Alcohols, basic behavior

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Catalytic test reactions represent an important tool for acid-basic characterization. Conversion of secondary alcohols such as isopropanol, 2-butanol, and cyclohexanol either to olefins or to ketones, is considered to be evidence of acidic and basic behavior, respectively [104],... 

Catalytic test reactions [6,33,114] represent a very important tool for acid-base characterization. Conversion of secondary alcohols such as isopropanol [115,116], 2-butanol [59,86], and cyclohexanol [117], either to olefins or to ketones, is considered to be evidence of acidic and basic behavior, respectively. Skeletal and double bond isomerization of -butene [44,118], and of branched olefins [119] such as 3,3-dimethylbut-l-ene and methylenecyclohexane [117] are applied to evaluate... 

The term alcoholism as a disease entity was coined by the Swedish physician, Magnus Huss, in the mid-19th century to describe the harmful physical and mental effects of chronic excessive alcohol consumption. This strictly medical model held sway for almost a century before it became apparent that a variety of psychosocial factors also influence the onset and course of the disorder. Indeed, drinking behavior and the problems attributable to excessive drinking, including alcoholism, vary widely within and across different cultures and population groups, and even within the same person across the fife span. In the last 30 years, basic and... 

Organic solvents can also be classified according to their ability to accept or transfer protons (i.e., their acid-base behavior) [20,21]. Amphiprotic solvents possess donor as well as acceptor capabilities and can undergo autoprotolysis. They can be subdivided into neutral solvents that possess approximately equal donor and acceptor capabilities (water and alcohols), acidic solvents with predominantly proton donor properties (acetic acid, formic acid), and basic solvents with primarily proton acceptor characteristics (formamide, N-methylformamide, and N,N-dimethylformamide). Aprotic solvents are not capable of autoprotolysis but may be able to accept protons (ACN, DMSO, propylene carbonate). Inert solvents (hexane) neither accept nor donate protons nor are they capable of autoprotolysis. 

Although a small amount of strong acid catalyst is essential in the preparation of esters from acids and alcohols, the amount of acid catalyst added must not be too large. The reason for the too much of a good thing behavior of the catalyst can be understood from the basic properties of alcohols (Section 15-4B). If too much acid is present, then too much of the alcohol is converted to the oxonium salt ... 

These results confirm that under acidic or neutral conditions, the hydrolysis of imidate salts yield only the ester and amine products via the T+ and T4 ionic form. They also show that under basic conditions some imidate salts (56 and 57) yield only the ester and amine product whereas others (54 and 55) give a mixture of ester and amine plus amide and alcohol products. This difference in behavior of imidate salts can be readily explained by taking into account the principle of stereoelectronic control and by assuming that imidate salts 56 and 57 exist in the anti conformation whereas imidate salts 54 and 55 exist either in the syn conformation or as a mixture of the syn and anti conformations. 

The behavior of the 1 -methiodide (179) is more difficult to explain as its spectrum in alcohol is nearly identical to that in alkaline solution, and these both show the same pattern as the 2-methylene indoline, i.e., with an intensified band II and a band III shifted to the red as compared to its methiodide. It seems possible that these compounds exist as the carbinolamine, or pseudobase, in hydroxylic solvents and are in tautomeric equilibrium (179 181). The direction of this equilibrium has been attributed by Beke to the basicity of the nitrogen, as well as other factors. B14ha and Cervinka discuss the importance of steric and polar structural factors, citing examples of stable pyrrolidine pseudobases. Indeed, Ficken and Kendall isolated the 4-azaindoline pseudobase (123), characterizing it by analysis and infrared spectral evidence. They similarly characterized the 2-methylene base (121), and it is unfortunate that their ultraviolet spectra were not determined. The 2-methylene-7-azaindoline... 

A second type of study that corroborates the basic assumption is any measurement which specifically shows that the H bonded species are cyclic. Infrared data can offer such evidence, provided the only important species over a wide concentration range are monomers and dimers. For such a system the peak intensities of absorption by the monomer (Im) and dimer (Id) are simply related the ratio IdIIm is a constant. Such behavior has been observed and cited in favor of cyclic dimers of S-valerolactam and of -caprolactam by Tsuboi (2050), and of y-bu-tyrolactam by Klemperer et al. (1117). However, no such deduction can be made for other amides (e.g., see 1117), phenols (e.g., see 411), or alcohols (e.g., see 1375 and 1150). There is much evidence in favor of cyclic dimers of carboxylic acids in the gas phase (1081), and some referring to solutions (1652 and 445). On the other hand, the IR data for liquid formic acid are more complicated. Ghapman (373) concludes that the liquid contains a mixture of cyclic dimers and chain polymers. Dielectric data have been interpreted to show that formic acid is not entirely dimeric (1046). By use of thermo-electric osmometry Davies and Thomas have measured AH of dimerization of several amides and have concluded that trichloroacetamide and A -methyltrichloroacet-amide form cyclic dimers, whereeis iV-methylaceteunide, iV-methylform-... 

Ring openings of epoxides with various nucleophiles are catalyzed by acid or base and are accompanied by configurational inversion on the substituted carbon (23). Posner found that y-alumina facilitated nucleophilic ring openings of epoxides with amines, alcohols, and carboxylates to give P-functionalized alcohols stereospecihcally (trans) in good yields under mild reaction conditions (24). This catalytic behavior of alumina was assumed to be due to the cooperative function of acidic and basic sites on alumina. 

Enals have the highest propensity to react (Scheme 142, a Scheme 143, a compare to Scheme 144, b) at C-1 than straight chain ketones, and this is also the case for cyclohexenones (Scheme 146) as compared to cyclopentenones and cycloheptenones. Chalcone, however, is a very special compound. It apparently shows a different behavior since the C-1 adduct is undoubtedly favored in the more basic solvents (Scheme 148). In all the cases cited above it has been proven at the reactions proceed under kinetic control, so that once the C-1 adduct is formed it is stable and does not produce the C-3 adduct if the temperature of the medium is raised or if a more basic solvent is added before hydrolysis of the alcoholate. 

We realize from the above discussion that care must be exercised in deciding whether a substance has acidic or basic properties. Usually we are limited to the behavior of the substance in water. The fact that, in water, a compound develops neither acidic nor basic properties signifies merely that its acidic and basic properties are weaker than those of water, and does not prove that the substance is unable to supply or accept protons. Monovalent alcohols for example are weaker bases and (except for methyl alcohol) weaker acids than water. Addition of a small quantity (about 1%) of alcohol to an aqueous solution of an acid or base accordingly will effect scarcely any change. 

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