Kinetics and Catalysis, Vol. 44, No. 6, 2003, pp. 740–746. Translated from Kinetika i Kataliz, Vol. 44, No. 6, 2003, pp. 810–816.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2003 by Levanov, Kuskov, Zosimov, Antipenko, Lunin.
Acid Catalysis in Reaction of Ozone with Chloride Ions1
A. V. Levanov, I. V. Kuskov, A. V. Zosimov, E. E. Antipenko, and V. V. Lunin
Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119899 Russia
Received November 13, 2002
Abstract—The kinetics of the interaction of ozone with aqueous solutions of chlorides resulting in Cl2 evolu-
tion to the gas phase was studied. The reaction of O3 with Cl– is accelerated by H+ ions. The effects of the con-
centrations of H+ and Cl–, the ionic strength, and temperature (ranged from 7 to 60°C) on the reaction rate were
studied. A mechanism explaining the experimental kinetics was proposed. The acid catalysis is due to the for-
mation of the HO3Cl complex, which is in equilibrium with H+, O3, and Cl–. The constants of reactions involved
in the proposed mechanism were determined.
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INTRODUCTION
ride, sodium perchlorate monohydrate of analytical purity
grade (Merck), and concentrated sulfuric acid of chemical
purity grade were used in the preparation of solutions.
Ozone was prepared by passing special purity oxy-
gen through a barrier discharge in an ozonizer 1. The
ozone concentration at the reactor inlet was measured
with a Medozon-254/5 photometer and normally was
10.0 g/m3. The flow rate of the initial gas mixture was
21 l/h in all experiments.
In the course of a run, we determined the concentra-
tion of Cl2 in the gas mixture at the reactor outlet and the
ozone concentration in the reaction solution; in some
cases we measured the pH of the reaction solution.
The composition of the gas mixture evolved was
analyzed on a Balzers PGM 407 mass spectrometer.
Along with the components of the initial mixture,
molecular Cl2 was found in the outgoing gas. Other gas-
eous reaction products were not found.
Studies of the interaction between ozone and chloride
ions in aqueous solutions are of current interest in the
light of the problem of changes in the concentration of
atmospheric ozone, as well as of the processes of water
preparation and purification. The reaction O3 + Cl– is
believed to be slow, and only rough estimates of its rate
constant at room temperature are known [1]. However,
our experimental findings showed that under certain
conditions the rate of this reaction can be considerably
increased. The aim of this work is to study the effect of
various experimental parameters (concentrations of H+
and Cl–, the ionic strength, and temperature) on the
reaction between ozone and chlorine ions in aqueous
solutions and its kinetic features.
EXPERIMENTAL
The concentration of Cl2 in the evolved gas mixture
was estimated by photometric iodometry. The gas mix-
ture passed through an oven (3) to decompose O3 and
then through a trap (4) with a solution of KI to absorb
Cl2 and to form the equivalent amount of I2, whose con-
centration was measured using a KFK-3 photometer.
Experiments were carried out using a setup whose
schematic is shown in Fig. 1. The reaction between
ozone and chlorine ions was performed in a tempera-
ture-controlled bubble-column reactor (2). The main
part of the reactor represented a glass cylinder (inner
diameter, 2.5 or 3 cm) with a sintered glass filter sealed
into its bottom for feeding the initial gas mixture.
Before the experiment, a solution under study was
placed in the reactor; the height of the liquid was 25–30 cm.
The exact volume of the solution in the reactor was cal-
culated from the previously measured density of solu-
tion and the weight in the reactor.
The amount of chlorine nCl entering the trap was cal-
2
culated as a function of time t from the known iodine
concentration and solution volume. The rate of the
O2
In most runs, solutions under study contained NaCl
and 0.01–1 M HCl, and [NaCl] + [HCl] = 1 M. In some
experiments, NaClO4 was added to vary the ionic
strength of solutions. An additional series of runs was
carried out with solutions containing 0.25 M HCl and
0–8 M H2SO4. Distilled water, standard solution of
hydrochloric acid (1 M), chemically pure sodium chlo-
1
3
2
4
Fig. 1. Schematic of the experimental setup: (1) ozonizer,
(2) bubble-column reactor, (3) oven for ozone decomposi-
tion, (4) trap with a KI solution.
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Paper presented at the VI Russian Conference on Catalytic Reac-
tion Mechanisms (Moscow, October 1–5, 2002).
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