Acetonitrile solution

There are two approaches to estimation of AG fThe first is an empirical approach (36) based on dynamics of fluorescence quenching of aromatic hydrocarbons ia acetonitrile solution. Accordingly,... 

The nitrato compound is a weak electrolyte in acetonitrile solution. 

With substances that give up an electron more readily than aromatic hydrocarbons, such as potassium, nickel carbonyl, cyanide ion, or iodide ion, complete transfer of an electron occurs and the TCNE anion radical is formed (11). Potassium iodide is a particulady usefiil reagent for this purpose, and merely dissolving potassium iodide in an acetonitrile solution of TCNE causes the potassium salt of the anion radical to precipitate as bronze-colored crystals. 

Bromine electrogeneration was carried out from tetrabutylammonium bromide in 0,1 M NaClO acetonitrile solution with 100 % current yield. 

Hydrogenation reduces the nitro group to amino which is then diazotized using sodium nitrite and tetrafluoroboric acid. The diazotized crown was not isolated but the aq. solution was treated directly with sodium acetate and bis(dibenzylideneacetone)-pal-ladium(O) in acetonitrile solution. Ethylene was then introduced to the autoclave and the solution was allowed to stir for 2 days. 4 -Vinylbenzo-15-crown-5 was isolated (30% from 4 -nitrobenzo-15-crown-5) as a colorless solid (mp 43.5—44.2°) °. The synthesis is illustrated in Eq. (3.16). 

Compound 9 has been prepared by the latter authors using triethylene glycol diiodide and triethylene glycol diamine (see Eq. 4.11) and an alkali metal carbonate in acetonitrile solution. ... 

In specific applications to phase transfer catalysis, Knbchel and his coworkers compared crown ethers, aminopolyethers, cryptands, octopus molecules ( krakenmole-kiile , see below) and open-chained polyether compounds. They determined yields per unit time for reactions such as that between potassium acetate and benzyl chloride in acetonitrile solution. As expected, the open-chained polyethers were inferior to their cyclic counterparts, although a surprising finding was that certain aminopolyethers were superior to the corresponding crowns. 

The work of Hyatt on cyclotriveratrylene—derived octopus molecules contrasts with this. Of course, these species have the advantage of ligand directionality absent in the benzene-derived octopus molecules. Except for the shortest-armed of the species (i.e., n = 1), all of the complexing agents (i.e., n = 2—4) were capable of complexing alkali metal cations. Synthesis of these species was accomplished as indicated below in Eq. (7.7). These variations of the original octopus molecules were also shown to catalyze the reaction between benzyl chloride and potassium acetate in acetonitrile solution and to effect the Wittig reaction between benzaldehyde and benzyltriphenylphos-phonium chloride. 

Berg et al. defined a different ortho steric constant. The model reaction is the quatemization of substituted pyridines with methyl iodide in acetonitrile solution. 

Other measures of nucleophilicity have been proposed. Brauman et al. studied Sn2 reactions in the gas phase and applied Marcus theory to obtain the intrinsic barriers of identity reactions. These quantities were interpreted as intrinsic nucleo-philicities. Streitwieser has shown that the reactivity of anionic nucleophiles toward methyl iodide in dimethylformamide (DMF) is correlated with the overall heat of reaction in the gas phase he concludes that bond strength and electron affinity are the important factors controlling nucleophilicity. The dominant role of the solvent in controlling nucleophilicity was shown by Parker, who found solvent effects on nucleophilic reactivity of many orders of magnitude. For example, most anions are more nucleophilic in DMF than in methanol by factors as large as 10, because they are less effectively shielded by solvation in the aprotic solvent. Liotta et al. have measured rates of substitution by anionic nucleophiles in acetonitrile solution containing a crown ether, which forms an inclusion complex with the cation (K ) of the nucleophile. These rates correlate with gas phase rates of the same nucleophiles, which, in this crown ether-acetonitrile system, are considered to be naked anions. The solvation of anionic nucleophiles is treated in Section 8.3. 

These rate constants are for the cinnamoylation of hydroxy compounds by cinnamic anhydride catalyzed by A-methylimidazole. The reaction is first-order in each reactant. The kinetics were followed spectrophotometrically in acetonitrile solution. Analyze the data that is, attempt to account for the relationship between structure and reactivity. 

The volume calculation results in a cavity radius of 3.65. The acetonitrile solution produces only subtle changes in the molecule s structure. The only significant change is a decrease of 0.3-0.4° in the O-C-H bond angle. 

A useful way of analyzing this data is to compute the frequency shifts on going from the gas phase to acetonitrile solution ... 

Sulfur tetrafluoride, SF4, though extremely reactive (and valuable) as a selective fluorinating agent, is much more stable than the lower fluorides. It is formed, together with SFg, when a cooled film of sulfur is reacted with F2, but is best prepared by fluorinating SCI2 with NaF in warm acetonitrile solution ... 

A considerable extension of that method was reached by the condensation of 1,2- and 1,3-dithiolium- 1,3-thiaselenium- and 1,2,4-thiadiazolium salts with pyrroles, 2- or 4-phenyl- 2,4-diphenyl- and 4,5-diphenyl imidazoles (70TL481). At room temperature and in acetonitrile solution some of... 

This group of compounds is represented by A-methyl-2,5-diphenyl-l-aza-6-oxa-6fl-tellurapentalene 94 which was prepared in low yield (11%) by coupling an imidoyl chloride 95 with a tellurenyl chloride 96 in acetonitrile solution containing 2,6-lutidine (87MI2). 

JA742). However, the heterocyclization of 4-phenylethynylpyrazole-3- and 4-phenylethynylpyrazole-5-carboxylic acid in alcohol or acetonitrile solutions in the presence of AgNOs caused, once again, the closure of the six-membered lactones. 

This method can also be used to analyse soil samples. For instance, fenpropi-morph, which is a non-polar pesticide with good UV sensitivity but poor selectivity, has, after treatment, been determined in soil samples (31). In this example, an amount of soil was extracted overnight with acetonitrile this was then poured into a Buchner filter and rinsed with the same solvent. The acetonitrile solution was concentrated and, prior to LC analysis, the extract was diluted with water and 100 p.1 were then injected into the LC system. 

The method is very useful for the synthesis of physiologically interesting a-mcthylamino acids, e.g., methyl dopa from the 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl derivative. The excellent stereoselection achieved in the process, however, is caused by the preferential crystallization of one pure diastereomerfrom the equilibrium mixture formed in the reversible Strecker reaction. Thus, the pure diastcrcomers with benzyl substituents, dissolved in chloroform or acetonitrile, give equilibrium mixtures of both diastereomers in a ratio of about 7 347. This effect has also been found for other s-methylamino nitriles of quite different structure49. If the amino nitrile (R1 = Bn) is synthesized in acetonitrile solution, the diastereomers do not crystallize while immediate hydrolysis indicates a ratio of the diastereomeric amino nitriles (S)I(R) of 86 1447. 

In the context of their new synthetic route to arenediazo phenyl ethers (see Sec. 6.2), Tezuka et al. (1987 a, 1989) investigated the reaction products of phenyldi-azo 1-naphthyl ether (12.10) under various conditions. When an acetonitrile solution of the diazo ether 12.10 was kept standing at room temperature for one week in the dark, the 4- and 2-phenylazo-l-naphthol isomers (12.11 and 12.12) were formed in 48% (20%) and 9% (8%) yields respectively. In the presence of acid (aqueous HC1 or H2S04) or of various bases (aqueous NaOH, pyridine, aniline, or sodium acetate) the yields of the azo products are much lower, but higher proportions of biphenyl, 1-naphthol, and phenol are formed. The crosscoupling product l-phenylazo-2-naphthol was not detected when the reaction was carried out in the presence of 2-naphthol. As this mechanistic test reaction gave rather low yields of the two azo compounds 12.11 and 12.12 in the presence and absence of 2-naphthol,... 

A bicyclo[3.3.0]octane ring system 164 can be conveniently prepared by refluxing an acetonitrile solution of the azo compound 163 in the presence of excess of phenyl vinyl... 

Figure 4. Log intensity vs. potential plots (Tafel plots) obtained from the voltammograms of a platinum electrode submitted to a 2 mV s l potential sweep polarized in a 0.1 M LiC104 acetonitrile solution having different thiophene concentrations. (Reprinted from T. F. Otero and J. Rodriguez, Parallel kinetic studies of the electrogeneration of conducting polymers mixed materials, composition, and kinetic control. Electrochim, Acta 39, 245, 1994, Figs. 2, 7. Copyright 1997. Reprinted with permission from Elsevier Science.)...

Charge Storage Ability (mC mg 1) Obtained by Voltammetric Control (between -500 and 1400 mV, at 50 mV/s in 0.1 M I.1CIO4 Acetonitrile Solution), for l olythiophene Films Rlectrogenerated from 0.1 M IJCIO4 Dry Acetonitrile Solutions, with Different Monomer Concentrations, at Different Times of Polarization, at... 

Degradation processes can be caused by the discharge of residual water in acetonitrile solutions of thiophene.47-48 The presence of increasing amounts of residual water in this media promotes a faster degradation-passivation of the growing film when it is generated at constant potential. A subsequent faster drop of the flowing current is observed (Fig. 9). 

Figure 9. Chronoamperometric curves for the growth of a polythiophene film on a stationary platinum disk electrode, from 0.1 M thiophene and 0.1 M LiC104 acetonitrile solutions, at different water contents (---) 0.04%, (--------) 0.14%,...

It is expected, therefore, that the cyclic hexamer also exhibits a characteristic tendency to complex with cations. In fact, the addition of an acetonitrile solution of metal thiocyanates to a solution of the cyclic hexamer in the same solvent shifted the carbonyl absorption to a lower wave number46,52 The shift values depended upon the kind of metal ions present, and the largest shift value of 40 cm-1 was observed for barium thiocyanate (molar ratio of Ba2+/hexamer = 10). In addition to the shift of the carbonyl absorption, the intensities of the C—O-C stretching vibrations around 1200 cm-1 varied appreciably. 

ET-IR spectroscopy was employed to investigate the structures of the 1 1 complexes between Li" and the guanidine-substituted azo compounds pyiidine-2-azo-p-phenyltetramethylguanidine and 4,4 -bis(tetramethylguanidine)azoben-zene. Both Li" complexes exist as dimers in acetonitrile solution.The structural chemistry of potassium N,N -di(tolyl)formamidinate complexes has been investigated in detail. These compounds were prepared by deprotonation of the parent Af,N -di(tolyl)formamidines with potassium hydride (Scheme 13). The resulting adducts with either THE or DME display one-dimensional polymeric solid-state structures that exhibit /r-fj fj -coordinated formamidinates. 

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