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ACA

Oklahoma State University

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Answer all of the questions below. If you do not know an answer enter CNA. However, it will help me the most if you answer each question with your best intuition/idea about what would be a reasonable answer.


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To complete this ACA click on the Reaction link below. When you click on the link a new window will appear. Resize the window and position it on your screen so you can move between it and the ACA window.

Simulation

Reaction (Java)

1. Once the simulation appears click on the Enable Reactions button and then the Resume button and allow the simulation to run. Describe what you observe happening in the sample region. Use some or all of the following terms in your description: atom, molecule, particle, collision, effective collision, speed, energy, reactant(s), product(s), and intermediate(s).

The Replay option allows you to slow down the motion in the Sample Region
and to replay portions of the reaction sequence. You can click on the Pause Button and using the forward or reverse arrows on the time index function, view the motion of the particles a step at a time. You can click the mouse on the Reset button located below the temperature scrollbar to return to the original conditions.

 

2. Write an overall balanced chemical equation that best describes the reaction you observed in the sample region.

3. Write a mechanism based on your observations of the conversion of reactants to products that occurred in the sample region.

4. Return to the simulation window and click the Reset Button and use the sliderbar to remove all of the R from the sample region. Click on the Enable Reactions button and then the Resume button and observe the interaction in the sample region. Or watch the video,

Simulation

Reaction (Java)

Based on your observations propose an alternate mechanism (compared to the mechanism you proposed in Question 3.)

5. Compare and contrast the two mechanisms (Question 3 and Question 4), and indicate similarities and differences you observed.

6. Suggest a possible mechanism for the following reaction:

2NO2Cl ---> 2NO2 + Cl2

7. Is there anything about the questions that you feel you do not understand? List your concerns/questions.

8. If there is one question you would like to have answered in lecture, what would that question be?