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Chemical processes on active carbon surface: A new example of nitrogen fixation

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The behavior of activated carbon fibers (ACF) and activated carbon (AC) in water and aqueous solutions of H2O2, NaOH, NaCN and KI3 in the presence of atmospheric air is studied by physicochemical methods: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), ESR, and attenuated total reflectance IR (ATR-IR) and Fourier Transform IR (FT-IR) spectroscopy. The superoxide radical anion O −·2 is shown to exist on the ACF surface in aqueous solutions, whose formation is explained by reaction of molecular oxygen with radical active centers of surface defects. It is found that in aqueous solutions of inorganic compounds, both possessing (H2O2, KI3) and not possessing (NaOH, NaCN) pronounced oxidative properties, the ACF surface is oxidized more rapidly than on aging in air. Evidence for fixation of atmospheric nitrogen on contact of ACF and AC with H2O or aqueous solutions of NaOH, NaCN, and KI3 is obtained. Possible conjugate redox reactions resulting in fixation of N2 molecules and oxidation of the surface of carbon materials are discussed.

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Original Russian Text © N.V. Vorob’ev-Desyatovskii, R.I. Ibragimova, S.K. Gordeev, B.P. Nikolaev, 2006, published in Zhurnal Obshchei Khimii, 2006, Vol. 76, No. 6, pp. 988–998.

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Vorob’ev-Desyatovskii, N.V., Ibragimova, R.I., Gordeev, S.K. et al. Chemical processes on active carbon surface: A new example of nitrogen fixation. Russ J Gen Chem 76, 946–954 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S107036320606017X

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