title: Compatible mechanism to characterize three independent but cross-coupled reactions of chlorite ion.
abstract: Individually proposed kinetic models of the key subsystems of the chlorite-thiosulfate reaction, such as the hypochlorous acid-chlorite, tetrathionate-chlorite, and tetrathionate-chlorine dioxide reactions, have been unified to be able to describe all the main characteristics of these systems simultaneously. A complex 38-step kinetic model is composed in which the subsystems are coupled by the necessary short-lived intermediates and such species that is products or reactants in one system but transients in the other. Such a cross-coupling between the individual systems as well as the sound agreement between the measured and calculated absorbance-time profiles in 367 experimental curves strongly validates the proposed kinetic model.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Rerrich B. tér 1., H-6720 Szeged, Hungary.
authors.forename: István
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nagypál
authors.affiliation: Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Pécs, Ifjúság u. 6, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary.
authors.forename: Attila K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Horváth