Comment on "reaction coordinates and pathways of mechanochemical transformations"

Abstract

The adiabatic potential energy surface (PES) is a basic concept of many theoretical chemistry models. Over the past several years, the phenomena of the action of a mechanical stress over a molecular system have motivated experimental and theoretical research. In a recent article, Avdoshenko and Makarov1 describe how the concepts of an effective PES and of a reaction path (RP), or a reaction coordinate, can be used for mechanochemistry.