Acids systems

In addition to flame fronts, which have been extensively studied experimentally, front instabilities have been investigated for the isothennal cubic autocatalytic iodate arsenous acid system [70] as well as for polymerization... 

Porschke, D., Eigen, M. Cooperative nonenzymic base recognition. HI. Kinetics of the helix-coil transition of the oligoribouridylic oligoriboadenylic acid system and of oligoriboadenylic acid alone at acidic pH. J. Mol. Biol. 62 (1971) 361-381... 

Over a decade of research, we were able to show that practically all conceivable carbocations could be prepared under what became known as stable ion conditions using various very strong acid systems (see discussion of superacids) and low nucleophilicity solvents (SO2, SO2CIF, SO2F2, etc.). A variety of precursors could be used under appropriate conditions, as shown, for example, in the preparation of the methylcyclopentyl cation. 

Until the late 1950s chemists generally considered mineral acids, such as sulfuric, nitric, perchloric, and hydrofluoric acids, to be the strongest acid systems in existence. This has changed considerably as extremely strong acid systems—many billions or even trillions of times stronger than sulfuric acid—have been discovered. 

In a generalized sense, acids are electron pair acceptors. They include both protic (Bronsted) acids and Lewis acids such as AlCb and BF3 that have an electron-deficient central metal atom. Consequently, there is a priori no difference between Bronsted (protic) and Lewis acids. In extending the concept of superacidity to Lewis acid halides, those stronger than anhydrous aluminum chloride (the most commonly used Friedel-Crafts acid) are considered super Lewis acids. These superacidic Lewis acids include such higher-valence fluorides as antimony, arsenic, tantalum, niobium, and bismuth pentafluorides. Superacidity encompasses both very strong Bronsted and Lewis acids and their conjugate acid systems. 

Acids are not limited to liquid (or gaseous) systems. Solid acids also play a significant role. Acidic oxides such as silica, silica-alumina, etc. are used extensively as solid acid catalysts. New solid acid systems that are stronger than those used conventionally are frequently called solid superacids. 

The lower nitroalkanes (sometimes refered to as nitroparaffins) are easily reduced by a multitude of systems, but by far the easiest, and also the highest yielding, is the Iron/Hydrochloric acid system. The reaction is ... 

A mixture of methanesulfonic acid and P Oj used either neat or diluted with sulfolane or CH2CI2 is a strongly acidic system. It has been used to control the rcgiosclcctivity in cydization of unsymmetrical ketones. Use of the neal reagent favours reaction into the less substituted branch whereas diluted solutions favour the more substituted branch[3]. 

Super Lewis Acids. Acid systems stronger than anhydrous AlCl ate classified as super Lewis acids (211). By this definition, Lewis acids such as SbF, NbF, AsF, andTaF ate so categorized. 

Solid Superacids. Most large-scale petrochemical and chemical industrial processes ate preferably done, whenever possible, over soHd catalysts. SoHd acid systems have been developed with considerably higher acidity than those of acidic oxides. Graphite-intercalated AlCl is an effective sohd Friedel-Crafts catalyst but loses catalytic activity because of partial hydrolysis and leaching of the Lewis acid halide from the graphite. Aluminum chloride can also be complexed to sulfonate polystyrene resins but again the stabiUty of the catalyst is limited. 

Because soHd acid catalyst systems offer advantages with respect to their handling and noncorrosive nature, research on the development of a commercially practical soHd acid system to replace the Hquid acids will continue. A major hurdle for soHd systems is the relatively rapid catalyst deactivation caused by fouling of the acid sites by heavy reaction intermediates and by-products. 

Chemical Properties. The chemistry of sodium metabisulfite is essentially that of the sulfite—bisulfite—metabisulfite—sulfurous acid system. The relative proportions of each species depend on the pH. The pH of a sodium bisulfite solution obtained by dissolving 10 wt % sodium metabisulfite in water at 20°C is 4.9 at 30 wt %, the pH is 4.4. 

H. Lennartz and co-workers. Vaporisation Equilibrium of the Water—Sulfuric Acid System, Rep. Fur. 6783, Commission of European Communities, Hydrogen Energy Vector, Europe, 1980, pp. 60—70. 

Resin-Modified Glass—Ionomer Cements. Resin-modified glass—ionomer cements are based on poly(alkeonic acid) systems that have... 

These alloys have extensive applications in sulfuric acid systems. Because of their increased nickefand molybdenum contents they are more tolerant of chloride-ion contamination than standard stainless steels. The nickel content decreases the risk of stress-corrosion cracking molybdenum improves resistance to crevice corrosion and pitting. 

Ordinarily the zinc-acetic acid system will not react with a 21-acetoxy-20-ketone however, if a A -double bond is also present, the 21-acetoxyl group is removed in high yield at room temperature in 3 min. Increasing the time of reaction causes subsequent reduction of the 20-ketone to hydroxyl. 

Consider the pyruvic acid system in Scheme XV. Let HA and A represent pyruvic acid and pyruvate, respectively, and suppose the system is buffered. At a pH well below the pX of HA, a single polarographic wave characteristic of the reduction of HA is observed. At a pH well above the pX, a wave (at a much more reducing potential) is observed that is characteristic of the reduction of A. ... 

Now at some pH comparable to pK, two waves are observed, corresponding to the reduction of both HA and A. The currents are proportional to the concentrations of the electroreducible species. Because the pH and pK are known, the concentrations of HA and A in the bulk solution can be calculated. It is then found that the observed polarographic currents cannot be accounted for on tbe basis of the known bulk concentrations. It is concluded that the ratio of the concentrations at the electrode surface is different from the ratio of bulk concentrations, and this is a consequence of the coupling between the chemical and electrode processes. In the pyruvic acid system, HA can be converted to the hydroxy acid by the electrode... 

The addition of phenylisocyanate to aldehyde-derived enamines resulted in the formation of aminobutyrolactams (438,439). As aminal derivatives these produets can be hydrolyzed to the linear aldehyde amides and thus furnish a route to derivatives of the synthetically valuable malonaldehyde-acid system. With this class of reactions, a second acylation on nitrogen becomes possible and the six-membered cyclization products have been reported (440). Closely related to the reactions of enamines with isocyanates is the condensation of cyclohexanone with urea in base (441). 

An unusual solvent system was chosen for the intramolecular reductive alkylation of the masked amino ketone (15). The purpose of the strongly acid system was to prevent cyclization of the deblocked amino ketone to 16, further hydrogenation of which gives the unwanted isomer 17 by attack at the convex face. The desired opposite isomer can be obtained by reduction of 16 with UAIH4 (52). 

This fact can serve as a model system for the study of PS-MA-Lewis acid systems. Results obtained allow one to present the general scheme for the side chain modification of PS in the presence of Lewis acid in the following way ... 

Fatty acids, both saturated and unsaturated, have found a variety of applications. Brassilic acid (1,11-un-decanedicarboxylic acid [BA]), an important monomer used in many polymer applications, is prepared from erucic acid (Scheme 2), obtained from rapeseed and crambe abyssinica oils by ozonolysis and oxidative cleavage [127]. For example, an oligomer of BA with 1,3-butane diol-lauric acid system is an effective plasticizer for polyvinylchloride. Polyester-based polyurethane elastomers are prepared from BA by condensing with ethylene glycol-propylene glycol. Polyamides based on BA are known to impart moisture resistance. 

EPDM-ZnO-stearic acid systems could not be extruded even at 190°C. This is not unexpected since the material, in the absence of zinc stearate, shows no transition from the rubbery state to the viscous flow state (Fig. 1). In the presence of 10 phr of zinc stearate, the m-EPDM-ZnO-stearic acid system could be extruded but melt fracture occurred at a lower temperature (150°C) at all shear rates. At 160°C and 170°C, however, the extrudates showed melt fracture only at high shear conditions. At 20 phr loading of zinc stearate, melt fracture of the extrudate occurred at high shear conditions at 150°C, but at higher temperatures no melt fracture occurred and the extrusion was smooth under all shear conditions. At 30 and 40 phr loadings of zinc stearate, the extrudates were smooth under all shear conditions at all temperatures. 

Different mineral acids showed the following reactivity order toward grafting in the TBHP-mineral acid system ... 

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