Table 1.

Rate constants describing the oxidation of DBT to DBTO

Rate constants	Catalyzed reactions		Uncatalyzed reactions
	+ DBT	− DBT	+ DBT	− DBT
k 1 (M–1s–1)	(1.6 ± 0.2) × 103	(1.2 ± 0.3) × 103	(1.7 ± 0.3) × 102	(1.9 ± 0.5) × 102
k -1 (s–1)	(13.5 ± 0.2) × 103	(12.2 ± 1.6) × 103	(3.5 ± 0.5) × 102	(3.6 ± 0.4) × 102
k 2 (M–1s–1)	(5.4 ± 1.0) × 102	N/A	(0.1 ± 0.05) × 102	N/A
k 3 (s–1)	(1.05 ± 0.02) × 10−2	(1.35 ± 0.02) × 10−2	(2.35 ± 0.04) × 10−2	(1.50 ± 0.03) × 10−2

Rate constants k₁, k_-1, k₂ and k₃ (see Figure 6) are each reported as the mean of three replicate experiment, with their standard deviation.