Chemical Quantities in Reactions

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Environmental scientists monitor environmental pollution to protect the health of the public. By using specialized equipment, environmental scientists 

When we know the balanced chemical equation for a reaction, we can determine the mole and mass relationships between the reactants and products. Then we use molar masses to calculate the quantities of substances used or produced in a particular reaction. We do much the same thing at home when we use a recipe to make a cake or add the right quantity of water to make soup. In the manufacturing of chemical compounds, side reactions decrease the percent of product obtained. From the actual amount of product, we can determine the percent yield for a reaction. Knowing how to determine the quantitative results of a chemical reaction is essential to chemists, engineers, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and other scientists and health professionals. 

Given a quantity in moles of reactant or product, use a mole-mole factor from the balanced equation to calculate the number of moles of another substance In the reaction. 

In any chemical reaction, the total amount of matter in the reactants is equal to the total amount of matter in the products. Thus, the total mass of all the reactants must be equal to the total mass of all the products. This is known as the law of conservation of mass, which states that there is no change in the total mass of the substances reacting in a balanced chemical reaction. Thus, no material is lost or gained as original substances are changed to new substances. 

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Chapter 9, Chemical Quantities in Reactions, describes the mole and mass relationships among the reactants and products and provides calculations of limiting reactants and percent yields. A section on Energy in Chemical Reactions completes the chapter. 

The numerical relationship between chemical quantities in a balanced chemical equation is called reachon stoichiometry. Stoichiometry allows us to predict the amounts of products that form in a chemical reaction based on the amounts of reactants. Stoichiometry also allows us to predict how much of the reactants are necessary to form a given amoxmt of product, or how much of one reactant is required to completely react with another reactant. These calculations are central to chemistry, allowing chemists to plan and carry out chemical reactions to obtain products in the desired quantities. 

Chapter 7, Chemical Quantities and Reactions, introduces moles and molar masses of compounds, which are used in calculations to determine the mass or number of particles in a given quantity. Students leam to balance chemical equations and to recognize the types of chemical reactions combination, decomposition, single replacement, double replacement, and combustion reactions. Section 7.5 discusses Oxidation-Reduction Reactions using real-life examples, including biological reactions. Section... 

In the dyestuff industry, anthraquinone still ranks high as an intermediate for the production of dyes and pigments having properties unattainable by any other class of dyes or pigments. Its cost is relatively high and will remain so because of the equipment and operations involved in its manufacture. As of May 1991, anthraquinone sold for 4.4/kg in ton quantities. In the United States and abroad, anthraquinone is manufactured by a few large chemical companies (62). At present, only two processes for its production come into consideration manufacture by the Friedel-Crafts reaction utilizing benzene, phthahc anhydride, and anhydrous aluminum chloride, and by the vapor-phase catalytic oxidation of anthracene the latter method is preferred. 

Although time as a physical or philosophical concept is an extremely subtle quantity, in chemical kinetics we adopt a fairly primitive notion of time as a linear fourth dimension (the first three being spatial dimensions) whose initial value (t = 0) can be set by the experimenter (for example, by mixing two reactant solutions) and whose extent is accurately measurable in standard units. The time dimension persists as a variable until the experimenter stops observing the reaction, or until... 

If the definition of work is limited to mechanical work, an interesting simplification is possible. In this case, AE is merely the heat exchanged at constant volume. This is so because if the volume is constant, no mechanical work can be done on or by the system. Then AE = q. Thus AE is a very useful quantity in constant volume processes. However, chemical and especially biochemical processes and reactions are much more likely to be carried out at constant pressure. In constant pressure processes, AE is not necessarily equal to the heat transferred. For this reason, chemists and biochemists have defined a function that is especially suitable for constant pressure processes. It is called the enthalpy, H, and it is defined as... 

It is reasonable to expeet that models in ehemistry should be capable of giving thermodynamic quantities to chemical accuracy. In this text, the phrase thermodynamic quantities means enthalpy changes A//, internal energy changes AU, heat capacities C, and so on, for gas-phase reactions. Where necessary, the gases are assumed ideal. The calculation of equilibrium constants and transport properties is also of great interest, but I don t have the space to deal with them in this text. Also, the term chemical accuracy means that we should be able to calculate the usual thermodynamic quantities to the same accuracy that an experimentalist would measure them ( 10kJmol ). 

Almost all types of cell can be used to convert an added compound into another compound, involving many forms of enzymatic reaction including dehydration, oxidation, hydroxyla-tion, animation, isomerisation, etc. These types of conversion have advantages over chemical processes in that the reaction can be very specific, and produced at moderate temperatures. Examples of transformations using enzymes include the production of steroids, conversion of antibiotics and prostaglandins. Industrial transformation requires the production of large quantities of enzyme, but the half-life of enzymes can be improved by immobilisation and extraction simplified by the use of whole cells. 

Trace-gas Lifetimes. The time scales for tropospheric chemical reactivity depend upon the hydroxyl radical concentration [HO ] and upon the rate of the HO/trace gas reaction, which generally represents the slowest or rate-determining chemical step in the removal of an individual, insoluble, molecular species. These rates are determined by the rate constant, e,g. k2s for the fundamental reaction with HO, a quantity that in general must be determined experimentally. The average lifetime of a trace gas T removed solely by its reaction with HO,... 

In addition to chemical reactions, the isokinetic relationship can be applied to various physical processes accompanied by enthalpy change. Correlations of this kind were found between enthalpies and entropies of solution (20, 83-92), vaporization (86, 91), sublimation (93, 94), desorption (95), and diffusion (96, 97) and between the two parameters characterizing the temperature dependence of thermochromic transitions (98). A kind of isokinetic relationship was claimed even for enthalpy and entropy of pure substances when relative values referred to those at 298° K are used (99). Enthalpies and entropies of intermolecular interaction were correlated for solutions, pure liquids, and crystals (6). Quite generally, for any temperature-dependent physical quantity, the activation parameters can be computed in a formal way, and correlations between them have been observed for dielectric absorption (100) and resistance of semiconductors (101-105) or fluidity (40, 106). On the other hand, the isokinetic relationship seems to hold in reactions of widely different kinds, starting from elementary processes in the gas phase (107) and including recombination reactions in the solid phase (108), polymerization reactions (109), and inorganic complex formation (110-112), up to such biochemical reactions as denaturation of proteins (113) and even such biological processes as hemolysis of erythrocytes (114). 

Laminar flame speed is one of the fundamental properties characterizing the global combustion rate of a fuel/ oxidizer mixture. Therefore, it frequently serves as the reference quantity in the study of the phenomena involving premixed flames, such as flammability limits, flame stabilization, blowoff, blowout, extinction, and turbulent combustion. Furthermore, it contains the information on the reaction mechanism in the high-temperature regime, in the presence of diffusive transport. Hence, at the global level, laminar flame-speed data have been widely used to validate a proposed chemical reaction mechanism. 

Hence one could say that kinetics in the 20 century widened its scope from a purely empirical description of reaction rates to a discipline which encompasses the description of reactions on all scales of relevance from interactions between molecules at the level of electrons and atoms in chemical bonds, to reactions of large quantities of matter in industrial reactors. 

Electrochemical as well as nonelectrochemical techniques are used when studying these aspects. Electrochemical techniques are commonly used, too, in chemical analysis, in determining the properties of various substances and for other purposes. The nonelectrochemical techniques include chemical (determining the identity and quantity of reaction products), radiotracer, optical, spechal, and many other physical methods. Sometimes these methods are combined with electrochemical methods for instance, when studying the optical properties of an electrode surface while this is polarized. Nonelectrochemical techniques are described in more detail in Chapter 27. 

A catalyst is a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without undergoing a permanent change in its own composition. Catalysts are often but not always noted above or below the arrow in the chemical equation. Since a small quantity of catalyst is sufficient to cause a large quantity of reaction, the amount of catalyst need not be specified it is not balanced like the reactants and products. In this manner, the equation for a common laboratory preparation of oxygen is written... 

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