Chem 18 Exercises (Kinetics) 1. The rate of formation of NO in the reaction: 2NOBr(g) 2NO(g) + Br2 (g) was reported as 1.

.6 x 10-4 mol/L-s. What are the rate of reaction and the rate of consumption of NOBr (g)? 2. Assume that the following initial-rate data were taken for a hypothetical reaction at some temperature: A + 2B + C products Find the order with respect to each reactant and find the value of the rate constant.

3. Molecular iodine, I2 (g), dissociates into iodine atoms at 625 K with a firstorder rate constant of 0.271/s a. What is the half-life for this reaction? b. If you start with 0.050 M I2 at this temperature, how much will remain after 5.12 sec assuming that the iodine atoms do not recombine to form I2? 4. (a) The gas-phase decomposition of SO2Cl2, SO2Cl2(g) 5O2(g) + Cl2(g), is first order in SO2Cl2. At 600 K the half-life for this process is 2.3 x 105 /s. What is the rate constant at this temperature? (b) At 320 C the rate constant is 2.2 x 10-5 /s. What is the half-life at this temperature? 5. The reaction SO2Cl2 SO2(g) + Cl2(g) is first order in SO2Cl2. Using the following kinetic data, determine the magnitude of the first-order rate constant:

6. The following data were obtained for the gas-phase decomposition of nitrogen dioxide at 300 C, NO2(g) NO(g) + O2(g):

What is the order of the reaction and what is the value of the rate constant? 7. Sucrose (C12H22O11), which is commonly known as table sugar, reacts in dilute acid solutions to form two simpler sugars, glucose and fructose, both of which have the formula C6H12O6: At 23C and in 0.5 M HCl, the following data were obtained for the disappearance of sucrose:

What is the order of the reaction with respect to sucrose and what is the value of the rate constant? 8. The half-life of a first order decomposition of N2O5 (g) to NO2 (g) at a certain temperature is 42 min. How long will it take to decompose 80% of N2O5 at the same temperature? 9. For a certain second order reaction, if it takes 24.5 s to reduce the concentration of the reactant from 0.1 M to 0.08 M. How long will it take to reduce the concentration to 0.015 M from 0.10 M? 10. The temperature dependence of the rate constant for the reaction is tabulated as follows:

Calculate Ea and A.