Chemistry for Engineering Students
Chemistry for Engineering Students
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Author: Lawrence S. Brown, Tom Holme
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 10, Problem 10.39PAE

Through photosynthesis, plants build molecules of sugar containing several carbon atoms from carbon dioxide. In the process, entropy is decreased. The reaction of CO2with formic acid to form oxalic acid provides a simple example of a reaction in which the number of carbon atoms in a compound increases:

   CO 2 (aq) + HCOOH(aq) H 2 C 2 O 4 (aq)

(a) Calculate the standard entropy change for this reaction and discuss the sign of Δ S ° .

(b) How do plants carry out reactions that increase the number of carbon atoms in a sugar, given the changes in entropy for reactions like this?

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