Physical Chemistry, Part 4:  Molecularity, Elementary Reactions, and Complicated Systems
Channel: StrangerThanFic
Date: 2022-02-07

Today we do a deep dive into some more complicated ideas than the ones we've had so far!  Many of the reactions you've seen in General and Organic Chemistry take place in multiple steps, even though that's not always the way we write the reaction.  If we're interested in the rate and kinetics of the overall reaction, we really need to look at the "elementary reactions" that make up the overall process.  We'll do that today, and we'll see how we can simplify the rate equations with a few important (and very common) approximations.