Thermal decomposition of ammonia. N2H4-an intermediate reaction product

• Authors: Daniela Dirtu , Lucia Odochian , Aurel Pui , Ionel Humelnicu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper reports the thermal decomposition of ammonia under dynamic conditions at 800°C in a quartz reactor. Its purpose is to confirm the homogeneous-heterogeneous degenerated branched chain mechanism established in previous studies, which assume the formation of N2H4 as a molecular intermediate; this paper identifies hydrazine as a product of thermal decomposition using FT-IR and UV-VIS spectroscopies.

Keywords

EN

Ammonia decomposition; mechanism reduction; hydrazine; spectroscopy FT-IR; spectroscopy UV-VIS

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Chemistry
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 666-673

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2006

online

1 - 12 - 2006

Contributors

author

Daniela Dirtu

• Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, The “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iassy, 700506, Iassy, Romania

author

Lucia Odochian

• Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, The “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iassy, 700506, Iassy, Romania

author

Aurel Pui

• Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, The “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iassy, 700506, Iassy, Romania

author

Ionel Humelnicu

• Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, The “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iassy, 700506, Iassy, Romania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11532-006-0030-4