Title: Determining orders of reaction

C Grade: be able to calculate the half-life of a reaction, using data from a suitable graph
B Grade: understand experiments that can be used to investigate reaction rates
A Grade: be able to deduce order, using data from a conc-time graph, rate-con graph and an initial-rate method

• Finish “Topic 11 - Kinetics_booklet”

• Checkpoint page 13
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Mark your homework: checkpoint page 13
 Title: Activation energy and catalysis
C Grade: understand the terms activation energy, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalyst
B Grade: understand the term autocatalysis
A Grade: understand the use of a solid (heterogeneous) catalyst for industrial reactions, in the gas phase, in terms of
providing a surface for the reaction

Activation Energy, Ea
Minimum energy that colliding particles must possess for a reaction to occur
 Title: Activation energy and catalysis
C Grade: understand the terms activation energy, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalyst
B Grade: understand the term autocatalysis
A Grade: understand the use of a solid (heterogeneous) catalyst for industrial reactions, in the gas phase, in terms of
providing a surface for the reaction

Catalyst

s
substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction but is chemically
unchanged at the end of the reaction

 works by providing an alternative route for the reaction with a lower

activation energy than the original route

 Are divided into 2 types

Homogeneous Heterogeneous
(in the same phase (in a different phase to
as the reactants) that of the reactants) Differences?
?
 Title: Activation energy and catalysis
C Grade: understand the terms activation energy, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalyst
B Grade: understand the term autocatalysis
A Grade: understand the use of a solid (heterogeneous) catalyst for industrial reactions, in the gas phase, in terms of
providing a surface for the reaction

Homogeneous Catalysts Gas phase

Reaction responsible for the

destruction of the ozone layer

The chlorine radicals then take part in a

chain reaction with ozone:

Cl radical is regenerated
The overall reaction is: and so is acting as a catalyst
 Title: Activation energy and catalysis
C Grade: understand the terms activation energy, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalyst
B Grade: understand the term autocatalysis
A Grade: understand the use of a solid (heterogeneous) catalyst for industrial reactions, in the gas phase, in terms of
providing a surface for the reaction

Homogeneous Catalysts In aqueous solution

peroxydisulfate ions

This reaction is catalysed by either Fe2+(aq) or Fe3+(aq):

 Title: Activation energy and catalysis
C Grade: understand the terms activation energy, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalyst
B Grade: understand the term autocatalysis
A Grade: understand the use of a solid (heterogeneous) catalyst for industrial reactions, in the gas phase, in terms of
providing a surface for the reaction

Plenary

Define the term catalyst

Explain why only a small quantity of a homogeneous

catalyst is required in order for it to be effective.
(discuss it with the person next to you)