The degradation mechanism and kinetics of fluorobenzene (FB)was investigated on a platinum electrode.A graphite electrode was used as the counter electrode

and a Ag|AgCl(sat.KCl) electrode was used as the reference electrode.Degradation of FB was affected by several factors

such as pH

current density

FB initial concentration

temperature and NaF concentration.The intermediate products of FB degradation

including phenol

biphenylene

furan-2

5-dione and organic acids

were detected with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and ion chromatography (IC).The degradation mechanism with the formation of free radicals as reactive intermediates was proposed.The degradation of FB in aqueous solutions followed pseudo-second-order kinetics.