Pure modes away from equilibrium for linear sequences

Pure modes away from equilibrium for linear sequences [Pg.179]

We know that the speed of an elementary step contains the distance term of experimental conditions relative to the equilibrium (relation [3.14]) which for a step i is [Pg.179]

However, the Gibbs free energy of the reaetion is given as a function of the Gibbs free energies of the elementaiy steps through [Pg.180]

for the speed of a reaction determined by step /, the distance between the actual conditions and the eqnilibiium conditions is obtained through [Pg.180]

If the experimental conditions are such that we are a long way from equilibrium conditions (which means, since all the steps except the determining one are always at equilibriiun, the determining step is itself far away from equilibrium and its opposite reaction speed can therefore be ignored) then the exponential of the previous expression is negligible compared to one. [Pg.180]

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