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Investigation Of The Effect Of Structure On Reactivity In The Titanium Dioxide Mediated Photodecomposition Of Phenols And Haloethers When Irradiated At 350 Nm In An Aqueous Medium, Claudia Cardona

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Three studies were performed to obtain fundamental mechanistic information on the TiO₂ catalyzed photooxidations of organic substrates irradiated at 350 nm in dilute aqueous solutions under oxygenated conditions: (a) The photodecomposition of three haloethers, 2-chloroethyl ether, 4-chlorophenyl phenyl ether, and 4-bromophenyl phenyl ether, was investigated in an aqueous media at pH 7.0. (b) A comparative study of structure-reactivity was conducted on para-substituted phenols whose substituents range from electron-withdrawing to electron-donating in an aqueous media at pH 3.0. (c) The initial rates of the TiO₂ catalyzed photodegratation of phenol were studied in an aqueous media at pH 1.0, …