Abstract
AbstractSpectrophotometric method has been used to characterize water‐soluble colloidal manganese dioxide obtained by the redox reaction between sodium thiosulphate and potassium permanganate in neutral aqueous medium which shows a single peak in the visible region with λmax = 425 nm. The kinetics of the oxidation of lactic acid by colloidal manganese dioxide (oxidant) has been investigated spectrophotometrically under pseudo‐first‐order conditions of excess lactic acid. The rate of the noncatalytic reaction pathway was slow which increased with increasing lactic acid concentration. The reaction was first‐order with respect to [oxidant] as well as [lactic acid]. In presence of manganase(II) and fluoride ions, the noncatalytic path disappeared completely while the oxidation rate of autocatalytic path increased and decreased, respectively with increasing [Mn(II)] and [F−]. A mechanistic scheme in conformity with the observed kinetics has been proposed with the rate‐law: equation image © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 36: 359–366 2004
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