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Lin SH, Peng CF. Treatment of textile wastewater by electrochemical method. Water Res 1994 28 277-282. 

Corrosion By-products Electrochemical Methods Water Chemistry... 

Cathodic Protection This electrochemical method of corrosion control has found wide application in the protection of carbon steel underground structures such as pipe lines and tanks from external soil corrosion. It is also widely used in water systems to protect ship hulls, offshore structures, and water-storage tanks. 

Corrosion of. power-station condenser tubes by polluted, waters has been particularly troubles ome in Japan anil efforts have been made to,study the problem by, electrochemical methods and by exposing model condensers at a variety of bower station sites ., Improved results have been reported, using tin. brasses , or special, tin bronzes. . Pretreatment with sodium dimethyldithiOcarbamate is reported to give protective films that will withstand the action of polluted waters , though the method would be economic only in special circurtistapcies., , , . ... 

The compound Cr(OH), is very insoluble in water therefore, electrochemical methods must be used to determine its fCsp. Given that the reduction of Cr(OH)3(s) to Cr(s) and hydroxide ions has a standard potential of —1.34 V, calculate the solubility product for Cr(OH)3. 

The use of direct electrochemical methods (cyclic voltammetry Pig. 17) has enabled us to measure the thermodynamic parameters of isolated water-soluble fragments of the Rieske proteins of various bci complexes (Table XII)). (55, 92). The values determined for the standard reaction entropy, AS°, for both the mitochondrial and the bacterial Rieske fragments are similar to values obtained for water-soluble cytochromes they are more negative than values measured for other electron transfer proteins (93). Large negative values of AS° have been correlated with a less exposed metal site (93). However, this is opposite to what is observed in Rieske proteins, since the cluster appears to be less exposed in Rieske-type ferredoxins that show less negative values of AS° (see Section V,B). 

A process involving water electrolysis is the production of heavy water. During cathodic polarization the relative rates of deuterium discharge and evolution are lower than those of the normal hydrogen isotope. Hence, during electrolysis the solution is enriched in heavy water. When the process is performed repeatedly, water with a D2O content of up to 99.7% can be produced. Electrochemical methods are also used widely in the manufacture of a variety of other inorganic and organic substances. 

Among electrochemical methods of water purification, one can also list the various electromembrane technologies, electrodialysis in particular. The simplest elec-trodialyzer consists of three compartments separated by semipermeable membranes (usually, cation- and anion-exchange membranes). The water to be purified is supplied to the central (desalination) compartment. In the outer (concentration) compartments, electrodes are set up between which a certain potential difference is applied. Under the effect of the electric field, ions pass througfi the membranes so that the concentration of ionic contaminants in the central compartment decreases. 

The ionic potentials can be experimentally determined either with the use of galvanic cells containing interfaces of the type in Scheme 7 or electroanalytically, using for instance, polarography, voltammetry, or chronopotentiometry. The values of and Aj f, obtained with the use of electrochemical methods for the water-1,2-dichloroethane, water-dichloromethane, water-acetophenone, water-methyl-isobutyl ketone, o-nitrotol-uene, and chloroform systems, and recently for 2-heptanone and 2-octanone [43] systems, have been published. These data are listed in many papers [1-10,14,37]. The most probable values for a few ions in water-nitrobenzene and water-1,2-dichloroethane systems are presented in Table 1. 

The reductive elimination of vicinal dihalides has been accomplished by using many reagents, including the use of aqueous media.16 An interesting method is the reductive elimination of vicinal dihalides by an electrochemical method using vitamin Bi2 in a water-in-oil microemulsion (Eq. 6.8).17... 

Sodium formate serves as a reducing reagent for aldehyde in subcrit-ical water at 310-350°C and high pressures (Eq. 8.10).31 The reduction of aldehydes in aqueous media can also be achieved by using an electrochemical method. The voltammetry of benzaldehyde in an acidic methanol/water mixture is affected strongly by the cathode material.30... 

Zinc complexes of cyclohexane-1,2-dione bis(thiosemicarbazone) have been formed in the neutral and doubly deprotonated form. The X-ray structures show distorted square-based pyramidal geometries for both complexes [ZnL(OH2)] and [Zn(H2L)Cl]Cl with the water or chloride occupying the axial position.886 The binuclear complex bis[l-phenylglyoxal bis(3-piperidylthiose-micarbazone)zinc] was synthesized by electrochemical methods and reveals a Zn2L2 with two tetradentate bis-thiosemicarbazone ligands bridging the metal centers.887... 

Interface, the air-water, chirality and molecular recognition in monolayers at, 28, 45 Intermediates, reactive, study of, by electrochemical methods, 19, 131 Intermediates, tetrahedral, derived from carboxylic acids, spectroscopic detection and investigation of their properties, 21, 37 Intramolecular reactions, effective molarities for, 17, 183 Intramolecular reactions, of chain molecules, 22, 1... 

The use of electrochemical methods for the destruction of aromatic organo-chlorine wastes has been reviewed [157]. Rusling, Zhang and associates [166, 167] have examined a stable, conductive, bicontinuous surfactant/soil/water microemulsion as a medium for the catalytic reduction of different pollutants. In soils contaminated with Arochlor 1260, 94% dechlorination was achieved by [Zn(pc)] (H2pc=phthalocyanine) as a mediator with a current efficiency of 50% during a 12-h electrolysis. Conductive microemulsions have also been employed for the destruction of aliphatic halides and DDT in the presence of [Co(bpy)3]2+ (bpy=2,2 -bipyridine) [168] or metal phthalocyanine tetrasulfonates [169]. 

The one-electron reduction potentials, (E°) for the phenoxyl-phenolate and phenoxyl-phenol couples in water (pH 2-13.5) have been measured by kinetic [pulse radiolysis (41)] and electrochemical methods (cyclic voltammetry). Table I summarizes some important results (41-50). The effect of substituents in the para position relative to the OH group has been studied in some detail. Methyl, methoxy, and hydroxy substituents decrease the redox potentials making the phe-noxyls more easily accessible while acetyls and carboxyls increase these values (42). Merenyi and co-workers (49) found a linear Hammett plot of log K = E°l0.059 versus Op values of substituents (the inductive Hammett parameter) in the 4 position, where E° in volts is the one-electron reduction potential of 4-substituted phenoxyls. They also reported the bond dissociation energies, D(O-H) (and electron affinities), of these phenols that span the range 75.5 kcal mol 1 for 4-amino-... 

Interface, the air-water, chirality and molecular recognition in monolayers at, 28, 45 Intermediates, reactive, study of, by electrochemical methods, 19, 131... 

Figure 6.7 Polarogram of air-saturated water, i.e. a polarogram of oxygen. The solution also contains KNO3 as an inert ionic electrolyte (0.1 mol dm ) and Triton X-100 (a non-ionic surfactant) as a current maximum suppresser (see Section 6.8.1). From Bard, A.J. and Faulkner, L.R., Electrochemical Methods Fundamentals and Applications, Wiley, 1980. Reprinted by permission of John Wiley Sons, Inc.

The value of X found here appears to agree well with the values 5.0 and 2.3mequiv dm 3 absorbed water found by Oemisch and Pusch (4) by analytical and electro-chemical measurements respectively in cellulose acetate from a different manufacturer. The agreement is deceptive however because their value is based on the total water held in an asymmetric membrane. A value of M estimated from their data is almost ten times our M. It may be noted that their electrochemical method and their assumptions are quite different from ours. 

A third important reaction of aromatic radical-cations is carbon-carbon bond formation with a further aromatic substrate. This reaction is limited to the oxidation in acetonitrile of substrates with electrondonating substituents. Radical-cations from benzene, naphthalene and anthracene form a-complexes but do not form a a-bonded reaction intermediate. Tlie dimerization reaction has been investigated both by pulse-radiolysis [22] in water and by electrochemical methods [27] in acetoni-... 

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