Entropy and Free Energy (Kotz Ch 20)

• Spontaneous vs. non-spontaneous

• thermodynamics vs. kinetics

• entropy = randomness (So)

• Gibbs free energy (?Go)

• ?Go for reactions - predicting spontaneous direction

• thermodynamics of coupled reactions

• ?Grxn versus ?Gorxn

• predicting equilibrium constants from ?Gorxn

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