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The effect of conditions of electrolysis in aqueous solutions of (K2SO4 + H2SO4) electrolytes was studied in the presence of formic, acetic, and butyric acids on the formation of the corresponding peracids under oxygen electroreduction in carbon black gas-diffusion electrodes. In the presence of organic acids with the concentration of 1.5–4.7 M, as dependent in the electrolysis conditions, the current efficiency of H2O2 formation decreases from 70 to 13 % and its concentration drops from 2.3 to 0.4 M. Electrolysis under constant current (50–100 mA/cm2) results in formation of peracids with the concentration of up to 7.5 mM. No direct dependence of the concentration of peracids on the concentration of the obtained H2O2 is observed. The presence of tetrabutylammonium bromide in the solution inhibits significantly peracid formation. It is assumed that synthesis of peracids occurs partly on the surface of carbon black through activation of the adsorbed acid by a hydrogen cation and further interaction with the active form of oxygen obtained under oxygen reduction or decomposition of H2O2.
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Original Russian Text © G.A. Kolyagin, I.S. Vasil’eva, V.L. Kornienko, 2010, published in Elektrokhimiya, 2010, Vol. 46, No. 8, pp. 1018–1020.
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Kolyagin, G.A., Vasil’eva, I.S. & Kornienko, V.L. Formation of peracids from corresponding organic acids under oxygen electroreduction in gas-diffusion electrode. Russ J Electrochem 46, 957–959 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S102319351008015X
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