Kinetics and mechanism of the oxidation of disaccharides by Cr<sup>VI</sup>
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Abstract
The oxidation of D-lactose, D-maltose, D-melibiose, and D-cellobiose by CrVI yields the corresponding aldobionic acid and Cr3+ as final products when an excess of reducing disaccharide over CrVI is used. The rate law for the CrVI oxidation reaction is expressed by d[CrVI]/dt = kH [disaccharide][CrVI], where the second-order kinetic constant, kH, depends on [H+]. The relative reactivity of the disaccharides with CrVI is expressed as follows: Mel > Lac > Cel > Mal, at 33°C. In acid medium, intermediate CrV forms and reacts with the substrate faster than CrVI. The EPR spectra show that five- and six-coordinate oxo-CrV intermediates are formed, with the disaccharide acting as bidentate ligand. Five-coordinate oxo-CrV species are present at any [H+], whereas six-coordinate ones are observed only at pH < 2, where they rapidly decompose to the redox products. In the pH 37 range, where hexa-coordinate oxo-CrV species are not observed, CrV complexes are stable enough to remain in solution from several days to several months.Key words: chromium, saccharides, kinetics, EPR.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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