Kinetics of the Rapid Dark Reaction between Methanol and Oxygen in the Presence of a" Photocatalyst"

NAM Zabidi, D Tapp, TF Thomas

Index: Mohd.Zabidi, Noor A.; Tapp, Dale; Thomas, Timothy F. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1995 , vol. 99, # 40 p. 14733 - 14737

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Abstract

It has been discovered that a rapid dark reaction occurs on adding platinized Ti02 “photocatalyst” to liquid methanol before and/or during degassing resulting in large amounts of formaldehyde (mostly in the form of methoxymethanol) being present at the start of subsequent photolyses. The kinetics of this reaction has been studied in a magnetically stirred reactor over the temperature range 282-325 K, yielding an activation energy ...