Competing Reactions

GoldSim can be used to simulate competing reactions.  For example, suppose you wanted to simulate the following reaction:

     A ⇔ B

where the forward rate of reaction was kF and the reverse rate of reaction was kR.

The simulate this, you would specify a decay rate of kF for A with daughter product B, and a decay rate of kR for B with daughter product A. 

For this particular example, in a closed system at equilibrium, you would find that:

     [A]/[B] = kR /kF 

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