Study of Successive First-Order Reversible Reactions

forward reaction rate constant

0.9

reverse reaction rate constant

0.3

number of components

20

option

dynamic

steady

c

1

c

5

c

9

c

13

c

17

0

50

100

150

200

0.0

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1.0

t

concentration

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.