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Consider a catalyzed reaction RP.kcat and kuncat are the rate constants for the catalyzed and uncatalyzed reactions, respectively. However, the catalyst becomes inactive at temperature T400K. The graph(s) that reasonably depict(s) the temperature dependence of the overall rate constant K is/are

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Important Questions on Chemical Kinetics

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The rate of a reaction A doubles on increasing the temperature from 300 to 310 K. By how much, the temperature of reaction B should be increased from 300 K so that rate doubles if activation energy of the reaction B is twice to that of reaction A.
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For a first order reaction AP, the temperature T dependent rate constant k was found to follow the equation logk=-20001T+6.0. The pre-exponential factor A and the activation energy Ea, respectively, are
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Two reactions A1 and A2 have identical pre-exponential factors. The activation energy of A1 is more than A2 by 10 kJ mol-1 . If k1 and k2 are the rate constants for reactions A1 and A2, respectively at 300 K, then lnk2k1 is equal to

R=8.314 J mol-1K-1
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The rate constant of a chemical reaction at a very high temperature will approach
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Slope of the straight line obtained by plotting log10k against 1T represents which term?
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The Arrhenius plots of two reactions, I and II are shown graphically-

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The graph suggests that-

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The activation energy of a reaction can be determined from the slope of which of the following graphs?
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The activation energy of a reaction is zero. Its rate constant at 280 K is 1.6×10-6s-1, the rate constant at 300 K is
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Consider the following reversible reaction:

A g+B gAB g

The activation energy of the backward reaction exceeds that of the forward reaction by 2RT (in  mol-1). If the pre-exponential factor of the forward reaction is 4 times that of the reverse reaction, the absolute value of G  (in J mol-1) for the reaction at 300 K is ____.

(Given; ln2= 0.7,  = 2500 J mol-1 at 300 K and G is the Gibbs energy)
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The rate of a reaction doubles when its temperature changes from 300K to 310K. Activation energy of such a reaction will be:

R=8.314 JK-1mol-1 and log 2=0.301
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In a bimolecular reaction, the steric factor P was experimentally determined to be 4.5. The correct option(s) among the following is(are)
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Consider the given plots for a reaction obeying Arrhenius equation (0°C<T<300°C): ( K and Ea are rate constant and activation energy, respectively )

(I) 

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(II) 

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A sample of milk splits after 60min at 300K and after 40min at 400K when the population of Iactobacillus acidophilus in it doubles. The activation energy (in kJ/mol) for this process is closest to ______________.

Given: R =8.3 J mol-1K-1 , ln32=0.4

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The rate of a reaction quadruples when the temperature changes from 300 to 310K . The activation energy of this reaction is:

(Assume Activation energy and pre-exponential factor are independent of temperature; ln(2)=0.693; R=8.314 J mol-1K-1)
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For the reaction of H2 with I2, the rate constant is 2.5×10-4 dm3mol-1s-1 at 327oC and 1.0 dm3 mol-1s-1 at 527°C . The activation energy for the reaction, in kJ mol-1 is:

R=8.314 JK-1mol-1
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Consider the following plots of rate constant versus 1T for four different reactions. Which of the following orders is correct for the activation energies of these reactions?
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The rate of a certain biochemical reaction at physiological temperature T occurs 106 times faster with enzyme than without. The change in the activation energy upon adding enzyme is:
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A reaction has an activation energy of 209 kJ mol-1 . The rate increases 10 -fold when the temperature is increased from 27oC to XoC . The temperature X is closest to

[Gas constant, R=8.314 J mol-1K-1 ]
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For a reaction, consider the plot of lnk versus 1/T given in the figure. If the rate constant of this reaction at 400K is 10-5s-1 , then the rate constant at 500K is:

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