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Bimolecular

Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2019 7:37 pm
by 905085650
Can someone explain to me what bimolecular means? Thank you!!

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2019 7:51 pm
by Henry Krasner 1C
A bimolecular reaction is where the rearrangement of two molecules (as reactants) produce one or more molecules of product.

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2019 8:55 pm
by Sophia_Kiessling_2L
it basically just means that there are two reactants as in A+B yields C or 2A yields B

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 12:47 pm
by Krista Mercado 1B
A bimolecular reaction involves two reactants. This is an example of a second-order reaction.

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 12:00 pm
by Athena L 1B
So is a bimolecular reaction another way of saying it's second order?

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 12:35 pm
by Rhea Churi 4K
Athena L 1B wrote:So is a bimolecular reaction another way of saying it's second order?

A bimolecular reaction is always a second order reaction but not all second order reactions are bimolecular.

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 8:34 pm
by Henry Dudley 1G
Can a bimolecular reaction be third order if one of the reactants is second order?

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 8:56 pm
by Subhani Diu 1F
Henry Dudley 1G wrote:Can a bimolecular reaction be third order if one of the reactants is second order?

I believe in lecture he showed that a bimolecular reaction was specifically related to reactants that are/add up to second order only. For third order (which he said was unlikely) they were labeled as termolecular.

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 8:58 pm
by MichelleRamirez_2F
Bimolecular means that for a certain reaction there are two reactants. There's also unimolecular where there is only 1 reactant in the reaction and termolecular for three reactants.

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 4:29 pm
by KHuang1L
Bimolecular means there are two species involved in the elementary step.

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 4:41 pm
by Gillian Ward 1F
Bimolecularity refers to having two molecules colliding in a reaction.

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 5:19 pm
by Anmol_cheema_2F
Molecularity refers to the number of reactants in an elementary reaction so a bimolecular reaction contains two reactants.

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 5:27 pm
by Anita Wong 1H
Henry Dudley 1G wrote:Can a bimolecular reaction be third order if one of the reactants is second order?

no i believe theyre directly related so thats not possible

Re: Bimolecular

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 6:15 pm
by Rami_Z_AbuQubo_2K
Bi molecular is a description of how many molecules are participating on the reactants side of an equation. In every case, you would look at the reaction before intermediates or catalysts are removed. If there is only one molecule reacting, then you know it is unimolecular. If you see that there are 3, then it is molecular but that is not very common.