Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1981, 46, 573-583
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19810573
Mechanism of the oxidation of styrene by palladium salts
Ján Vojtko, Alexander Kaszonyi, Milina Čihová and Mikuláš Hrušovský
Department of Organic Technology, Slovak Institute of Technology, 880 37 Bratislava
Abstract
The oxidation of styrene by palladium salts in excess of HCl has been investigated in homogenous phase, using methanol as solvent. The degree of styrene conversion was followed polarographically. It was found that the reaction rate can be expressed by the rate equation corresponding to the transformation of a mononuclear complex with styrene coordinated to PdCl2-4, the kinetic term of which has the following form: w =k1[styrene][PdCl2-4]/[H3O+][Cl-]2.
