Permanganate Oxidation of Microcystin-LA: Kinetics, Quantification, and Implications for Effective Drinking Water Treatment

Table 1

Summary of second order rate constants for MCs.

MC-LA	MC-LR	MC-RR	Temp.	pH	Reference
k (M^−1 s^−1)	k (M^−1 s^−1)	k (M^−1 s^−1)	°C
118 ± 9	320 ± 20	467 (N=1)	18 ± 1	6.8 ± 0.2	This study
160 ± 1.3	386 ± 20	520 ± 9	21 ± 1	7.2	Kim et al. [21]
170	408		23 ± 1	7.6	Ding et al. [26]
	290		23 ± 1	7	Jeong et al. [20]
	357 ± 18	418	20	7.2	Rodríguez et al. [27]
		469 ± 37	25	6.7	Chen et al. [28]