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General kinetic laws of monomolecular-bimolecular reaction A+B <= => C in solutions
A B Doktorov1, A A Kadetov, A A Kipriyanov
1Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, SB RAS, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia. doktorov@ns.kinetics.nsc.ru
Abstract:
Non-Markovian kinetic equations of the reversible monomolecular-bimolecular reactions of the type A+B right arrow over left arrow C (at arbitrary ratio between A and B concentrations) derived earlier are used in the calculation of kinetics on macroscopic space-time scales. It is found that the kinetics of the systems with different structure of reactants is universal, and it is the direct generalization of the kinetic law of mass action of formal chemical kinetics. The analysis of the kinetics allows one to establish the time range of the applicability of the law of mass action. It is shown that beyond these limits the usual kinetic law of mass action becomes invalid, and correct description of the kinetics even in the most rough approximation calls for the non-Markovian corrections to usual kinetic laws.
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