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After introducing the basis of the Arrhenius equation and its relationship to transition-state theory , forms of global chemical kinetic models are summarized, including shrinking core and pseudo n th-order reactions; sigmoidal reactions such as sequential, random scission, autocatalytic , logistic, and nucleation-growth model; and distributed reactivity models, including continuous and discrete activation energy distribution models. Isoconversional and model fitting methods for deriving chemical kinetic models are described, including how to use simple kinetic analyses to derive initial guesses for nonlinear regression of complex models. Common errors that lead to erroneous Arrhenius parameters are outlined.

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Abstract: Chemical reaction network theory is a powerful framework to describe and analyze chemical systems. While much about the concentration profile in an equilibrium state can be determined in terms of the graph structure, the overall reaction's time evolution depends on the network's kinetic rate function. In this article, we consider the problem of the effective kinetics of a chemical reaction network regarded as a conversion system from the feeding species to products. We define the notion of effective kinetics as a partial solution of a system of non-autonomous ordinary differential equations determined from a chemical reaction network. Examples of actual calculations include the Michaelis-Menten mechanism, for which it is confirmed that our notion of effective kinetics yields the classical formula. Further, we introduce the notion of straight-line solutions of non-autonomous ordinary differential equations to formalize the situation where a well-defined reaction rate exists and consider its relation with the quasi-stationary state approximation used in microkinetics. Our considerations here give a unified framework to formulate the reaction rate of chemical reaction networks.

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The book is a short primer on chemical reaction rates based on a six-lecture first-year undergraduate course taught by the author at the University of Oxford. The book explores the various factors that determine how fast or slowly a chemical reaction proceeds and describes a variety of experimental methods for measuring reaction rates. The link between the reaction rate and the sequence of steps that makes up the reaction mechanism is also investigated. Chemical reaction rates is a core topic in all undergraduate chemistry courses.

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Elementary reactions.

Claire Vallance

Rate laws: relating the reaction rate to reactant concentrations

Determining the rate law and obtaining mechanistic information from experimental data, experimental techniques for measuring reaction rates, introduction to complex reactions, using the steady-state approximation to derive rate laws for complex reactions, chain reactions and explosions, d o i.

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The book will mainly be of interest to chemistry students, lecturers, tutors, and teachers, either at university level or possibly advanced high school level. It may also be of interest for professionals working in the chemical industry who would like a short, concise text to help them refresh their knowledge of chemical kinetics

Published September 2017

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Claire Vallance is a Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in Physical Chemistry at Hertford College, Oxford. She was brought up in the UK and New Zealand, and holds BSc(hons) and PhD degrees from the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, NZ), where she worked on gas-phase molecular dynamics. Her current research interests include reaction dynamics, the use of optical microcavities in chemical sensing applications, and the development of spectroscopic techniques for use during cardiovascular surgery and neurosurgery. She has given lecture courses on chemical kinetics, properties of gases, symmetry and group theory, reaction dynamics, and astro chemistry, as well as numerous outreach and public engagement lectures, and her tutorial teaching spans the breadth of physical chemistry. She is author of over 90 journal articles, four book chapters, nine patents, an e-textbook on symmetry and group theory, and a textbook Astrochemistry: From the Big Bang to the Present Day, and also co-edited the textbook Tutorials in Molecular Reaction Dynamics.

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Enzyme kinetics in drug metabolism: fundamentals and applications

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  • 1 Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Temple University School of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • PMID: 24523105
  • DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-758-7_1

Enzymes are protein catalysts that lower the energy barrier for a reaction and speed the rate of a chemical change. The kinetics of reactions catalyzed by enzymes, as well as several mechanisms underlying the kinetics, have been comprehensively studied and written in textbooks (1, 2). The importance of quantitative evaluation of enzymatic processes has been recognized in many fields of study, including biochemistry, molecular biology, and pharmaceutical sciences to name a few. In pharmaceutical sciences, the applications of enzyme kinetics range from hit finding efforts for new chemical entities on a pharmacological target to concentration effect relationships to large-scale biosynthesis. The study of the science of drug metabolism has two principal concepts-rate and extent. While understanding disposition pathways and identification of metabolites provides an insight into the extent of metabolism, kinetics of depletion of substrates (endogenous or exogenous) and formation of metabolites deals with the rate of metabolism. The current textbook specifically focuses on kinetics of drug-metabolizing enzymes, detailing specific enzyme classes, and discusses kinetics as they apply to drug transporters. This textbook also outlines additional factors that contribute to the kinetics of reactions catalyzed by these proteins such as variability in isoforms (pharmacogenomics) and experimental factors including key concepts such as alterations of substrate concentrations due to binding. Applications of these approaches in predicting kinetic parameters and alternative approaches for enzymes (systems biology) and transporters are also discussed. The final section focuses on real-life examples (case studies) to try and exemplify the applications of enzyme kinetic principles. This chapter provides a brief overview outlining some key concepts within each of the sections and the chapters within this textbook.

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