231 Lecture 8
231 Lecture 8
231 Lecture 8
Chemical Kinetics
Bioc. 231
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Chemical Kinetics
• Kinetics is the study of the rates (velocities) at
which chemical reactions occur.
• A major purpose of such a study is to gain an
understanding of a reaction mechanism, that is, a
detailed description of the various steps in the
reaction process and the sequence with which
they occur.
• Reaction Rates (reaction velocities): To measure
a reaction rate we monitor the disappearance of
reactants or appearance of products.
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Chemical Kinetics
§ Chemical reactions may be classified on the
basis of:
• Number of molecules that must ultimately
react to form the reaction products.
• Reaction order.
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Chemical Kinetics - Elementary
Reaction
• The molecularity of a reaction refers to the number
of reactant particles involved in the reaction.
• Types of elementary reactions are unimolecular,
bimolecular, or termolecular.
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Chemical Kinetics - Elementary
Reaction
• Elementary Reaction: enzyme kinetics based upon the
elementary kinetics.
Reactants→Products
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Chemical Kinetics - Elementary
Reaction
• Non-Elementary Reaction (Complex Reaction): are sets of
elementary reactions. That is to say, the addition of elementary
steps produces complex, non-elementary reactions.
Elementary
Reaction 1
Reactants→Intermediates→Products
Elementary
Reaction 2
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Chemical Kinetics – Rate of Reactions
§ The order of a reaction can be determined by measuring [A] and [P]
as a function of time, that is;
v = rate = - d[A] = d[P] where
dt dt
• v is the rate or velocoity of the reaction at time t
• [A] is the concentration of reactant A at time t
• [P] is the concentration of product P at time t
• -d[A] is the rate of decrease of reactant A
dt
• d[P] is the rate of increase of product P.
dt
§ the rate always has units of mole L-1 sec-1 and the concentration
always has units of mole L-1.
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Chemical Kinetics – Rate of Reactions
• Zero order reaction:
v = - d[A] = k [A]0 = k
dt
where
• k is the rate constant.
• For a zero-order reaction, the rate of reaction is a
constant. When the limiting reactant is completely
consumed, the reaction suddenly stops.
• Here is the rate is independent of the reaction of any
reactants.
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Chemical Kinetics – Rate of Reactions
• First order reaction A → P:
v = rate = - d[A] = d[P] = k [A]
dt dt
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Enzyme Kinetics
§ Enzyme Kinetics is a branch of chemical kinetics
and, as such, shares much of the same formalism.
§ The aims of enzyme kinetics studies are to:
• measure the rates of enzyme catalyzed
reactions.
• Examine enzyme specificity.
• Identify selective and potent enzyme inhibitors
• Determine the kinetic mechanism of an enzyme.
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