What Can You Deduce About the Activation Energy of a Reaction

question 11

Multiple Choice

What can you deduce about the activation energy of a reaction that takes billions of years to go to completion? How about a reaction that takes only fractions of a second?

• A)The activation energy of both these reactions must be very low.
• B)The activation energy of both these reactions must be very high.
• C)The slow reaction must have a high activation energy while the fast reaction must have a low activation energy.
• D)The slow reaction must have a low activation energy while the fast reaction must have a high activation energy.

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Definitions:

Chemical Shifts

Changes in the resonance frequency of nuclei in a magnetic field, providing information about the electronic environment in NMR spectroscopy.

Carbonyl Group

A group in chemistry where a carbon atom forms a double bond with an oxygen atom, denoted as C=O.

δ 3.1

A notation indicating a chemical shift of 3.1 in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, often signifying the environment of a hydrogen atom in a molecule.

δ 4.2

A chemical shift value in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy indicating the resonance position of certain hydrogen atoms in a molecule relative to a standard reference.