Kinetics and mechanism of the photoinitiated autoxidation of sulfur(IV) in the presence of iodide ion.
The kinetics and mechanism of the photoinitiated and iodide ion-catalyzed aqueous autoxidation of sulfur(IV) has been studied in a diode-array spectrophotometer using the same light beam for excitation and detection. Light absorption of both the iodide ion and sulfur(IV) contribute to the initiation of a highly efficient radical chain reaction, the overall rate of which depends on the reactant and catalyst concentrations, the pH, and the light intensity in a complex manner. To interpret all the experimental findings, an elaborate scheme is proposed, in which the chain carriers are SO3-*, SO4-*, SO5-*, I*, and I2-*. There are three termination steps, each of them is second-order with respect to the chain carriers. Model calculations and nonlinear fitting have been used to show that the proposed scheme gives an excellent quantitative interpretation of the experimental results.
Kerezsi
Ildikó
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University of Debrecen, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Debrecen 10, P.O.B. 21, Hungary H-4010.
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Gábor
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Fábián
István
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