Practical Physical Chemistry

Zero Order Reaction

Prepared BY:
MaryamFarhad
WalaaHersh
Roshna Redar
List Of Content :
Chemical kinematics
Rate Of Reaction
Order Of Reaction
Types Of Order Of Reaction
What is a Zero Order Reaction?
Example of zero order reaction
Zero order reaction graph
Relationship Between Half – life and zero-order Reaction
Unit of rate constant for zero order reaction
Unit of rate constant
Factors affecting rate of reaction
 Chemical kinematics

The branch of physical chemistry which deals with rate of chemical reaction and
the mechanism through which they occuris called chemical kinematics
Rate Of Reaction

The decrease in concentration of reactant or increase in

concentration of the products of the reaction at a given moment of
time is called rate of reaction
Formula :
dx/dt = k
Order Of Reaction

The sum of the powers of concentration terms in rate equation is

Known as order of reaction .
Consider a reaction
mA +n B …… Product
Rate eq (R) =k (A) *m (B)*n
Order = m+n
Types Of Order Of Reaction

1. Zero order reaction

2. First order reaction
3. Second order reaction
4. Third order reaction………and Higher
What is a Zero Order Reaction?
Zero-order reaction is a chemical reaction wherein the rate does not
vary with the increase or decrease in the concentration of the
reactants. Therefore, the rate of these reactions is always equal to
the rate constant of the specific reactions (since the rate of these
reactions is proportional to the zeroth power of reactants
concentration).
Example of zero order reaction
Graph of Zero Order Reaction

The integral form of zero order reactions can be rewritten as

Comparing this equation with that of a straight line (y = mx + c), an [A] against t graph can be plotted to get a
straight line with slope equal to ‘-k’ and intercept equal to [A] 0 as shown below.
Zero order reaction graph
The rate law formula for zero order reaction, [A]0 – [A] = k0t. When the rate of reaction is plotted
against concentration and time, the following graph obtained below the picture,
Relationship Between Half – life and zero-order Reaction

The timescale in which there is a 50% reduction in the initial

population is referred to as half-life. Half-life is denoted by the
symbol ‘t1/2’.
The half-life of zero order :
t½ =(A)0 /2k
It can be noted from the equation given above that the half-life is
dependent on the rate constant as well as the reactant’s initial
concentration.
Unit of rate constant for zero order reaction

For zero order kinetics, n = 0 and molar concentration = mol lit-1.

Therefore, the unit rate constant for the zero order reaction =
(mol lit -1)1-0/sec = mol lit-1 sec-1.
Unit of rate constant
The rate equation for nth-order reaction = kn × [A]n. Therefore, unit
of rate constant (kn) = unit of concentration/(unit of concentration)n
× unit of time = (unit of concentration)1-n/unit of time.
Factors affecting rate of reaction
• Nature of Reactants

.Temperature
Factors affecting rate of reaction
• Concentration of the Reactants

.Surface area
 Pseudo zero order
First order Zero order Second order

Second-order reaction (where

Zero-order reactions (where order order = 2) has a rate proportional
Rate of the reaction depends on = 0) have a constant rate. The rate
the concentration of only one of a zero-order reaction is to the concentration of the square
reactant, and is proportional to constant and independent of the of a single reactant or the product
the amount of the reactant. of the concentration of two
concentration of reactants. This reactants.
rate is independent of the
concentration of the reactants

Rate = k[A] (or B instead of A), Rate = k[A]2 (or substitute B for A or k
with k having the units of sec-1 multiplied by the concentration of A
times the concentration of B), with
the units of the rate constant M-1sec-
R=K 1
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