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The kinetics of the oxidation of rac-serine by permanganate in aqueous alkaline medium was studied spectrophotometrically. The reaction showed first order kinetics in permanganate ion concentration and an order less than unity in rac-serine and alkali concentration. Increasing ionic strength and decreasing dielectric constant of the medium increase the rate. The oxidation reaction proceeds via an alkali-permanganate species which forms a complex with rac-serine. The latter decomposes slowly, followed by a fast reaction between a free radical of rac-serine and another molecule of permanganate to give the products. There is a good agreement between the observed and the calculated rate constants under different experimental conditions. Investigations at different temperatures allowed the determination of the activation parameters with respect to the slow step of the proposed mechanism.
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Received October 15, 1999. Accepted (revised) December 15, 1999
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Halligudi, N., Desai, S., Mavalangi, S. et al. Kinetics of the Oxidative Degradation of rac-Serine by Aqueous Alkaline Permanganate. Monatshefte für Chemie 131, 321–332 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00022942
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00022942