The influence of the morphology of deposited catalysts on some kinetic parameters of a heterogeneous catalytic process has been studied. The interconnection between the pre-exponential factor of the rate constant of the limiting stage of the reaction and the fractal dimension of the distribution of the active component on the surface of the carrier has been established. The relation has been illustrated using the heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation of acetone to isopropanol on deposited transition metals.The process of a heterogeneous catalytic reaction on the surface of catalysts is caused by the important dependence of the rate of the reaction on the structure (of the catalyst). The morphologies of most catalysts are complex which complicates quantitative estimate of its influence on the kinetics of heterogeneous catalytic reactions. In recent times an approach based on the use of fractal geometry for the quantitative description of the morphology of a catalysts on the kinetics of heterogeneous catalytic processes has been actively developed [1,2]. It has been shown that the rate of a chemical reaction r depends on the dimension of a reagent R according to a power law: r = kR D F [1]. In this equation D F is the fractal dimension in the kinetic field of the process concerned. The influence of the structure of the catalyst on the kinetics of the reaction, complicated by processes of mass transfer inside the grain, is described elsewhere [3].Most catalysts have the active component (most commonly a metal) highly dispersed on an "inert" carrier. The influence of the active component on the rate of the catalytic process is determined by its chemical nature and the particle size. The reactivity of the surface atoms depends on the dispersed state of the active component [4].The present study is connected with the description of the theoretical approach, which permits allowance to be made for the morphology of the catalyst, the quantitative measure of which is the fractal dimension D F , on the kinetic parameters of the process. The validity of the obtained theoretical relationship is illustrated using as an example the kinetics of the heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation of acetone to isopropanol in the presence of a number of transition metals deposited on aluminum oxide.The kinetic measurements were carried out at atmospheric pressure by a circulating flow method, described in detail elsewhere [5,6]. The constants of the kinetic model were calculated from the experimental results for all the catalysts studied, and also the activation energies and heats of absorption from the temperature dependence of the constants. The values of the specific surface of a metal was calculated from the chemisorption of oxygen in a pulsed chromatographic regime, the average size of the metal particles was calculated from the absorption data, starting from the assumption that they are cubic and that one face is screened by the carrier. The values of the kinetic and physico-chemical parameters of the deposited carriers are given in T...