Kinetics, chemical first-order

CHEMICAL KINETICS First-order rate behavior, AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION FIRST-ORDER REACTION KINETICS ORDER OF REACTION HALF-LIFE... 

ORDER OF REACTION MOLECULARITY CHEMICAL KINETICS FIRST-ORDER REACTIONS RATE CONSTANTS... 

FIGURE 5.40 Schematic representation of the concentration of a chemical in the plasma as a function of time after an intravenous injection if the body acts as a one-compartment system and elimination of the chemical obeys first-order kinetics with a rate constant... 

In order to predict the effect of a mixture of chemicals with the same target receptor, but with different nonlinear dose-effect relationships, either physiological or mathematical modeling can be applied. For interactions between chemicals and a target receptor or enzyme, the Michaelis-Menten kinetics (first order kinetics but with saturation) are often applicable. This kind of action can then be considered a special case of similar combined action (dose addition). 

Both complexes 75 and 76 promote the hydrolysis of urea in a two-step process with the same initial rates (118). Heating of 75 or 76 in acetonitrile solution produced ammonia with kinetic first-order dependence on complex concentration and an observed rate constant of (7.7 0.5) x 10 " h to yield a cyanate complex as the reaction product. It remains unclear, however, which binding mode of urea (terminal or bridging as found in 76) facilitates the ehmination reaction. Ammonia elimination from the O bound terminal substrate appears to be in accordance with quantum chemical studies on that model system (34). Although no crystals could be obtained for the cyanate-containing reaction product, an analogous complex (77) with virtually identical Vas(OCN) (as = asymmetric) vibration (at 2164cm )... 

Salnikov specifically reported multiple singular points and a limit cycle establishing the existence of oscillations in chemical reactions. Bilous and Amundson (1955) referred to Salnikov s (1948) paper as the first work where periodic phenomenon in reaction systems was discussed. They also indicated that a reaction A -> B in CSTR is irreversible, exothermic, and kinetically first order. Considering mass balance and heat balance equations it is known that at the steady states, the heat consumption... 

In chemical kinetics, reaction orders are the most important parameters in determining reaction mechanisms. Reaction orders were first introduced into electrode kinetics by Vetter (64). For determination of reaction orders, double layer effects are suppressed by working in excess of supporting electrolyte and rates are compared at constant electrode potential V (i.e., constant potential drop across the metal-solution interface) as a function of concentration. Then,... 

Generalized first-order kinetics have been extensively reviewed in relation to teclmical chemical applications [59] and have been discussed in the context of copolymerization [53]. From a theoretical point of view, the general class of coupled kinetic equation (A3.4.138) and equation (A3.4.139) is important, because it allows for a general closed-fomi solution (in matrix fomi) [49]. Important applications include the Pauli master equation for statistical mechanical systems (in particular gas-phase statistical mechanical kinetics) [48] and the investigation of certain simple reaction systems [49, ]. It is the basis of the many-level treatment of... 

General first-order kinetics also play an important role for the so-called local eigenvalue analysis of more complicated reaction mechanisms, which are usually described by nonlinear systems of differential equations. Linearization leads to effective general first-order kinetics whose analysis reveals infomiation on the time scales of chemical reactions, species in steady states (quasi-stationarity), or partial equilibria (quasi-equilibrium) [M, and ]. 

In classical kinetics, intemiolecular exchange processes are quite different from the uniniolecular, first-order kinetics associated with intramolecular exchange. However, the NMR of chemical exchange can still be treated as pseudo-first-order kinetics, and all the previous results apply. One way of rationalizing this is as... 

How does one monitor a chemical reaction tliat occurs on a time scale faster tlian milliseconds The two approaches introduced above, relaxation spectroscopy and flash photolysis, are typically used for fast kinetic studies. Relaxation metliods may be applied to reactions in which finite amounts of botli reactants and products are present at final equilibrium. The time course of relaxation is monitored after application of a rapid perturbation to tire equilibrium mixture. An important feature of relaxation approaches to kinetic studies is that tire changes are always observed as first order kinetics (as long as tire perturbation is relatively small). This linearization of tire observed kinetics means... 

A second requirement is that the rate law for the chemical reaction must be known for the period in which measurements are made. In addition, the rate law should allow the kinetic parameters of interest, such as rate constants and concentrations, to be easily estimated. For example, the rate law for a reaction that is first order in the concentration of the analyte. A, is expressed as... 

The first detailed investigation of the reaction kinetics was reported in 1984 (68). The reaction of bis(pentachlorophenyl) oxalate [1173-75-7] (PCPO) and hydrogen peroxide cataly2ed by sodium saUcylate in chlorobenzene produced chemiluminescence from diphenylamine (DPA) as a simple time—intensity profile from which a chemiluminescence decay rate constant could be determined. These studies demonstrated a first-order dependence for both PCPO and hydrogen peroxide and a zero-order dependence on the fluorescer in accord with an earher study (9). Furthermore, the chemiluminescence quantum efficiencies Qc) are dependent on the ease of oxidation of the fluorescer, an unstable, short-hved intermediate (r = 0.5 /is) serves as the chemical activator, and such a short-hved species "is not consistent with attempts to identify a relatively stable dioxetane as the intermediate" (68). 

As with the case of energy input, detergency generally reaches a plateau after a certain wash time as would be expected from a kinetic analysis. In a practical system, each of its numerous components has a different rate constant, hence its rate behavior generally does not exhibit any simple pattern. Many attempts have been made to fit soil removal (50) rates in practical systems to the usual rate equations of physical chemistry. The rate of soil removal in the Launder-Ometer could be reasonably well described by the equation of a first-order chemical reaction, ie, the rate was proportional to the amount of removable soil remaining on the fabric (51,52). In a study of soil removal rates from artificially soiled fabrics in the Terg-O-Tometer, the percent soil removal increased linearly with the log of cumulative wash time. 

In addition to the elimination rate constant, the half-life (T/i) another important parameter that characterizes the time-course of chemical compounds in the body. The elimination half-life (t-1/2) is the time to reduce the concentration of a chemical in plasma to half of its original level. The relationship of half-life to the elimination rate constant is ti/2 = 0.693/ki,i and, therefore, the half-life of a chemical compound can be determined after the determination of k j from the slope of the line. The half-life can also be determined through visual inspection from the log C versus time plot (Fig. 5.40). For compounds that are eliminated through first-order kinetics, the time required for the plasma concentration to be decreased by one half is constant. It is impottant to understand that the half-life of chemicals that are eliminated by first-order kinetics is independent of dose. ... 

It then also follows that the rate constant for a first-order reaction, whether or not the solvent is involved, is also independent of ionic strength. This statement is true at ionic strengths low enough for the Debye-Huckel equation to hold. At higher ionic strengths, predictions cannot be made about reactions of any order because all of the kinetic effects can be expected to show chemical specificity. 

Parallel reactions, 58-64, 129 Partitioning ratios, 79 Perturbation (see Chemical relaxation) pH profiles, 139-145 bell-shaped, 141-142 Phosphorous acid, oxidation of, 186-187 Physical methods for kinetics, 22-25 end point reading unknown, 25-28 sample calculation for, first-order,... 

The turnover time may be thought of as the time it would take to empty the reservoir if the sink (S) remained constant while the sources were zero (tqS = M). This time scale is also sometimes referred fo as "renewal time" or "flushing fime." In the common case when the sink is proportional to the reservoir content (S = kM), the turnover time is the inverse of the proportionality constant (k ), which is analogous to first-order chemical kinetics. 

P. G. Seybold, L. B. Kier, and C.-K. Cheng, Simulation of first-order chemical kinetics using cellular automata. 7 Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1997, 37, 386-391. 

Some chemical reactions also obey first-order kinetics. Isomerization and racemization reactions are normally first-order. Note that whereas nuclear... 

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