{"term":{"id":"00146","title":"adiabatic transition-state theory","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - adiabatic transition-state theory","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.A00146","code":"A00146","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"A form of transition-state theory in which the system is assumed to preserve its internal quantum states as it moves over the potential-energy surface. A detailed state-to-state scattering theory version of adiabatic transition-state theory has been referred to as the adiabatic channel model.","links":[{"term":"adiabatic","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/A00141"},{"term":"channel","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/C00970"},{"term":"potential-energy surface","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/P04780"},{"term":"scattering","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/S05487"},{"term":"transition-state theory","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/T06470"}],"sources":["PAC, 1996, 68, 149. 'A glossary of terms used in chemical kinetics, including reaction dynamics (IUPAC Recommendations 1996)' on page 152 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac199668010149)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/A00146\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/A00146\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/A00146\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'adiabatic transition-state theory' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.A00146","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-06-30T20:18:07+00:00"}}