Rate laws definitions

The observed rate law depends on the type of catalyst used with promoted iron catalysts a rather complex dependence on nitrogen, hydrogen, and ammonia pressures is observed, and it has been difficult to obtain any definitive form from experimental data (although note Eq. XVIII-20). A useful alternative approach... 

The slopes of the fimctions shown provide the reaction rates according to the various definitions under the reaction conditions specified in the figure caption. These slopes are similar, but not identical (nor exactly proportional), in this simple case. In more complex cases, such as oscillatory reactions (chapter A3.14 and chapter C3.6). the simple definition of an overall rate law tluough equation (A3.4.6) loses its usefiilness, whereas equation (A3.4.1) could still be used for an isolated system. 

The definitions of the empirical rate laws given above do not exclude empirical rate laws of another fomi. Examples are reactions, where a reverse reaction is important, such as in the cis-trans isomerization of 1,2-dichloroethene ... 

According to the definition given, this is a first-order reaction. Now let us multiply the rate law by a factor that is exactly unity ... 

Now that we have a definition of rate, we need to develop a basic model to describe the rates of chemical reactions. The basic model takes the form of a rate law. A general rate law allows us to relate the rate of a reaction to the concentration of the reactants present. It makes sense, intuitively, that at low reactant concentrations the rate of the reaction will be quite slow. Also, at high reactant concentrations in the same reaction we would expect a faster rate. The general rate law reflects this intuition by stating that, in simple reactions, such as the one in Eq 4.1, we define the rate according to Eq. 4.4. 

If pt is used in the rate law instead of c,-, there are two ways of interpreting rt and hence kt. In the first of these, the definition of r, given in equation 1.4-2 is retained, and in the second, the definition is in terms of rate of change of p,. Care must be taken to identify which one is being used in a particular case. The first is relatively uncommon, and the second is limited to constant-density situations. The consequences of these two ways are explored further in this and the next section, first for the rate constant, and second for the Arrhenius parameters. 

The first method of interpreting rate of reaction in terms of partial pressure uses the verbal definition given by equation 1.4-2 for rs. By analogy with equation 4.1-3, we write the rate law (for a reactant i) as... 

Substitution of the result given by equation 8.5-14 into the definition of tj given by equation 8.5-5 yields the modified first-order rate law for an isothermal particle of this geometry ... 

The main reasons for investigating the rates of solid phase sorption/desorption processes are to (1) determine how rapidly reactions attain equilibrium, and (2) infer information on sorption/desorption reaction mechanisms. One of the important aspects of chemical kinetics is the establishment of a rate law. By definition, a rate law is a differential equation [108] as shown in Eq. (32) ... 

By definition, the rate law equation for step 1 is written as follows Ratei = CilNOaHCla]... 

The rate data for individual runs can be used to derive independent estimates of k7 + kg, and these are shown in Table II. Both rate constants for an assumed second-order and third-order rate law are shown. The second-order rate constants show the smaller deviation from constancy, but the total change in concentration of the reactants is relatively small so that the order cannot be definitely proved at present. 

They noted that, during the first 25% of reaction, the reaction was first-order in alcohol and essentially zero-order in sodium. During the second 25% of reaction, the reaction did not appear to be of definite kinetic order, but during the last half of reaction, the reaction was much slower and was first-order in both alcohol and sodium, or second-order overall. These results at least qualitatively agree with the rate law... 

Definition and Verification. The use of mechanistic rate laws to study soil chemical reactions assumes that only chemical kinetics phenomena are... 

For chemical kinetics to be operational and thus Eqs. (2.5) and (2.6) to be valid, Eq. (2.4) must be an elementary reaction. To definitively determine this, one must prove experimentally that Eq. (2.4) and the rate law are valid. 

The first detailed study on ion exchange rates, and particularly mechanisms, appeared in the very definitive and elegant studies of Boyd et al. (1947) with zeolites. Working in conjunction with the Manhattan Project, these researchers clearly showed that ion exchange is diffusion-controlled, and that the reaction rate is limited by mass-transfer phenomena that are either film (FD) or particle (PD) diffusion-controlled. Boyd et al. (1947) were also the first to derive rate laws for FD, PD, and CR. Additionally, they demonstrated that particle size had no effect on reaction control, that in FD the rate was inversely proportional to particle size, and that the PD rate was inversely proportional to the square of the particle size. 

Sufficient DO data were not obtained from basalt-synthetic Grande Ronde groundwater experiments to allow determination of a definitive rate law. A first order kinetic model with respect to DO concentration was assumed. Rate control by diffusion kinetics and by surface-reaction mechanisms result in solution composition cnanges with different surface area and time dependencies (32,39). Therefore, by varying reactant surface area, determination of the proper functional form of the integrated rate equation for basalt-water redox reactions is possible. 

The simple relationship between the rate law and stoichiometry in elementary reactions allows one to derive a rate law for any multistep mechanistic scheme. The agreement between the derived rate law and that determined experimentally provides support for the proposed mechanism, although it does not prove it. The lack of agreement, on the other hand, definitely rules out the proposed scheme. 

The above mechanism is plausible and is consistent with the observations. We cannot be sure from the kinetic data alone that there is not some other mechanism which is also consistent with the observations. Other types of experimentation are needed to confirm a mechanism based on rate data. However, a proposed mechanism that yields a rate law other than the observed rate law can definitely be eliminated from consideration. 

Do you remember the definition of an elementary reaction (Section 1.7.1) The SN2 reaction is such an elementary reaction. Recognizing this is a prerequisite for deriving the rate law for the Sn2 reaction, because the rate law for any elementary reaction can be obtained directly from the reaction equation. 

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