goes faster. Understanding what a catalyst *is* doesn't *require* much of an understanding of molecularity--look at biological catalysis for examples of just how widely this is true, where the reaction mechanisms are beyond the current ken of people who've been working on the problems for ages. Even so, they can observe and quantititate the rates with/without catalyst, with just bulk stoichiometry. Granted, if you want to understand what the catalyst is doing beyond speeding the reaction, you need to get into molecular detail, and using reaction mechanisms to model happens is key to that. Anyway, as with open source code, he who writes the stuff determines where it goes (at least, initially). Just my 2 cents. You're putting some great stuff in here, so don't let my quibbling get in the way of that. --dja |
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