Free Energy

• Laws of Thermodynamics

  • First Law?
  • Second Law?

• Free Energy

  • Spontaneous Reaction: DG is negative
  • Equilibrium: DG is zero
  • No information about rate of reaction provided by DG
  • Rate of reaction depend on Free Energy of Activation (DG‡)

1878 Josiah Willard Gibbs

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