Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

CHM 406 — Reaction Kinetics

CHM department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• Sciences 716 New
• identify the first, second and third order rate equations
• distinguish between instantaneous rates and average rates from a graph
• determine the rate law from initial rate data
• recognise the integrated rate laws
• use Collision theory to explain how reactions occur at the molecular level

Course contents

Review of first, second and third order rate equations. Rate constants and equilibrium constants. Collision theory, transition state theory, reaction co-ordinates. Unimolecular reaction mechanisms, bimolecular reaction mechanisms, chain reaction mechanisms; catalysis and heterogeneous reactions. Photochemical reaction mechanisms.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study CHM 406.

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