
%0 Journal Article
%A Poppleton, BJ 
%A Mulcahy, MFR 
%T Catalysis of the slow combustion of acetaldehyde by alkali halides
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1966/01/01
%V 19
%N 1
%P 65-74
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9660065
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9660065 
%X Solid alkali halides catalyse the slow combustion of acetaldehyde vapour at 100-125º. The catalysis (by chlorides) is not sensitive to the nature of the cation (Li+, K+, Cs+, Ca2+, Ba2+) but changes drastically with a change in anion, the relative catalytic effects being in the order Br-»Cl- > F-. I- probably exerts an inhibitory effect. The catalysis is attributed tentatively to the sensitizing action of free halogen produced by reaction of acetyl hydroperoxide with the halide. There is a general kinetic similarity with the much weaker catalysis by glass observed by previous workers. 
