Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic, and Nano-Metal Chemistry, 40:225–230, 2010
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ISSN: 1553-3174 print / 1553-3182 online
DOI: 10.1080/15533171003766329
Oxidation of n-Propylamine and n-Butylamine by
Chloramine-B and Chloramine-T in Basic Medium:
A Kinetic Study
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M. K. Veeraiah, A. S. Ananda Murthy, and Netkal M. Made Gowda
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Department of Chemistry, Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology, Tumkur, India
Department of Studies in Chemistry, Manasagangothri, University of Mysore, Mysore, India
Department of Chemistry, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL, USA
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been reported.[
The oxidation of aliphatic primary amines, n-propylamine (PA) ies on the oxidation of aliphatic primary amines, n-propylamine
and n-butylamine (BA), by chloramine-B (CAB) and chloramine-T
7−11]
The present paper reports the kinetic stud-
(
PA) and n-butylamine (BA) by CAT and CAB in aqueous
sodium hydroxide solutions.
(
CAT) in aqueous alkaline medium has been kinetically studied at
18 K. The reaction follows the experimental rate law: rate = k
ꢀ
3
0 − x
[
oxidant] [amine] [OH ] , where oxidant is CAT or CAB and x is
fractional. Additions of chloride ions, the reduction product, sul-
fonamide, and sodium perchlorate, which is used for changing the
ionic strength of the solvent medium, have no effect on the reaction
rate. However, the rate varies with change in dielectric constant
of the medium. The reaction has been studied in the temperature
range, 313–323K, and the activation parameters have been eval-
EXPERIMENTAL
Materials
Chloramine-T (Loba) was purified by the method of Morris
[
12]
and coworkers.
Chloramine-B was prepared by a standard
uated. A suitable mechanism consistent with the observed kinetic method.[ Approximately 0.10 mole dm stock solutions of
12]
−3
data has been proposed and the rate law derived.
CAT and CAB were prepared and standardized by iodometric
method and used. The solutions were stored in amber colored
bottles. The two amines used, n-propylamine and n-butylamine
Keywords kinetics, oxidation, amines, n-propylamine and n-
butylamine, Chloramine-T, Chloramine-B, mechanism,
rate law
(SD Fine or Sisco Research Chemicals, India), were purified
by distillation. All other reagents were of analytical grades of
purity. All aqueous solutions were prepared in triply distilled
water.
INTRODUCTION
Sodium salts of N-halo derivatives of arylsulphonamide
are N-metallo-N-Arylhalosulphonamides. The important mem-
bers of this class of haloamine compounds are: chloramine-
T (p-CH3C6H4SO2NClNa.3H2O or CAT) and chloramine-B
Kinetic Measurement
Kinetic runs were carried out under pseudo first order con-
ditions of [amine]o ꢁ [oxidant]o at a constant temperature.
[11]
C6H5SO2NClNa 1.5H2O or CAB). Bishop and Jennings[
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The constant temperature (e.g., 318 ± 0.1 K) was maintained
using a water bath. Requisite amounts of solutions of the amine
(PA or BA), NaOH, and perchlorate (to maintain a constant ionic
strength) were mixed in a stoppered Pyrex glass tube. Required
volume of water was added to maintain a known total volume
of the reaction mixture. The tube was thermostated at 318 K.
The reaction was initiated by adding a measured amount of pre-
equilibrated, standard CAB or CAT solution into the above tube
and the reaction mixture was shaken periodically. The progress
of the reaction was monitored by iodometric titrations of the
unreacted oxidant present in aliquots against a standardized
(
have reported some important characteristics of CAT solutions.
[2]
Higuchi and Coworkers have published an extensive study of
the concentrations of various species present in aqueous solu-
tions of 0.05 M CAT at different pH values. Both CAT and CAB
have been widely used in oxidation studies and mechanisms
[
3−6]
of their reactions have been investigated.
Oxidations of
amines by oxidants such as N-bromosuccinamide, bromamine,
cerium(IV), aqueous chlorine, bromamine-T and Mn(III) have
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Na2S2O3 solution at various time periods . The pseudo-first
Received 19 November 2009; accepted 12 January 2010.
Address correspondence to M. K. Veeraiah and N. M. Made Gowda,
Department of Chemistry, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
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order rate constants, k , were calculated from plots of ln [ox] vs.
time or ln (titer) vs time (where ox = CAT or CAB). Values of
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61455, USA. E-mail: GN-Made@wiu.edu
k are accurate within ± 3%.
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