CHEMISTRY II (FAC0025)

TUTORIAL 2

1. Consider the reaction

4NO2 (g) + O2 (g)

2N2O5 (g)

Suppose that, at a particular moment during the reaction, molecular oxygen is

reacting at the rate of 0.024 M/s.
(a) At what rate is N2O5 being formed?
(b) At what rate is NO2 reacting?
2. The data shown below were obtained from the following reaction:
BF3(g) + NH3(g) F3BNH3(g)
Exp
1
2
3
4
5

[BF3]initial
(M)
0.250
0.250
0.200
0.350
0.175

[NH3]initial
(M)
0.250
0.125
0.100
0.100
0.100

Initial Rate of Reaction

(Ms-1)
0.2130
0.1065
0.0682
0.1193
0.0596

a. Determine the rate law for the reaction.

b. Calculate the value of the rate constant, k, for the reaction.
c. At 25oC, it takes 2.22 hours for the concentration of BF 3 to drop from 1.80
M to 0.90 M. How many hours are required for the concentration of BF3
to drop from 0.80 M to 0.0025 M at 25C?

3. Cyclopentadiene (C5H6) reacts with itself to form dicyclopentadiene (C10H12). A

0.0400 M solution of C5H6 was monitored as a function of time as the reaction
2C5H6 C10H12 preceded. The following data were collected:
Time (s)
0.0
50.0
100.0
150.0
200.0

[C5H6], M
0.0400
0.0300
0.0240
0.0200
0.0174

What is the order of the reaction? What is the value of rate constant?

4. At 500oC, cyclopropane (C3H6) rearranges to propene (CH3-CH=CH2). The

reaction is first order, and the rate constant is 6.7 10-4 s-1. if the initial
concentration of C3H6 is 0.0500 M:
a) What is the molarity of C3H6 after 30 min?
b) How long does it takes for the cyclopropane concentration to drop to 0.0100 M?
c) How many minutes does it take for the 26% of the C3H6 to react?
5. Iodine atoms combine to form molecular iodine in the gas phase
I(g) + I(g)
I2(g)
This reaction follows second-order kinetics and has the high rate constant 7.0
X109/M.s at 23 oC.
(a) If the initial concentration of I was 0.086 M, calculate the concentration after
2.0 min.
(b) Calculate the half-life of the reaction if the initial concentration of I is 0.60 M
and if it is 0.42 M.

6. The reaction between ethyl iodide and hydroxide ion in ethanol (C2H5OH)
solution:
C2H5I (alc) + OH- (alc) C2H5OH (l) + I- (alc)
has an activation energy of 86.8 kJ/mol and a frequency factor of 2.10 1011 M-1s-1.
a) Predict the rate constant for the reaction at 35oC.
b) A solution of KOH in ethanol is made up by dissolving 0.335 g KOH in ethanol to
form 250.0 ml of solution. Similarly, 1.453 g of C2H5I is dissolved in ethanol to
form 250.0 ml of solution. Equal volumes of the two solutions are mixed.
Assuming the reaction is first order in each reactant, what is the initial rate at
35oC?
c) Which reagent in the reaction is limiting, assuming the reaction proceeds to
completion?

7. The rate constant of a first-order reaction is 3.46 X 10-2 s-1 at 298 K. What is the
rate constant at 350 K if the activation energy for the reaction is 50.2 kJ/mol?