Abstract
The process of the initiated oxidation of cumene (IPB) with oxygen under homophase conditions in the presence of ascorbic acid (AA) used over a wide range of concentrations is studied. It is shown that in this system, ascorbic acid is consumed in two ways: the auto-oxidation and the inhibition of the oxidation of cumene. The amount of ascorbic acid that participates in inhibiting the oxidation of cumene falls from 28.5 to 16.6% with a rise in the concentration of ascorbic acid in the range of 0.003–0.3 mol/L. The contribution from the rate of the oxidation of ascorbic acid to the total rate of the oxidation of the IPB-AA-DMSO-AIBN system grows from 67.2 to 92.5% with a rise in the concentration of ascorbic acid in the range of 0.01–0.3 mol/L. It is established that the most effective inhibition of the oxidation of cumene with ascorbic acid in aprotic media occurs at concentrations of ascorbic acid of up to 0.01 mol/L. A scheme for the initiated radical-chain oxidation of cumene with ascorbic acid in the aprotic medium that considers the inhibition of the oxidation of cumene with ascorbic acid and the auto-oxidation of ascorbic acid is proposed.
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