Erratum: Solvent structure effects on solvated electron reactions in mixed solvents: Negative ions in 1-propanol–water and 2-propanol–water

Abstract

In models of the kinetics of chemical reactions in solution the solvent is commonly assumed to be a uniform continuum. An example is the Smoluchowski–Debye–Stokes–Einstein equation for the rate constant k2 of a bimolecular reaction between charged or polar species: k2 = κRTfrr/1.5ηrd where κ = probability that a reactant encounter pair will react, R = gas constant, T = temperature, f = Coulombic interaction factor, rr = effective radius for reaction, η = solvent viscosity, and rd = effective radius for mutual diffusion. The equation is useful in evaluating effects of bulk-fluid properties on reaction rates. Residual effects are attributed to more specific solvent behaviour. Rate constants and activation energies E2 of reactions of solvated electrons with and ions vary with the composition of 1-propanol–water and 2-propanol–water mixed solvents. Plots of k2η/fT against solvent composition are nonlinear and change with solvent pair and with reactant pair. Measured molar conductivities Λ0(Li+, ) and Λ0(2Li+,...