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Reactivity Documentation

Peroxides, Organic

mixed with

Metals, Less Reactive

Summary

Details

Peroxides, Organic is a reactive group.
Metals, Less Reactive is a reactive group.

Reactivity Predictions (for each pair of reactive groups)

Metals, Less Reactive mixed with
Peroxides, Organic

Hazard Predictions

Mercury, colloidal silver, and thallium can explode on contact with peroxyformic acid (D'Ans, J. et al. 1915. Ber. 48:1136).

Methyl hydroperoxide can decompose explosively on contact with platinum at slightly elevated temperatures (Rieche, A. et al. 1929. Ber. 62:2458, 2460).

Peroxomonosulfuric acid decomposes explosively on contact with silver (Mellor, J.W. 1946. Mellor's Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry. Vol. 5, p. 483-484. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd.).

Transition metals may catalyze explosive decomposition of peroxides (Lewis, R.J., Sr. 1992. Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, 8th Edition. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. pp. 2708).

Silver and other more active metals cause organic peroxides to decompose to form toxic and flammable ethers and alcohols, flammable hydrocarbons and O2, and inert CO2 gases, even when present only in very small amounts as impurities (Bretherick, L. Bretherick's Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, 4th Edition. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. pp. 305, pp. 868).

Potential Gas Byproducts