I\'m working on this problem for Chem E reactions class. I can\'t seem to get th
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Question
I'm working on this problem for Chem E reactions class. I can't seem to get the mechanism right. I'm assuming that there is an intermediate that happens somewhere since reaction rate for the products is a second order reaction. Please help. Please spell out the rate equations so I can compare.
Thanks in advance!
The problem reads:
Come up with (guess and then verify) a mechanism that is consistant with the experimetally found rate equation for the following reaction:
Explanation / Answer
golden rule:-
for all rate law questions rate is determined by slowest step!
A+B-------------> AB (SLOW)
A+AB-------------- > A2B (FAST)
2A+B--------------- > A2B (OVERALL)
so here rate is determined by the slowest steo that is A+B-------------> AB ... so the rate equation will be k[A][B]