Inorganic oxidation reactions involving

Eary, L. E., and Schramke, J. A., 1990, Rates of Inorganic Oxidation Reactions Involving Dissolved Oxygen in Melchior, D. C., and Bassett, R. L., eds., Chemical Modeling of Aqueous Systems II, American Chemical Society Symposium 416, p. 379-396. 

Rates of Inorganic Oxidation Reactions Involving Dissolved Oxygen... 

LE Eary, JA Schramke. Rates of inorganic oxidation reactions involving dissolved oxygen. In DC Melchior, RE Bassett, eds. Chemical Modeling of Aqueous Systems, II. Washington, DC American Chemical Society, 1990, pp 379-396. 

Seven chemical reactions were identified from the chemistry syllabus. These chemical reactions were selected because they were frequently encountered during the 2-year chemistiy course and based on their importance in understanding concepts associated with three topics, namely, acids, bases and salts, metal reactivity series and inorganic chemistry qualitative analysis. The seven types of chemical reactions were combustion of reactive metals in air, chemical reactions between dilute acids and reactive metals, neutralisation reactions between strong acids and strong alkalis, neutralisation reactions between dilute acids and metal oxides, chemical reactions between dilute acids and metal carbonates, ionic precipitation reactions and metal ion displacement reactions. Although two of the chemical reactions involved oxidation and reduction, it was decided not to include the concept of redox in this study as students had only recently been introduced to ion-electron... 

In a typical inorganic oxide, the oxide surface acquires a charge by the dissociation or adsorption of potential determining ions at specific amphoteric surface groups or sites. As a consequence the equation of state of such surfaces will involve parameters that characterize surface reactions. In addition, one may also allow for the adsorption of anions and cations of the supporting electrolyte. However, in this paper we shall ignore this possibility to keep the discussion clear. Such embellishments of the model of the surface do not alter the key ideas presented here. 

Reactions involving nonmetallic species or nontraditional reactions of metal complexes (unusual oxidation states, reactions with different reaction partners, etc.) are less commonly studied but are becoming of increased interest as mechanistic inorganic chemistry has come of age. A... 

The acute toxicity of aliphatic nitriles, which are important industrial compounds, is ascribed mainly to the liberation of cyanide after oxidative de-nitrilation [118 - 120], The reaction involves cytochrome P450 mediated hy-droxylation of C(a) to form an intermediate cyanohydrin, which then breaks down to inorganic cyanide and an aldehyde ... 

There are many biological oxidations that convert a primary or secondary alcohol to a carbonyl compound. These reactions cannot possibly involve the extreme pH conditions and vigorous inorganic oxidants used in typical laboratory oxidations. Rather, they occur at nearly neutral pH values and they all require enzymes as catalysts, which for these reactions usually are called dehydrogenases. 

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