[a] Molecular devices are conceived to be used for specific functions.[1] Some of them can be used to substitute physical devices (e.g. autoburettes [2,3] ) with chemical devices which operate in the same environment as a system which is being investigated. A small step in this direction is presented herein.In studying reaction mechanisms, a key step in the experimental work is the collection of kinetic data describing the dependence of the specific rate on the environmental parameters (temperature, pH, ionic strength, etc.).[4] For this reason we devised a computer-aided accelerated method where, by changing a parameter in a controlled way during the experiment, it is possible to obtain the entire dependence of the specific rate on that parameter in a single run. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Recently we thought of changing the physical methods (temperature programmers, autoburettes, etc.) used to create the variable parameter conditions inside the reaction vessel with chemical devices. We have carried out a variable-pH kinetic (VpHK) experiment using as a chemical device [1.1.1]cryptand, [16][17][18] a proton sponge that is able to capture hydrogen ions in a selective, slow and irreversible way.[2] Herein, for the first time, we show how it is possible, using a chemical device, to generate variable-temperature conditions inside a reaction vessel to carry out a variabletemperature kinetic (VTK) experiment and obtain the activation parameters of a reaction in a single run. The compound used herein is acetic anhydride.The mathematical model describing the variable-parameter kinetic (VPaK) experiment is given by Equation (1) where the specific rate is a function of the parameter, which is a function of time [k obs (Par i ) = dependence function, describing the dependence on the parameter; Par i (t) = modulating function, describing how the parameter changes with time]:[10]When the parameter is the pH it assumes the form of Equation (2):The kinetic profile obtained in a single scan automatically varying the pH with time (using an autoburette [7] or [1.1.1]cryptand [2] ) can be fitted to this equation to give the pHrate profile of the system studied. When the parameter is the temperature, it assumes the form of Equation (3) where the dependence function is the Eyring equation, [4] and the modulating function is an analytical or empirical equation relative to the conditions generated by a temperature programmer [6][7][8] or a VT-chemical device:Any chemical system able to change the temperature of the reaction environment without interfering with the main reacting system and with its instrumental monitoring can be used as a VT-device for VTK experiments.A simple way to increase the temperature inside a reaction vessel is to carry out an exothermic reaction. Because we decided to study an isomerization of an organometallic complex in methanol, we choose as a VT-chemical device acetic anhydride, which gives an acid-catalysed solvolysis in methanol [Eq. (4)] at a suitable rate and characterized by a good v...