✍ Scribed by J.A. Barnard; B.M. Sankey
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Experimental results concerning the slow combustion of meta-and para-xylene in the temperature range 460 o to 512°C have shown the almost identical behaviour of these two isomers. Kinetic dependences and oxidation products observed in the present work have indicated that this similarity of behaviour extends to the basic mechanism responsible for oxidation. The autocatalytic nature of the reaction is attributed to the formation of formaldehyde, which behaves as a degenerate b?anchin8 intermediate. A mechanism is presented which satisfactorily explains the observed combustion characteristics of meta-and para-xylene.
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## Abstract A detailed radical chain elementary reaction mechanism for the liquid‐phase catalytic oxidation of meta‐xylene to meta‐phthalic acid catalyzed by cobalt acetate and manganese acetate and promoted by hydrogen bromide was proposed. Using several reasonable assumptions a simple fractional‐