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Grade 12Organic Chemistry

What is Steric factor?

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12 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Raj
12 Years ago

Steric factor:  A factor introduced into simple versions of the collision theory of reactions to take care of the fact that the
reaction probability depends on the certain mutual orientations of the reactant molecules.

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12 Years ago

 

The rate constant for a bimolecilar reaction, as by predicaled by Arrhenius collision theory is

                                                                                                         K= Z pe-Ea/RT

                 where p= Steric factor