Formation insitu of the formic or acetic acid from there respective sodium salts was always something that interested me because I never felt that the formed sodium sulfate from neutralization would interfere in subsequent reactions to form the peroxyacid of acidic. I have come across this text fairly recently and it seems to support what I always believed anyway and thats these peracid species can be generated insitu from the desolved salt of the organic acid.
My original thought was that Acetic acid could be liberated by the addition of sulfuric acid and converted to the peracid without further purification. It appears from the the paper[1] that it may not even be needed to liberate the salt seeing as how it disassociates in an aq solution to the respective cation and anion anyway.
I see no reason that this would not work the same with formates and acetates as it does with a borax solution. What is every ones thoughts on this and if someone where to test this with sodium acetate the smell of peracetic acid should make it self known after its formation correct.
Reference:
[1] http://127.0.0.1//sedit/MISC/PerborateInSitu.pdf
My original thought was that Acetic acid could be liberated by the addition of sulfuric acid and converted to the peracid without further purification. It appears from the the paper[1] that it may not even be needed to liberate the salt seeing as how it disassociates in an aq solution to the respective cation and anion anyway.
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In aqueous solution dissociation of borax occurs in the following manner:
Na2B407 + H20 <--> 2Na + 2BO2 + 2HBO2
When hydrogen peroxide is added to borax solution, the borate species are
converted into their peroxy forms.
I see no reason that this would not work the same with formates and acetates as it does with a borax solution. What is every ones thoughts on this and if someone where to test this with sodium acetate the smell of peracetic acid should make it self known after its formation correct.
Reference:
[1] http://127.0.0.1//sedit/MISC/PerborateInSitu.pdf