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Micellar Catalysis 2D — Pseudophase Compartment Diagram

Interactive 2D pseudophase-kinetics diagram: watch a hydrophobic substrate and a hydrophilic nucleophile hop between the bulk-water compartment and the micellar pseudophase compartment above the CMC, and track the Menger-Portnoy saturation curve for the observed rate constant live.

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Surfactant micelles don't just self-assemble — once formed, they can dramatically accelerate a chemical reaction by acting as nanoscale reaction vessels. This 2D companion strips the mechanism down to the two-pseudophase picture the kinetic theory is actually built on: a bulk-water compartment and a pooled micellar compartment, with substrate and nucleophile dots hopping between them at rates set by the surfactant dose and the substrate's partition coefficient. Watch the micellar compartment grow above the CMC, track live solubilization and product-formation statistics, and read the observed rate constant directly off the analytic Menger-Portnoy saturation curve plotted along the bottom.

⚙ Under the hood

A 2D compartment-diagram companion to the 3D micellar-catalysis simulator: substrate and nucleophile dots hop stochastically between a bulk-water pseudophase and a pooled micellar pseudophase above the CMC, while an analytic Menger-Portnoy saturation curve for the observed rate constant plots live beneath.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install