
%0 Journal Article
%A Ingles, DL 
%T Studies of oxidations by fenton's reagent using redox titration. V. Effect of complex formation on reaction mechanism
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1973/05/01
%V 26
%N 5
%P 1021-1029
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9731021
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9731021 
%X The effect of complex formation on the oxidation of substrate in the Fe2+-H2O2 system has been studied. t-Butyl alcohol which is normally oxidized to the dimer, 2,5-dimethylhexane-2,5-diol, by Fenton's reagent has been used as a probe for the presence of free hydroxyl radical.     It is shown that when suitable complexes are formed substrates are not oxidized by free hydroxyl radical. Instead, new mechanisms involving one- and two-electron transfers within a substrate-ferrous ion-peroxide complex are proposed. 
