Chemical Reactions near Equilibrium

Authors

W.R. Gilkerson, University of Kansas - Lawrence
M.M. Jones, University of Kansas - Lawrence
Gordon A. Gallup, UNLFollow

Date of this Version

May 1952

Comments

The Journal of Chemical Physics -- July 1952 -- Volume 20, Issue 7, pp. 1182-1183. Copyright 1952. Permission to use.

Abstract

In seeming contradiction to usual deductions from thermodynamics, it has been shown by De Donderi on the basis of his affinity function, by Prigogine² on the basis of the Chapman- Enskog model, and by Manes, Hofer, and Wellers using purely mathematical methods, that the rate of a chemical reaction close to equilibrium is directly proportional to the free energy difference between reactants and products. This relation may be shown to be a consequence of the theory of absolute reaction rates, also.