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more nucleophilic, the intermediate C is more stable and the
complex decomposition rate constant is lower. This finding
confirms that if the alcohol molecule contains more than one
functional group, the intermediate complex decomposition
process becomes faster than in single linear alcohols. This effect
can be attributed to the inductive and conjugative effect of the
‘extra’ functional groups present in these molecules.
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nature of the alcohol. For the overall alcohol oxidation, the rate
constants for complex decomposition and catalyst regeneration
have been obtained. Finally, a correlation between the reaction
rate of complex decomposition and the inductive and con-
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