Oxygen activation kinetics

Murthi VS, Urian RC, Mukeijee S. 2004. Oxygen reduction kinetics in low and medium temperature acid environment Correlation of water activation and surface properties in supported Pt and Pt alloy electrocatalysts. J Phys Chem B 108 11011-11023. 

Fiolitakis, E. Hofmann, H. Dependence of the Kinetics of the Low Temperature Watergas Shift Reaction on the Catalyst Oxygen Activity, to be published in Journal of Catalysis... 

Allen, R. C. (1986). Phagocytic leukocyte oxygenation activities and chemiluminescence A kinetic approach to analysis. Methods Enzymol. 133 B, 449-93. 

Che and Naccache (199) have studied the kinetics of 02 formed on slightly reduced anatase using EPR. They found that the adsorption could be explained on the basis of different formation rates for 02 adsorbed at different sites, with zero- and first-order kinetics for the oxygen and Ti3+ concentrations, respectively. Using the same approach, Hauser (200) has extended this work and proposed different models to explain the kinetics based on the formation of 02, O2-, and 02 ions for which activation energies around 1 kcal/mol were obtained. Nikisha et al. (201) have studied the oxygen adsorption kinetics using EPR, conductivity, and volumetric measurements. 

Propene to acrolein. Hildenbrand and Lintz87,88 have used solid electrolyte potentiometry to study the effect of the phase composition of a copper oxide catalyst on the selectivity and yield of acrolein during the partial oxidation of propene in the temperature range of 420-510°C. Potentiometric techniques were used to determine the catalyst oxygen activity, and hence the stable copper phase, under working conditions. Hildenbrand and Lintz used kinetic measurements to confirm that the thermodynamically stable phase had been formed (it is known that propene is totally oxidised over CuO but partially oxidised over ). 

The results of Hildenbrand and Lintz showed good quantitative agreement with previous kinetic work of Riekert and Greger.84,85,89 Reaction rate measurements were indicative of which copper phase was present this phase corresponding to the thermodynamically favoured phase. Furthermore, hysteresis observed in the reaction rate data was also observed in the oxygen activity measurements as in other SEP work on oxides.35,86... 

Three anodic partial reactions are considered active dissolution of two metals M and M with different kinetics in the absence of their ions in bulk solution and decomposition of water with the evolution of oxygen. The kinetics of the latter process is so slow on most corroding metals that only at very negative potentials can oxygen present in the solution be electroreduced and this eventually becomes limited by mass transport due to the limited solubility of oxygen in water. At even more negative potentials, hydrogen evolution takes place on the electrode surface. The cathodic reduction of some metal ions present on the electrode surface as a consequence of corrosion is also considered in Fig. 13(b). 

Mn, Fe, and Co-phthalocyanines appear to be good catalysts for the oxidation, but also for hydroperoxide breakdown and relatively small quantities of hydroperoxide are found in the reaction product. Cu, Zn and Mg-phthalocyanines are also reasonable catalysts for the autoxidation, but in this case most of the hydroperoxide is found undecomposed as the reaction product. In the case of Ni only part of the hydroperoxide is found intact. In subsequent kinetic studies 77-78> Kropf decided that we have here a case of oxygen activation, when the reaction is performed below 100 °C... 

The oxidation of propylene oxide on porous polycrystalline Ag films supported on stabilized zirconia was studied in a CSTR at temperatures between 240 and 400°C and atmospheric total pressure. The technique of solid electrolyte potentiometry (SEP) was used to monitor the chemical potential of oxygen adsorbed on the catalyst surface. The steady state kinetic and potentiometric results are consistent with a Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism. However over a wide range of temperature and gaseous composition both the reaction rate and the surface oxygen activity were found to exhibit self-sustained isothermal oscillations. The limit cycles can be understood assuming that adsorbed propylene oxide undergoes both oxidation to CO2 and H2O as well as conversion to an adsorbed polymeric residue. A dynamic model based on the above assumption explains qualitatively the experimental observations. 

A number of transition metals are now known147-156 to form stable dioxygen complexes, and many of these reactions are reversible. In the case of cobalt, numerous complexes have been shown to combine oxygen reversibly.157 158 Since cobalt compounds are also the most common catalysts for autoxidations, cobalt-oxygen complexes have often been implicated in chain initiation of liquid phase autoxidations. However, there is no unequivocal evidence for chain initiation of autoxidations via an oxygen activation mechanism. Theories are based on kinetic evidence alone, and many authors have failed to appreciate that conventional procedures for purifying substrate do not remove the last traces of alkyl hydroperoxides from many hydrocarbons. It is usually these trace amounts of alkyl hydroperoxide that are responsible for chain initiation during catalytic reaction with metal complexes. 

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