Ozonation of phenol and substituted phenols: Dependency of the reaction rate constant on the molecular structure
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Ozonation is a prospective method for the treatment of phenol‐contaminated wastewaters. In the present work, the reaction of ozone with 10 different substituted phenols was studied at acidic pH in two model gas–liquid contactors to investigate the dependency of the ozonation rate constant on the molecular structure of the phenolic compound. While three phenols were attached to electron‐donating functional groups, seven were characterized by the presence of electron‐accepting groups in their structure. In a stirred cell reactor (with flat‐cell interface) and mechanically agitated contactor, reaction kinetics for these two types of phenols were studied in the fast pseudo‐first order and chemical reaction controlled regime, correspondingly at T = 30°C. The effect of the electron‐donating or electron‐accepting functional group attached to the phenolic ring on the reactivity was studied and the linear dependence of the relative oxidation rate constant (with respect to phenol) on the Hammett substituent constant was proven in a Hammett plot. The values of susceptibility factor for the Hammett plots of phenols with electron‐donating and electron‐accepting substituents were −7.89 and −1.25, respectively. This work is useful to establish the ozonation pathway and predict the reaction rate constant from the molecular structure of the phenolic compound.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
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 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".