Destruction of gas-phase trichloroethylene in a modified fuel cell.

A conventional fuel cell was used as a catalytic reactor to treat soil vapor extraction (SVE) gases contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE). The SVE gases are fed to the cathode side of the fuel cell, where TCE is reduced to ethane and hydrochloric acid. The results obtained suggest that TCE reduction occurs by a catalytic reaction with hydrogen that is re-formed on the cathode's surface beyond a certain applied cell potential.

Ligand Structural Effects on the Electrochemistry of Chromium(III) Amino Carboxylate Complexes.

The aqueous electrochemical behavior of 10 Cr(III) complexes with potentially tri- and hexadentate amino carboxylate ligands is reported and is shown to depend on the composition and spatial arrangement of the donor atom set. Complexes with two amine and four carboxylate donors (N(2)O(4)) and two amine, one aquo, and three carboxylate donors (N(2)O(3)O') in which the N atoms are coordinated cis to one another undergo chemically and electrochemically reversible reduction at ca. -1.