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Introduction
Kinetics of hydrolysis of sucrose to fructose and glucose in a dilute HCl solution
has had an important role in the development of the theory of reaction kinetics. 14 The
rate of reaction between sucrose and water catalyzed by a hydrogen ion is followed by
measuring the angle of rotation of polarized light passing through the solution. The
angle of rotation of polarized light passing through the solution is measured using a
polarized beam. Using the optical method to study the properties of a solution is helpful
to maintain the original chemical structures. As polarized light passes through a chiral
molecule with optical activity, the plane of polarization will be rotated clockwise or
anticlockwise depending on the chirality of molecules. 1As the sucrose is used up and the
glucose-fructose mixture is formed, the angle of rotation to the right becomes less and
less, and finally the light is rotated to the left. The rotation is determined at the
beginning (αο) and at the end of the reaction (α ∞), and the difference between these two
readings is a measure of the original concentration of the sucrose. The reaction proceeds
too slowly to be measured in pure water, but it is catalyzed by hydrogen ions. The rate
constant will vary with the electrolyte concentration, and the resulting change in the
concentration of the collision complex will cause a change in the measured rate constant
k.2
Experimental section
commonly used to measure the angle of rotation. A monochromatic light source passes
through the polarizer and through the solution. The second polarizer, called an analyzer,
is initially aligned without the optically active sample in place so that all the polarized
light passes through. With the sample in place, the polarized light is rotated, and the
analyzer must be turned through an angle α to allow the light to pass. The unpolarized
light, often from the sodium D-line, is incident upon a polarizer which has the function
of forming a polarized beam. At the interface, one component is totally reflected to the
side, where it is absorbed by a black surface. The other component is freely transmitted
through the medium whose optical activity is to be examined and then intercepted by
the analyzer. If the analyzer is turned to the right, or clockwise as viewed looking
toward the light source, the sample is said to be dextrorotatory. The angle is then given
a positive sign. If the optical rotation causes the analyzer to be turned to the left, the
sample is said to be levorotatory and the angle is given a negative sign. The reason for
the observed rotation is that the chiral centers interact with the right- and the left-
circularly polarized light vectors in the polarized light as though the sample has two
Certified ACS Crystalline Fischer Scientific. As this process takes place, the amount of
rotation is diminished until it reaches a solution that is fully converted, and the rotation
assumed to be proportional to the quantity α t-αf, where αt is the optical rotation at any
time during the experiment, and αf is the final rotation value. In the first phase of the
analysis, it is necessary to determine the order of the reaction with respect to sucrose
concentration. The table below will help to find out some values needed for the order
the sucrose is used up and the glucose-fructose mixture is formed, the angle of rotation
to the right becomes less and less, and finally the light is rotated to the left.
Figure 1-3 demonstrate the linearity of the various possible plots, which in turn
(αt-αf) vs t
12
10
8
(αt-αf)
0
0 50 100 150 200 250
time (min)
0,001
ln (αt-αf)
0,000
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
-0,001
-0,002
-0,003
time (min)
Figure 2. Natural logarithm of the sucrose concentration versus time showing a first order reaction.
1/(αt-αf) vs t
0,007
0,006
0,005
0,004
1/(αt-αf)
0,003
0,002
0,001
0,000
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
time (min)
Figure 3. Inverse of the sucrose concentration versus time to determine if is a second order reaction.
(figure 2). According to chemical kinetics, the equation of the first order reaction can be
written as
hydrochloric acid. α0 is the initial optical rotation of the system when sucrose has not
converted. αt represents the optical rotation at which the reaction lasts for t minutes. α∞
is the final optical rotation. There is a positive correlation between the hydrochloric acid
concentration and the reaction rate constant k without changing the temperature, which
indicates that the concentration of catalyst hydrochloric acid has a great influence on the
hydrolysis rate of sucrose. Following Figure 2, the rate constant was found to be 0.0246
min-1. The measuring process does not involve any mechanical adjustment of optical
elements once the experimental setup is established and thereby realizes a real-time
value for αf, the final optical rotation. This measurement is known as α ∞, although the
elapsed time was considerably less than infinity. The criterion we would look for in
correlation coefficient (or standard deviation) for the best straight line through the
points. With a correlation of 0.9954, α∞ was found to be -5.75̊ for t=∞. Once that this
value is found, a data table is needed to posteriorly make the graph and show the
linearity. The data table with the values using αα is shown in Table I.
Using these results, the best linear fit is shown is Figure 4. It is possible to make
a graph showing the best straight line, that is the one that has the correlation coefficient
R² = 0.995402431248018
0,002
0,001
ln (αt-α∞)
0,000
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200
-0,001
-0,002
time (min)
Figure 4. Graph using the appropriate data points to show the best possible straight line.
perform a calculation which takes into account the concentration of the hydrogen-ion
catalyst. Dividing the previously calculated value of k (0.0246 min -1) by the molarity of
hydrogen ions in the solution, k will have units of min -1M-1. Substituting with the correct
Dai-LanNguyen-Tran1 0.85x10-2
Key-Martinez-Mendler1 1.16x10-2
Comparing this data, it is possible to calculate the standard deviation for our
coherent light source and the limited extinction ratio of polarizers, the accuracy is
always lower than 10−3 degrees.8 Moreover, the measurement of chemical reaction
inevitably involves manual adjustment of optical elements, such as polarizers and wave
plates, resulting in long manipulation times. The specific rotation depends upon the
wavelength of the light, and this dependence is called optical rotatory dispersion. The
absorption bands, the optical rotation usually increases rapidly and then decreases
through zero to give an opposite rotation as the wavelength is changed. This is referred
to as the Cotton effect. 1These changes are more sensitive than most properties to
changes in molecular conformation. Because of the error inherent in locating the point
of minimum intensity, it is better to employ a scheme in which the eye is required only
to compare one field with another field of nearly the same intensity. 2 When a linearly
polarized light is reflected or refracted on an optical interface, the photonic SHE (spin
hall effect) manifested itself as spin-dependent shifts which are perpendicular to the
incident plane. The photonic spin-Hall shifts provide important information of optical
Also, the linear equation has two important and well-known consequences. The first
problem concerns the effect of experimental error. The raw data in kinetics experiments
usually has a constant error for every data point. That is, the uncertainty in the early
complete. When the natural logarithm is taken, early data points are little affected by the
errors, but data points toward the end of the reaction have large deviations caused by the
basic nature of logarithms. Therefore, for a linear fit involving the logarithm, the error
in the data points at the end of the kinetics run have an inordinate effect on the fit
values.1
Conclusion
has had an important role in the development of the theory of reaction kinetics, and it
has been studied by a variety of techniques. The angle of rotation of the solution
changed as the sucrose converted to glucose and fructose. By measuring the angle over
a period of time with the polarimeter, we were able to determine the reaction rate. To
reaction rate constant, that was found to be 1.23x10 -2±0.05min-1M-1 using 2.0M HCl and
at a temperature of 20̊C.
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