Hydrogen Peroxide in Ecological and Environmental Chemistry

Abstract

This review paper is focused on the detailed consideration of the structure, properties and reactions of H2O2. The paper highlights the importance of revealing these processes’ mechanisms, since they have been insufficiently studied so far, or the related data have a fragmentary and incomplete character. A special attention is given to catalytic oxidation reactions, formation and properties of intermediates, their role in the natural environment.

Keywords

• hydrogen peroxide
• redox process
• catalysis
• transition valence metal ion
• intermediate specie