Institute of Chemical Physics Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, Yerevan
Abstract:
The results of studies of the kinetics and mechanism of the gas-phase oxidation of aliphatic aldehydes are examined in relation to CH2O, CH3CHO, and C2H5CHO, which are intermediates in the oxidation of hydrocarbons and the general rules governing the course of these degenerate-branched chain processes are established. Attention has been concentrated on the role of heterogeneous factors. It is shown that heterogeneous chain branching as a consequence of the radical decomposition of CH3CO3H or C2H5CO3H takes place in the low-temperature oxidation of acetaldehyde and propionaldehyde; the experimental data on the heterogeneous radical decomposition of organic peroxy-compounds are considered. The bibliography includes 163 references.