Nonlinear dynamics in chemistry derived from sulfur chemistry. Part 2. New experimental data on the chlorite-thiourea reaction
Nonlinear dynamics in chemistry derived from sulfur chemistry. Part 2. New experimental data on the chlorite-thiourea reaction
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10.1021/j100146a035
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1993-11
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C. Chinake;R. H. Simoyi
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作者:
C. Chinake;R. H. Simoyi
Figure 1. Absorption traces at 360 nm of the reaction of chlorite with (a) AIMSA,(b) AMS A, and (c) thiourea.[ClOrlo= 0.004 M, and the initial concentration of each of the reductants is 0.001 M. Reaction temperature was 25 C, and the ionic strength was 0.5 M (NaC104). the oxidation of the sulfenyl acid to sulfinic acid, is comparatively slow with a bimolecular rate constant of only 27.8 M_1 s~*. The formation of chlorine dioxide coincides with a sudden decrease in pH and a sudden formation of sulfate, all of which seemed to suggest that R10and Rll (or any oxidationof the sulfonic acid to sulfate) are fast and irreversible. Our present studies show that the mechanism we suggested in ref 2 also cannot adequately describe the traveling wave of chlorine dioxide we observe in the chlorite-thiourea reaction. 5 This could be because of a bad choice of reaction steps or poor estimation of the relevant kinetics parameters of some of the reaction steps. Of particular note is the fact that the wave front is not sharp but contains a clearly observable reaction zone which precedes the reacted zone. 5 The reaction zone can be observed by using an acid-base indicator but cannot be observed when barium chloride4 and starch are used as indicators. 5 The observation of a finite reaction zone suggests a region in the chemical wave that is dominated by chemical kinetics. This leads to the belief that the relevant rateconstants that control the formation of sulfate from sulfonic acid may not be that high. We have now accumulated more data that suggest that a revision of fcio and ku is necessary:(a) The aminoiminomethanesulfinic acid, NH2 (NH) CS02H (AIMSA), which is one of the proposed intermediates in the oxidation of thiourea to sulfate, was reacted with chlorite, and the same type of behavior was observed as with thiourea itself, clock reaction characteristics, traveling waves, as well as spa-tiotemporal behavior. 8 (b) A sulfonic acid, aminomethanesulfonic acid, NH2CH2-S03H (AMSA), was also reacted with chlorite, and the reaction was not as fast as predicted by km and kn. Figure 1 shows the absorbance traces obtained with chlorite and thiourea, AIMSA, and AMSA. The longest induction time was obtained with the sulfonic acid. 8 (c) Recent work by Rabai et al. have shown that the reaction of chlorine dioxide with thiourea yields dithiobisformamidine ion,(NH2) CSSC (NH2) 2+, or AIMSA, depending on initial ratio of chlorine dioxide to thiourea. 9 The sulfonic acid is formed only in high acid, and there is negligible reaction after that to give sulfate.(d) We have run some experiments in which we monitor the rate of consumption of the reductants. Thiourea has an absorption