ISSN 0036-0244, Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2009, Vol. 83, No. 6, pp. 945–950. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2009.
Original Russian Text © O.O. Voskresenskaya, N.A. Skorik, 2009, published in Zhurnal Fizicheskoi Khimii, 2009, Vol. 83, No. 6, pp. 1079–1084.
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
OF SOLUTIONS
The Kinetics of Cerium(IV) Sulfate Reaction with Citrate
and the Thermodynamic Characteristics of Formation
of Intermediate Complexes
a
b
O. O. Voskresenskaya and N. A. Skorik
a
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow oblast, 141980 Russia
b
Tomsk State University, Tomsk, 634050 Russia
e-mail: voskr@jinr.ru
Received April 29, 2008
Abstract—Intermediate cerium(IV)–citrate complexes formed at the first stage of the oxidation of citric acid
(
Citr) with cerium(IV) were studied spectrophotometrically and pH-potentiometrically at ionic strength I = 2
(
sulfate medium). Their composition and the form of the organic ligand present in them, the thermodynamic
parameters of their formation, and the kinetic parameters of intramolecular redox decomposition were deter-
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–
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mined. A detailed scheme of the initial stages of the redox process in the Ce –SO –Citr system was consid-
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ered, and the law of its initial rate and intermediate mechanism were determined. The results were compared
with the corresponding data on several oxycarboxylic acids and polyhydric alcohols. The inverse linear corre-
lation was found between the logarithms of stability constants and the logarithms of rate constants for intramo-
+
lecular redox decomposition of [(CeOH)H R] complexes with dibasic ligands of the type R = H L, H(OH)L,
–
2
2
and L(OH) . The stabilizing role played by ligand oxy groups in these complexes was demonstrated.
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DOI: 10.1134/S0036024409060132
INTRODUCTION
The detailed mechanism of the BZh reaction is very
complex and includes dozens of intermediate com-
pounds. Its study is based on the so-called Field–
Koros–Noyes (FKN) theory [32] and its subsequent
developments [33–35]; it was the object of numerous
studies [1–4, 7, 9, 31–36]. The radical mechanism [2, 3]
and the intermediate and final products of the oxida-
Interactions of cerium(IV) with organic compounds
are extensively studied [1–19]. These studies are of
interest from both kinetic [1–22] and thermodynamic
[
5, 8, 23–26] points of view and are of considerable
importance in relation to the problem of the stabiliza-
tion of unstable oxidation states of metals [26–28] and
numerous applications of cerium(IV) in various
domains of chemistry as a complex-forming agent on
the one hand and a one-electron oxidizer on the other
tion of malonic acid CH (COOH) [3, 4] and its
2
2
derivatives [1, 4], oxalic (COOH) [3, 7, 38], citric
2
HOOCCH C(OH)(COOH)CH COOH [18–21], malic
2
2
HOOCHC(OH)CH COOH, tartaric (CH(OH)COOH)
[1, 25].
2
2
[
3, 5] and other carboxylic acids by cerium (IV) as the
The oxidation of aliphatic organic substances with
first stage of BZh reaction (1) have been actively stud-
ied. The possibility of formation of intermediate orga-
nocerium(IV) complexes in the BZh reaction was men-
tioned in several works [1, 4, 31, 32]. However, most of
these complexes have not been identified and their
structure, reactivity, and thermodynamic stability have
not been determined.
an active methylene group by cerium (the first stage of
the Belousov–Zhabotinskii (BZh) autooscillating reac-
tion) [1–4, 7, 9, 29–37] is of special interest. Concen-
tration oscillations in the BZh reaction occur because of
the alternation of two stages schematically written as
Ce(IV) + R = Ce(III) + P,
(1)
–
Ce(III) + BrO = Ce(IV) + P',
(2)
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It is known from kinetic studies that polar organic
compounds (oxycarboxylic acids, alcohols, ketones,
where R is the reducing agent and P and P' are the reaction
products [31]. Oxycarboxylic and dicarboxylic acid (citric etc.) are oxidized by variable-valence metal ions
[
3, 29–31], malic [3, 30], oxalic [3, 7], malonic [2, 3], and (Ce(IV), Mn(III), …) according to the one-electron
methylmalonic [1, 4]), β-diketonates [28], saccharides [4], mechanism, which as a rule includes two stages. First,
alcohols [6], etc. can play the role of reducing agents. Oxi- an organic compound enters into the coordination
dizers can be cerium(IV) and one-electron oxidizers (e.g., sphere of the ion-oxidizer in an equilibrium reaction,
Mn(III)) close to it in the redox potential value and the and a redox process then occurs in this complex, which
kinetics of redox reactions [30].
is the rate-limiting stage [1, 4, 20–22, 31, 32],
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