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3.2 Application of the steady-state assumption 43<br />

3.2 Application of the steady-state assumption<br />

The steady state assumption allows us to reduce a large reaction mechanism to a smaller<br />

one by eliminating the respective intermediate species.<br />

3.2.1 The reaction H 2 + Br 2 → 2 HBr<br />

The reaction between H 2 and Br 2 (Bodenstein et al.; <strong>Christian</strong>sen, Polanyi & Herzfeld)<br />

runs as a thermal reaction or as a photochemically induced reaction (initiated by light).<br />

In the latter case, it is a chain reaction with a quantum yield of<br />

Φ ≈ 10 6 (3.13)<br />

I Definition 3.1: Quantum yield Φ:<br />

Φ =<br />

number of product molecules<br />

number of absorbed photons<br />

(3.14)<br />

I<br />

Reaction mechanism (elementary reactions) describing the H 2 -Br 2 system:<br />

Br 2 → Br + Br chain initiation by thermal dissociation (1)<br />

Br 2 + → Br + Br chain initiation by photolysis () (1 0 )<br />

Br + H 2 → HBr + H chain propagation (2)<br />

H+Br 2 → HBr + Br chain propagation (3)<br />

H+HBr → H 2 +Br inhibition (4)<br />

Br + HBr 6→ Br 2 +H endothermic (∆ ª =+170kJ mol) (6)<br />

y reaction (6) can be neglected<br />

Br + Br<br />

+M → Br 2 chain termination (5)<br />

(3.15)

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