Draw the reaction coordinate diagram for a reaction that is thermodynamically favoured, but kinetically disfavoured. Give an example discussed in class of such a reaction for an allotrope of a Group 14 element (not a molecule). Why is the reaction kinetically unfavourable? What thermodynamic factors FAVOUR the reaction, in Gibbs-Helmholtz terms, and why?

Draw the reaction coordinate diagram for a reaction that is thermodynamically favoured, but kinetically disfavoured. Give an example discussed in class of such a reaction for an allotrope of a Group 14 element (not a molecule). Why is the reaction kinetically unfavourable? What thermodynamic factors FAVOUR the reaction, in Gibbs-Helmholtz terms, and why?

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Chapter18: More Statistical Thermodynamics

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Problem 18.54E: In Chapters 17 and 18 we have derived expressions for the absolute amounts of the energies H and G....

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