Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry ›› 1989, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (1): 69-71.

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ON THE MECHANISM OF ELECTROCHEMICAL EPOXIDATION OF CYCLOHEXENE

Zhang Wenzhi, Wu Xizun   

  1. Department of Chemistry, Hebei Teachers' University, Shijiazhuang
  • Received:1988-03-24 Revised:1988-06-25 Published:1989-02-10 Online:1989-02-10

Abstract: The electrochemical epoxidation of cyclohexene has been invest gated on Pt anode inH2O-NaBr--MsCN medium using a rotating disk electrode and a rotating ring-disk electrode.The electrolytic products were identified by means of IR and MS. The results show thatcyclohexene was oxidized into epoxycyclohexane by an EC catalytic mechanism: The calculated rate constant k1 of the second reaction was (2.1?0.4)?10-2·s-1.

Key words: Epoxidation, Electrochemical oxidation, Cyclohexene, Mechanism