Comments on multiple publications reporting single heating rate kinetics

Abstract

This note alerts one to multiple Applied Organometallic Chemistry publications that report the single heating rate kinetics for thermal decomposition of organometallic compounds. It is stressed that the single heating rate approach is known to produce erroneous kinetic parameters. Its use is also against the recommendations of the International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry that advises the multiple heating rate approach to be used instead. Examples of the failure are provided and an appeal is made to the community for adopting the multiple heating rate approach.

Elucidating the Mechanisms of Reactions in Energetic Materials: A Critical Methodology Review

“…This fact, as well as the necessity to adapt the use of experimental methods to a significant degree can, however, lead to drawing extremely far-reaching conclusions without due experimental justification. This issue has already been noted in literature, as seen in the case of the criticism of kinetics studies that utilise a single heating rate in thermal analysis [12].…”