Steady-State Method
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Steady-State Method
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone had a brief explanation or outline of what the steady-state method for determining reaction mechanisms looks like, as we didn't cover it much in lecture and I'm was curious. Thanks so much!
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Re: Steady-State Method
I don't think we need to worry about steady-state because he didn't go over it during lecture nor did he assign problems w/ steady state.
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Re: Steady-State Method
I don't think we need to worry about it, I think he just wanted us to know that there are other methods.
Re: Steady-State Method
I think what they said above is right, we don't really have to worry about it. But to my understanding, the steady state method assumes that the concentration of an intermediate in the rate limiting step is constant and uses the fact that the derivative of a constant (or the rate of change of the constant) is 0 to solve for the rate law.
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