Rate Processes in Chemical Reactions: Kinetics and Equilibrium

Keywords:rate constants, equilibrium constants, catalysts

  1. Reaction rate

  2. Dependence of reaction rate upon concentrations of reactants
    1. Rate law
    2. Rate constant
    3. Reaction order

  3. Rate-determining step

  4. Dependence of reaction rate upon temperature; activation energy
    1. Activation complex or transition state
    2. The interpretation of energy profiles showing energies of reactants and products, activation energy, and H for the reaction

  5. Kinetic control vs. thermodynamic control of a reaction

  6. Catalysts; the special of enzyme catalysis

  7. Equilibrium in reversible chemical reactions
    1. Law of mass action
    2. The equilibrium constant
    3. Application of LeChatelier's principle

  8. Relationship of the equilibrium constant and G0