Kinetics constitutes a core topic in both the lecture and laboratory or general chemistry courses (1). While textbook examples and end-of-chaprer exercises that students work with in the lecture are free of time constraints and temperature limitations, such is not the fortune of the laboratory. Reactions used in the laboratory must occur slowly enough to be detected by students, yet rapidly enough for them to obtain meaningful data in the few hours assigned to a laboratory period. Reactions should preferably occur near ambient temperatures, should be detected by simple analytical methods that are accessible to general chemistry students, should yield simple-order rate laws that verify or lead to textbook theory, and should employ reagents and products that are safe and do not generate hazardous waste.
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