SK0014: PHYSICAL & INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

TUTORIAL 4
REACTION KINETICS

1. Write down the rate expression for the following reaction

a) 2C3H8 (g) + 10O2 (g) ⇌ 6CO2 (g) + 8H2O (g)
b) C2H4 (g) + 3O2 (g) ⇌ 2CO2 (g) + 2H2O (l)
c) 6H+ (aq) + 2MnO- (aq) + 5H2O2 (l) ⇌ 2Mn2+ (aq) + 5O2 (g) + 8H2O (l)

2.
a. Based on the rate expression in 1(a), how fast oxygen is decreasing if the
concentration of carbon dioxide is increasing at rate of 3. 55 x 10-2 M/s?
b. Based on the rate expression in 1(c), determine the rate of Mn2+ if the concentration
of H+ react at rate 1.763 x 10-3 mol/L.s.
c. Consider the following reaction: F2(g) + 2ClO2 (g) → 2FClO2 (g).
What is the rate of change in concentration of ClO2 id the concentration of F2 is
changing at a rate of 0.041 M/s?
3.
a. The first-order decomposition of dinitrogen pentoxide as below:
2N2O5 (g) → 4NO2 (g) + O2 (g)
and the data in Table 1 was obtained from the reaction.
t (s) [N2O5] (M)
0 0.91
300 0.75
600 0.64
1200 0.44
3000 0.16
i. What is the rate constant of the following decomposition?
ii. Approximately how long it take for [N2O5] to decrease from 0.53 M to 0.18 M?

b. The rate constant of the second-order reaction: 2NOBr (g) → 2NO (g) + Br2 (g)
is 0.95 L/mol.s at 10ºC. What is the concentration of NOBr after 30 second and if
the half-life of NOBr is 17 second?
c. The reaction J→ K + L have a rate constants of 4.5 x 10-3 mol/L.s at 285°C. an
experiment was run at 28°C where initial concentration of J is 1.2 x 10-2 M.
i. Calculate the half-life for the reaction.
ii. How long it takes to decrease the concentration of J to 5.0 x 10-3 M?

4.
a) Consider the reaction of A + B → Product
From the following data obtain, determine the order of reaction, and calculate the rate
constant.
Exp [A] M [B] M Rate (M/s)
1 1.50 1.50 0.3200
2 1.50 2.50 0.3200
3 3.00 1.50 0.6400
 b) The following data is obtained from the reaction of X + Y → Z at 360K.
Initial rate of [X] M [Y] M
disappearance of X (M/s)
0.053 0.10 0.50
0.127 0.20 0.30
1.02 0.40 0.60
0.254 0.20 0.60
0.509 0.40 0.30
i. Determine overall rate law
ii. Determine the initial rate of disappearance of X when the concentration of X is
0.35 M and Y is 0.45 M
c) Consider the reaction:
NH4+(aq) + NO-(g) → N2 (g) + 2H2O (l)
Exp. [NH4+] (M) [NO-] (M) Initial Rate (x 10-7) (M/s)
1 0.200 0.200 10.8
2 0.600 0.200 32.3
3 0.200 0.202 10.8
4 0.200 0.404 21.6
i. Determine the rate law and rate constant.
ii. What is the initial rate of reaction when [NH4+] is 0.46 M and [NO-] is 0.18 M
is react?

5.
a) The rate constant of a first-order reaction is 5.60 X 10-4 s-1 at 350°C. Calculate the
temperature at which its rate constant is 8.80 x 10-4 s-1 if the activation energy is
104kJ/mol.
b) Data of the rate constant and temperature for the first order reaction of the following
reaction are given below:
2N2O5 (g) → 2N2O4 (g) + O2 (g)

T(K) k (s-1)
298 1.71 X 10-5
308 6.61 X 10-5
318 2.51 X 10-4
328 7.59 X 10-4
338 2.40 X 10-3
Determine the activation energy for the reaction.