Oxidation bromide/hypochlorite

Fig. 6. Specific oxidation of the 6-hydroxyl of starch usiag bromide—hypochlorite and tetramethylpiperidine oxide (TEMPO).

Hypobromite, although a weaker oxidant than hypochlorite = 0.76 V), often reacts more rapidly with reducing agents. Since hypobromite solutions are relatively unstable, it is advantageous to produce hypobromite in solution by adding an excess of bromide to the sample and then oxidizing it with hypochlorite. 

Bromide and iodide ions can be determined successively in one water sample using a method developed by P. Hofer hypochlorite ions are used to oxidize bromide ions to bromate ions and iodide ions to iodate ions ... 

Matsumura [185-188] has oxidized a wide range of polysaccharides, starch, xyloses, amyloses, pectins, and the like with hypochlorite/periodate. The products are either biodegradable at low oxidation levels or functional at high oxidation levels the balance has not yet been established for commercial success. Other than Matsumura, van Bekkum and co-workers, at Delft University, has been the major player in the search to control the hypochlorite/periodate liquid-phase oxidations of starches [189-191]. He has been searching for catalytic processes to speed up the oxidation with hypochlorite. Hypobromite is a more active oxidant than hypochlorite but more expensive, however, it may be generated in situ from the cheap hypochlorite and bromide ion in one solution [191, 192]. This is shown in Scheme 16. 

Hypobromite is a more active oxidant than hypochlorite but more expensive, however it may be generated in situ from the cheap hypochlorite and bromide ion in one solution [191,192]. This is shown in Scheme 16... 

The anhydride can be made by the Hquid-phase oxidation of acenaphthene [83-32-9] with chromic acid in aqueous sulfuric acid or acetic acid (93). A postoxidation of the cmde oxidation product with hydrogen peroxide or an alkaU hypochlorite is advantageous (94). An alternative Hquid-phase oxidation process involves the reaction of acenaphthene, molten or in alkanoic acid solvent, with oxygen or acid at ca 70—200°C in the presence of Mn resinate or stearate or Co or Mn salts and a bromide. Addition of an aHphatic anhydride accelerates the oxidation (95). 

Ha.logen Compounds. Fluorine is unreactive toward ozone at ordinary temperatures. Chlorine is oxidized to Cl20 and Cl20y, bromine to Br Og, and iodine to I2O2 and I4O2. Oxidation of haUde ions by ozone increases with the atomic number of haUde. Fluoride is unreactive chloride reacts slowly, ultimately forming chlorate and bromide is readily oxidized to hypobromite (38). Oxidation of iodide is extremely rapid, initially yielding hypoiodite the estimated rate constant is 2 x 10 (39). HypohaUte ions are oxidized to haUtes hypobromite reacts faster than hypochlorite (40). 

Sanitizers. Spa and hot-tub sanitation is dominated by chlorine- and bromine-based disinfectants. Public spas and tubs usually employ automatic feeders, eg, CI2 gas feeders, to maintain a disinfectant residual. Private or residential spas and tubs can use automatic chemical feeding or generating devices, or they can be sanitized manually with granular or liquid products. The most widely used products for private spa and tub sanitation are sodium dichloroisocyanurate and bromochlorodimethylhydantoin. Granular products are normally added before and after use, whereas solids, eg, stick-bromine, are placed in skimmers or feeders. Bromine generating systems can also be used and are based on oxidation of bromide ions (added to the water as sodium bromide) by peroxymonosulfate, chloroisocyanurates, hypochlorites, or ozone to generate the disinfectant HOBr. 

Oxidation of Chlorides. Hypochlorite can also be formed by the in situ oxidation of chloride ions by potassium peroxymonosulfate [25482-78-4] (36). Ketones like acetone cataly2e the reaction (37). The triple salt of potassium peroxymonosulfate is a stable powder that has been combiaed with chloride salts and sold as toilet bowl cleaners. Bromides can be used ia place of chlorides to form hypobromites, and such combiaations are used to disiafect spas and hot tubs. 

Boiling the solution speeds the conversion of intermediate hypobromites and bromites to bromate. The less soluble bromate can be separated from the hahde by fractional crystallization. A method that is often more economical is the oxidation of bromides into bromates by hypochlorites in aqueous solution. This can be done by passing chlorine into an alkaline bromide solution (75) ... 

Le Corre and Treguer [49] developed an automated procedure based on oxidation of the ammonium ion by hypochlorite in the presence of sodium bromide followed by spectrophotometric determination of the nitrite. The standard deviation on a set of samples containing 1 p,g NH -N per litre was 0.02. This method was compared with an automated method for the determination of ammonia as indophenol blue. The results from the two methods are in good agreement. 

Chemical/Physical. An aqueous solution containing chlorine dioxide in the dark for 3.5 d oxidized naphthalene to chloronaphthalene, 1,4-dichloronaphthalene, and methyl esters of phthalic acid (Taymaz et ah, 1979). In the presence of bromide ions and a chlorinating agent (sodium hypochlorite), major products identified at various reaction times and pHs include 1-bromonaphthalene, dibromonaphthalene, and 2-bromo-l,4-naphthoquinone. Minor products identified include chloronaphthalene, dibromonaphthalene, bromochloronaphthalene, bromo-naphthol, dibromonaphthol, 2-bromonaphthoquinone, dichloronaphthalene, and chlorodibromo-naphthalene (Lin et ah, 1984). 

C. F. Schonbein also prepared ammonium hypobromite by a process analogous to that employed for the hypochlorite, and obtained a liquid with similar oxidizing properties. The liquid is assumed to contain a mixture of ammonium hypobromite and bromide. C. F. Schonbein likewise inferred the transient formation of ammonium hypoiodite when iodine water and aqueous ammonia are mixed, whereby the liquid is decolorized. The soln. gave a deep blue coloration with starch paste and potassium iodide, etc., and behaved like analogous soln. of the alkali... 

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