Kinetic determination of alcohols and their binary mixtures with a stopped-flow spectrophotometric technique

The kinetic method described for the determination of a single alcohol (? 5 X 10^-4 M), or of a binary mixture of alcohols in aqueous solution is based on fast oxidation by silver(II), monitored spectrophotometrically by using a stopped-flow technique. Mixtures of alcohols having rate constants differing by a factor of ?3 can be resolved. The lower limit of determination is ca. 5 × 10^-4 M.