Assignment: Kinetics

1) For a reaction A+B = C+D, it is found that doubling the concentrations of A and B, the
rate increases 8- fold, but on doubling the concentration of A, the rate increases 4- fold. What
is the order of reaction with respect to B?

2) Half-life of decomposition of a compound was found to be 50 min. When the

concentration to start with was halved, the half- life becomes 100 min. What is the order of
the reaction?

3) Consider the parallel reaction,

K1 B
A
K2 C

In an experiment it was observed that 60% decomposition of A takes place in 20 min and
analysis of product showed that 75% of B and 25% of C are present. Calculate K1 and K2.

4 The adsorption of a gas is described by Langmuir isotherm with Ka = 0.85 kPa-1. Find the
press at which the surface coverage is a) 15% and b) 95%.

5) The half-life of the homogenous gaseous reaction SO2Cl2 SO2 + Cl2, which obeys
first order kinetics is 8 minutes. How long will it take for the concentration of SO2Cl2 to be
reduced to 1% of the initial value?
6) In an enzyme solution, sucrose undergoes fermentation. If 0.1 M solution is reduced to
0.05 M in 10 hours and to 0.025 M in 20 hours, what is the order of the reaction and what is
the rate constant?
7) From the following relation given for a gaseous reaction, find the values of activation
energy and Arrhenius pre exponential factor?
log K = 6 2000/T
8) You are given two specimens of Pd, specimen I) has a grain size of 3.091 m; specimen
II) has a grain size of 444 m. Which specimen will exhibit a higher rate of diffusion of
hydrogen through it? Explain.
9) SO2Cl2 decomposes to SO2 and Cl2 according to SO2Cl2 SO2 + Cl2
The reaction is first order in SO2Cl2 and the value of the rate constant K is 2.2*10-5 s-1.
a) Calculate the initial rate of reaction when a reactor is changed with SO2Cl2 at a
concentration of 0.11 mol L-1.
b) Calculate how long it will take for the concentration of SO2Cl2 in the reactor in part
(a) to fall to of its initial value.
10) Derive the rate law for the decomposition of Ozone in the reaction
2O3 3O2 on the basis of the following proposed mechanism:
 1) O3 O2 + O
2) O + O3 2O2

11) Bacteriorhodopsin is protein found in Halobacterium halobium that converts light energy
into a transmembrane proton gradient that is used for ATP synthesis. After light is absorbed
by the protein , the following initial reaction sequence occurs, Br J K, where the rate
constants for the first and the second steps are k1=2*1012 s-1 and k2= 3.3*1011 s-1 respectively.
At what time will the max concentration of the intermediate J will occur?

12) The enzyme catalyzed conversion of a substrate at 25C has a Michaelis constant of 0.035
mol L-1. The rate of the reaction is 1.15*10-3 mole L-1 s-1 when the substrate concentration is
0.110 mole L-1. What is the maximum velocity of this enzymolysis?

13) Consider the reaction P4 + 6H2 4PH3. A rate study of this reaction was conducted at
298K. The data that were obtained are shown in table.

P4 (mol/L) H2 (mol/L) Initial rate

(mol/L/Sec)
0.0110 0.0075 3.20*10-4

0.0110 0.0150 6.40*10-4

0.0220 0.0150 6.39*10-4

a) What is the order w.r.t P4 and H2?

b) Write the rate law for this reaction?
c) Determine the value and units of the rate constant, K.
14) Consider the reaction: 2B C + 3D. In one experiment it was found that at 300K the
rate constant is 0.134 L/(mol S). A second experiment showed that at 450K, the rate constant
was 0.569 L/(mol S). Determine the activation energy for the reaction?