Kinetics of the capture of methyl radicals by carbon monoxide in aqueous solution

Author(s):  
Andreja Bakac ◽  
James H. Espenson
1969 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. Byerley ◽  
E. Peters

The kinetics of the reduction of copper(II) to copper(I) by carbon monoxide in aqueous solutions have been investigated at 120 °C and carbon monoxide pressures up to 1360 atm. The reaction is homogeneous and proceeds by two paths, one of which is virtually independent of carbon monoxide pressure due to the formation of a stable cuprous carbonyl complex Cu(CO)+. The second reaction path contains both a pH-dependent and pH-independent component. The rate-determining step in both paths appears to be the decomposition of a carbon monoxide insertion complex by a cupric ion. Complexing ligands such as acetate were observed to have a minor inhibiting effect on the overall reaction.


1988 ◽  
Vol 44 (12) ◽  
pp. 1309-1314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Dixon ◽  
Paul Glyn ◽  
Michael A. Healy ◽  
P.Michael Hodges ◽  
Timothy Jenkins ◽  
...  

Previous work on the acetaldehyde pyrolysis is shown to be vitiated by the presence, in the acetaldehyde, of impurities, mainly ethanol and crotonaldehyde. The reaction has been reinvestigated with the use of acetaldehyde, prepared from paraldehyde, which is free from these and other impurities. On the basis of a study of the kinetics of formation of the major products (methane and carbon monoxide) and of a number of minor products (hydrogen, acetone, propionaldehyde, ethane and ethylene) a reaction mechanism is proposed. This includes all of the reactions in the original Rice-Herzfeld scheme, together with a number of other elementary processes, in particular CH 3 + CH 3 CHO → CH 4 + CH 2 CHO. The decomposition of the radical CH 2 CHO into CH 2 CO and H provides an additional source of hydrogen, the rate of production of which is therefore not a measure of the rate of the initiation process. Acetone is believed to arise mainly by the reaction CH 3 + CH 3 CHO → CH 3 COCH 3 + H, and only to a negligible extent by the combination of CH 3 and CH 3 CO. The main chain-ending step is concluded to be CH 3 + CH 3 → C 2 H 6 , with a small contribution from CH 3 + CH 2 CHO → CH 3 CH 2 CHO. The work provides further evidence for the falling off, at low pressures, of the second order coefficient for the combination of methyl radicals. Rate constants for various elementary processes are deduced from the rates of formation of the various products, and are shown to be consistent with values obtained directly.


1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 783-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Taras ◽  
Milan Pospíšil

Catalytic activity of nickel-molybdenum catalysts for methanation of carbon monoxide and hydrogen was studied by means of differential scanning calorimetry. The activity of NiMoOx systems exceeds that of carrier-free nickel if x < 2, and is conditioned by the oxidation degree of molybdenum, changing in dependence on the composition in the region Mo-MoO2. The activity of the catalysts is adversely affected by irradiation by fast neutrons, dose 28.1 Gy, or by γ rays using doses in the region 0.8-52 kGy. The system is most susceptible to irradiation in the region of low concentrations of the minor component (about 1 mol.%). The dependence of changes in catalytic activity of γ-irradiated samples on the dose exhibits a maximum in the range of 2-5 kGy. The changes in catalytic activity are stimulated by the change of reactivity of the starting mixed oxides, leading to different kinetics of their reduction and modification of their adsorption properties. The irradiation of the catalysts results in lowered concentration of the active centres for the methanation reaction.


1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (11) ◽  
pp. 3202-3208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Musil ◽  
Vladimír Pour

The kinetics of the reduction of nitrogen oxide by carbon monoxide on CuO/Al2O3 catalyst (8.36 mass % CuO) were determined at temperatures between 413 and 473 K. The reaction was found to be first order in NO and zero order in CO. The observed kinetics are consistent with a rate equation derived from a mechanism proposed on the basis of IR spectroscopic measurements.


1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 1678-1685
Author(s):  
Vladimír Stuchlý ◽  
Karel Klusáček

Kinetics of CO methanation on a commercial Ni/SiO2 catalyst was evaluated at atmospheric pressure, between 528 and 550 K and for hydrogen to carbon monoxide molar ratios ranging from 3 : 1 to 200 : 1. The effect of reaction products on the reaction rate was also examined. Below 550 K, only methane was selectively formed. Above this temperature, the formation of carbon dioxide was also observed. The experimental data could be described by two modified Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetic models, based on hydrogenation of surface CO by molecularly or by dissociatively adsorbed hydrogen in the rate-determining step. Water reversibly lowered catalyst activity and its effect was more pronounced at higher temperature.


1990 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 1984-1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
José M. Hernando ◽  
Olimpio Montero ◽  
Carlos Blanco

The kinetics of the reactions of iron(III) with 6-methyl-2,4-heptanedione and 3,5-heptanedione to form the corresponding monocomplexes have been studied spectrophotometrically in the range 5 °C to 16 °C at I 25 mol l-1 in aqueous solution. In the proposed mechanism for the two complexes, the enol form reacts with the metal ion by parallel acid-independent and inverse-acid paths. The kinetic constants for both pathways have been calculated at five temperatures. Activation parameters have also been calculated. The results are consistent with an associative activation for Fe(H2O)63+ and dissociative activation for Fe(H2O)5(OH)2+. The differences in the results for the complexes of heptanediones studied are interpreted in terms of steric factors.


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