Reaction Kinetics Claire Vallancequot;（反应动力学克莱尔Vallancequot;）.pdfVIP

1 Reaction Kinetics Dr Claire Vallance First year, Hilary term Suggested Reading Physical Chemistry, P. W. Atkins Reaction Kinetics, M. J. Pilling and P. W. Seakins Chemical Kinetics, K. J. Laidler Modern Liquid Phase Kinetics, B. G. Cox Course synopsis 1. Introduction 2. Rate of reaction 3. Rate laws 4. The units of the rate constant 5. Integrated rate laws 6. Half lives 7. Determining the rate law from experimental data (i) Isolation method (ii) Differential methods (iii) Integral methods (iv) Half lives 8. Experimental techniques (i) Techniques for mixing the reactants and initiating reaction (ii) Techniques for monitoring concentrations as a function of time (iii) Temperature control and measurement 9. Complex reactions 10. Consecutive reactions 11. Pre-equilibria 12. The steady state approximation 13. ‘Unimolecular’ reactions – the Lindemann-Hinshelwood mechanism 14. Third order reactions 15. Enzyme reactions – the Michaelis-Menten mechanism 16. Chain reactions 17. Linear chain reactions The hydrogen – bromine reaction The hydrogen – chlorine reaction The hydrogen-iodine reaction Comparison of the hydrogen-halogen reactions 18. Explosions and branched chain reactions The hydrogen – oxygen reaction 19. Temperature dependence of reaction rates The Arrhenius equation and activation energies Overall activation energies for complex reactions Catalysis 20. Simple collision theory 2 1. Introduction Chemical reaction kinetics deals with the rates of chemical proce