Activation energy

[Valeria Viera 1B]

What is the relationship between activation energy and kinetic control?

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Essentially, activation energy is the energy required for a reaction to proceed. For example, when you need to strike a match, you need a certain amount of energy in order for the match to be lit. Kinetics is related to how the activation energy changes as a result of a catalyst, temperature, concentration, and particle size. In class, we have always discussed state functions where we only care about the initial and final states. In kinetics, we care about how fast or slow the reaction will proceed.

[jane_ni_2d]

The activation energy is the energy required for a reaction to happen!

[Aidan Ryan 1B]

Hey! What is kinetic control?

[Lorena Zhang 4E]

Kinetic control means that even the reaction is favorable in terms of thermodynamics(gibbs free energy is zero), but kinetics trumps that because there is a huge activation energy barrier between the reactant and product.

[904914909]

Activation energy is the energy needed for a reaction to occur, so the lower the activation energy, the more thermodynamically favorable the process is

[AlyssaBei_1F]

Activation energy is the energy needed for the reaction to occur. It is also known as Ea. The less activation energy needed the more favorable the process/reaction is.

[Brian Hom 2F]

The activation energy of a reaction can tell how fast the reaction will occur. A reaction with a low activation energy will occur faster than a reaction with high activation energy.

[Aria Soeprono 2F]

Activation energy can help explain why a reaction is thermodynamically favorable but still will not occur because it has a very high activation energy and is therefore not kinetically favorable.