Critical complex

Interactions with neighboring adsorbed molecules will influence the conformation which the critical complex will adopt. This phenomena is demonstrated in the change in the mode of adsorption of toluene on a liquid mercury surface from a flat to a vertical arrangement as the film pressure is increased (73). In the present context, the attraction of the surface for the substrate, whether chemical or physical, will cause neighboring molecules to crowd one another so that an adsorbed molecule may adopt a conformation which is different from the conformation of lowest energy in the isolated molecule. 

Although the transition state for the exchange reaction may be described as the critical complex for the conversion of the half-hydrogenated state to either a jr-complexed olefin or an eclipsed vicinal diadsorbed alkane, the stereochemistry of hydrogenation of cycloalkenes on platinum at low pressures can be understood if the transition state has a virtually saturated structure. 

BrOnsled showed the inadequacy of both the classical and the activity theories of rate of certain reactions. He proposed a new theory postulating that when ions or molecules react, they first form an unstable critical complex, which then decomposes to give the reaction products. The reaction that determines the velocity of a chemical change consists in the formation nf that unstable critical complex. 

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The theory of Bronsted16 and Bjerrum has been instrumental in correlating many different experimental facts. The formation of a critical complex, X, is assumed, which on decomposition gives the products according to the reaction... 

The equilibrium constant K for this critical complex is written accurately in terms of activities a or in terms of their equivalents, i. e., concentrations c multiplied by activity coefficients/. 

XII.2), namely, that the critical complex is always in effective equilibrium with the reacting species, we can feel justified in applying a quasi-equilibrium theory such as the transition-state theory to these reactions. The reaction can be represented by... 

The low frequency factors for the Diels-Alder additions reported in Table XII.8 are to be expected in view of the considerable, uncompensated loss in rotational entropy occurring when the critical complex is formed. 

When the data on the recombination of atoms are employed (Table XII.9) to calculate fc 4 + fci, it is found that the values of fc 4 + ky may be from 100 to 1000 times greater than simple collision frequencies. Thus Marshall and Davidson S have calculated that h + kv is l.l X 10 liters/ mole-sec for I2 in argon, l.G X 10 in neopentane, and 1.8 X 10 in pentane." This has been commented on by Rice, who pointed out that such anomalously high values may be accounted for in terms of a large positive entropy of activation for the halogens arising from the increase in number of vibrational levels in the critical complex, the increase in electronic states and the increase in the moment of inertia. In the case of H2 a factor of... 

When the condition k2 ki M) is not satisfied, then the reaction becomes a quasi-bimolecular reaction and we must make a detailed analysis in which we integrate over all energies of the critical complex AB. The present restri( tion implies that we are working at the extreme low-concentration end of the reaction (Sec. XI.4). 

According to Bbonsted (as well as Chbistiansen and Keamebs) the immediate result of a collision between molecules is the formation of a critical complex AB, which in turn decomposes instantaneously into C and D. 

The charge of the critical complex AB naturally is equal to the algebraic sum of the charges of A and B. If, for example, A is a univalent ion and B is a neutral molecule, the critical complex will have a valence of 1. The kinetic activity factor therefore will be independent of the electrolyte content between rather wide limits since /a and fx will vary approximately in the same manner. At larger ionic strengths a more distinct salt effect will be observed since individual differences between A and AB will enter and because /b will no longer be equal to unity. 

Assuming that in the critical complex, the geometry of the olefin is retained intact predicts a different pattern. (This arrangement of the substrate would exist in the transition to the chemisorbed olefin.) The structure of the cyclohexene is best represented by VII 24, 26). If the molecule is oriented so that the plane of the double bond is parallel to the surface of the catalyst, then the minimum steric interaction between substrate and catalyst is attained when the methyl groups are in positions displaced from the catalyst but preferably in e or e conformations. Inspection of molecular models predicts the predominance of the cis isomer from 1,2-, 2,3-, and... 

Consider a homogeneous elementary reaction in a dilute gas phase, where the critical complex as well as the constituent gas molecules of the phase behaves statistically independent. The in Eq. (II.3.f) is expressed according to Eq. (11.17) as p =Qt/C where is the partition function per unit volume of a single critical system and (7 is its concentration. Since, however, we are dealing with a single critical system in the assembly, C is simply the reciprocal of volume

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The rate equation is now developed for a particular heterogeneous elementary reaction. Let cr be a site of the critical complex on a boundary interface. We have from Eq. (11.15), p = q d 0)ld X)] is the special case of defined in Section II,B,2, where S is the critical system J. The 0 (J) of the critical system is now the reciprocal of the number of sites a in the assembly, provided that aU of them are physically identical hence... 

It may be noted that the single critical complex relevant to or p does not mean any physical situation in which there exists just a single critical system in the assembly at a time but simply that the rate is expressed in terms of such a function as or p, as mentioned in Section II,A,2,b. 

We see from Eq. (11.26), in contrast with the case of the current procedure, that the rate is defined directly by the factorp, which remains constant irrespective of the adsorbed state of I, and by the factor 0 (0), which depends only on the domain occupied by the critical complex, and not on the domain occupied by the initial system. 

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