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fenton´s reagent

menchaca - 4-5-2003 at 08:52

i´ve got a question to do fenton´s reagent is a good oxidicer in organic chemistry would this work too with inorganic chemistry?
thanks!!!!

DeusExMachina - 4-5-2003 at 12:19

uhhh... I don't think you have asked your question properly (at least I don't understand what you are trying to say). Can you please explain what you mean and I'll try to answer it?

madscientist - 5-5-2003 at 09:24

Of course it will act as an oxidizer in inorganic chemistry. All oxidizers technically can be used in organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry - but whether they find use in those fields depends on cost, efficiency, and (for o-chem) selectivity.

Quieraña - 24-8-2019 at 20:04

One of the things about oxidizers is that each one depending on what it is you are trying to oxidize each one oxidizes certain things in their own specific way. For example the nitrates and nitric acid make the nitrates or they tend to nitrate things. Peroxides can sometimes completely break a molecule apart While others such as pyridinium chlorochromate is a very specific and like, manganese dioxide, gentler oxidizer.