What is it about?
We describe here results of kinetic studies on the chemiluminescence of the reaction of an oxalic ester with hydrogen peroxide. The data indicate that sodium salicylate is acting as a base catalyst, not a nucelophilic catalyst in this system. The reaction kinetics are well reproducible and the transformation can be utilized for analytical applications in anhydrous media.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
The importance lies in the exact mechanistic elucidation of this chemiluminescent transformation, which is important for its analytical application.
Perspectives
These studies are part of our general research project to study the chemiexcitation mechanisms of efficient chemiluminescence transformations with the objective to formulate general principles for excited state formation by chemical transformations.
Professor Wilhelm Josef Baader
Universidade de Sao Paulo
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Mechanistic Studies on the Peroxyoxalate Chemiluminescence Using Sodium Salicylate as Base Catalyst, Photochemistry and Photobiology, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/php.12797.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
