Inelastic Light-Scattering Study of Macromolecular Reaction Kinetics. I. The Reactions A ⇋ B and 2A ⇋ A₂

Abstract

This paper considers the effect of chemical reactions on the spectrum of light scattered from macromolecular solutions. A general formalism is developed, taking into account only diffusion and chemical reaction, using the matrix eigenvalue technique of Salsburg and coworkers. This formalism is applied to the reactions A ^B and 2A

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