Things that can influence an oxidisation degradation process?

[rwooduk]

Hopefully I can get away with not describing the mechanics of the process.

In general, if there is degradation of a solution via oxidisation, the process is not always purely oxidising, there can be other factors at work i.e. degradation may cause the solution to become hydrophobic and change the dynamics of the reactions that take place.

I am trying to find a paper, link or person that can describe some other factors (aside from hydrophobicity) that may influence the oxidisation reaction. This is important as I need to try and describe how a purely oxidising process differs from a degradation process involving oxidisation.

I hope the above made some kind of sense, any help would be appreciated.

 

[rwooduk]

hmm does the question not make any sense?

 

[rwooduk]

Solved. Here is an example of how a degradatory process may also involve cleavage and not just oxidisation:

The degradation of p-NP occurs most rapidly in a solution saturated with a 80%/20% (v/v) Ar/02 mixture and least rapidlyin a solution saturated only with oxygen. This result is reasonable because the initiation of p-NP degradation occurs in two parallel reactions: pyrolytic cleavage of the C-NO2 moiety and attack by 'OH. In a solution saturated with either Ar or O2 alone, only one of the parallel pathways is accelerated

Source: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es00011a014