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Investigating a reactive chemical system with automated reaction network exploration algorithms provides a more detailed picture of its chemical mechanism than what would be accessible by manual investigation. In general, exploration…
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Requirements are formulated for a reaction kinetics package to be useful for an as wide as possible circle of users and illustrated with examples using ReactionKinetics, a Mathematica based package.
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