Unit · year 2
CU-202 · Chemical Kinetics
Threads kinetics24 lectures6 results
How fast reactions go, and what the rate reveals about mechanism.
Lectures
| L01 | Reaction Rate: Definition and Measurement — |
| L02 | Factors Affecting Rate — |
| L03 | Rate Laws and Reaction Order |
| L04 | Determining Order by Initial Rates |
| L05 | Zero-Order Kinetics |
| L06 | First-Order Kinetics and Half-Life |
| L07 | Second-Order Kinetics |
| L08 | Graphical Determination of Order |
| L09 | Pseudo-Order Methods |
| L10 | Temperature Dependence of Rate |
| L11 | The Arrhenius Equation |
| L12 | Extracting Activation Energy from Data |
| L13 | Collision Theory |
| L14 | The Steric Factor |
| L15 | Transition State Theory |
| L16 | The Eyring Equation |
| L17 | Activation Parameters ΔH‡ and ΔS‡ |
| L18 | Reaction Mechanisms and Elementary Steps — |
| L19 | The Rate-Determining Step — |
| L20 | The Steady-State Approximation |
| L21 | Chain Reactions |
| L22 | Catalysis and Rate |
| L23 | Enzyme Kinetics: A Preview |
| L24 | Synthesis: Rate Data Constrains Mechanism |
Results in this unit
T-038
Rate laws and reaction order
How concentration controls the rate of reaction.
T-039
Integrated rate laws
Concentration-time behaviour for zero, first and second order.
T-040
The Arrhenius equation
Temperature dependence of rate and the activation energy.
T-041
Collision theory
Rate from collision frequency, energy and orientation.
T-042
Transition state theory
Rate from the activated complex at the barrier top.
T-043
The steady-state approximation
Deriving observed rate laws from a mechanism.