WOLFRAM|DEMONSTRATIONS PROJECT

Study of Successive First-Order Reversible Reactions

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forward reaction rate constant
0.9
reverse reaction rate constant
0.3
number of components
20
option
dynamic
steady
The following successive first-order reactions are considered:
A
1
k
12
⇌
k
21
A
2
k
23
⇌
k
32
A
3
k
34
⇌
k
43
...
k
n-1n
⇌
k
nn-1
A
n
. For simplicity, assume that all forward and backward rate constants are equal to
k
f
and
k
r
, respectively. The Demonstration displays the steady state solution for all species as well as the transient behavior only for species
i
such that
i≡1(mod4)
, for clarity of the plot.