Inorganic peroxides, commercial availability

Initiators, ozonides for polymerization, 622 Inorganic peroxides, commercial availability, 620-1, 622... 

Aqueous hydrogen peroxide, as a cheap and commercially available reagent, is an ideal oxidant because it can be safely stored and handled, contains effective oxygen, and produces water as the only by-product. Due to the low standard redox potential of hydrogen peroxide in neutral or weak acidic media, it has been usually used in the presence of inorganic acids or organocatalysts. 

Inorganic salts are widely used as solid H2O2 carriers in powdered formulations (Table 16.1). In laundry and cleaning applications, percarbonate and perborates are preferred. Perborates are real peroxides containing a B-O-O-B bond and commercially available in two forms, perborate... 

MIcrobiocldes. There are several microbiocides available commercially that can perform an effective function in controlling microbial activity. Some of these chemicals are inorganic, such as chlorine, sodium hypochlorite, calcium hypochlorite, hydrogen peroxide, chromates and compounds of mercury and silver. However, the organic chemicals find the highest use as microbiocides. Some examples of these organic compounds are peracetic acid, paraformaldehyde, polychlorophenols and quaternary ammonium derivatives, to name a few [208]. 

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