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Why is it often difficult to determine the actual pathway for a chemical reaction?

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Each step in a mechanism will have a transition state. The transition states are often very difficult to identify and during a reaction the molecules exist in this state for essentially zero time. ... It is more of a theoretical idea for the configurations the chemical species must pass through during the reaction.

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