Reactions of the first order

The rearrangement has been investigated kinetically. Hawthorne and Strahm found a reaction of the first order at 100°C in diethyl carbitol with k — 5.45 X 10", corresponding to a half-life of 212 min. The activation energy was 28 kcal, the activation entropy —3 1... 

Expression (2.100) is valid either at K" > K ", i.e. at weak manifestation of the process of recombination of chemisorbed radicals with respect to their annihilation as reaction of the first order, or on the contrary when K " > K" but in the case of either very small concentrations of radicals in volume Ny < (K") / K (2K" - K") = Ny2 or already at very high concentration Ny >2 (2K " - K") / K = Ny. Obviously that both these cases guarantee the predominant development of the process of annihilation of adsorbed radicals as reaction of the first order. 

The pressure P is contained in formula (62) not only in an explicit form but also in terms of the parameters e8 and e8+, as seen from (5), because s and e8+ are, generally speaking, functions of pressure. In our model, however, 8- and e8+ may be regarded as independent of P since the surface is supposed to be saturated with hydrogen and deuterium atoms (all the adsorption centers are assumed to be occupied). Thus, the hydrogen-deuterium exchange proves, in accordance with (63), to be a reaction of the first order with respect to hydrogen (deuterium), which is consistent with numerous experimental data (see Section III.A). 

In addition to hydroperoxide decomposition by the reaction of the first-order bimolecular decomposition was observed in cyclohexanol at [H202] > 1 M [60], The bimolecular radical generation occurs with the rate constant k 6.8 x 108 exp(—121.7/R7) L mol-1 s-1. The following mechanism was suggested as the most probable. 

The reesterification model reaction kinetics of methylbenzoate by heptanole-1 in catalyst (TBT) presence and without it was studied at 443 K on the gas chromatograph Biokhrom using diphenyloxide according to the earlier described method [5] as an internal standard. The rate constant k was calculated according to the equation of irreversible reaction of the first order. 

Order of Radioactive Disintegration Process Radioactive disintegration is similar to a chemical reaction of the first order, that is, a chemical reaction in which the rate of the reaction varies as the concentration of one molecular species only. 

Vanpee and Grard133 made a quantitative study of the formation of saturates (mainly ethane) in the photolysis of CH2CO with added methane (ratios CH4/CH2CO = 1 to 7) at 28 to 250 °C. and found that the results could be explained by a mechanism involving competition between CH4 and CH2CO for methylene by reactions of the first order in methylene. The rate of reaction of CH2 with CH4 was found to be 0.183 that of the reaction with ketene. Decomposition of excited ethane by the reaction... 

Roberts and Urey99 were the first to demonstrate the similarities between ester hydrolysis and formation, and the 180-exchange reaction of carboxylic acids. Not only are all three reactions of the first order in carboxylic acid or ester and the hydronium ion, but the rates of all three are closely similar... 

It is interesting to note in comparison that the thermal decomposition of bromphosgene is a wall reaction of the first order. ... 

A gaseous reaction of zero order is one in which the absolute rate of change is independent of the pressure of the reacting gas. A reaction of the first order is one in which the rate is proportional to the pressure, or in which the fraction of the total which is transformed in a given time is independent of the concentration. 

The time required for the transformation of half the total amount of substance is one of the most useful criteria. In reactions of zero order it is directly proportional to the initial pressure, in reactions of the first order... 

We will consider a dispersed plug-flow reactor in which a homogeneous irreversible first order reaction takes place, the rate equation being 2ft = k, C. The reaction is assumed to be confined to the reaction vessel itself, i.e. it does not occur in the feed and outlet pipes. The temperature, pressure and density of the reaction mixture will be considered uniform throughout. We will also assume that the flow is steady and that sufficient time has elapsed for conditions in the reactor to have reached a steady state. This means that in the general equation for the dispersed plug-flow model (equation 2.13) there is no change in concentration with time i.e. dC/dt = 0. The equation then becomes an ordinary rather than a partial differential equation and, for a reaction of the first order ... 

Problem 6 (a) Show that the time required for the completion of a definite fraction (say one half) of the reaction is independent of the initial concentration for a reaction of the first order. 

Usually, the reaction between C02and water is very slow and hardly contributes to the total carbon dioxide reaction rate. Nevertheless, for the sake of completeness, it has been considered as a reaction of the first order with respect to the CO2, since the reaction kinetics depends on the carbonation ratio (see Ref. [87]). 

The received value inclinations closes Tafel inclinations (60 and 120 mV), which characteristic for reaction of the first order to oxygen for smooth electrodes. 

The simple relaxation and retardation phenomena described by Eqs. (13.80) and (13.86) show some analogy with a chemical reaction of the first order. The reaction rate constant corresponds with the reciprocal relaxation (or retardation) time. In reality, these phenomena show even more correspondence with a system of simultaneous chemical reactions. Here again two formulae proposed by Struik (1977,1978) have to be mentioned for short-time tests ... 

Even though the monomer coordination step is widely accepted now, a majority of polymerizations can be approximated as reactions of the first order to monomer. A thorough discussion of this topic has been presented very recently by Burfield l9>. 

The procedure of analyzing experimental data with the help of Eq. (16) and determining the constants for the kinetic function f (/ ) of different form is given in Ref. [121]. An integral of Eq. (16) for the reaction of the first order is written in the following form ... 

Although these reactions are complex at a biochemical level, their kinetics approximate to reactions of the first order. Thus, the kinetics of inactivation of populations of pure cultures of micro-organisms take the typical exponential form of reactions of the first order. What this means in experimental practice is that there is a linear relationship when numbers of microorganisms held at high temperatures are plotted on a logarithmic scale against time plotted on an arithmetic scale (Fig. 1). 

The above findings are nearly in accord with Schliemann s report that the heterogeneous oxidatively-heating reaction of the zeroth order proceeds at temperatures below about 230 °C, and, the heterogeneous oxidatively-heating reaction of the first order proceeds at temperatures ranging from about 230 to about 340 °C in the case of some wood [70], Similar facts have been reported by Akita [67] and by Anthony et al. [68] as well. 

For pyrolytic reactions, the variation of the molar concentration [A] of a substance during the pyrolysis is not always the most appropriate parameter to be monitored. The calculation of [A] can be a problem for many types of samples, and very frequently during pyrolysis, not only one decomposition process takes place. In this case, the overall reaction kinetics must be considered. A more convenient parameter for monitoring pyrolytic reactions is, for example, the sample weight. For a reaction of the first order, by multiplying equation (2) with the volume V and the molecular weight M of the substance A, (W = [A] V IW) we will have... 

At high values of 7 > 3RT, i.e., for the broad distribution on, the approximate solution of the corresponding integral equation for chemisorption kinetics including the reaction of the first-order with active sites and power distribution function on E obtained by the Roginskij method [119], can be used to determine ko, 7 and u parameters of Eq. (50) ... 

It was found that the mutarotation of the sugar phenylosazones indicates a reaction of the first order, as shown in Fig. 14. With the solvent carefully evaporated in vacuo, the osazone is recovered unchanged. Repeated mutarotation takes practically the same course. As regards the ultraviolet spectra of the phenylosazones during mutarotation, a slight shift of the characteristic maximum at about 395 ma toward shorter wavelengths and a gradual disappearance of the minimum around 345 m/x are distinctly noticeable (see Fig. 15) the same holds true in respect to the recovered material. 

Bateman and Hughes [43, 45] found that, in the case of the oxidation of polyolefines, the decomposition of hydroperoxides is initially a reaction of the first order (24), but subsequently, with increasing concentration of hydroperoxide as the oxidation progresses, the less endothermic bimolecular reaction (25) assumes greater importance ... 

It seems more probable that the latter stage, undoubtedly referred to as a reaction of the first order, is the limiting one. To obtain more powerful evidence to decide which of the two equilibria, (2.5.68) or (1.2.4), actually occurs in the ionic melt, one should analyze the dependence of the equilibrium molality of oxide ion upon its initial molality under a constant pressure of water vapour. For this purpose, we shall consider the dependence when the equilibrium in hydroxide solutions is described by equation (2.5.68). The corresponding equilibrium constant is expressed by the formula... 

Finally, in complexes having no protonic hydrogen, acceleration by base should not be observed according to the. SN1CB mechanism. This is in general true (as for 2,2 -bipyridine complexes, for instance), but there are a few cases in which a reaction of the first-order in OH " is observed nonetheless. One of these is the hydrolysis of Co(EDTA)- by OH-. The formation of the 7-coordinate intermediate (21-LI) has been proposed, since it is also found... 

I. —Reactions of the first order. Let a be the concentration of the reacting molecules at the beginning of the action when the time t = 0. The concentration, after the lapse of an interval of time t is, therefore, a — x, where x denotes the amount of substance transformed during that time. Let dx denote the amount of substance formed in the time dt. The velocity of the reaction, at any moment, is proportional to the concentration of the reacting substance—Wilhelmy s law—hence we have... 

Hence show that kf, not h satisfies the required condition. The decomposition of phosphine is, therefore, said to be a reaction of the first order. Of course this does not prove that a reaction is really unimolecular. It only proves that the velocity of the reaction is proportional to the pressure of the gas—quite another matter. See J. W. Mellor s Chemical Statics and Dynamics. 

Prove that the velocity equation of a complete reaction of the first order, Aj = A2, has the same general form as that of a reversible reaction, A1 A2> of the same order when the concentration of the substances is referred to the point of equilibrium instead of to the original mass. Let denote the value of x at the point of equilibrium, then, dxjdt=kx(ax - x) - k x becomes dxjdt = k a - ) - k . Substitute for fcgits value / (Oj - )/ , when dxjdt = 0,... 

If ki > ks, reactions of the first order are observed which are by no means indicative of a carbene mechanism. Thus, the decomposition of 9-diazo-fluorene was of apparent first order in the presence of diethyl fumarate, acrylonitrile, and other reactants containing polar double bonds ... 

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