Photometric and Gas-Chromatographic Determination of Hydrogen Peroxide and Peroxybutanoic Acid in Oxidized Butanoic Acid

Procedures were developed for determining hydrogen peroxide and peroxy acids mixed with peroxide compounds of other classes in the oxidation products of butanoic acid with atmospheric oxygen and hydrogen peroxide. Conditions were found for the selective decomposition of hydrogen peroxide with catalase in the presence of an excess of the carboxylic acid deactivating the enzyme. The errors introduced by the acylation of hydrogen peroxide with the carboxylic acid in the course of sample treatment with the enzyme were eliminated by adding diphenyl sulfide or dimethyl sulfoxide, which selectively reduced the peroxy acids. The concentrations of hydrogen peroxide and the peroxy acid were found from the difference between the total concentration of the peroxide compounds before and after treating a sample with catalase and a sulfur-containing reagent by the photometric method using a reagent containing Fe²⁺ ions and N, N-dimethyl-p-phenylenediamine. Peroxy acids were determined by GLC from the yields of the oxidation products of diphenyl sulfide with the peroxy acid (diphenyl sulfoxide and diphenyl sulfones).     

Pathways of Liquid-Phase Oxidation of Cyclohexanol

The kinetics of product accumulation in uncatalyzed oxidation of cyclohexanol at 403 K was studied. Along with the compounds originating from oxidation of cyclohexanol at position 1 (cyclohexanone, hydrogen peroxide, 1-hydroxycyclohexyl hydroperoxide), products formed by oxidation of C-H bonds at positions 2-4 were detected: 2-, 3-, and 4-hydroxycyclohexyl hydroperoxides (cis and trans isomers), 1,2-, 1,3-, and 1,4-dihydroxycyclohexanes (cis and trans isomers), 2- and 4-hydroxycyclohexanones, and 2-cyclohexenone.     

The Reactivity of C–H Bonds in the Cyclohexyloxy Moiety of Cyclohexyl Acetate toward the tert-Butylperoxy Radical

The effect of the functional group on the partial rate constants of the reactions of the tert-butylperoxy radical with CH bonds in the cyclohexyloxy moiety of cyclohexyl acetate at 333 K was studied by the Howard–Ingold method. The ester group activates the CH bond at the 1-position and deactivates the CH bonds at the 3-position and, especially, the 2-position. The reactivity of CH bonds at the 4-position is close to the reactivity of CH bonds in cyclohexane.     

Reactivity of Cyclohexanol CH Bonds toward the tert-Butylperoxy Radical

The effect of the hydroxy group on the partial rate constants of the reactions of the tert-butylperoxy radical with CH bonds in cyclohexanol at 333 K was studied by the Howard–Ingold method. The overall reaction rate constant increased with decreasing alcohol concentration in chlorobenzene because of complex effects of hydrogen bonds at the steps of chain growth and termination. The hydroxy group activates the -CH bond and deactivates the - and -CH bonds. The reactivity of -CH bonds is close to the reactivity of CH bonds in cyclohexane.