An important and increasingly popular aspect of inorganic chemistry focuses on reaction pathways.

These parameters depend on the molecular rate constants in the reaction pathway.

Several reaction pathways and their rates still have to be explored, and these could radically alter the model calculations.

In the laboratory only reactants and products can generally be obtained, yielding little information about the nature of a reaction pathway.

The ability to observe intermediate steps in a reaction pathway is one of the attractive features of this technology.

A catalyst works by providing an alternative reaction pathway to the reaction product.

This action stabilizes the enediol intermediate and the other transition states on the reaction pathway.

This reaction pathway, when allowed to go to completion (complete deacetylation) yields up to 98% product.

The presence of an electrocatalyst could facilitate either of the reaction pathways.

Figure 5 is a more general scheme of the reaction pathway from serotonin to melatonin.