Research on liquid-phase oxidation

Present State and Main Trends of Research on Liquid—Phase Oxidation of Organic Compounds... 

Oxidative chain reactions of organic compounds are current targets of theoretical and experimental study. The kinetic theory of collisions has influenced research on liquid-phase oxidation. This has led to determining rate constants for chain initiation, branching, extension, and rupture and to establishing the influence of solvent, vessel wall, and other factors in the mechanism of individual reactions. Research on liquid-phase oxidation has led to studies on free radical mechanisms and the role of peroxides in their formation. 

Research on liquid-phase oxidation processes has opened up a tremendous area for research on free radical mechanisms. Such research will be concerned, not with hypothetical particles like those studied a few years ago, but with thoroughly material active centers, amenable to investigation by experimental techniques currently in use. Problems of foremost importance are involved in correlating data on unit processes... 

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