Reactivity Documentation
Peroxides, Organic |
mixed with |
Metals, Less Reactive |
Summary
- Flammable: Reaction products may be flammable
- Generates gas: Reaction liberates gaseous products and may cause pressurization
- Generates heat: Exothermic reaction at ambient temperatures (releases heat)
- Intense or explosive reaction: Reaction may be particularly intense, violent, or explosive
- Toxic: Reaction products may be toxic
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May produce the following gases:
- Alcohols
- Carbon Dioxide
- Ethers
- Hydrocarbons
- Oxygen
Details
Reactivity Predictions (for each pair of reactive groups)
Peroxides, Organic
Hazard Predictions
- Flammable: Reaction products may be flammable
- Generates gas: Reaction liberates gaseous products and may cause pressurization
- Generates heat: Exothermic reaction at ambient temperatures (releases heat)
- Intense or explosive reaction: Reaction may be particularly intense, violent, or explosive
- Toxic: Reaction products may be toxic
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
- Alcohols
- Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
- Ethers
- Hydrocarbons
- Oxygen (O2)