Arrhenius equation 337 conformation

Other factors that can impact these constants relate to reaction solution conditions. We have already discussed how temperature can affect the value of kCM and kcJKM according to the Arrhenius equation (vide supra). Because enzymes are composed of proteins, and proteins undergo thermal denaturation, there are limits on the range of temperature over which enzymes are stable and therefore conform to Arrhenius-like behavior. The practical aspects of the dependence of reaction velocity on temperature are discussed briefly in Chapter 4, and in greater detail in Copeland (2000). 

Clement s constants for the different temperatures conform in a satisfactory manner to the Arrhenius equation, the value of E being approximately 26,000 calories. 

Effect of Temperature. Several studies have shown that the kinetics of contaminant reduction in batch experiments exhibit temperature dependencies that conform to the Arrhenius equation [86,87,132,159,160]. Thus, we can write the following expression relating the rate constants at 7) and T2 (in °K) ... 

The evaluation of kinetic barrier heights (21-105 kJ mol-1) from the temperature dependence of rates has been one of the most important contributions of DNMR to conformational processes. However, only a handful of these studies have addressed gas-phase processes, mainly due to the need for instrumentation improvements just recently achieved as described above. It has become customary to discuss exchange processes in terms of the Arrhenius equation and transition state theory (TST) of reaction rates [57] which is summarized by the Eyring equation. The Arrhenius equation in the following form is used to obtain the activation energy ( act) and frequency factor (A) from the slope and intercept,... 

Thermodynamically, metallic aluminum has a high chemical energy of 788.61 kJ/g [1]. We propose a new system for the treatment of waste aluminum. In previous paper, we demonstrated that aluminum powder can react with water at normal pressure to generate hydrogen, and the temperature dependence of the generation rate conforms to the Arrhenius equation with an activation energy of 69 kJ/mol [2]. The coproduction of hydrogen and aluminum hydroxide from... 

So long as there are no indications that the rate constant may be pressure dependent it is usually assumed that it conforms to equation (3.2). When n = 0 equation (3.2) reduces to the Arrhenius equation and will give a linear plot of In k vs. l/T. In practice, n takes on small positive values leading to a degree of curvature of the Arrhenius plot which becomes more pronounced as 1/T becomes smaller. At temperatures less than approximately 1000 K the curvature is usually difficult to detect experimentally at the current precision of measurement. 

Experimentally determined In k for a given temperature can be substituted into these two equations if the chemical system is expected to conform to both the Arrhenius equation and the compensation law (Lasaga 1998). 

Variational transition state theory (VTST) is useful when no TS can be explicitly identified (for Morse-like potential, e.g., direct bond dissociation), where there is no TS. It is based on the idea that there is a bottleneck in the phase space during the dissociatioa This can be explained by the fact that during the dissociation process the molecule needs to reach at a certain point a very specific conformation, without which it cannot go further to disassociate. The Arrhenius equation can be written in terms of exponential of Gibbs free energy and exponential of entropy, which characterize the nmnber of distinct states reachable with that amount of energy. 

We can see that the shape of the curve for 2,4-pentanediol does not conform to the Arrhenius equation, and the fit with the VFT equation shows a very good agreement. The dielectric relaxa-... 

Since the side group movement involves just a conformational change of a pendant group, it will not require additional volume and so more closely exhibits the characteristics of a simple thermally activated process. Likewise the Hbration movement (discussed in Chapter 5), which starts at temperatures below the main glass to rubber transition, has smaller volume requirements, and so again more closely follows the Arrhenius equation. 

These simple conformational processes are thermally activated and follow the simple Arrhenius equation.They are not limited by deficiencies in free volume, as the cyclohexyl case exemplifies. However, since they have a very low activation energy barrier, the Arrhenius plot has a very low slope and the transition temperature does vary significantly with the rate or timescale of the observation or use. 

Kinetic information on the molecular conformational change can be extracted from dynamic mechanical studies, as described in Chapter 10, from the closely related acoustic relaxation experiments described in Chapter 11, and from dielectric relaxation covered in Chapter 12. In all of these, the observation of a transition in the frequency dependence of the property under study yields a relaxation time for the molecular process. This in turn transforms into the kinetics of the movement. Again, the activation energy associated with the conformational change is obtained from the effect of temperature on the relaxation time, using either the Arrhenius equation or a related analysis. 

The thermal variation of enzymatic reaction rate constants conform to the well known Arrhenius equation k = A e-VRT where A, E, R and T represent the frequency fador, the adivation energy, the gas constant and the absolute temperature, respectively k may be any one of the Michaelis-Menten and/ or other enzymatic mechanism rate constants, and thus its value could be generally evaluated. The thermo stability of enzymatic adivity is a prerequisite and it should be tested by incubating enzyme preparations for suffident time at as possible high and/or low temperatures, and then by measuring their adivity at the optimum... 

Show that the values conform to the Arrhenius equation, with negative activation energy values. 

For polymer fibers, the internal energy-cotrtrolled elasticity has an instantaneous nature since it involves the rapid changes of bond lengths and angles. However, the conformational or entropic changes are processes that ate sensitive to the local molecular mobility. This molecular mobility is affected by many factors, such as polymer chain stmcture, temperature, or absorbed moisture or other small molecules, etc. The rates of conformational changes can be described by the Arrhenius equation ... 

A further example of the use of this technique to introduce a ferrocene redox centre to a platinum surface is given in equation (32). A comparative survey was made of the rates of heterogeneous charge transfer between the platinum electrode and ferrocene both in solution and immobilized on the surface. Both processes show an Arrhenius temperature dependence but AGact(soIii) / A( ACT(surface bound). Absolute rate theory was unsatisfactory for the surface reaction and the need to involve electron tunnelling and a specific model for the conformation of the surface was indicated.66... 

Equation 10.4 is obtained by successive insertions of Equations 10.2 and 10.3 into Equation 10.1. The rate constant kof Equation 10.4 can also be written in the form of Equation 10.5 which is the Arrhenius law. In addition, one can rewrite the equilibrium constant Keq of the conformer equilibrium B C as Equation 10.6, which relates Kto the energy difference... 

The Narayanaswamy expression fits volumetric relaxation data well over a range of temperatures for some glass formers (Rekhson et al. 1971 Mazurin 1977 Scherer 1992). But the equation has been criticized for its lack of a physical basis, as well as for its prediction of an Arrhenius temperature-dependence of the relaxation time at equilibrium. Furthermore, near the glass transition, the best-fit value of A // is much larger than the activation energy of the relevant molecular conformational transitions. 

Reactions conforming to Equation (31) have Arrhenius correlations (log versus 1/7) for rate constants of the reaction of each substituent which pass through a single point at the isokinetic temperature (T). Thus at 7" = Tj the value of p would be zero and the sign of p would reverse as the isokinetic temperature is traversed. 

Karel and Go (20) also investigated the effect of temperature on the rate of respiration and assumed Equation 7 to be R0 = f(c(02), T). They found that at a given oxygen concentration level, temperature dependence of respiration rate conformed to the Arrhenius type equation. 

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