Ch 14 - Chemical Equilibrium Flashcards
Equilibrium Constant
how far a chemical reaction goes based on an experimentally measurable quantity
What does a large equilibrium constant mean?
Nearly all reactants proceed to products
A reaction with can
reach an equilibrium
K
an equilibrium constant
Larger K value =
more reaction proceeds towards the products
Hb + O2 HbO2
- hemoglobin attached to blood and oxygen are an equilibrium process
- in the lungs O2 is high so reaction shifts right creating more HbO2 blood
- stores it with blood and move it to muscles
- in the muscles the oxygen is low and the Hb releases O2 to restore equilibrium
- hemoglobin binds oxygen when the surrounding concentration is high, but releases oxygen when the surrounding oxygen concentration is low
How does a fetus get O2 in the womb?
maternal and fetal circulation never mix but the fetal K is different allowing oxygen to be “handed off” from the mother circulation at very close proximity
Reversible
a reaction that can proceed in both the forward and reverse direction
Dynamic equilibrium
for a chemical reaction this is the condition in which the rate of the forward reaction equals the rate of the reverse reaction
Why in dynamic equilibrium products and reactants continue to
occur simultaneously but at the same rate
What is not true with dynamic equilibrium?
the products and reactants ARE NOT the same amount necessarily
Same rate NOT amount
As the amount of reactants goes down the amount of products goes up leading to
a slower rate of reactants(assuming non zero order rxn)
- the pool of reactants gets smaller
the rate of a reaction is direction proportional to the pool of reactants so as the pool decreases the rate goes down and likewise as…..
the amount of products increases the rate increases
- eventually the slow down of the rate of reactants and the speed up of the rate of products reaches an equilibrium
What is the equilibrium constant used for?
a way to quantify the concentrations of the reactants and products at equilibrium
Equilibrium Constant(K)
the ratio at equilibrium of the concentrations of the products raised to their stoichiometric coefficients divided by the concentrations of the reactants raised to their stoichiometric coefficients
Law of mass action
- K = ([C]^c[D]^d)/([A]^a[B]^b)
- products/reactants raised to their coefficients
K «_space;1(equilibrium to the left)
- reverse reaction is favored
- forward reaction does not proceed very far
- more reactants than products
K = 1(equilibrium in the middle)
- neither direction is favored
- forward reaction proceeds about halfway
K»_space; 1 (equilibrium to the right)
- forward reaction is favored
- forward reaction proceeds essentially to completion
- more products than reactants
reverse the equation, invert the equilibrium constant
- A + 2B 3C
- Kforward = [C]^3/([A][B]^2)
- 3C A + 2B
- Kreverse = ([A][B]^2)/[C]^3
- Kreverse = 1/Kforward
if you multiply the coefficients in the equation by a factor, raise the equilibrium constant to the same factor
- A + 2B 3C
- K = [C]^3/([A][B]^2)
- nA + 2n B 3n C
- K’ = [C]^3n/([A]^n[B]^2n)
= ([C]^3/([A][B]^2))^n
= K^n
If you add two or more individual chemical equation to obtain an overall equation, multiply the corresponding equilibrium constants by each other to obtain the overall equilibrium constant
- A2B
- K1 = [B]^2/[A]
- 2B 3C
- K2 = [C]^3/[B]^2
- sum: A3C
- Koverall = [C]^3/[A]
- Koverall = (K1)(K2)
- ([B]^2/[A])([C]^3/[B]^2)
= [C]^3/[A]
For gaseous reactions the partial pressure of a particular gas is….
proportional to its concentration.
Can the equilibrium constant be expressed in terms of the partial pressures of the reactants and products?
Yes
Kc = ([SO2]^2[O2]/[SO3]^2)
find Kp
Kp = ((Pso2)^2(Po2))/(Pso3^2)
Kp =
the equilibrium constant with respect to partial pressures