Acrylic acid reaction rate data

The only study of the reaction of OH with the unsaturated organic acids is a relative rate study (Teruel et al, 2007) of the OH-acrylic acid reaction data are summarized in table VI-D-1. A value of = 1.7 x 10 cm molecule" is obtained, using updated reference rate data. An uncertainty of 30% is assumed. On the basis of this study, rate coefficients of approximately 2.5 x 10 cm molecule" s for reaction of OH with methacrylic and crotonic acid are estimated, with uncertainties of about a factor of 2. 

No single examples have been reported so far for the catalyzed asymmetric diazoalkane cydoadditions. Based on the kinetic data on the relative reaction rates observed by Huisgen in the competitive diazomethane cydoadditions between 1-alkene and acrylic ester (Scheme 7.32), it is found that diazomethane is most nu-deophilic of all the 1,3-dipoles examined (kaciyiate/fci-aikene = 250000) [78]. Accordingly, the cydoadditions of diazoalkanes to electron-defident alkenes must be most efficient when catalyzed by a Lewis acid catalyst. The author s group has become aware of this possibility and started to study the catalyzed enantioselective diazoalkane cydoadditions of 3-(2-alkenoyl)-2-oxazolidinones. 

As was noted previously, Hine and Bailey (16, 17) have obtained correlation of rate data for the reaction of tra s-3-substituted acrylic acids and diphenyl-diazomethane with the Hammett equation. Bowden has reported correlation of rate data for the reaction of tra s-3-substituted acrylic acids with diphenyl-diazomethane (59) and the alkaline hydrolysis of trans-3-substituted methyl acrylates (69) with the Hammett equation. Sufficient data are available for nine sets of rate studies. The sets studied are reported in Table VIII. The results of the correlations are given in Table IX. Of the nine sets studied, seven gave... 

The reduction and oxidation of radicals are discussed in Chapter. 6.3-6.5. That in the case of radicals derived from charged polymers the special effect of repulsion can play a dramatic role was mentioned above, when the reduction of poly(U)-derived base radicals by thiols was discussed. Beyond the common oxidation and reduction of radicals by transition metal ions, an unexpected effect of very low concentrations of iron ions was observed in the case of poly(acrylic acid) (Ulanski et al. 1996c). Radical-induced chain scission yields were poorly reproducible, but when the glass ware had been washed with EDTA to eliminate traces of transition metal ions, notably iron, from its surface, results became reproducible. In fact, the addition of 1 x 10 6 mol dm3 Fe2+ reduces in a pulse radiolysis experiment the amplitude of conductivity increase (a measure of the yield of chain scission Chap. 13.3) more than tenfold and also causes a significant increase in the rate of the chain-breaking process. In further experiments, this dramatic effect of low iron concentrations was confirmed by measuring the chain scission yields by a different method. At present, the underlying reactions are not yet understood. These data are, however, of some potential relevance to DNA free-radical chemistry, since the presence of adventitious transition metal ions is difficult to avoid. 

The various data obtained for the kinetics of graft copolymerization onto PTFE films demonstrate that this reaction is complicated by the fact that the rate of diffusion of the monomer may become the controlling factor. It seems interesting at this point to compare and discuss together the results obtained with the different monomers. Table I summarizes the data obtained for autoacceleration indexes (/ ), dose-rate exponents (a), and over-all activation energies E, with styrene, acrylic acid, and vinylpyridine. Several conclusions can be derived from an examination of these data. 

Hydroxypropionic Acid (HP). Measured hydration rate for acrylic acid are presented in Table II. The hydration reaction is first-order in acrylic acid (AA) and first-order in H"1". The reaction is reversible at high conversions, but the data in Table 2 were taken at low conversions and assume the reaction is irreversible so that only the forward rate constant is given. 

Data regarding the gas-phase atmospheric chemistry of the unsaturated organic acids are rather limited the only available data concern the reactions of acrylic acid with ozone, OH and Cl, and the reaction of methacrylic acid with ozone and OH. However, given the presence of a C=C double bond in these species, they are expected to be very reactive in the gas-phase. Thus, in the discussion that follows, estimates of the rate data for potentially relevant processes will be provided, via comparison with stmcturally similar species. The discussion will be limited to the three simplest members of the... 

A more conventional mechanism appears to be operative in the photopolymerization of ethyl acrylate [178] and methyl methacrylate [179] in aqueous solution, sensitized by fluorescein and Erythrosin, respectively. Ascorbic acid is the reducing agent in both cases and it is observed that the reaction does not proceed in the absence of buffer, usually phosphate buffer pH 6. Polymer formation starts after an induction period but its dependence on light intensity and ascorbic acid concentration has not been determined. The rate of photopolymerization is proportional to the monomer concentration and to the square root of the light intensity, dye, and ascorbic acid concentration. The authors report the order with respect to the monomer as 3/2. However, from our analysis of the data for fluorescein, which are more... 

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