Kinetic data on electroless copper deposition from a formaldehyde/EDTA solution are analyzed and discussed in terms of a formal kinetic rate law. The derived rate equation shows first-order dependence on the methylene glycol anion and zeroth order on cupric ion. Kinetic preexponential factors evaluated from temperature dependencies of reaction rates indicate that the rate-determining step involves an adsorbed species. A primary kinetic ...
[Bartholomew, Richard J.; Stevenson, Wendy J.; Irish, Donald E. Spectrochimica Acta - Part A Molecular Spectroscopy, 1996 , vol. 52, # 13 p. 1695 - 1701]
