Kinetics of enzymic oxidation of indoleacetic acid (ISA) are interpreted as indicating that the reaction has an autocatalytic, cyclical mechanism invol\-ing unst,ablc intermcdiatcs whose formation and disappearance are important in determining the over-all reaction rate. The kinetics do not supporl the idea that IAA oxidation occurs mainly by reaction with Mnt3, nor that the reaction is an elec...

oxidation reaction of indole to isatin was performed in the presence of fe3o4 nanoparticles (as catalyst) and commercial grade perhydrol (as oxidant). magnetite nanoparticles were synthesized via chemical precipitation method and characterized by xrd and tem techniques. the efficiency of reaction was obtained from gc analysis of the mixture. the catalyst was easily separated from the reaction m...

The kinetics of oxidation cyclopentanol, cyclohexanol and cyclooctanol using Chloramine T in NaOH has been studied in the micellar phase using sodium dodecyl sulphate in the temperature range 30°C to 50°C to correlate the oxidation rate with the ring size of the cyclic alcohols. The effect of alcohol concentration, concentration of oxidising agent, ionic strength and temperature on the oxidatio...

Noble metals are important photocatalysts due to their ability to convert light into chemical energy. Hot electrons, generated via the non-radiative decay of localized surface plasmons, can be transferred to reactants on the metal surface. Unfortunately, the number of hot electrons per molecule is limited due to charge-carrier recombination. In addition to the reduction half-reaction with hot e...

Water oxidation is a key chemical reaction, central to both biological photosynthesis and artificial solar fuel synthesis strategies. Despite recent progress on the structure of the natural catalytic site, and on inorganic catalyst function, determining the mechanistic details of this multiredox reaction remains a significant challenge. We report herein a rate law analysis of the order of water...

Electro-catalytic oxidation of formaldehyde on copper electrode in 100 mM NaOH solution at different concentrations of formaldehyde was studied in the steady state polarization technique. The CV curve shows evidence for two processes occurring at the interface: one is associated with the formaldehyde electro-oxidation leading to formic acid formation on the surface and the other is assigned to ...

In a recent paper, Descostes et al. (2004) present data on a series of pyrite oxidation batch experiments conducted near pH 2 and 3 where they demonstrate very well the non-stoichiometric dissolution/oxidation of pyrite in acidic solutions through an extensive laboratory investigation of S/Fe ratios. The authors utilized this data to propose a ‘mechanism’ of pyrite oxidation based on these data...

The kinetics of oxidation of chloramphenicol by chloramine-T has been investigated over the temperature range of 308-328 K. The reaction has been found to proceed quantitatively over a wide range of experimental conditions. Oxidation of antibiotic involves four electron changes and the product of oxidation has been identified. Oxidation of antibiotic exhibits first order kinetics w.r.t [CAT]. T...

An efficient design of in situ combustion depends on accurate kinetic modeling of the crude oil oxidation. The kinetic triplet of the oxidation reactions of a heavy oil sample was investigated. Once the kinetic triplet is known, the kinetic equation would be deconvolved. The crude oil sample was obtained from Kuh-E-Mond reservoir, located in the southwest of Iran. The samples were analyzed usin...