
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Beattie, James K. 
A1  - Fleming, Douglas S. 
T1  - Destructive Oxidation of Mirex
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1998
VL  - 51
IS  - 11
SP  - 973
EP  - 976
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/C98013 
N2  - The perchlorinated aliphatic substance Mirex (perchloropentacyclo&#91;5.3.0.0 2,6.0 3,9.0 4,8&#93;decane) once had widespread use as an insecticide and still has limited application as a termiticide. Mirex resists direct oxidation by ruthenium tetraoxide. It undergoes a six-electron reduction in acetonitrile at &#8211;1&#183;2 V from the Ag/AgCl reference potential. One or more chlorines are readily substituted by methoxide at 90&#176;C. Both the reduced and the methoxylated derivatives are oxidized at room temperature by alkaline hypochlorite or persulfate in the presence of a homogeneous ruthenium catalyst. Only a trace amount of cyclohexane-extractable residue remains, but not all of the chlorine is released as ionic chloride. This implies that the oxidation products include some unidentified water-soluble organochlorine substances. 
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