Acid-base chemistry hydrolysis

Surfactants have also been of interest for their ability to support reactions in normally inhospitable environments. Reactions such as hydrolysis, aminolysis, solvolysis, and, in inorganic chemistry, of aquation of complex ions, may be retarded, accelerated, or differently sensitive to catalysts relative to the behavior in ordinary solutions (see Refs. 205 and 206 for reviews). The acid-base chemistry in micellar solutions has been investigated by Drummond and co-workers [207]. A useful model has been the pseudophase model [206-209] in which reactants are either in solution or solubilized in micelles and partition between the two as though two distinct phases were involved. In inverse micelles in nonpolar media, water is concentrated in the micellar core and reactions in the micelle may be greatly accelerated [206, 210]. The confining environment of a solubilized reactant may lead to stereochemical consequences as in photodimerization reactions in micelles [211] or vesicles [212] or in the generation of radical pairs [213]. 

Reactions in aqueous solution sometimes involve water as a direct participant. In addition to familiar aqueous acid-base chemistry, many organic reactions fall into this class. One example is the hydrolysis of ethyl acetate to produce acetic acid and ethanol ... 

Competition from side reactions, especially the acid-base chemistry of both the metal ion and the ligand (i.e., the hydrolysis of tire metal ion to produce hydroxy complexes and the protonation of the ligand) is another factor that affects the extent of complexation of M by L and must be given due consideration. In general, protonation of ligands occurs at low pH and hydrolysis of metals occurs at high pH. Thus, the most favorable condition for the complexation of M by L is at intermediate pH values. 

This happens all the time in acid-base chemistry. Thus for the hydrolysis of the cyanide ionn CN- + H2O - HCN + OH-, we write... 

ACID-BASE PROPERTIES OF SALTS (SECTION 16.9) The acid-base properties of salts can be ascribed to the behavior of their respective cations and anions. The reaction of ions with water, with a resultant change in pH, is called hydrolysis. The cations of the alkali metals and the alkaline earth metals as well as the anions of strong acids, such as Cl , Br , F, and NO3 , do not undergo hydrolysis. They are always spectator ions in acid-base chemistry. A cation that is the conjugate acid of a weak base produces H upon hydrolysis. 

In many cases, the racemization of a substrate required for DKR is difficult As an example, the production of optically pure cc-amino acids, which are used as intermediates for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and as chiral synfhons in organic chemistry [31], may be discussed. One of the important methods of the synthesis of amino acids is the hydrolysis of the appropriate hydantoins. Racemic 5-substituted hydantoins 15 are easily available from aldehydes using a commonly known synthetic procedure (Scheme 5.10) [32]. In the next step, they are enantioselectively hydrolyzed by d- or L-specific hydantoinase and the resulting N-carbamoyl amino acids 16 are hydrolyzed to optically pure a-amino acid 17 by other enzymes, namely, L- or D-specific carbamoylase. This process was introduced in the 1970s for the production of L-amino acids 17 [33]. For many substrates, the racemization process is too slow and in order to increase its rate enzymes called racemases are used. In processes the three enzymes, racemase, hydantoinase, and carbamoylase, can be used simultaneously this enables the production of a-amino acids without isolation of intermediates and increases the yield and productivity. Unfortunately, the commercial application of this process is limited because it is based on L-selective hydantoin-hydrolyzing enzymes [34, 35]. For production of D-amino acid the enzymes of opposite stereoselectivity are required. A recent study indicates that the inversion of enantioselectivity of hydantoinase, the key enzyme in the... 

It is convenient to divide organic chemical reactions between acid-base and oxidation-reduction reactions as in inorganic chemistry. In acid-base reactions the oxidation states of carbon do not change, e.g. in hydrolysis, where reaction is, for example,... 

Brown, R.S. (2000). Studies in amide hydrolysis the acid, base and water reactions. In The Amide Linkage. Structural Significance in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Materials Science, Greenberg, A., Breneman, C.M. and Liebman, J.F. (eds), p. 85. John Wiley Sons, Inc., New York... 

This type of alkoxylation chemistry cannot be performed with conventional alkali metal hydroxide catalysts because the hydroxide will saponify the triglyceride ester groups under typical alkoxylation reaction conditions. Similar competitive hydrolysis occurs with alternative catalysts such as triflic acid or other Brpnsted acid/base catalysis. Efficient alkoxylation in the absence of significant side reactions requires a coordination catalyst such as the DMC catalyst zinc hexacyano-cobaltate. DMC catalysts have been under development for years [147-150], but have recently begun to gain more commercial implementation. The use of the DMC catalyst in combination with castor oil as an initiator has led to at least two lines of commercial products for the flexible foam market. Lupranol Balance 50 (BASF) and Multranol R-3524 and R-3525 (Bayer) are used for flexible slabstock foams and are produced by the direct alkoxylation of castor oil. 

Many metal / -diketonates are coordinatively unsaturated and reactions with Lewis bases to form complexes are a pervasive feature of their chemistry.14 In previous sections, base cleavage of M—O—M bridge bonds in oligomeric acetylacetonates and formation of hydrated lanthanide dike-tonates having high, odd coordination numbers have been noted. Mechanistically, acid-base complexes are quite likely to be involved in hydrolysis, displacement and ort/zo-metallation reactions, albeit that the interactions may be weak. 

Comprehensive discussions are to be found in (a) M. L. Bender, Mechanisms of Homogeneous Catalysis from Protons to Proteins, Wiley, New York, 1971 (b) W. P. Jencks, Catalysis in Chemistry and Enzymology, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1969 (c) M. L. Bender, Ckem. Rev., 60, 53 (1960). For more specialized treatments of particular aspects, see (d) W. P. Jencks, Chem. Rev., 72, 705 (1972), general acid-base catalysis (e) S. L. Johnson, Advan. Phys. Org. Chem., 5,237 (1967), ester hydrolysis (f) L. P. Hammett, Physical Organic Chemistry, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1970, chap. 10, acid—base catalysis. 

FIGURE 7.4 Of the 16 chemistry topics examined (1-16) on the final exam, overall the POGIL students had more correct responses to the same topics than their L-I counterparts. Some topics did not appear on all the POGIL exams. Asterisks indicate topics that were asked every semester and compared to the L-I group. The topics included a solution problem (1), Lewis structures (2), chiral center identification (3), salt dissociation (4), neutralization (5), acid-base equilibrium (6), radioactive half-life (7), isomerism (8), ionic compounds (9), biological condensation/hydrolysis (10), intermolecular forces (11), functional group identification (12), salt formation (13), biomolecule identification (14), LeChatelier s principle (15), and physical/chemical property (16). 

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