Publication detail

Affinity and Reaction Rates: Reconsideration of Experimental Data

PEKAŘ, M.

Original Title

Affinity and Reaction Rates: Reconsideration of Experimental Data

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

Two published experimental confirmations of either the linear relationship between the reaction rate and its affinity or the "thermodynamic coupling" are revised. It is shown that "proved" results are more consequences of a given experimental arrangement or of methods used for the treatment of experimental concentration data than outcomes of some general thermodynamic law. The affinity should be considered not as a quantity determining the value of the reaction rate but as an alternative quantity for description of the evolution of a reacting system, its distance from equilibrium. The affinity perhaps expresses some potential for a reaction but its manifestation in the reaction rate is controlled by the very kinetics.

Keywords

affinity, coupling, kinetics, thermodynamics

Authors

PEKAŘ, M.

RIV year

2007

Released

1. 10. 2007

ISBN

0018-019X

Periodical

HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA

Year of study

90

Number

10

State

Swiss Confederation

Pages from

1897

Pages to

1916

Pages count

20

BibTex

@article{BUT44522,
  author="Miloslav {Pekař}",
  title="Affinity and Reaction Rates: Reconsideration of Experimental Data",
  journal="HELVETICA CHIMICA ACTA",
  year="2007",
  volume="90",
  number="10",
  pages="1897--1916",
  issn="0018-019X"
}