In my experiment,I am reacting water and naphthalene (which is dissolved in water) in presence of UV light.This water also contains a little sodium chloride.I am getting benzaldehyde as a product in the GC.I am trying to find how this reaction may possibly occur,but not able to find any literature on benzaldehyde production from naphthalene.Is there any reference where I can find such mechanism or something like that?
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Reaction for benzaldehyde from naphthalene
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The naphthalene is not directly dissolved in the water.Its always insoluble in water.I made a packed bed of naphthalene,and passed an air stream through that packed bed so,air took up some naphthalene from that by mass transfer.Then I let this stream to bubble thought the water which made naphthalene to dissolve/been taken up by water.This is how naphthalene is there in water.
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