Method of performing a chemical reaction
AssigneeNational Research Development Corporation
InventorsRoy E. Ballard, Alexander McKillop
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Abstract
A streamline flow of aqueous cobalt (II) sulphate solution passes through a platinum tube which, as an anode, electrolyses the solution to cobalt (III). The flow, with a high surface concentration of nascent cobalt (III), falls into a volume of 1-methylnaphthalene in an organic solvent, and is recovered from underneath for recycling to the platinum tube anode. The cobalt (III) reacts with the 1-methylnaphthalene to form 1-naphthaldehyde. Other oxidations of organic reactants using nascent high-oxidation-state aqueous metal ions are also disclosed.
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A method of performing a chemical reaction between a reactive species and a reactant, comprising flowing a liquid including the precursor of the reactive species past an electrode for forming the reactive species from its precursor, causing the liquid to flow out of the influence of the electrode and out of the influence of anything else that would react with the reactive species, and within 100 milliseconds contacting the liquid with a volume of liquid comprising the reactant, the two liquids being substantially immiscible, whereby the reactive species reacts preferentially with the reactant.
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