Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1994, 59, 1066-1076
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19941066
Photocatalytic Effect of Fe(III) on Oxidation of Two-Carbon Substrates Related to Natural Waters
Šárka Klementováa and Dana M. Wagnerováb
a Hydrobiological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
b Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Abstract
The influence of ferric ions on photoinitiated reaction of dioxygen with two carbon organic acids, aldehydes and alcohols related to natural waters was demonstrated. Photocatalytic effect of ferric ions, i.e. photochemical reduction of Fe(III) as the catalyst generating step, has been found to be the common principal of these reactions. The overall quantum yields of the reactions are in the range from 0.3 to 1.2. A mathematical model designed for the mechanism of cyclic generation of catalyst in the singlet substrate oxidation by O2 was applied to the system glyoxalic acid + Fe(III); a fair agreement between the simulated and experimental kinetic curves was obtained. The experimental rate constant is 4.4 .10-4 s -1.
