Activation mixed solvents

The activity of the hydrogen ion is affected by the properties of the solvent in which it is measured. Scales of pH only apply to the medium, ie, the solvent or mixed solvents, eg, water—alcohol, for which the scales are developed. The comparison of the pH values of a buffer in aqueous solution to one in a nonaqueous solvent has neither direct quantitative nor thermodynamic significance. Consequently, operational pH scales must be developed for the individual solvent systems. In certain cases, correlation to the aqueous pH scale can be made, but in others, pH values are used only as relative indicators of the hydrogen-ion activity. 

Purification of the activation products (PMs). The methylamine activation product dissolved in methanol is purified by chromatography, first on a column of silica gel using a mixed solvent of chloroform/ethanol, followed by reversed-phase HPLC on a column of divinylbenzene resin (such as Jordi Reversed-Phase and Hamilton PRP-1) using various solvent systems suitable for the target substance (for example, acetonitrile/water containing 0.15% acetic acid). 

When a solute is added to an acidic solvent it may become protonated by the solvent. If the solvent is water and the concentration of solute is not very great, then the pH of the solution is a good measure of the proton-donating ability of the solvent. Unfortunately, this is no longer true in concentrated solutions because activity coefficients are no longer unity. A measurement of solvent acidity is needed that works in concentrated solutions and applies to mixed solvents as well. The Hammett acidity function is a measurement that is used for acidic solvents of high dielectric constant. For any solvent, including mixtures of solvents (but the proportions of the mixture must be specified), a value Hq is defined as... 

The reaction between Tl(III) and U(IV) is one of the few redox reactions which have been studied in a mixed solvent. Solutions were kept under nitrogen. There are striking differences between the rate in aqueous perchloric acid and methanol-aqueous perchloric acid solutions. In the latter media the order with respect to Tl(III), U(IV), and H alters as the solvent composition is changed (Table 29). For 25% methanol-75 % water solvent the kinetic orders of 1.0, 1.5 and —1.33 with respect to U(IV), Tl(III), and H, respectively, are consistent with the existence of two competing pathr whose net activation processes are... 

We initially tested Candida antarctica lipase using imidazolium salt as solvent because CAL was found to be the best enzyme to resolve our model substrate 5-phenyl-l-penten-3-ol (la) the acylation rate was strongly dependent on the anionic part of the solvents. The best results were recorded when [bmim][BF4] was employed as the solvent, and the reaction rate was nearly equal to that of the reference reaction in diisopropyl ether. The second choice of solvent was [bmim][PFg]. On the contrary, a significant drop in the reaction rate was obtained when the reaction was carried out in TFA salt or OTf salt. From these results, we concluded that BF4 salt and PFg salt were suitable solvents for the present lipase-catalyzed reaction. Acylation of la was accomplished by these four enzymes Candida antarctica lipase, lipase QL from Alcaligenes, Lipase PS from Burkholderia cepacia and Candida rugosa lipase. In contrast, no reaction took place when PPL or PLE was used as catalyst in this solvent system. These results were established in March 2000 but we encountered a serious problem in that the results were significantly dependent on the lot of the ILs that we prepared ourselves. The problem was very serious because sometimes the reaction did not proceed at all. So we attempted to purify the ILs and established a very successful procedure (Fig. 3) the salt was first washed with a mixed solvent of hexane and ethyl acetate (2 1 or 4 1), treated with activated charcoal and passed into activated alumina neutral type I as an acetone solution. It was evaporated and dried under reduced... 

Chiappe and co-workers reported chloroperoxide (CPO)-catalyzed oxidation in hydrophilic ILs as co-solvents (Fig. 21). The authors investigated the hydrophilic ILs on the activity of CPO and found that CPO showed a higher tolerance toward IL than organic solvent good activity was obtained when the reaction was carried out in a mixed solvent of [mmim][Me2P04] and buffer (pH 5.0) (1 1) rather than buffer solution. 

Florisil column chromatography is effective in eliminating interfering substances in soil. The organic solvent extracts from soil samples are charged to a column plugged with Florisil which has been activated at 130 °C overnight before use. The effluents from the column with a mixed solvent such as n-hexane-acetone are concentrated to... 

Like the carbodiimide method, the mixed anhydride method results in an amide complex (Table 5, Figure 17). The acid-containing hapten is dissolved in a dry, inert, dipolar, aprotic solvent such as p-dioxane, and isobutyl chloroformate is added with an amine catalyst. The activated mixed anhydride is chemically stable and can be isolated and characterized. The aqueous protein solution is added to the activated acid and the pH is maintained at around 8.5. A low temperature (around 10 °C) is necessary during the reaction to minimize side reactions. 

The one-step reaction of H2prCl6] with MeC02Li under 02 in a mixed solvent of acetic acid and acetic anhydride yields the Ir11 binuclear complex [Ir2(/u-02CMe)2Cl2(C0)2].483 Crystal-structure determinations of [Ir2(/x-02CMe)2Cl2(C0)2L2], (295), where L = MeCN, DMSO, and py, are reported. The one-electron oxidation product for (295), L = py, is EPR active at 77 K the odd electron occupies the 6Ir Ir orbital. 

The kinetics formation of [Ni([9]aneN3)2]3+ have been studied in great detail. Inter alia, the volume of activation for peroxodisulfate oxidation of [Ni([9]aneN3)2]2+ has been determined (—25.8 2.3 cm3 mol 1),105 and the kinetics of this reaction have been determined as a function of peroxodisulfate concentration and temperature.106 The reaction is first-order in both reagents (second-order rate constant 1.13 mol dm 3 s 1 at 298 K), and the activation energy is 38 1.8 kJ mol-1. In mixed solvents, the rate is slower. 

Compounds of the porphyrin series, like other aromatic compounds, have a strong tendency to aggregate in solution. In general, aggregation is favoured by increased concentration and by an increased proportion of the poor solvent in a mixed solvent system.67-70 The aggregate shows reduced fluorescence and reduced PDT activity with respect to the monomer.71... 

The separation of a reactant system (solute) from its environment with the consequent concept of solvent or surrounding medium effect on the electronic properties of a given subsystem of interest as general as the quantum separability theorem can be. With its intrinsic limitations, the approach applies to the description of specific reacting subsystems in their particular active sites as they can be found in condensed phase and in media including the rather specific environments provided by enzymes, catalytic antibodies, zeolites, clusters or the less structured ones found in non-aqueous and mixed solvents [1,3,6,8,11,12,14-30],... 

Since use of increasing amounts of cosolvents as antifreeze could perturb the conformation and thus the activity of lysozyme, a number of experiments were carried out to try to determine conditions for investigating lysozyme reactions and lysozyme-substrate intermediates in cooled mixed solvents as a preliminary to similar investigation by X-ray diffraction on crystals. Work began with an estimate of the solubility of... 

It is possible to obtain a lysozyme-catalyzed lysis of substrates in mixed solvents. There is a partial and reversible inhibition showing that any organic solvent acts as a modifier of the enzyme specific activity. 

These results suggest that the crystallographic determination of the structure of a productive enzyme-substrate complex is feasible for lysozyme and oligosaccharide substrates. They also provide the information of pH, temperature, and solvent effects on activity which are necessary to choose the best conditions for crystal structure work. The system of choice for human lysozyme is mixed aqueous-organic solvents at -25°C, pH 4.7. Data gathered on the dielectric constant, viscosity, and pH behavior of mixed solvents (Douzou, 1974) enable these conditions to be achieved with precision. 

Finally, we note that all transfers to alcohol-water mixtures or additions of alcohol to crystal mother liquor involve changes in the proton activity of the solution. Care must be taken to ensure that the pH does not change too much, or the crystal may be disrupted. Worse still, the enzymatic activity may be abolished. Control of proton activity in mixed solvents is discussed in Section III,D. If dielectric effects are controlled and pH is properly adjusted, the microenvironment of a crystalline protein will correspond closely to that of aqueous solution at room temperature. Such correspondence is essential for temporal resolution of individual steps in a catalytic reaction. 

In recent years, it has been shown (Douzou and Maurel, 1976) that some proteins can behave as polyanions or polycations, and the stability of their solid state might be endangered at lower salt concentration due to repulsive forces between protein molecules. Much more important is the problem of enzyme activity in crystals suspended in cooled mixed solvents as a consequence of cosolvent- and temperature-induced changes in salt concentration and therefore in electrostatic potentials. 

MacDougall, F.H. and Bartsch, C.E. The solubility and activity coefficient of silver acetate in mixed solvents, J. Phys. Chem., 40(5) 649-659, 1936. 

When nonnegligible concentrations of the electrolyte are present in the organic solvent, ion-ion interactions superimpose on the ion-solvent ones, or the secondary medium ejfect. Although an equation similar to Eq. (2.43) may be used for determining the activity coefficient in the new medium, it is necessary to employ the appropriate value of A in this equation that depends on the relative permittivity of the medium A(org) = A(aq)(eaq/e ,g) Unless very water-rich mixed solvents are used, different numerical values of the parameters in the denominator and the second term on the right-hand side of Eq. (2.43) have to be employed. 

For several alkene substrates, the yield of the epoxide product was lower when the reactions were carried out in pure CH2CI2 than in a mixed solvent system consisting of [BMIM]PFg/CH2Cl2 (3 1, v/v). The catalyst was also highly active for the epoxidation of aromatic alkenes. Although PhIO is an oxidant commonly used in organic solvents, it was found that the use of PhI(OAc)2 under the same conditions in the mixed solvent led to higher yields of the epoxides. 

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