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A treatment is developed by means of which it is possible to calculate an equilibrium constant for the formation of a collision complex from a pair of chemically interacting atoms. For iodine atoms, this leads to a value of the rate constant for I+I+M→I2+M, if the mechanism is 2I⇌I2*(1Σ), I2*+M→I2+M. The rate constant so calculated agrees with that obtained by a statistical procedure J. Keck, J. Chem. Phys. 29, 410 (1958). The calculation also furnishes enough information about the mechanical details of collisions so that the contribution of molecular states other than 1Σ to recombination may be deduced. As a result a fairly conclusive discussion may be given of the plausibility of the various detailed mechanisms thus far suggested. A most likely mechanism and a possible calculation based on it are proposed.
Don L. Bunker (Fri,) studied this question.
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