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The constancy of the acetoxylation nitration ratio and zeroth reaction order in aromatic suggested that both reactions were brought about by a common species (protonated acetyl nitrate) the formation of which was rate-determining according to equilibria (30) and (31), with the latter being a slow step. Since the total rate of acetoxylation plus nitration is given by... 

There are several reasons for deviations from the LHHW kinetics Surface heterogeneity, surface reconstruction, adsorbate island formation and, most important, lateral coadsorbate interactions.18,19 All these factors lead to significant deviations from the fundamental assumption of the Langmuir isotherm, i.e. constancy of AHa (and AHB) with varying coverage. 

As previously noted the constancy of catalyst potential UWr during the formation of the Pt-(12xl2)-Na adlayer, followed by a rapid decrease in catalyst potential and work function when more Na is forced to adsorb on the surface, (Fig. 5.54) is thermodynamically consistent with the formation of an ordered layer whose chemical potential is independent of coverage. 

On descending the sub-group the colour generally becomes lighter, indicating an increased separation between the frontier orbitals, which are believed to be predominantly associated with the metal frame, and therefore a decrease of the metallic character. The overall constancy of the values of the enthalpies of formation of these compounds, and the use of an estimated sublimation enthalpy of ca. 

We can now make sensible guesses as to the order of rate constant for water replacement from coordination complexes of the metals tabulated. (With the formation of fused rings these relationships may no longer apply. Consider, for example, the slow reactions of metal ions with porphyrine derivatives (20) or with tetrasulfonated phthalocyanine, where the rate determining step in the incorporation of metal ion is the dissociation of the pyrrole N-H bond (164).) The reason for many earlier (mostly qualitative) observations on the behavior of complex ions can now be understood. The relative reaction rates of cations with the anion of thenoyltrifluoroacetone (113) and metal-aqua water exchange data from NMR studies (69) are much as expected. The rapid exchange of CN " with Hg(CN)4 2 or Zn(CN)4-2 or the very slow Hg(CN)+, Hg+2 isotopic exchange can be understood, when the dissociative rate constants are estimated. Reactions of the type M+a + L b = ML+(a "b) can be justifiably assumed rapid in the proposed mechanisms for the redox reactions of iron(III) with iodide (47) or thiosulfate (93) ions or when copper(II) reacts with cyanide ions (9). Finally relations between kinetic and thermodynamic parameters are shown by a variety of complex ions since the dissociation rate constant dominates the thermodynamic stability constant of the complex (127). A recently observed linear relation between the rate constant for dissociation of nickel complexes with a variety of pyridine bases and the acidity constant of the base arises from the constancy of the formation rate constant for these complexes (87). 

One of the characteristics of the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of esters, that is shared by ester formation also, is that substituent effects on the rate coefficients are small, and not simply related to a values (see below, p. 131). The data in Table 14 show that this is also true for the, sO-exchange reaction of substituted benzoic acids. This is borne out by the relative constancy of the ratio khyJkexch for the different substituted acids it was not possible to obtain a meaningful p value from the data of Table 14, because of the small number of points and the large amount of scatter evident on the Hammett plot. Mesitoic acid is highly unreactive, compared with the m- and p-substi-tuted esters used, as is its methyl ester towards alkaline hydrolysis138, and presumably reacts by the seriously hindered Aac2 route. 

The isomerization of the olefin prior to its hydroformylation has been the explanation of this question (3) and the formation of isomeric aldehydes was related to the presence of isomeric free olefins during the hydroformylation. This explanation, however, is being questioned in the literature. The formation of (+) (S) -4-methylhexanal with an optical yield of more than 98% by hydroformylation of (+) (S)-3-methyl-l-pentene (2, 6) is inconsistent with the olefin isomerization explanation. Another inconsistency has been the constance of the hydroformylation product composition and the contemporary absence of isomeric olefins throughout the whole reaction in hydroformylation experiments carried out with 4-methyl-1-pentene and 1-pentene under high carbon monoxide partial pressure. The data reported in Ref. 4 on the isomeric composition of the hydroformylation products of 1-pentene under high carbon monoxide pressure at different olefin conversions have recently been checked. The ratio of n-hexanal 2-methylpentanal 2-ethylbutanal was constant throughout the reaction and equal to 82 15.5 2.5 at 100°C and 90 atm carbon monoxide. 

The constancy of k is in close agreement with the assumption that the reaction is unimolecular and not so closely with assumptions that the reaction is bi-, ter-, or quadri-molecular. This may mean that the slow reaction PH3=P+3H, is followed by the very rapid formation of molecules of hydrogen and phosphorus or it may mean that the reaction actually proceeds only in the adsorbed film of gas on the surface of the containing vessel, and that the velocity of the reaction in the adsorbed system is proportional to the press, of the gas in the interior of the vessel. The effect of the nature of the surface of the containing vessel must therefore be of importance, and D. M. Kooij found that the velocity coefficient in a new vessel was 0-0023, in an old vessel it was 0-0064. He also measured the effect of temp, on the velocity constant k, and found ... 

This model which describes a phase transition naturally overemphasizes the co-operativity with respect to the micellization. The surprising monodispersity of various micellar aggregates and the constancy of the monomer activity support the co-operativity concept of the aggregational process. In its simplest form this model does not contain any size limiting step. The latter is principally independent of the coop-erativity which had to be included in a consideration of the formation of size limited aggregates. It is thus seen that this model can only be of restricted value towards an understanding of the formation of small particles, usually encountered in nonpolar solutions. 

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