Abstract: | The kinetics and mechanism of ruthenium(III) catalyzed oxidation of dl-methionine by alkaline hexacyanoferrate(III) (HCF(III)) in an alkaline medium were studied spectrophotometrically at 30±0.1°C. The reaction was first-order-dependent each on HCF(III)] and ruthenium(III)] and fractional-order-dependent on alkali]. The rate of the reaction was found to be decreased with the increase in methionine]. The main product of oxidation was methionine sulfone nitrile (3-(methylsulfonyl)propanenitrile) and it was identified and confirmed by FT-IR and mass spectral studies. Further, no effect of added reaction product was observed. A plausible mechanism was proposed involving complexation between methionine and ruthenium(III) species, Ru(H2O)5OH]2+. Thermodynamic parameters for the reaction, E a and Δ S #, were computed using linear least squares method and are found to be 65.83±1.03 kJ/mol and?249.58±3.35 J/K mol, respectively. ![/></span></td>
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