摘要:
Rate constants for several reactions of inorganic radicals with inorganic reductants in aqueous solutions have been measured by pulse radiolysis as a function of temperature, generally between 5 and 75-degrees-C. The reactions studied were of the dihalide radicals, Cl2.-, Br2.-, and I2.-, the (SCN)2.- radical, and the neutral radical N3., reacting with the substitution-inert metal complexes, Fe(CN)6(4-), Mo(CN)8(4-), and W(CN)8(4-), and with the anions SO3(2-), HSO3-, NO2-, and ClO2-. The rate constants measured were in the range of 10(6) to 5 x 10(9) M-1 s-1 and the calculated Arrhenius activation energies ranged from 5 to 35 kJ mol-1. The preexponential factors also varied considerably, with log A ranging from 8.9 to 13.1. The temperature dependence of the reaction rate constant is correlated to the reaction exothermicity for the metal complexes, which apparently react by outer-sphere electron transfer. The simple anions, however, have lower activation energies, which do not correlate well with the exothermicities, suggesting that these anions probably react by an inner-sphere mechanism.