Unit 5: Chemical Kinetics

Day 5: Begin Kinetics Lab

Warm Up
If you are given 15 M stock solution
and you need to make ONLY 20 mL
of a 6 M solution, how much of the
stock solution should you use?
Agenda
1. Demonstration
2. Begin Lab Set Up
Purpose
Hypothesis
Materials
3. Pre-Lab Questions
4. If Time: Begin Introductory Activity
Kinetics of Crystal Violet
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Concentration
Pre-Lab Volume of Volume of
(mol/L)
1. 2.5 x10-5 CV distilled water
(mL)

2.5 x10-5 = 25 M 10.0 mL 0.0 mL

2.5 x10-6 = 2.5 M
5.0 x10-6 = 5.0 M
7.5 x10-6 = 7.5.0 M
10.0 x10-6 = 10.0 M
12.5 x10-6 = 12.5 M 5.0 mL 5.0 mL
Kinetics of Crystal Violet Fading
Guided Inquiry Design and Procedure
Part A
CV+ + OH- CVOH

What percent of OH- ions will remain at the end

of a reaction if the initial concentrations of
each reactant were equal (1:1 ratio)?
Kinetics of Crystal Violet
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Review:

CV+ + OH- CVOH

purple colorless

Rate = k[CV+]m [OH-]n

Kinetics of Crystal Violet
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Rate Law:
Rate = k [CV+]m
where k = k [OH-]n

The constant k is a new pseudo rate

constant. The new pseudo rate law is valid
when the concentration of OH- ions is much
greater than the concentration of CV+ ions.
Under these conditions, the [OH-] term in the
original rate law will not change much over the
course of the reaction and may be treated as a
constant in the rate equation.
Kinetics of Crystal Violet
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 Kinetics of Crystal Violet
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BIG IDEA:
The more color,
the more
concentrated,
the more
absorbance.
Absorbance =
Concentration
Part B: Procedure Outline
1. NaOH conc. needs to be changed, not CV +, so that the
effect on k can be calculated and the order of reaction
with respect to OH- determined
2. Colorimeter must be zeroed with a blank, equal volumes
0.01 M NaOH and water
3. To make 10 mL of 0.01 M NaOH, measure 5.0 mL of 0.02
M NaOH in a serological pipet and
4. Clean the pipet with small portions of crystal violet
solution. Measure 10 mL of 25 uM crystal violet
solution
5. After the absorbance vs. time data are recorded, the
absorbance values need to be converted into
concentration, then separate data columns for ln[CV +]
and 1/[CV+] need to be created and analyzed to
determine k for the new concentration of NaOH, 0.01 M.