Bimolecular reactions effects

In the theory described above, as well as previous theoretical treatments of ET rate constants, the effect of the molecular-level diffusion process is dealt with by including it in the overall (i.e., observed) rate constant. However, a somewhat different approach to this problem has been advanced by Senda [54], who proposed a model that includes the bimolecular-reaction effect in the voltammetric theory of ET at the O/W interface. 

Osakai, T., Okamoto, M., Sugihara, T., Nakatani, K. Bimolecular-reaction effect on the rate constant of electron transfer at the oil/water interface as studied by scanning electrochemical microscopy. 

In the case of mixtures of gases of different molecular size, an adsorbent of D > 2 will effect some segregation by size. This segregation will also affect the probability of bimolecular reactions between molecules of different sizes [168]. 

It was pointed out that a bimolecular reaction can be accelerated by a catalyst just from a concentration effect. As an illustrative calculation, assume that A and B react in the gas phase with 1 1 stoichiometry and according to a bimolecular rate law, with the second-order rate constant k equal to 10 1 mol" see" at 0°C. Now, assuming that an equimolar mixture of the gases is condensed to a liquid film on a catalyst surface and the rate constant in the condensed liquid solution is taken to be the same as for the gas phase reaction, calculate the ratio of half times for reaction in the gas phase and on the catalyst surface at 0°C. Assume further that the density of the liquid phase is 1000 times that of the gas phase. 

The introductory remarks about unimolecular reactions apply equivalently to bunolecular reactions in condensed phase. An essential additional phenomenon is the effect the solvent has on the rate of approach of reactants and the lifetime of the collision complex. In a dense fluid the rate of approach evidently is detennined by the mutual difhision coefficient of reactants under the given physical conditions. Once reactants have met, they are temporarily trapped in a solvent cage until they either difhisively separate again or react. It is conmron to refer to the pair of reactants trapped in the solvent cage as an encounter complex. If the unimolecular reaction of this encounter complex is much faster than diffiisive separation i.e., if the effective reaction barrier is sufficiently small or negligible, tlie rate of the overall bimolecular reaction is difhision controlled. 

The simple difhision model of the cage effect again can be improved by taking effects of the local solvent structure, i.e. hydrodynamic repulsion, into account in the same way as discussed above for bimolecular reactions. The consequence is that the potential of mean force tends to favour escape at larger distances > 1,5R) more than it enliances caging at small distances, leading to larger overall photodissociation quantum yields [H6, 117]. 

Bimolecular reactions of peroxy radicals are not restricted to identical radicals. When both peroxy radicals are tertiary, reaction 15 is not possible. When an a-hydrogen is present, reaction 15 is generally the more effective competitor and predominates. 

These apply to a bimolecular reaction in which two reactant molecules become a single particle in the transition state. It is evident from Eqs. (6-20) and (6-21) that a change in concentration scale will result in a change in the magnitude of AG. An Arrhenius plot is, in effect, a plot of AG against 1/T. Because a change in concentration scale alters the intercept but not the slope of an Arrhenius plot, we conclude that the values of AG and A, but not of A//, depend upon the concentration scale employed for the expression of reactant concentrations. We, therefore, wish to know which concentration scale is the preferred one in the context of mechanistic interpretation, particularly of AS values. 

In agreement with the assumption of a nucleophilic bimolecular reaction, increased electron deficiency at the site of the displacement causes acceleration and vice versa. The reaction is very sensitive to substituent effects, in accordance with what is found with nitrobenzene derivatives and what is generally expected for a nuclear... 

For a better understanding of the effect of changing concentrations on the rate of a chemical reaction, it helps to visualize the reaction at the molecular level. In this one-step bimolecular reaction, a collision between molecules that are in the proper orientation leads to the transfer of an oxygen atom from O3 to NO. As with the formation of N2 O4, the rate of this bimolecular reaction is proportional to the number of collisions between O3 and NO. The more such collisions there are, the faster the reaction occurs. 

The reaction between V+ cation and CO2 is quite interesting, as it demonstrates the effect of spin on an exothermic reaction, and how spin effects differ between a bimolecular reaction and a photoinduced half-reaction. It also shows how photoexcitation can be used to influence the products of the chemical reaction. The V + CO2 reaction is exothermic ... 

Note that/y is time-dependent through the b factors. In the absence of reactions, b2 varies linearly with time as b2 = 2r2 + 4Dt. Because of bimolecular reactions, it must increase somewhat faster to account for the reduction of central density. Schwarz takes this effect into account by writing db2/dt = 4D. + /).( ) and devises an approximate procedure to evaluate /) by separating the contributions due to different reactions—namely,... 

Productive bimolecular reactions of the ion radicals in the contact ion pair can effectively compete with the back electron transfer if either the cation radical or the anion radical undergoes a rapid reaction with an additive that is present during electron-transfer activation. For example, the [D, A] complex of an arene donor with nitrosonium cation exists in the equilibrium with a low steady-state concentration of the radical pair, which persists indefinitely. However, the introduction of oxygen rapidly oxidizes even small amounts of nitric oxide to compete with back electron transfer and thus successfully effects aromatic nitration80 (Scheme 16). 

The multidipole interaction in a bimolecular reaction arises if one or both reactants contain several polar groups [31]. The multidipole effect shows itself as a deviation of the rate constant for the addition of a polar radical to a polyfunctional compound (calculated in... 

The mechanism of antioxidant action on the oxidation of carbon-chain polymers is practically the same as that of hydrocarbon oxidation (see Chapters 14 and 15 and monographs [29 10]). The peculiarities lie in the specificity of diffusion and the cage effect in polymers. As described earlier, the reaction of peroxyl radicals with phenol occurs more slowly in the polymer matrix than in the liquid phase. This is due to the influence of the polymeric rigid cage on a bimolecular reaction (see earlier). The values of rate constants of macromolecular peroxyl radicals with phenols are collected in Table 19.7. 

Polymer media influences the activation energy of the bimolecular reaction and causes the effect of reactivity leveling (see earlier)... 

Photosensitization of diaryliodonium salts by anthracene occurs by a photoredox reaction in which an electron is transferred from an excited singlet or triplet state of the anthracene to the diaryliodonium initiator.13"15,17 The lifetimes of the anthracene singlet and triplet states are on the order of nanoseconds and microseconds respectively, and the bimolecular electron transfer reactions between the anthracene and the initiator are limited by the rate of diffusion of reactants, which in turn depends upon the system viscosity. In this contribution, we have studied the effects of viscosity on the rate of the photosensitization reaction of diaryliodonium salts by anthracene. Using steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy, we have characterized the photosensitization rate in propanol/glycerol solutions of varying viscosities. The results were analyzed using numerical solutions of the photophysical kinetic equations in conjunction with the mathematical relationships provided by the Smoluchowski16 theory for the rate constants of the diffusion-controlled bimolecular reactions. 

A survey of micellar effects on chemical and photochemical reactions 282 Quantitative treatment of micelle-assisted bimolecular reactions 295 References 299 Notes added in proof 309... 

These uncertainties as to the location of ions such as OH- or F" cast doubt on the validity of the quantitative models which are used to treat micellar rate effects. The problem is less serious for reactions of less hydrophilic ions which bind strongly and specifically to micelles, and it should be relatively unimportant for bimolecular reactions of non-ionic reagents. It is probable also that the volume element of reaction decreases as the concentration of ionic reagent is increased, which would speed reaction. 

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