Experiments were conducted to examine the oxidative decomposition of perfluorooctanesulfonate (PFOS), a widely distributed and highly resistant emerging organic pollutant, by permanganate in aqueous solutions. At 65 C and pH 4.2, 46.8% of the PFOS was decomposed by permanganate, with a F yield of 5.3% and a SO 4 yield of 36.9%. The effects of temperature, initial permanganate concentration, and...

A simple kinetic spectrophotometric method is described for the determination of famotidine. The method is based on the oxidation of the drug with alkaline potassium permanganate. The reaction is followed spectrometrically by measuring the rate of change of the absorbance at 610 nm. The initial-rate and fixed-time (at 12 min) methods are adopted for determining the drug concentration. The calib...

Permanganate oxidation of benzaldehyde and p-nitrobenzaldehyde goes by two paths, i.e. a major one which is responsible for the normal oxidation giving good second order kinetic and minor path which involves a very small percent of a radical species formed by hydrogen atom abstraction by the permanganate ion. A mechanism involving Hydrogen atom abstraction by permanganate from the alkoxide ion ...

Treatment of spinach chloroplasts with 25 to 100 pM potassium permanganate in the presence of light, magnesium, and ADP gives rise to 35 to 60% inhibition of the subsequent phosphorylation and ATPase activities. For half-maximal inhibition, 5 to 10 PM ADP is necessary and ADP is not replaceable by other nucleotides. The light requirement can be met by preillumination as well as by an acid bath ...

The usual methods for the determination of calcium in serum are lengthy procedures. Calcium may be precipitated as oxalate and the oxalate radical estimated by titration with potassium permanganate (Clark and Collip, 1925). The calcium oxalate may be converted to calcium carbonate which is estimated by titration with acid (Trevan and Bainbridge, 1926). Calcium may also be precipitated as calciu...