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Question:Many drugs decompose in blood by a first-order process.

(a) Two tablets of aspirin supply 0.60 g of the active compound. After 30 min, this compound reaches a maximum concentration of 2 mg/100 mL of blood. If the half-life for its breakdown is 90 min, what is its concentration (in mg/100 mL) 2.5 h after it reaches its maximum concentration?

(b) For the decomposition of an antibiotic in a person with a normal temperature (98.6F),k=3.110-5s-1; for a person with a fever at 101.9F, k=3.910-5s-1. If the person with the fever must take another pill when of the first pill has decomposed, how many hours should she wait to take a second pill? A third pill? (Assume the pill is effective immediately.)

(c) Calculate Ea for decomposition of the antibiotic in part (b).

Short Answer

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(a) The concentration of aspirin is 0.63 mg/100 mL.

(b) The number of hours should be taken for a third pill is 9.9 h.

(c) The activation energy is 101kJ/mol.

Step by step solution

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Step 1:What is the concentration of aspirin

Using the formula below, get the rate constant for the first order process:

t1/2=In2k

The rate constant is k, and the half-life time for the first order process is t1/2.

In the given formula, substitute =90 min to get

k=In2t1/2=0.69390min=7.710-3min-1

Thus, the rate constant is7.710-3min-1.

Consider A0for the initial concentration and Atfor the concentration at time t.

For a first-order reaction, use the integrated rate law to get the reactant concentration.

role="math" localid="1654928290095" INAtA0=-kt

InAt2mg/100mL0=-7.710-3min-12.5h60min1hInAt2mg/100mL0=-1.155InAt2mg/100mL0=e-1.155InAt2mg/100mL0=0.315At=0.3152mg/100mL=0.63mg/100mL

Therefore, the concentration of aspirin is 0.63 mg/100 mL.

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Step2:The number of hours should be taken for a third pill

Determine the time interval using integrated rate law for first order reaction.

Use the rate constant for the fever. That is 3.910-5s-1.

For second pill: 2/3 of the first fill has decomposed.

Therefore,At=1-23A0andA0=A0

Substitute the all known values in first-order reaction, get

role="math" localid="1654928916433" InAtA0=-ktIn1/3A0A0=-3.910-5s-1t3600s1hIn13=-0.1404t1ht=7.8h

Therefore, the number of hours should be taken for a second pill is 7.8h.

For third pill: role="math" localid="1654929379501" At=13A0andA0=1+13A0=43A0

Substitute the all known values in first-order reaction, get

InAtA0=-ktIn1/3A04/3A0=-3.910-5s-1t3600s1hIn14=-0.1404t1ht=9.9h

Therefore, the number of hours should be taken for a third pill is 9.9 h.

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Step3:Calculate Ea

The Arrhenius equation can be expressed as follows:

k=Ae-Ea/RTInk=InA-Ea/RT

Here, k is the rate constant, A is the frequency factor,Eais the activation energy of the reaction at a specified temperature T and R is the gas constant.

Write the equation for the two rate constants, k1andk2and at temperatures T1andT2andrespectively and obtain new expression:

Ink1=InAEa/RT1Ink2=InAEa/RT1Ink2-Ink1=-EaR1T1-1T2Ink2k1=-EaR1T1-1T2

Covert the units of temperature from degrees of foreign heat (F) to Kelvin (K) scale:

T1=273.15+5998.6F32K=310.15KT2=273.15+59101.9F32K=311.98K

Also have, k1=3.110-5s-1andk2=3.910-5s-1

Substitute all given values in Arrhenius equation, to getEa

In3.910-5s-13.110-5s-1=-Ea8.314J/mol.K1311.98K-1310.15KEa=8.314J/mol.KIn3.910-5s-13.110-5s-11311.98K-1310.15K=1.01105J/mol=101kJ/mol

Therefore, the activation energy is 101kJ/mol.

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