Hydrogen peroxide decomposition agents

Environmental Applications. Hydrogen peroxide is an ecologically desirable poUution-control agent because it yields only water or oxygen on decomposition. It has been used in increasingly greater amounts to convert domestic and industrial effluents to an environmentally compatible state... 

Figure 10.27 Effect of sequestering agent concentration on the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide and degree of polymerisation of cotton cellulose [236]...

Action of chlorine trifluoride causes incandescence [1]. Manganese dioxide catalytically decomposes powerful oxidising agents, often violently. Dropped into cone, hydrogen peroxide, the powdered oxide may cause explosion [2], Either the massive or the powdered oxide explosively decomposes 92% peroxomonosulfuric acid [3], and mixtures with chlorates ( oxygen mixture , heated to generate the gas) may react with explosive violence [4], Cuban pyrolusite can be used in place of potassium dichromate to promote thermal decomposition of potassium chlorate in match-head formulations [5],... 

Hydrazine hydrate is used as a reducing agent in synthetic and analytical reactions and as a solvent for many inorganic compounds. It also is used with methanol as a propellant for rocket engines. Another apphcation is catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide. 

The oxidation of azo compounds with hydrogen peroxide in an acetic acid medium or with peracetic acid has been carried out by many investigators. For example, in a study of the 4,4 -dialkoxyazoxybenzenes, which are of interest in the field of liquid crystals, the corresponding alkoxynitrobenzenes were reduced with lithium aluminum hydride to the corresponding azo stage and, after decomposition of the reducing agent and removal of the solvent, the product residue was taken up in acetic acid and oxidized at 65°C for 36 hr with... 

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