Target Acid Temperatures

Water-soluble polymers and polyelectrolytes (e.g., polyethylene glycol, polyethylene imine polyacrylic acid) have been used success-hilly in protein precipitations, and there has been some success in affinity precipitations wherein appropriate ligands attached to polymers can couple with the target proteins to enhance their aggregation. Protein precipitation can also be achieved using pH adjustment, since proteins generally exhibit their lowest solubility at their isoelectric point. Temperature variations at constant salt concentration allow for frac tional precipitation of proteins. 

Schemes are available, however, that start from the free carboxylic acid, plus an activator . Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, DCC, has been extensively employed as a promoter in esterification reactions, and in protein chemistry for peptide bond formation [187]. Although the reagent is toxic, and a stoichiometric concentration or more is necessary, this procedure is very useful, especially when a new derivative is targeted. The reaction usually proceeds at room temperature, is not subject to steric hindrance, and the conditions are mild, so that several types of functional groups can be employed, including acid-sensitive unsaturated acyl groups. In combination with 4-pyrrolidinonepyridine, this reagent has been employed for the preparation of long-chain fatty esters of cellulose from carboxylic acids, as depicted in Fig. 5 [166,185,188] ...

The catalysts was added after the reactants were fed in the tank reactor and pressure and temperature were set to the target values [84]. The study was performed using an immobilized lipase, Novozym-435 , as biocatalyst. The temperature was set to 65-75 °C and the pressure was reduced (60 mmHg). A catalyst concentration of 1-5% with an acid alcohol ratio of 1 3, 1 1 or 3 1 was used. 

Hydroxamic acids are an important class of compounds targeted as potential therapeutic agents. A-Fmoc-aminooxy-2-chlorotrityl polystyrene resin 61 allowed the synthesis and subsequent cleavage under mild conditions of both peptidyl and small molecule hydroxamic acids (Fig. 14) [70]. An alternative hydroxylamine linkage 62 was prepared from trityl chloride resin and tV-hydroxyphthalimide followed by treatment with hydrazine at room temperature (Scheme 30) [71]. A series of hydroxamic acids were prepared by the addition of substituted succinic anhydrides to the resin followed by coupling with a variety of amines, and cleavage with HCOOH-THF(l 3). 

Ethylene-propylene-diene terpolymers (EPDM), with their inherent complexity in structural parameters, owe their tensile properties to specific structures dictated by polymerization conditions, among which the controlling factor is the catalyst used in preparing the polymers. However, no detailed studies on correlation between tensile properties and EPDM structures have been published (l,2). An unusual vulcanization behavior of EPDMs prepared with vanadium carboxylates (typified by Vr g, carboxylate of mixed acids of Ccj-Cq) has been recently reported Q). This EPDM attains target tensile properties in 18 and 12 minutes at vulcanization temperatures of 150 and l60°C respectively, while for EPDMs prepared with V0Cl -Et3Al2Cl or V(acac) -Et2AlCl, about 50 and 0 minutes are usually required at the respective vulcanization temperatures, all with dieyclopentadiene (DCPD) as the third monomer and with the same vulcanization recipe. This observation prompted us to inquire into the inherent structural factors... 

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