2019 - 2020

0351-1825-02
  Kinetics                                                                                             
FACULTY OF EXACT SCIENCES
Amit BeerOrnstein - Chemistry111Sun1300-1400 Sem  2
 
 
Course description
  • Chemical kinetics: The rate of a chemical reaction, rate laws and rate constants (empirical and integrated), half-life, reactions near equilibrium, radioactivity
  • The kinetic theory: Kinetic-molecular theory of gases, distribution of molecular speeds and energies, the collision theory, mean-free-path, effusion and diffusion
  • Mechanisms of reaction:  Elementary reactions, orders of reaction, reaction mechanism, competing and consecutive reactions, the steady state approximation, uni-molecular reactions and the Lindemann-Hinshelwood mechanism, chain reactions and polymerizations
  • The rate constants: Transition state theory, the effect of temperature on reaction rates, activation energy, Aherenius equation, the RRK model for uni-molecular reactions, molecule as collection of harmonic oscillators
  • Catalysis:  Homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, enzymatic reactions and the Menten-Michaelis mechanism, catalysts and inhibitors, auto-catalytic and oscillatory reactions

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