Rate determining processes surface adsorption

Steps 7 and 8 are rate determining for surface termination, being diffusion of each type of radical to the surface or adsorption of each radical on to the surface, whichever is the slower process. The recombinations of adsorbed R and R by like-like and like-unlike radical recombinations are the fast steps in the surface termination process. Consequently surface termination consists of the two steps, 7 and 8, in contrast to the gas phase termination, which consists of the three steps, 4, 5 and 6. 

The adsorption group represents the reduction of the number of active sites due to adsorption. The individual terms represent the distribution of the active sites over the different intermediate surface species and vacancies. It may contain square roots of partial pressures, indicating dissociative adsorption. The power n in the rate expression indicates the number of sites involved in the rate determining process, usually 0,1 or 2. 

Adsorption has been assumed to be the rate-determining process during early oxide-film formation. When a clean surface is exposed to an oxidizing gas, each molecule impinging on the surface may either rebound or adsorb. The fraction, a, that remains adsorbed on the metal surface should be constant for a constant temperature and oxygen partial pressure. Therefore, under these conditions a constant reaction rate is expected. However, the value of a is markedly lower on those parts of the surface covered with a monolayer or oxide nuclei. Thus, as adsorption or oxide nucleation proceeds, the reaction rate is expected to decrease accordingly until complete coverage of the surface by oxide has been achieved, when a much lower rate is expected to be observed. 

There are cases of metal ion adsorption on solid extractant surfaces where the rate of chemical chelation or ion exchange is the rate determining process. Under these conditions, it is useful to develop a kinetic model to describe this rate process for use in design equations. The kinetic processes are similar to chemical catalytic reactions and also may include electrostatic effects [31]. 

The sequence of events in a surface-catalyzed reaction comprises (1) diffusion of reactants to the surface (usually considered to be fast) (2) adsorption of the reactants on the surface (slow if activated) (3) surface diffusion of reactants to active sites (if the adsorption is mobile) (4) reaction of the adsorbed species (often rate-determining) (5) desorption of the reaction products (often slow) and (6) diffusion of the products away from the surface. Processes 1 and 6 may be rate-determining where one is dealing with a porous catalyst [197]. The situation is illustrated in Fig. XVIII-22 (see also Ref. 198 notice in the figure the variety of processes that may be present). 

It was found that [5-7] the rate of flocculation of particles produced by the bridging action of polymer is the slower process and, consequently, the rate-determining step. The primary adsorption of polymer is fairly rapid, but the slow attainment of the adsorption equilibrium under agitation arises at least in part from the breakdown of floes offering new surfaces for adsorption. Thus, the bridging step is slow because a polymer adsorbed on one particle must find another particle having a free surface available to complete the bridge. 

The simplest case to be analyzed is the process in which the rate of one of the adsorption or desorption steps is so slow that it becomes itself rate determining in overall transformation. The composition of the reaction mixture in the course of the reaction is then not determined by kinetic, but by thermodynamic factors, i.e. by equilibria of the fast steps, surface chemical reactions, and the other adsorption and desorption processes. Concentration dependencies of several types of consecutive and parallel (branched) catalytic reactions 52, 53) were calculated, corresponding to schemes (Ila) and (lib), assuming that they are controlled by the rate of adsorption of either of the reactants A and X, desorption of any of the products B, C, and Y, or by simultaneous desorption of compounds B and C. 

The quantitative solution of the problem, i.e. simultaneous determination of both the sequence of surface chemical steps and the ratios of the rate constants of adsorption-desorption processes to the rate constants of surface reactions from experimental kinetic data, is extraordinarily difficult. The attempt made by Smith and Prater 82) in a study of cyclohexane-cyclohexene-benzene interconversion, using elegant mathematic procedures based on the previous theoretical treatment 28), has met with only partial success. Nevertheless, their work is an example of how a sophisticated approach to the quantitative solution of a coupled heterogeneous catalytic system should be employed if the system is studied as a whole. 

From the first reaction, assuming that the anion adsorption process is rate determining, and neglecting the potential difference as shown in Eq. (75a), the average dissolution current density is written as a function of the surface concentration of the aggressive ions, (CJx, y, 0, /)), i.e.,... 

The evolution of methylchlorosilanes between 450 and 600 K is consistent with the 550 - 600 K typical for the catalytic Rochow Process [3]. It is also reasonably consistent with the evolution of methylchlorosilanes at 500 - 750 K reported by Frank and Falconer for a temperature programmed reaction study of the monolayer remaining on a CuaSi surface after catalytic formation of methylchlorosilanes from CHaCl at higher pressures [5]. Both of these observations suggest that the monolayer formed by methyl and chlorine adsorption on pure CuaSi is similar to that present on active catalysts. For reference, methylchlorosilanes bond quite weakly to tiie surface and desorb at 180 - 220 K. It can thus be concluded that the rate-determining step in the evolution of methylchlorosilanes at 450 - 600 K is a surface reaction rather an product desorption. 

Applying the concept of the rate-determining step (see Section 5.4.2) one can derive the following kinetic equations for adsorption of A, surface reaction, and desorption of R or S, respectively, as rate-limiting processes ... 

Heat-flow microcalorimetry may be used, therefore, not only to detect, by means of adsorption sequences, the different surface interactions between reactants which constitute, in favorable cases, the steps of probable reaction mechanisms, but also to determine the rates of these surface processes. The comparison of the adsorption or interaction rates, deduced from the thermograms recorded during an adsorption sequence, is particularly reliable, because the arrangement of the calorimetric cells remains unchanged during all the steps of the sequence. Moreover, it should be remembered that the curves on Fig. 28 represent the adsorption or interaction rates on a very small fraction of the catalyst surface which is, very probably, active during the catalytic reaction (Table VI). It is for these... 

As seen above (equation (5)), the basis of the simple bioaccumulation models is that the metal forms a complex with a carrier or channel protein at the surface of the biological membrane prior to internalisation. In the case of trace metals, it is extremely difficult to determine thermodynamic stability or kinetic rate constants for the adsorption, since for living cells it is nearly impossible to experimentally isolate adsorption to the membrane internalisation sites (equation (3)) from the other processes occurring simultaneously (e.g. mass transport complexation adsorption to other nonspecific sites, Seen, (equation (31)) internalisation). 

The activated Ba(OH)2 was used as a basic catalyst for the Claisen-Schmidt (CS) condensation of a variety of ketones and aromatic aldehydes (288). The reactions were performed in ethanol as solvent at reflux temperature. Excellent yields of the condensation products were obtained (80-100%) within 1 h in a batch reactor. Reaction rates and yields were generally higher than those reported for alkali metal hydroxides as catalysts. Neither the Cannizaro reaction nor self-aldol condensation of the ketone was observed, a result that was attributed to the catalyst s being more nucleophilic than basic. Thus, better selectivity to the condensation product was observed than in homogeneous catalysis under similar conditions. It was found that the reaction takes place on the catalyst surface, and when the reactants were small ketones, the rate-determining step was found to be the surface reaction, whereas with sterically hindered ketones the adsorption process was rate determining. 

In voltammetric experiments, electroactive species in solution are transported to the surface of the electrodes where they undergo charge transfer processes. In the most simple of cases, electron-transfer processes behave reversibly, and diffusion in solution acts as a rate-determining step. However, in most cases, the voltammetric pattern becomes more complicated. The main reasons for causing deviations from reversible behavior include (i) a slow kinetics of interfacial electron transfer, (ii) the presence of parallel chemical reactions in the solution phase, (iii) and the occurrence of surface effects such as gas evolution and/or adsorption/desorption and/or formation/dissolution of solid deposits. Further, voltammetric curves can be distorted by uncompensated ohmic drops and capacitive effects in the cell [81-83]. 

The least resolved measurement is determination of the isothermal rate constant k(T), where T is the isothermal temperature. Although conceptually simple, such measurements are often exceedingly difficult to perform for activated process without experimental artifact (contamination) because they require high pressures to achieve isothermal conditions. For dissociative adsorption, k(T) = kcol (T) [S (Tg = TS = T)), where kcol(T) is simply the collision rate with the surface and is readily obtainable from kinetic theory and Tg and T, are the gas and surface temperatures, respectively [107]. (S ) refers to thermal averaging. A simple Arrhenius treatment gives the effective activation energy Ea for the kinetic rate as... 

In heterogeneous systems, the rate expressions have to be developed on the basis of (a) a relation between the rate and concentrations of the adsorbed species involved in the rate-determining step and (b) a relation between the latter and the directly observable concentrations or partial pressures in the gas phase. In consequence, to obtain adequate kinetic rate expressions it is necessary to have a knowledge of the reaction mechanism, and an accurate means of relating gas phase and surface concentrations through appropriate adsorption isotherms. The nature and types of adsorption isotherm appropriate to chemisorption processes have been discussed in detail elsewhere [16,17] and will not be discussed further except to note that, in spite of its severe theoretical limitations, the Langmuir isotherm is almost invariably used for kinetic interpretations of surface hydrogenation reactions. The appropriate equations are... 

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