[Tex/LaTex] How to write these chemical reaction equations

Question

Trying to write a thesis, and I need some reaction equations. How can I write this in LaTeX?

Answer 1

There are a couple of packages for typesetting chemistry stuff, one such is chemmacros. The equation in your image can be typeset as

\ch{S + E <>[ $k_{\mathrm{SI}}$ ][ $k_{\mathrm{IS}}$ ] E.I <>[ $k_{\mathrm{PI}}$ ][ $k_{\mathrm{IP}}$ ] P + E}

which will give

I suggest you take a look at the manual for the package. It is probably installed along with the package in your TeX distribution, and you can find it by writing texdoc chemmacros in a command prompt/terminal (or in the search field in the start menu, if you're on Windows). Or you can get it at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/chemmacros

Complete code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chemmacros}

\begin{document}
\ch{S + E <>[ $k_{\mathrm{SI}}$ ][ $k_{\mathrm{IS}}$ ] E.I <>[ $k_{\mathrm{PI}}$ ][ $k_{\mathrm{IP}}$ ] P + E}
\end{document}