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In chemical kinetics, the order of reaction with respect to a given substance (such as reactant, catalyst or product) is defined as the index, or exponent, to which its concentration term in the rate equation is raised.[1] For the typical rate equation of form , where [A], [B], ... are concentrations, the reaction orders (or partial reaction orders) are x for substance A, y for substance B, etc. The overall reaction order is the sum x + y + ....
For example, the chemical reaction between mercury (II) chloride and oxalate ion
has the observed rate equation[2]
In this case, the reaction order with respect to the reactant HgCl2 is 1 and with respect to oxalate ion is 2; the overall reaction order is 1 + 2 = 3. As is true for many reactions, the reaction orders (here 1 and 2 respectively) differ from the stoichiometric coefficients (2 and 1). Reaction orders can be determined only by experiment. Their knowledge allows conclusions to be drawn about the reaction mechanism, and may help to identify the rate-determining step.
Elementary (single-step) reactions do have reaction orders equal to the stoichiometric coefficients for each reactant, but complex (multi-step) reactions may or may not have reaction orders equal to their stoichiometric coefficients.
Orders of reaction for each reactant are often positive integers, but they may also be zero, fractional, or negative.
A reaction can also have an undefined reaction order with respect to a reactant if the rate is not simply proportional to some power of the concentration of that reactant; for example, one cannot talk about reaction order in the rate equation for a bimolecular reaction between adsorbed molecules:
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If a reaction rate depends on a single reactant and the value of the exponent is one, then the reaction is said to be first order. In organic chemistry, the class of SN1 (nucleophilic substitution unimolecular) reactions consists of first-order reactions. For example,[3] in the reaction of aryldiazonium ions with nucleophiles in aqueous solution ArN2+ + X− → ArX + N2, the rate equation is r = k[ArN2+], where Ar indicates an aryl group.
Another class of first-order reactions is radioactive decay processes which are all first order. These are, however, nuclear reactions rather than chemical reactions.
A reaction is said to be second order when the overall order is two. The rate of a second-order reaction may be proportional to one concentration squared , or (more commonly) to the product of two concentrations . As an example of the first type, the reaction NO2 + CO → NO + CO2 is second-order in the reactant NO2 and zero order in the reactant CO. The observed rate is given by , and is independent of the concentration of CO.[4]
The second type includes the class of SN2 (nucleophilic substitution bimolecular) reactions, such as the alkaline hydrolysis of ethyl acetate[3]:
This reaction is first-order in each reactant and second-order overall: r = k[CH3COOC2H5][OH−]
If the same hydrolysis reaction is catalyzed by imidazole, the rate equation becomes[3] r = k[imidazole][CH3COOC2H5]. The rate is first-order in one reactant (ethyl acetate), and also first-order in imidazole which as a catalyst does not appear in the overall chemical equation.
If the concentration of a reactant remains constant (because it is a catalyst or it is in great excess with respect to the other reactants), its concentration can be included in the rate constant, obtaining a pseudo-first order (or occasionnally pseudo-second order) rate equation. For a typical second-order reaction with rate equation , if the concentration of reactant B is constant then :, where the pseudo-first order rate constant . The second-order rate equation has been reduced to a pseudo-first-order rate equation, which makes the treatment to obtain an integrated rate equation much easier.
For example the hydrolysis of sucrose in acid solution is often cited as a first-order reaction with rate . The true rate equation is third-order, . However the concentrations of both the catalyst H+ and the solvent H2O are normally constant, so that the reaction is pseudo-first order.[5]
For zero-order reactions, the reaction rate is independent of the concentration of a reactant, so that changing its concentration has no effect on the speed of the reaction. This is true for many enzyme-catalyzed reactions, provided that the reactant concentration is much greater than the enzyme concentration which controls the rate. For example, the biological oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde by the enzyme liver alcohol dehydrogenase (LADH) is zero order in ethanol.[6]
In fractional order reactions, the order is a non-integer, which often indicates a complex reaction mechanism. For example, the pyrolysis of ethanal (CH3-CHO) into methane and carbon monoxide proceeds with an order of 1.5 with respect to ethanal: r = k[CH3-CHO]3/2.[7] The decomposition of phosgene (COCl2) to carbon monoxide and chlorine has order 1 with respect to phosgene itself and order 0.5 with respect to chlorine: r = k[COCl2] [Cl2]1/2.
In a mixed-order reaction, the order of a reaction changes in the course of a reaction as a result of changing variables such as pH. An example is the oxidation of an alcohol to a ketone by a ruthenate (RuO42−) and a hexacyanoferrate, the latter serving as the sacrificial catalyst converting Ru(IV) back to Ru(VI):[8] the disappearing-rate of the ferrate is zero-order with respect to the ferrate at the onset of the reaction (when its concentration is high and the ruthenium catalyst is quickly regenerated) but changes to first-order when its concentration decreases.
A reaction rate can have a negative partial order with respect to a substance. For example the conversion of ozone (O3) to oxygen follows the rate equation , corresponding to second order in ozone and order (-1) with respect to oxygen.
When a partial order is negative, the overall order is usually considered as undefined. In the above example for instance, the reaction is not described as first order even though the sum of the partial orders is 2 + (-1) = 1, because the rate equation is more complex than that of a simple first-order reaction.
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