Abstract
Regional density functional theory has been extended to treat irreversible thermodynamic electronic processes for application to adiabatic electron-transfer processes of chemical reactions. Onsager's local equilibrium hypothesis is slightly modified to take into account the quantum mechanical nature of the electron. The quantum mechanical interference effect has been demonstrated to be included in the entropy production rate formula associated with electron transfer through an interface. A new formula for the determination of the transition state of a chemical reaction has been postulated that corresponds to the maximum of the regional electron transferability. A quantum mechanical law of mass action has been established and applied to prove the regional electrochemical potential inequality principle.
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