Gibbs function of activation

As has been noted above, there is no gross change in the mechanism of nitration of PhNH3+ down to 82 % sulphuric acid. The increase in o- andp-substitution at lower acidities has been attributed differential salt effects upon nitration at the individual positions. The two sets of partial rate factors quoted for PhNH3+ in table 9.3 show the effect of the substituent on the Gibbs function of activation at the m- and -positions to be roughly equal for reaction in 98 % sulphuric acid, and about 28 % greater at the -position in 82 % sulphuric acid. ... 

If this electrostatic treatment of the substituent effect of poles is sound, the effect of a pole upon the Gibbs function of activation at a particular position should be inversely proportional to the effective dielectric constant, and the longer the methylene chain the more closely should the effective dielectric constant approach the dielectric constant of the medium. Surprisingly, competitive nitrations of phenpropyl trimethyl ammonium perchlorate and benzene in acetic anhydride and tri-fluoroacetic acid showed the relative rate not to decrease markedly with the dielectric constant of the solvent. It was suggested that the expected decrease in reactivity of the cation was obscured by the faster nitration of ion pairs. 

The standard Gibbs energy of activation A G is given by Eq. (28), with the charge transfer coefficient being a linear function of Aa Gf,... 

In an earlier section the free energy of a phase and the free energy of a total system were discussed generally in terms of the potentials (e.g., equation 48). With the definition of the chemical potential as a function of activity in hand, we will now consider the Gibbs energy of a system. In a similar fashion, the enthalpy and entropy of a system can be computed using the partial molar quantities and the mole numbers of each phase. 

The Gibbs energy of activation, AG, can be related to the mean-force potential of the pair distribution function Wy of the reactants which is written for this purpose in the following form... 

In eq 5.71, i) is a constant that depends on the particular equation of state used and Gm is an excess Gibbs function of mixing obtained from an activity coefficient model. Activity coefficients are usually obtained from measurements of (vapour-f liquid) equilibria at a pressure relatively low compared with the requirement of eq 5.67 for which p- ao the activity coefficients are tabulated, for example, those in the DECHEMA Chemistry Data Series. This distinction in pressure is particularly important because the excess molar Gibbs function of mixing, obtained from experiment and estimated from an equation of state, depends on pressure d(G /7 r)/d/)<0.002MPa for (methanol-f benzene) at a temperature of 373 K. Equation 5.71 does not satisfy the quadratic composition dependence required by the boundary condition of eq 5.3. However, equations 5.70 and 5.71 form the mixing rules that have been used to describe the (vapour + liquid) equilibria of non-ideal systems, such as (propanone + water), successfully in this particular case the three-parameter Non-Random Two Liquid (known by the acronym NRTL) activity-coefficient model was used for G and the value depends significantly on temperature to the extent that the model, while useful for correlation of data, cannot be used to extrapolate reliably to other temperatures. 

AG is the Gibbs energy of activation of pure component i in the liquid state and is usually a linear function of temperature. AGmix is the Gibbs energy of mix, which is caused by the interaction between the different components and is a function of both composition and temperature. 

Figure 5. Variation of the Gibbs energy of activation for tetralkylammonium transfer (obtained from Fig. 6 of Ref. 5) as a function of the Gibbs transfer energy calculated from the values oi k and kl (given in Table I of Ref. 5) using the relation A(j = RT n k lkl).

The Grunwald-Winstein eq. (1.11.9) is valid when the substrate is kept constant (m is constant), and Y is the linear function of the free energy of activation (Gibbs energy of activation, A G°). 

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