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Offline wonka_vision

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Organic reaction capable of producing molecular oxygen
« on: April 15, 2012, 09:10:55 PM »
Hello,
Would anyone happen to know of a biologically "safe" reaction that could produce molecular oxygen (O2) in an aqueous environment?
I'm trying to avoid use of peroxides.

Thanks!  :D

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Offline Arkcon

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Re: Organic reaction capable of producing molecular oxygen
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2012, 10:07:12 PM »
I have a method that's not 100 % peroxide free, but reasonably safe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis

If that's not what you have in mind, you might want to be more specific.  But if you want a lot of O2, from a fast reaction, with minimum collection of reagents, then yeah, you want peroxides or other very reactive oxides.
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Re: Organic reaction capable of producing molecular oxygen
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2012, 01:37:13 AM »
Apparently you can encapsulate peroxides in hydrogels to sequester them from the environment, yet allow enzymatically produced oxygen to diffuse out into the environment:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21356297
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