Oxidation Reactions and Oxidizing Agents

However, the conversion of HON to HCO2H is not an oxidation, since the carbon started out with three bonds to a heteroatom and still has three bonds to a heteroatom in the product. While the transformation involves an increase in the number of C-O bonds, it is only by replacement of C-N bonds, so there is no change in the oxidation number of carbon, and the reaction is not described as an oxidation (in this instance, it is an example of a hydrolysis reaction). 

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Although many oxidation reactions and oxidizing agents have some degree of hazard associated with their use, the procedures marked with the hazard symbol may require special caution. 

The half-reactions are written as reductions rather than as oxidations. This means that oxidizing agents and electrons are on the left side of each half-reaction and reducing agents are on the right side. 

H0S(0)200S(0)20H. Dibasic acid formed as salts by electrolysis of sulphates at low temperatures and high current density. The acid and persulphates are strong oxidizing agents ( "[S20a] to S04 -t-2 01 volts in acid) but the reactions are often slow. Compare permonosulphuric acid. 

The reactivity of the halogens decreases m the order F2 > CI2 > Br2 > I2 Fluo rme is an extremely aggressive oxidizing agent and its reaction with alkanes is strongly exothermic and difficult to control Direct fluonnation of alkanes requires special equip ment and techniques is not a reaction of general applicability and will not be discussed further... 

Destruction of the masking ligand by chemical reaction may be possible, as in the oxidation of EDTA in acid solutions by permanganate or another strong oxidizing agent. Hydrogen peroxide and Cu(II) ion destroy the tartrate complex of aluminum. 

Quantitative Calculations The stoichiometry of a redox reaction is given by the conservation of electrons between the oxidizing and reducing agents (see Section 2C) thus... 

Oxides and hydroxides react with HCl to form a salt and water as in a simple acid—base reaction. However, reactions with low solubiHty or insoluble oxides and hydroxides is complex and the rate is dependent on many factors similar to those for reactions with metals. Oxidizing agents such as H2O2, H2SeO, and V2O3 react with aqueous hydrochloric acid, forming water and chlorine. 

In the most common method for chemiluminescent immunoassay (GLIA), after the immunological reaction and any necessary separation steps, the labeled compounds or complexes react with an oxidizer, eg, hydrogen peroxide, and an enzyme, eg, peroxidase, or a chelating agent such as hemin or metal... 

N—Fe(IV)Por complexes. Oxo iron(IV) porphyrin cation radical complexes, [O—Fe(IV)Por ], are important intermediates in oxygen atom transfer reactions. Compound I of the enzymes catalase and peroxidase have this formulation, as does the active intermediate in the catalytic cycle of cytochrome P Q. Similar intermediates are invoked in the extensively investigated hydroxylations and epoxidations of hydrocarbon substrates cataly2ed by iron porphyrins in the presence of such oxidizing agents as iodosylbenzene, NaOCl, peroxides, and air. 

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