Promoted oxidation of phenol in aqueous solution using molecular oxygen at mild conditions

Environmental Progress

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 7-13

  Vogel, Frédéric ^a,b   Harf, Julien ^a   Hug, Andreas ^a   Rudolf Von Rohr, Philipp ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BIODEGRADATION; DIMERS; HYDROCARBONS; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PHENOLS; SOLUTIONS;

AUTOXIDATION; BENZOQUINONE; CATECHOL; FORMIC ACID; HYDROQUINONE; MALEIC ACID; OXALIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0032687540     PISSN: 02784491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ep.670180114     Document Type: Article

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