Kinetics and mechanism of the oxidation of L-ascorbic acid by cis-diaqua cobalt(III) ammine complexes

The kinetics of oxidation of L-ascorbic acid by cis-diaquacobalt(III) complexes, [CoL4(H2O)2]3+(L4=(NH3)4, (en)2 or tren; en = ethane-1,2-diamine, tren = tris(2-aminoethyl)amine] was studied as a fuction of pH, L-ascorbic acid concentration, temperature, ionic strength and methanol content of the solvent using stopped-flow and conventional spectrophotometry. The results indicated that only the ascorbate monoanion, HA–, is involved in the redox process with the cobalt(III) species. The rate constants for the [Co(tren)(H2O)2]3+ and [Co(tren)(H2O)(OH)]2+ species (k2 and k5) are 0.26 ± 0.09 and 1.25 ± 0.03 dm3 mol–1 s–1 respectively at 30 °C, and the corresponding activation parameters are ΔH2‡= 124 ± 9 kJ mol–1, ΔS2‡= 137 ± 30 J K–1 mol–1 and ΔH5‡= 82 ± 2 kJ mol–1, ΔS5‡= 26 ± 6 J K–1 mol–1. The variations in the rate constants and thermodynamic parameters for the series of complexes is discussed. The Marcus cross-relationship for electron transfer has been applied to the redox process to confirm the outer-sphere mechanism and to estimate the self-exchange rate constant for the [CoL4(H2O)(OH)]2+/+ couple.

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