Gas reaction rates

The recombination mechanism (2-35) is quite fast and plays the major role in molecular gases. Reaction rate coefficients for most of the diatomic and triatomic ions are on the level of 10 cm /s. For some important molecular ions, the kinetic information can be found in Table 2-2. In a group of similar ions, like molecular ions of noble gases, the recombination rate coefficients increase as the number of internal electrons increases recombination of KrJ and XeJ is about 100 times faster than that of helium. 

Bunker, D. L., Theory of Elementary Gas Reaction. Rates, pp. 48-74, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1960. 

Bunker, D.L. (1966). Theory of Elementary Gas Reaction Rates. Pergamon Press, New York. Bunker, D.L. (1970). In Schlier, C., Ed., Proceedings of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi Course XLIV Molecular Beam and Reaction Kinetics, pp. 315-319. Academic Press, New York. 

Both amines compete for the same dissolved gas. Reaction rates are such that various mass transfer regimes are covered... 

Non-RRKM behavior is discussed by W. L. Hase, in Modern Theoretical Chemistry, W. H. Miller, ed. (New York Plenum Press, 1976), Vol. 2, Part B, Chapter 3 and D. L. Bunker, Theory of Elementary Gas Reaction Rates (Oxford Pergamon Press, 1966), Chapter 3. 

Invasive debonding by liquid interaction products observes the reactivity distinction between refractory matrix and grains. Liquid interaction products tend to protect the underlying solid somewhat. The depth into the refractory at which maximum gas reaction rates occur tends to increase with time. Eventually, the depth of alteration becomes large. However, in the most aggressive cases, blinding of the hot-face pores with liquid occurs early, and the most dramatic alteration is concentrated there. Reaction at depth then becomes paced by diffusion through liquid-filled pores near the hot face. 

D. L. Bunker, "Theory of Elementary Gas Reaction Rates" Pergamon Press, New York (1966). 

The study of bimolecular gas reaction rate coefficients has been one of the primary subjects of kinetics investigations over the last 20 years. Largely as a result of improved reaction systems (static flash photolysis systems, flow reactors, and shock tubes) and sensitive detection methods for atoms and free radicals (atomic and molecular resonance spectrometry, electron paramagnetic resonance and mass spectrometry, laser-induced fluorescence, and laser magnetic resonance), improvements in both the quality and the quantity of kinetic data have been made. Summarizing accounts of our present knowledge of the rate coefficients for reactions important in combustion chemistry are given in Chapters 5 and 6. 

Fixed-bed reactors in the form of gas absorption equipment are used commonly for noncatalytic gas-liquid reactions. Here the packed bed serves only to give good contact between the gas and liquid. Both cocurrent and countercurrent operations are used. Countercurrent operation gives the highest reaction rates. Cocurrent operation is preferred if a short liquid residence time is required. 

Process 2, the adsorption of the reactant(s), is often quite rapid for nonporous adsorbents, but not necessarily so it appears to be the rate-limiting step for the water-gas reaction, CO + HjO = CO2 + H2, on Cu(lll) [200]. On the other hand, process 4, the desorption of products, must always be activated at least by Q, the heat of adsorption, and is much more apt to be slow. In fact, because of this expectation, certain seemingly paradoxical situations have arisen. For example, the catalyzed exchange between hydrogen and deuterium on metal surfaces may be quite rapid at temperatures well below room temperature and under circumstances such that the rate of desorption of the product HD appeared to be so slow that the observed reaction should not have been able to occur To be more specific, the originally proposed mechanism, due to Bonhoeffer and Farkas [201], was that of Eq. XVIII-32. That is. 

In the case of bunolecular gas-phase reactions, encounters are simply collisions between two molecules in the framework of the general collision theory of gas-phase reactions (section A3,4,5,2 ). For a random thennal distribution of positions and momenta in an ideal gas reaction, the probabilistic reasoning has an exact foundation. Flowever, as noted in the case of unimolecular reactions, in principle one must allow for deviations from this ideal behaviour and, thus, from the simple rate law, although in practice such deviations are rarely taken into account theoretically or established empirically. 

Johnston Fi S 1966 Gas Phase Reaction Rate Theory (Ronaid)... 

Ikezoe Y, Matsuoka S, Takebe M and Viggiano A A 1987 Gas Phase Ion-Molecule Reaction Rate Constants Through 1986 (Tokyo Maruzen)... 

As it has appeared in recent years that many hmdamental aspects of elementary chemical reactions in solution can be understood on the basis of the dependence of reaction rate coefficients on solvent density [2, 3, 4 and 5], increasing attention is paid to reaction kinetics in the gas-to-liquid transition range and supercritical fluids under varying pressure. In this way, the essential differences between the regime of binary collisions in the low-pressure gas phase and tliat of a dense enviromnent with typical many-body interactions become apparent. An extremely useful approach in this respect is the investigation of rate coefficients, reaction yields and concentration-time profiles of some typical model reactions over as wide a pressure range as possible, which pemiits the continuous and well controlled variation of the physical properties of the solvent. Among these the most important are density, polarity and viscosity in a contimiiim description or collision frequency. 

Instead of concentrating on the diffiisioii limit of reaction rates in liquid solution, it can be histnictive to consider die dependence of bimolecular rate coefficients of elementary chemical reactions on pressure over a wide solvent density range covering gas and liquid phase alike. Particularly amenable to such studies are atom recombination reactions whose rate coefficients can be easily hivestigated over a wide range of physical conditions from the dilute-gas phase to compressed liquid solution [3, 4]. 

As with the other surface reactions discussed above, the steps m a catalytic reaction (neglecting diffiision) are as follows the adsorption of reactant molecules or atoms to fomi bound surface species, the reaction of these surface species with gas phase species or other surface species and subsequent product desorption. The global reaction rate is governed by the slowest of these elementary steps, called the rate-detemiming or rate-limiting step. In many cases, it has been found that either the adsorption or desorption steps are rate detemiining. It is not surprising, then, that the surface stmcture of the catalyst, which is a variable that can influence adsorption and desorption rates, can sometimes affect the overall conversion and selectivity. 

Fleming GR 1986 Chemical Applications of Ultrafast Spectroscopy (Oxford Oxford University Press) Jolmston Ft S 1966 Gas Phase Reaction Rate Theory (Ronald)... 

The microscopic understanding of tire chemical reactivity of surfaces is of fundamental interest in chemical physics and important for heterogeneous catalysis. Cluster science provides a new approach for tire study of tire microscopic mechanisms of surface chemical reactivity [48]. Surfaces of small clusters possess a very rich variation of chemisoriDtion sites and are ideal models for bulk surfaces. Chemical reactivity of many transition-metal clusters has been investigated [49]. Transition-metal clusters are produced using laser vaporization, and tire chemical reactivity studies are carried out typically in a flow tube reactor in which tire clusters interact witli a reactant gas at a given temperature and pressure for a fixed period of time. Reaction products are measured at various pressures or temperatures and reaction rates are derived. It has been found tliat tire reactivity of small transition-metal clusters witli simple molecules such as H2 and NH can vary dramatically witli cluster size and stmcture [48, 49, M and 52]. 

In practical applications, gas-surface etching reactions are carried out in plasma reactors over the approximate pressure range 10 -1 Torr, and deposition reactions are carried out by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) in ultrahigh vacuum (UHV below 10 Torr) or by chemical vapour deposition (CVD) in the approximate range 10 -10 Torr. These applied processes can be quite complex, and key individual reaction rate constants are needed as input for modelling and simulation studies—and ultimately for optimization—of the overall processes. 

When a chemical reaction takes place at the solid surface, we expect a smooth variation in gas composition in the macropores on a scale comparable with the whole pellet, provided the reaction rate is not too high. 

POLYRATE can be used for computing reaction rates from either the output of electronic structure calculations or using an analytic potential energy surface. If an analytic potential energy surface is used, the user must create subroutines to evaluate the potential energy and its derivatives then relink the program. POLYRATE can be used for unimolecular gas-phase reactions, bimolecular gas-phase reactions, or the reaction of a gas-phase molecule or adsorbed molecule on a solid surface. 

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