A wave‐packet analysis is used to cast Slater's ``new approach'' to unimolecular rate theory into quantum form. Qualitative information about the pressure dependence of unimolecular rate constants is obtained, and the activation energy is found to be consistent with Tolman's interpretation.
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(a) N. B. Slater, Theory of Unimolecular Reactions (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1959);
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