Affinity oxygenators

Nb, 4.80 (4.66) O, 17.0 (17.6) total, 99.4% (100.18). This compound is stored in a screw-capped polyethylene bottle in the drybox, preferably double-bottled to protect it from trace oxygen. [In addition, the product may be stored over a small layer of the compound in the outer bottle topped by a layer of tissues (i.e., using some of the complex as its own, sacrificial, ideal-affinity oxygen scavenger).]... 

Goodin MS, Thor EJ, and Haworth WS. Use of computational fluid dynamics in the design of the Avecor affinity oxygenator. Perfusion 1994 9 217-222. 

Thanks to its electron affinity, oxygen is able to accept up to four electrons (Fig. 29). 

Concentrated sulphuric acid has a strong affinity for water and great heat is evolved on mixing hence the acid must be added to water to dilute it. Because of this affinity, the acid can be used to dry gases with which it does not react, for example oxygen, chlorine, sulphur dioxide, and is used in desiccators. It will remove water of crystallisation from some compounds, for example... 

Because of it has great affinity for oxygen, the metal is used as a "getter" in electron tubes. It is also used in photoelectric cells, as well as a catalyst in the hydrogenation of certain organic compounds. 

It is easy to reduce anhydrous rare-earth hatides to the metal by reaction of mote electropositive metals such as calcium, lithium, sodium, potassium, and aluminum. Electrolytic reduction is an alternative in the production of the light lanthanide metals, including didymium, a Nd—Pt mixture. The rare-earth metals have a great affinity for oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, carbon, silicon, boron, phosphoms, and hydrogen at elevated temperature and remove these elements from most other metals. 

Metallurgy. The strong affinity for oxygen and sulfur makes the rare-earth metals useflil in metallurgy (qv). Mischmetal acts as a trap for these Group 16 (VIA) elements, which are usually detrimental to the properties of steel (qv) or cast iron (qv). Resistance to high temperature oxidation and thermomechanical properties of several metals and alloys are thus significantly improved by the addition of small amounts of mischmetal or its siUcide (16,17). 

Association Complexes. The unshared electron pairs of the ether oxygens, which give the polymer strong hydrogen bonding affinity, can also take part in association reactions with a variety of monomeric and polymeric electron acceptors (40,41). These include poly(acryhc acid), poly(methacryhc acid), copolymers of maleic and acryflc acids, tannic acid, naphthoHc and phenoHc compounds, as well as urea and thiourea (42—47). 

A rarely used preparation involves the reaction of tetraamido titanates, such as tetradimethylarnino titanate [3275-24-9], with an alcohol. This reaction goes to completion because of the greater affinity of titanium for oxygen over nitrogen. 

Reactivity. Hemoglobin can exist ia either of two stmctural coaformatioas, corresponding to the oxy (R, relaxed) or deoxy (T, tense) states. The key differences between these two stmctures are that the constrained T state has a much lower oxygen affinity than the R state and the T state has a lower tendency to dissociate into subunits that can be filtered in the kidneys. Therefore, stabilization of the T conformation would be expected to solve both the oxygen affinity and renal excretion problems. 

The oxygen affinity of the derivative was shown to be about half that of unmodified hemoglobin under similar conditions, but a degree of cooperativity was preserved. Kquilihrium and kinetic ligand-binding studies on this derivative have been interpreted (62) to show a perturbed R state. It is beheved that although the reaction is between the two P-chains, aP-dimers function independentiy, probably through a flexible connection. 

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