Resumen de The Relationship between Stoichiometry and Kinetics Revisited
Toby presented relations between concentrations of reaction participants in network reactions, obtained from kinetic considerations (rate laws) (J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 188). The approach relies on the supposition of a reaction mechanism, the specification of the detailed kinetics for each elementary step, and mathematical simplifications by pseudo-steady-state approximation or prior equilibrium. However, the same results can be obtained more directly from material balance and reaction stoichiometry without any detailed information on chemical kinetics. This mirrors the often observed independence between stoichiometry and kinetics in most reactions of practical importance.
