More Challenging Questions These questions require more thought and integrate several c...

More Challenging Questions

These questions require more thought and integrate several concepts.

Consider the reaction mechanism given for formation of NOBr in Section 13.7.

(a) What is the overall stoichiometric equation?

(b) Assume that when the reaction reaches equilibrium, each step in the mechanism also reaches equilibrium. Write the equilibrium constant for each step in terms of the forward and reverse rate constants for that step.

(c) Use your result in part (b) to derive the equilibrium constant for the overall stoichiometric equation in terms of the rate constants for the forward and reverse reactions of each step in the mechanism.

(d) Does your result confirm the statement made on p. 660 in the margin that the equilibrium constant can be obtained by taking the product of the rate constants for all forward steps and dividing by the product of the rate constants for all reverse steps?