Questions tagged [free-energy]
Also known as Gibbs energy, it is the enthalpy minus the product of thermodynamic temperature and entropy.
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How do I find change in Gibbs free energy of water formation?
How do I find the change in Gibbs free energy of the reaction
$$\ce{H2 + \frac{1}{2}O2 -> H2O}$$
when it is at $\pu{75^\circ C}$ and $\pu{1 atm}$? Do I calculate the Gibbs free energy of each ...
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What does "reaction coordinate" mean? What does it mean when a reaction has TWO reaction coordinates?
I'm familiar with the concept of a reaction coordinate from high school chemistry as some generic conformational parameter that all of the intermediate states of a chemical reaction lie upon. Recently,...
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How are $\sigma$ and $\sigma^\pm$ determined in Hammett plots?
The Hammett plot is commonly invoked in organic chemistry to reason about the plausibility (or implausibility) of various reaction mechanisms. The vertical axis is essentially the logarithm of an ...
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Gibbs free energy-minimum or zero?
A reaction proceeds towards the direction of lesser Gibbs free energy (at constant $T$ (temperature) and $P$ (pressure)). So, we could say that Gibbs free energy at equilibrium is minimum.
On the ...
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