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Offline hannah1414

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pseudo-rate
« on: January 11, 2011, 12:15:47 PM »
how do you work out the pseudo-order rate of a reaction?

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Re: pseudo-rate
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2011, 01:49:14 AM »
I'll assume you are talking about pseudo first order rates here.  Basically when you have a second order rate equation v = k[A][ B], it can be hard to determine the rate since you have to monitor both concentrations at the same time. 
To get around this, keep either A or B constant and you get the following expressions:

v = k[A][ B] = k'[A]
k' = k[ B]0

Here B is being kept constant as denoted by [ B]0

By plotting k' vs. [ B] for multiple reactions, k can be found via the slope.

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