Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1997, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (9): 1438.

• Articles • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Kinetics and Mechanism of Pyrogallol Autoxidation

YUAN Zhuo-Bin, GAO Ruo-Mei   

  1. Graduate School, University of Science and Technology Of China, Beijing 100039
  • Received:1996-08-12 Online:1997-09-24 Published:1997-09-24

Abstract: The kinetics of pyrogallol autooxidation has been studied by single-sweeposcillopolarography in Tris-HCIbuffer soluton in the PHrange 7. 20-9. 10. The reaction wasfirst order to pyrogallol in the presence of excess dissolved O2. The focus was put onpyrogallol autooxidation with products of semiquinone free radical and active oxygen. Amechanism was presented which explains the increase in rate with increasing PHby postulating thatH2PYR-has a greater reactivity with dissolved O2 than H3PYR. The derived rate law is ingood agreement with the experimental observations. The paper also presented a new assayfor superoxlde dismutase and antioxidant activity of pharmaceuticals.

Key words: Pyrogallol autooxidation, Single-sweep oscillopolarography, Computer simulation, Kinetics

CLC Number: 

TrendMD: