Kinetic-thermodynamic correlations

Kinetic-Thermodynamic Correlations. The ligand react on rate can vary greatly as the metal ion is changed, especially for redox reactions or those with very specific stereochemical demands. In cases where only the acidity of the metal ion is important one might expect more regularity. For very regular systems a Bron-sted Catalysis Law for metal ions should be valid. Thus,... 

Burton, R.D., Bartberger, M.D., Zhang, Y, Eyler, J.R., and Schanze, K.S., Carbon-carbon bond fragmentation in aminoalcohol radical cations. Kinetics, Thermodynamic correlations and mechanism,/.Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 5655, 1996. 

Quantitative analysis relies on a highly probable mechanistic hypothesis and determines as many as possible kinetic, thermodynamic, and/or transport parameters for the various steps. This is often a complex problem, since the values of the parameters are usually correlated, their relation to experimental data is nonlinear, and the data contain artifacts and statistical errors [40, 41]. 

Because cryosolvents must be used in studies of biochemical reactions in water, it is important to recall that the dielectric constant of a solution increases with decreasing temperature. Fink and Geeves describe the following steps (1) preliminary tests to identify possible cryosolvent(s) (2) determination of the effect of cosolvent on the catalytic properties (3) determination of the effect of cosolvent on the structural properties (4) determination of the effect of subzero temperature on the catalytic properties (5) determination of the effect of subzero temperature on the structural properties (6) detection of intermediates by initiating catalytic reaction at subzero temperature (7) kinetic, thermodynamic, and spectral characterization of detected intermediates (8) correlation of low-temperature findings with those under normal conditions and (9) structural studies on trapped intermediates. 

Equation (7.28) may not provide a good fit for the equilibrium data if the equilibrium mixture is nonideal. Suppose that the proper form for Kinetic is determined through extensive experimentation or by using thermodynamic correlations. It could be a version of Equation (7.28) with exponents different from the stoichiometric coefficients, or it may be a different functional form. Whatever the form, it is possible to force the reverse rate to be consistent with the equilibrium constant, and this is recommended whenever the reaction shows appreciable reversibility. 

The midpoint redox potentials for flavin reduction in PDR are E ox/sq = nl74mV for the first couple and E sq/red = n274mV for the second couple (Gassner et al., 1995). The potential for the 2Fe-2S center is E p = nl74 mV. Thus, the thermodynamic driving force favors reduction of the 2Fe-2S center, especially by the first electron transfer. The rate of intramolecular electron transfer for the reduced flavin to the oxidized 2Fe-2S center has been estimated at >200sec based on simulation of stopped flow kinetic data (Correll et ah, 1992). 

A rational choice from the variety of reactor types available requires knowledge of reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, and the properties of the reaction mixture throughout the reaction. Table 1 lists characteristic properties of the reactors discussed above, which can serve as guidelines for preliminary reactor selection. Experimental techniques and correlations for evaluation of the various parameters can be found in, for instance Refs 1, and 4-6, and references cited therein. 

Note that, according to the accepted convention for enzyme kinetics, K is the dissociation of the ES complex back into E and S, so that the minus sign in the right-hand side of the equation disappears since K is the inverse of the equilibrium constant considered in the thermodynamic correlation. From Eq. 3.108 ... 

Figure 10.19 The a-effects occur when a reiatively weak stereoeiectronic interaction in the reactant is transformed to a stronger anomeric effect during the reaction. Kinetic effects correlate with nucleophilicity, while thermodynamic effects correlate with basicity. The "excessive" a-effects associated with the positive deviations from the Bronsted correlation result from stronger interactions in the TS than in the product.

Ciesielski, A., Krygowski, T. M., Cyranski, M. K., Dobrowolski, M. A., Balaban, A. T. (2009). Are thermodynamic and kinetic stabilities correlated A topological index of reactivity toward electrophiles used as a criterion of aromaticity of polycyclic benze-... 

Thermodynamic correlations are frequently expected in homologous series of closely related compounds. The analog of a homologous series in chemical kinetics is a family of reactions. In such a family, the elementary steps will be characterized by potential energy surfaces which will exhibit roughly the same shape (Fig. 8.1.1). In particular, from the shape of the curves, it is not... 

The possibility to correlate the parameters determining the reaction process (H2 concentration, temperature rate and time) and the kinetic-thermodynamic parameters confirms that the TPR/TPO data are very useful characterisation techniques. Experimental TPR/TPO data offer important information about the change rate of some parameters in function of the temperature. The system can be described as a rector by correlating reduction/oxidation profiles to kinetic/thermodynamic parameters. The consumption rate of the reactive gas r, is correlated to the flow rate ( ), to the reactor element dx and the fraction of conversion df by the following expression ... 

In a homologous series thermodynamic correlations are often discovered in kinetics, similar correlations are found for families of reactions. 

According to a kinetic study which included (56), (56a) and some oxaziridines derived from aliphatic aldehydes, hydrolysis follows exactly first order kinetics in 4M HCIO4. Proton catalysis was observed, and there is a linear correlation with Hammett s Ho function. Since only protonated molecules are hydrolyzed, basicities of oxaziridines ranging from pii A = +0.13 to -1.81 were found from the acidity rate profile. Hydrolysis rates were 1.49X 10 min for (56) and 43.4x 10 min for (56a) (7UCS(B)778). O-Protonation is assumed to occur, followed by polar C—O bond cleavage. The question of the place of protonation is independent of the predominant IV-protonation observed spectroscopically under equilibrium conditions all protonated species are thermodynamically equivalent. 

It has been found that there is often a correlation between the rate of deprotonation (kinetic acidity) and the thermodynamic stability of the carbanion (thermodynamic acidity). Because of this relationship, kinetic measurements can be used to construct orders of hydrocarbon acidities. These kinetic measurements have the advantage of not requiring the presence of a measurable concentration of the carbanion at any time instead, the relative ease of carbanion formation is judged from the rate at which exchange occurs. This method is therefore applicable to very weak acids, for which no suitable base will generate a measurable carbanion concentration. 

The following table gives exchange rates in methanolic sodium methoxide for a number of hydrocarbons and equilibrium acidities for some. Determine whether there is a correlation between kinetic and thermodynamic acidity in this series of compounds. If so, predict the thermodynamic acidity of the hydrocarbons for which no values are listed. 

For the equihbrium properties and for the kinetics under quasi-equilibrium conditions for the adsorbate, the transfer matrix technique is a convenient and accurate method to obtain not only the chemical potentials, as a function of coverage and temperature, but all other thermodynamic information, e.g., multiparticle correlators. We emphasize the economy of the computational effort required for the application of the technique. In particular, because it is based on an analytic method it does not suffer from the limitations of time and accuracy inherent in statistical methods such as Monte Carlo simulations. The task of variation of Hamiltonian parameters in the process of fitting a set of experimental data (thermodynamic and... 

One way to measure the thermodynamics of the reaction is by the ceiling temperatures, Tc (the temperature at which the free energy of reaction 56 is zero). Bowmer and O Donnell74 found that G(S02) increases with decreasing Tc showing the importance of the thermodynamic factor. Although kinetic factors can explain also the increase in G(S02) with temperature, they do not explain the observed correlation with Tc. 

In comparing nucleophiles whose attacking atom is in the same row of the periodic table, nucleophilicity is approximately in order of basicity, though basicity is thermodynamically controlled and nucleophilicity is kinetically controlled. So an approximate order of nucleophilicity is NH2 >RO > OH > R2NH > ArO > NH3 > pyridine > F > H2O > CIO4, and another is R3C > R2N > RO > F (see Table 8.1). This type of correlation works best when the structures of the nucleophiles being compared are similar, as with a set of substituted phenoxides. Within such a series, linear relationships can often be established between nucleophilic rates and pAT values. 

A volcano plot correlates a kinetic parameter, such as the activation energy, with a thermodynamic parameter, such as the adsorption energy. The maximum in the volcano plot corresponds to the Sabatier principle maximum, where the rate of activation of reactant molecules and the desorption of product molecules balance. 

The positive values obtained in practically all cases indicate that all these models may be plausible representations of the data and indeed, the correlation coefBcients, R, are greater than 0.9. Thus, statistical compliance is not a sufficient basis for model discrimination. Specifically, the thermodynamic consistency of the estimates, as proposed by Boudart et al. [3], is appropriate further scrutinizing criterion during kinetic modelling and has been gainfully employed in other reactions [4-6]. 

The reaction of eq. 16.9 will regenerate the antioxidant Arj-OH at the expense of the antioxidant At2-OH. Despite the fact that such regeneration reactions are not simple electron transfer reactions, the rate of reactions like that of eq. 16.9 has been correlated with the E values for the respective Ar-0. Thermodynamic and kinetic effects have not been clearly separated for such hierarchies, but for a number of flavonoids the following pecking order was established in dimethyl formamid (DMF) by a combination of electrolysis for generating the a-tocopherol and the flavonoid phenoxyl radicals and electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy for detection of these radicals (Jorgensen et al, 1999) ... 

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