On Demand Webinar: Reaction Progress Kinetic Analysis To Study Organic Reactions
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METTLER TOLEDO announced the webinar - Reaction Progress Kinetic Analysis: A Powerful Methodology for Streamlining the Study of Complex Organic Reactions – presented by Donna Blackmond, of The Scripps Research Institute, is now available on-demand. METTLER TOLEDO is proud to offer this online seminar that discusses how RPKA simplifies kinetic studies of organic reactions.
Reaction Progress Kinetic Analysis (RPKA) streamlines kinetic studies by exploiting the extensive data available from accurate in situ monitoring of global reaction progress under "synthetically relevant" conditions, where the concentrations of two or more reactants are changing simultaneously – in fact, in the same manner that they are expected to change during practical synthesis. This contrasts with the classical approach to kinetics, which uses concentration ratios that are highly distorted, typically ca. 10 equivalents, in order to examine the order in each substrate's concentration while holding the other constant. We have shown that the concentration dependences of two different substrates may be determined from far fewer reaction progress experiments compared to a classical kinetic approach. Reaction Progress Kinetic Analysis (RPKA) methodology is made straightforward for interpretation via the graphical manipulation of a mathematically determined minimum set of carefully designed experiments. One advantage of the RPKA approach is vital kinetic information may be rapidly obtained and extracted even in earliest studies of a new reaction and may thus help inform the direction of both further reaction optimization and fundamental mechanistic investigation by other methods. The method requires little mathematical prowess and no specialized kinetic modeling techniques.
"Kinetics is the branch of chemistry which explains how fast chemical reactions go. Kinetics enable us to understand the driving forces of a reaction, to assess the robustness of catalytic processes, and to distinguish between proposed mechanistic models. This presentation will explain the fundamentals of Reaction Progress Kinetics Analysis (RPKA) for catalytic organic reactions using in situ reaction progress measurement tools." says Nilesh Shah, METTLER TOLEDO D2i Project Manager.
The Reaction Progress Kinetic Analysis webinar guest presenter, Donna G. Blackmond, received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, and has enjoyed success in both the pharmaceutical industry and academia. In 2010, she joined The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California as Professor of Chemistry.
As a world renowned expert in Reaction Progress Kinetic Analysis (RPKA), Professor Blackmond's research focuses on blending the quantitative aspects of her chemical engineering background together with the synthesis of complex organic molecules by catalytic routes, particularly asymmetric catalysis with application in pharmaceutical processes.
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