Activating effect of a base

Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of organoboranes with organic halides, triflates, etc. in the presence of a base (transmetalation is reluctant to occur without the activating effect of a base). For the catalytic cycle, see Kumada coupling on page 345. 

Knoevenagel reaction. The condensation of an aldehyde with an active methylene compound (usually malonic acid or its derivatives) in the presence of a base is generally called the Knoevenagel reaction. Knoevenagel found that condensations between aldehydes and malonic acid are effectively catalysed by ammonia and by primary and secondary amines in alcoholic solution of the organic amines piperidine was regarded as the best catalyst. 

Relative reactivity of ring-positions based on positional selectivity of polychloro-azines must be regarded with caution because of the unequal activating effects of the chlorine substituents on each other. Also, it should be emphasized that one cannot use the positional selectivity in di- and tri-substitutions to assess relative reactivity of different positions. In such substitutions, the reactivity is determined by a complex combination of activating and deactivating effects which are unequal at the ring-positions (cf. Sections II, E, 1, II, E, 2,c, and II,E,2,e). 

As can be seen in Fig. 3.67, the corrosion resistance of amorphous alloys changes with the addition of metalloids, and the beneficial effect of a metaU loid in enhancing corrosion resistance based on passivation decreases in the order phosphorus, carbon, silicon, boron (Fig. 3.72). This is attributed partly to the difference in the speed of accumulation of passivating elements due to active dissolution prior to passivation... 

For catalytic reactions and systems that are related through Sabatier-type relations based on kinetic relationships as expressed by Eqs. (1.5) and (1.6), one can also deduce that a so-called compensation effect exists. According to the compensation effect there is a linear relation between the change in the apparent activation energy of a reaction and the logarithm of its corresponding pre-exponent in the Arrhenius reaction rate expression. 

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