Steady State
Steady State
Steady State
Kinetics
Elementary Reactions
Reaction Order
Multi-step
Multi step processes
processes, Intermediates
Steady State Approximation
Reaction Order
The power to which a the concentration of a
species is raised in the rate law is the reaction
order.
d The
h overallll order
d is the
h sum off allll off the
h
powers of all reactants.
Examples:
1. v = k[NO]2[O2] First order in O2,
Second order in NO, Third order overall.
2. v = k[A]1/2[B]2 Half order in A, Second order
in B, 2 1/2 order overall.
The order does not need to be an integer.
R ti order
Reaction d and
d molecularity
l l it
Reaction order is an empirical quantity.
Molecularity refers to an elementary reaction
as a step in a reaction mechanism.
The rate law of an elementary step
can be deduced directly from the reaction.
Unimolecular reactions are first order.
A Products d[A]/dt = -k[A]
Bimolecular reactions are second order.
A + B Products d[A]/dt = -k[A][B]
A example:
An l 2NO + O2 2NO2
The formation of nitric oxide is a termolecular
reaction, i.e. three molecules must collide in
order for the products to be formed. In this
example the reaction is also the elementary
step and so the rate law is v = k[NO]2[O2] as
stated earlier. In this case the reaction is
third order because off the ffact that three
molecules must combine simultaneously.
However, theh reaction stoichiometry
h may not
always indicate the molecularity of the reaction.
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Question:
ti Reaction
R ti Order
Od
What is the order of the reaction:
2 H2 + O2 2 H2O
A. First order
B. Second order
C. Third order
D. Unknown
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Question:
ti Reaction
R ti Order
Od
What is the order of the reaction:
2 H2 + O2 2 H2O
A. First order
B. Second order
C. Third order
D. Unknown
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Question2:
ti 2 Reaction
R ti Order
Od
The detailed mechanism of many enzymes has
been shown to include a rate determining
step:
E+S ES
What is the order of the overall reaction?
A. First order
B. Second order
C. Third order
D. Unknown
k
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Question2:
ti 2 Reaction
R ti Order
Od
The detailed mechanism of many enzymes has
been shown to include a rate determining
step:
E+S ES
What is the order of the overall reaction?
A. First order
B. Second order
C. Third order
D. Unknown
k
P ll l First
Parallel Fi Order
O d Reactions
R i
A B and d A C so that:
h
A d[A]/dt = -(k1+k2)[A]
k1 d[B]/dt = k1[A]
B
d[C]/dt = k2[A]
k2 Solve for [A] first:
[A] = [A] 0exp{ (k 1 + k 2)t }
then
C
d[B]
= k 1[A] 0exp{ (k 1 + k 2)t }
dt
d[C]
= k 2[A] 0exp{ (k 1 + k 2)t }
dt
P ll l First
Parallel Fi Order
O d Reactions
R i
The
h solutions
l are:
A k 1[[A]] 0
k1 [B] = 1 exp{ (k 1 + k 2)t }
k1 + k2
B k 2[A] 0
[[C]] = 1 exp{
p{ ((k 1 + k 2))t }
k2 k1 + k2
A A B C rate equations
k1 are:
B d[A]/dt = -k1[A]
d[B]/dt = k1[A] - k2[B]
k2 d[C]/dt = k2[B]
Either k1 or k2 can be the rate
C limiting step.
Sequential first-order reactions
C
Consecutive
i elementary
l reactions
i
Time
Rate determining step
If k2 >> k1 then the first (A B) step
becomes the rate-limiting g step.
p
If the A B step is rate limiting then little or
no B will be observed even though g it is
formed on the reaction path.
If k1 >> k2 then the second ((B C)) step p
becomes the rate limiting step.
If the B C step is rate limiting then there
will be a significant build-up of the
intermediate state B.
St d t t approximation
Steady-state i ti
Equations representing kinetic networks of more than
three states are not soluble analytically.
One means of pushing the techniques as far as
possible using analytical solutions is to set the
derivatives of intemediates equal to zero:
d[Intermediate]/dt = 0
The build
build-up
up of intermediate B shown in the figure
(two slides back) implies that the steady state
pp
approximation does not work for the system
y shown
there.
Application of the
steady-state
t d t t approximation
i ti
The steady state approximation can be applied to the
consecutive reaction scheme
k1 k2
A B C.
if the
th concentration
t ti off B iis ffairly
i l constant.
t t