Nobel studies on some nitrogenous organic molecules by potential applications of selenium dioxide as an oxidizing agent

Selenium dioxide is a colorless solid. It exists as one dimensional polymeric chain with alternating selenium and oxygen atoms. In this paper, we reported model studies on mechanistic oxidation of some nitrogenous compounds with selenium dioxide. The dependence of rate on temperature was studied at four different temperature for secondary benzyl alcohols with selenium dioxide while keeping the concentration of other reactants constant. The stoichiometry of the reaction of oxidation of some secondary benzyl alcohols with SeO2 in presence of sulphuric acid, in aqueous-acetic acid medium was determined. Various activation parameters namely temperature coefficient, energy of activation, frequency factor, free energy, enthalpy of activation and entropy of activation for each reaction are calculated.