Orgo Ch 4.6-4.8

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Orgo Ch 4.6-4.8
2013-09-30 22:53:35
CHM 201

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  1. In a calorimeter, the __ is used to calculate the precise value of the __.
    • temerature rise
    • heat of reaction 
    • ΔHo
  2. When heat is evolved, the reaction is __ and the heat of reaction is  __
    • exothermic
    • negative
  3. How can we predict whether a reaction is endo or exothermic without actually measuring the heat?
    What must we know?
    • calculate an approx. heat of reaction by adding and subtracting the energies involved in the breaking and forming of bonds
    • the energies of the affected bonds
  4. The __ is the amount of enthalpy required to break a particular bond __-- that is, in such a way that each bonded atom retains one of the bon's two electrons. In contrast, when a bond is broken __, one of the atoms retains both electrons.
    • bond-dissociation enthalpy (BDE, or bond-dissociation energy)
    • homolytically
    • heterolytically
  5. __ forms __, while __ forms __.
    • homolytic cleavage (radical cleavage)
    • free radicals
    • heterolytic cleavage (ionic cleavage) 
    • ions
  6. Enthalpies for __ depend strongly on the solvent's ability to __ that result.
    • heterolytic (ionic) cleavage
    • solvate the ions
  7. __ is used to define __ because the values do not vary so much with different solvents or with no solvent.
    • homolytic cleavage
    • bond-dissociation enthalpies
  8. __ is used to show the movement of the electron pair in an ionic cleavage, and __ are used to show the separatio of individual electrons in a homolytic cleavage.
    • a curved arrow
    • curved half-arrows
  9. Energy is released when bonds are __, and energy is consumed to __. Therefore, __ are always __ (__).
    • formed
    • break bonds
    • BDEs
    • positive
    • endothermic
  10. The overal enthalpy change for a reaction is the __ .
    sum of the dissociation enthalpies of the bonds broken minus the sum of the dissociation enthalpies of the bonds formed
  11. WHat can we use BDE values for?
    to predict the heat of reactiosn that involves breaking and forming of bonds
  12. The bond-dissociation enthalpies also __.
    provide the heat of reaction for each indivdiual step
  13. the sum of the values of ΔHo for the individual __ gives the __ for the reaction.
    • propagation steps
    • overall enthalpy change
  14. True or False:
    There are alternative mechanisms that will vary in energies.
  15. Kinetics
    study of reaction rates
  16. How fast a reaction goes is just as important as the __
    position of its equilibrium
  17. Just because __ favors a reaction (__) does not mean that it will actually occur.
    • thermodynaics
    • negative ΔGo
  18. The __ is a measure of how fast the products appear and the reactants disappear. This can be determined by measuring the increase in the __ or __.
    • rate of a reaction
    • increase in the concentrations of products with time
    • decrease in the concentrations of the reactants with time
  19. Reaction rates depend on __. How?
    • concentration of the reactants
    • the greater the concentrations, the more often the reactants collide and the greater the chance of reaction
  20. A __ is the relationship between the concentration of the reactants and the observed reaction rate. Each reaction has its own __, determined __ by changing the __ and measuring the change in the rate.
    • rate equation (rate law)
    • rate equation
    • experimentally
    • changing the concentrations of the reactants
  21. The reaction rate is usually proportional to what?
    • the concentrations of the reactants ([A] and [B]) raised to some powers, a and b
    • rate law= kr[A]a[B]b
    • kr is the rate constant
    • the powers must be determined experimentally
  22. The rate equation depends on what?
    the mechanism of the reaction and on the rates of the individual steps
  23. In the general rate equation, the power a is called the __ of the reaction with respect to reactant A, and b is the __ of the reaction with respect to B. the sum of these powers, (a+b), is called the __ of the reaction.
    • order x2
    • overall order
  24. first order
    the reagent raised to the first power
  25. Two first order reactions result in __.
    second order overall because the sum of the powers of the concentrations in the rate equation is 2 (first order +first order)
  26. Reactions of the same overall type do not necessarily have the same same form of __.
    rate equation
  27. The most important fact to remember is that the __.
    rate equation must be determined experimentally

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