A sensitive technique has been employed to show that the rate constant of the reaction O2–+ H2O2→ OH + OH–+ O2 is less than 0·3 dm3 mol–1 s–1 in dilute aqueous solution, and hence that it cannot occur significantly in biological systems unless catalysed by some cellular agent.
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