CHEM 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: 2-Step Garage, Sodium Chloride, Bond Energy

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Chemical reactions occur when one or more compounds are converted to one or more different compounds. Energy may be required to initiate the reaction (e. g. burning mg metal in a flame requires heat to start the reaction) The breaking of bonds requires energy while bond formation liberates energy (usually as heat). A reaction may occur in a single step in which case the species undergoing the reaction is in transition between the starting material and the product. Some reactions proceed in a stepwise sequence by which bonds break and reform. This is called the mechanism of a reaction. The mechanism of a reaction is determined by collecting all the information known about a reaction and then trying to develop a sequence that explains the reaction using known chemical theories. The thermodynamics describes the energy change of a reaction. The kinetics describe the rate of a reaction. Determining reaction mechanisms (ch4) affords several different products (ch3cl, (cl2) of methane.

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