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Chemical Communications

New insight to superoxide radical-mediated degradation of pentachlorophenate: Kinetic determination and theoretical calculations†

Lu Bai,ab   Lei He,ab   Yifu Fu,ab   Chu Chu,ab   Zongsu Wei,c   Richard Spinney, ORCID logo d   Dionysios D. Dionysiou,e   Yanjie Liangab  and  Ruiyang Xiao ORCID logo *ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Environmental Engineering, School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha, China
E-mail: xiao.53@csu.edu.cn

b Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Control & Treatment of Heavy Metal Pollution, Changsha, China

c Centre for Water Technology (WATEC) & Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Universitetsbyen, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

d Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

e Environmental Engineering and Science Program, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Abstract

This study reported the reactivity and mechanisms of superoxide radical (O2˙−)-mediated transformation of pentachlorophenate. Our results indicated that O2˙− alone exhibits limited effects on its degradation, and bimolecular nucleophilic substitution is the dominant reaction pathway.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC06834B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Dec 2021
Accepted
19 Jan 2022
First published
27 Jan 2022

Chem. Commun., 2022,58, 2666-2669

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New insight to superoxide radical-mediated degradation of pentachlorophenate: Kinetic determination and theoretical calculations

L. Bai, L. He, Y. Fu, C. Chu, Z. Wei, R. Spinney, D. D. Dionysiou, Y. Liang and R. Xiao, Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 2666 DOI: 10.1039/D1CC06834B

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