Unit · year 4
CU-403 · Catalysis & Reaction Dynamics
Threads kinetics · energy24 lectures4 results
How catalysts work, at surfaces and in solution.
Lectures
| L01 | What a Catalyst Does — |
| L02 | Catalysis and Activation Energy |
| L03 | Why Catalysts Do Not Change Equilibrium |
| L04 | Turnover Number and Turnover Frequency |
| L05 | Homogeneous Catalysis — |
| L06 | Acid–Base Catalysis — |
| L07 | Organometallic Catalytic Cycles — |
| L08 | Adsorption at Surfaces |
| L09 | Physisorption and Chemisorption |
| L10 | The Langmuir Isotherm |
| L11 | Derivation and Assumptions of the Langmuir Model |
| L12 | BET and Multilayer Adsorption |
| L13 | Heterogeneous Catalysis |
| L14 | Langmuir–Hinshelwood and Eley–Rideal Mechanisms |
| L15 | Active Sites and Catalyst Poisoning |
| L16 | Industrial Catalysts: Haber and Contact Processes |
| L17 | Zeolites and Shape Selectivity |
| L18 | Enzyme Catalysis: Sources of Rate Enhancement |
| L19 | Transition-State Stabilisation |
| L20 | Covalent and General Acid–Base Catalysis |
| L21 | Case Study: The Serine Proteases |
| L22 | Molecular Beams and Reaction Dynamics — |
| L23 | Femtochemistry: The Transition State Observed — |
| L24 | Synthesis: Lowering the Barrier |
Results in this unit
T-119
Catalysis and activation energy
Lowering the barrier without being consumed.
T-120
The Langmuir adsorption isotherm
Surface coverage as a function of pressure.
T-121
Mechanisms of enzyme catalysis
How enzymes achieve enormous rate enhancements.
T-122
Heterogeneous catalysis
Adsorption, surface reaction and desorption.