A Kinetic Description of How Interfaces Accelerate Reactions in Micro-Compartments

Kevin Wilson; Alexander Prophet; Grazia Rovelli; Megan Willis; Rebecca Rapf; Michael Jacobs

doi:10.26434/chemrxiv.12506117.v1

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A Kinetic Description of How Interfaces Accelerate Reactions in Micro-Compartments

25 June 2020, Version 1

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A kinetic expression is derived to explain how interfaces alter bulk chemical equilibria and accelerate reactions in micro-compartments. This description, aided by the development of a stochastic model, quantitatively predicts previous experimental observations of accelerated imine synthesis in micron-sized emulsions.

Keywords

reaction acceleration

Microdroplets

Microcompartments

emulsions microenvironment

Stochastic simulations

Surface reaction mechanism

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10.26434/chemrxiv.12506117.v1

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DE-AC02-05CH11231

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