Exercises Kinetics

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Exercise 1:

Consider the following reaction:

3A + 2B 4C

Give the rate of reaction.

Give the rate of disappearance of the reactants and the appearance of the
products.

Exercise 2

Consider the following reaction in aqueous solution,

5Br-(aq) + BrO3-(aq) + 6H+(aq) --> 3Br2(aq) + 3H2O(l)

If the rate of appearance of Br2 at a particular moment during the reaction


is 0.025 M s-1, what is the rate of disappearance (in M s-1) of Br- at that
moment?

Exercise 3:

Consider the following reaction at 25oC,

(CH3)3COH(l) + HCl(aq) --> (CH3)3CCl(l) + H2O(l)

The experimentally determined rate law for this reaction indicates that the
reaction is first-order in (CH3)3COH and that the reaction is first-order
overall. Which of the following would produce an increase in the rate of
this reaction?

a. increasing the concentration of (CH3)3COH


b. increasing the concentration of HCl
c. decreasing the concentration of HCl
d. decreasing the concentration of (CH3)3CCl
e. It is impossible to tell.

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Exercise 4:

Consider the following reaction:

2N2O5 (g) ==> 4NO2 (g) + O2 (g)

The rate law for the above reaction is:

a. rate = k [N2O5]2

b. rate = [N2O5]2

c. rate = k [N2O5]2 / [NO2]4 [O2]1

d. rate = k [N2O5]x

e. rate = [N2O5]x

Exercise 5:

Same reaction as in exercise 4

If the instantaneous rate of appearance of NO2 (g) is 0.0400 M/s at some


moment in time, what is the rate of disappearance of N2O5 (g) in M/s ?

Exercise 6:

The rate laws for certain enzyme-activated reactions in your body have a
specific rate constant k, with units of M/s. What is the overall order of
these reactions?

a. 0
b. 1
c. 2
d. 3
e. Cannot be determined.

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Exercise 7:

Iodine-131, a radioactive isotope of iodine, is used medicinally as a


radiotracer for the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses associated with the
thyroid gland. The half-life of iodine-131 is 7.0 x 105 seconds. If a patient
is given 0.45 g of iodine-131, calculate how long it would take (in
seconds) for 90.0% of the iodine-131 to decay. Recall: radioactive decay
is a first-order process.

Exercise 8:

The half-life of a radioisotope is found to be 4.55 minutes. If the decay


follows first order kinetics, what percentage of isotope will remain after
2.00 hours?

Exercise 9:

Laughing gas, N2O, can be prepared from H2 and NO:

H2(g) + 2 NO(g) --> N2O(g) + H2O(g)

A study of initial concentration versus initial rate at a certain temperature


yields the following data for this reaction:

[H2], M [NO], M initial rate, M s-1


0.1000 0.5000 2.560 x 10-6
0.2000 0.3000 1.843 x 10-6
0.1000 0.3000 9.216 x 10-7
0.2000 0.6000 7.373 x 10-6

Find the rate law and the rate constant for the reaction.

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Exercise 10:

The complex ion, [Cr(NH3)5Cl]2+, reacts with OH- ion in aqueous


solution,

[Cr(NH3)5Cl]2+(aq) + OH-(aq) --> [Cr(NH3)5(OH)]2+(aq) + Cl-(aq)

The following data were obtained for this reaction at 25oC,

time, min [Cr(NH3)5Cl]2+, M


0 1.00
6 0.657
12 0.432
18 0.284
24 0.186
30 0.122
36 0.0805

What is the order of the reaction with respect to the [Cr(NH3)5Cl]2+ ion:

Exercise 11:

Given the following experimental data, find the rate law and the rate
constant for the reaction:
NO (g) + NO2 (g) + O2 (g) N2O5 (g)

Run [NO]0, [NO2]0,


[O2], mol/L initial rate, mol/L s
mol/L mol/L
1 0.1 0.1 0.1 2.1 x 10-2
2 0.2 0.1 0.1 4.2 x 10-1
3 0.2 0.3 0.2 1.26 x 10-1
4 0.1 0.1 0.2 2.1 x 10-2

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Exercise 12:

Consider the following reaction:

2 ClO2 (aq) + 2 OH- (aq) -> ClO3- (aq) + ClO2- (aq) + H2O (l)

and the following initial rate data:

[ClO2], mol/L [OH-], mol/L initial rate, mol/L s


0.0500 0.100 5.77 x 10-2
0.100 0.100 2.32 x 10-1
0.100 0.050 1.15 x 10-1

a. Determine the order of each reactant and write the


differential rate law for this reaction.
b. Calculate the value of the rate constant,k, for this reaction.
Be sure to include the appropriate units for the rate constant!
c. What is the overall order for this reaction?
d. Describe what would happen to the rate of this reaction if we
tripled the concentration of ClO2 and doubled the
concentration of OH-.

Exercise 13:

A certain first-order reaction has a rate constant, k, equal to 2.1 x 10-5 s-1
at 355 K. If the activation energy for this reaction is 135 kJ/mol, calculate
the value of the rate constant (in s-1) at 550 K.

Exercise 14

Which of the following influences the rate of a chemical reaction


performed in solution?

a. temperature
b. activation energy
c. presence of a catalyst
d. concentrations of reactants
e. All of the above influence the rate.

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Exercise 15:

A student determined the value of the rate constant, k, for a chemical


reaction at several different temperatures. Which of the following graphs
of the student's data would give a straight line?

a. k versus T
b. k versus (1/T)
c. ln k versus (1/T)
d. ln k versus T
e. ln k versus Ea

Exercise 16:

Hydrogen iodide, HI, decomposes in the gas phase to produce hydrogen,


H2, and iodine, I2:

2 HI (g) -> H2 (g) + I2 (g)

The value of the rate constant, k, for this reaction was measured at several
different temperatures and the data are shown below:

temperature, K k, M-1 s-1


555 6.23 x 10-7
575 2.42 x 10-6
645 1.44 x 10-4
700 2.01 x 10-3

Calculate the value of the activation energy (in kJ/mol) for this reaction.

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Exercise 17:

For a certain reaction that follows second-order kinetics,

A + B -> C + D + E

the value of the rate constant, k, was measured at several different


temperatures and the data are shown below:

temperature, oC k, M-1 s-1


100 6.264
150 45.464
200 217.008
250 768.232

Calculate the value of the activation energy, Ea, for this reaction.

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