Alkane sulfonate

Sulfonic acids may be hydrolytically cleaved, using high temperatures and pressures, to drive the reaction to completion. As would be expected, each sulfonic acid has its own unique hydrolytic desulfonation temperature. Lower alkane sulfonic acids possess excellent hydrolytic stability, as compared to aromatic sulfonic acids which ate readily hydrolyzed. Flydrolytic desulfonation finds use in the separation of isomers of xylene sulfonic acids and other substituted mono-, di-, and polysulfonic acids. 

Poly(vinyl nitrate) has been prepared and studied for use in explosives and rocket fuel (104,105). Poly(vinyl alcohol) and sulfur trioxide react to produce poly(vinyl sulfate) (106—111). Poly(vinyl alkane sulfonate)s have been prepared from poly(vinyl alcohol) and alkanesulfonyl chlorides (112—114). In the presence of urea, poly(vinyl alcohol) and phosphoms pentoxide (115) or phosphoric acid (116,117) yield poly(vinyl phosphate)s. 

Sulfonation of these compounds produces linear alkane sulfonates (LAS) which are used as biodegradable detergents. 

About 2% of benzene consumed in 1988 was used for the manufacture of straight-chain or branched-chain detergent alkylate. Linear alkane sulfonates (LAS) are widely used as household and laundry detergents. 

PhenoHc dispersions made using natural soaps are sensitive to hard water, but under proper formulation they can tolerate water of 400 ppm total hardness and maintain complete clarity and germicidal activity. The highest activity for phenols was found when using secondary alkane sulfonates as solubilising agents (75). 

Linear secondary alkane sulfonates are produced hy the reaction between sulfur dioxide and n-paraffms in the range of C15-C17. 

TABLE 6 Specifications of Sulfoxidation-Derived Alkane-sulfonates (HCils MARLON PS 65)... 

On the basis of the available toxicological data and experience, alkane-sulfonates are to be classified and labeled as irritant in accordance with EEC Regulations on Hazardous Substances. 

Leuna Alkane Sulfonate, product leaflet, Leuna-Tenside GmbH, Leuna, 1995. 

The surfactants described or characterized for waterflooding are summarized in Table 16-2. Conunercial alkene sulfonates are a mixture of alkene sulfonate, hydroxy alkane sulfonate, and olefin disulfonate [211]. 

Applications Various surfactant types (ABS, AES, secondary alkane sulfonates, and alkylphenol ethoxy-sulfates) have been analysed by means of a QQQ using a thermospray source [89]. Other applications of hyphenated thermospray ionisation mass-spectrometric techniques (LC-TSP-MS) are described elsewhere (Section 73.3.2). 

A class of enzymes capable of removing sulfur from alkane sulfonates exists, which may have relevance in microbial desulfurization of alkyl sulfides. A gene cluster ssuEADCB was identified in E. coli. The enzyme SsuD was capable of conversion of pentane sulfonic acid to pentaldehyde and sulfite. It was reported to be capable of conversion of alkyl sulfonates from C2 to CIO, as well as substituted ethanesulfonates and sulfonated buffers. The SsuE was a flavin-reducing enzyme that provided FMNH2 to the SsuD. 

Secondary alkane-sulfonates (SAS) Alkylphenol polyglycol ethers, Imidazolinium Salts ... 

Secondary alkane sulfonates (SASs), alkyl sulfates (ASs) and alkylether sulfates (AESs)... 

Zhou and Pietrzyk [41] found that increasing the mobile-phase ionic strength not only increases the retention of AS and AES on a reversed stationary phase, but also improves the resolution since the peak widths are significantly reduced. The authors achieved baseline separation of a multicomponent alkane sulfonate and alkyl sulfate mixture from C2 to Cis using a mobile-phase gradient whereby acetonitrile concentration increases and LiOH concentration decreases. 

The trend of discovering the analytical field of environmental analysis of surfactants by LC-MS is described in detail in Chapters 2.6-2.13 and also reflected by the method collection in Chapter 3.1 (Table 3.1.1), which gives an overview on analytical determinations of surfactants in aqueous matrices. Most methods have focused on high volume surfactants and their metabolites, such as the alkylphenol ethoxylates (APEO, Chapter 2.6), linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS, Chapter 2.10) and alcohol ethoxylates (AE, Chapter 2.9). Surfactants with lower consumption rates such as the cationics (Chapter 2.12) and esterquats (Chapter 2.13) or the fluorinated surfactants perfluoro alkane sulfonates (PFAS) and perfluoro alkane carboxylates (PFAC) used in fire fighting foams (Chapter 2.11) are also covered in this book, but have received less attention. 

At the end of the 1990s statistics show that the non-ionic surfactants achieved the highest growth in production rates world-wide, though anionic surfactants (anionics) maintained the dominant position in the surfactant market. Today they are produced in a larger variety by the petrochemical industry than all other types of surfactants. Their production spectrum covers alkyl sulfates (ASs), secondary alkane sulfonates (SASs) and aryl sulfonates and carboxylates via derivatives of partly fluorinated or perfluorinated alkyl surfactants to compounds with an alkylpolyglycolether substructure combined with an anionic moiety such as alkylether sulfates (AESs), phosphates, phosphonates or carboxylates. 

The RP-Cis LC separation of this mixture of aliphatic linear alkane sulfonates (CnH2n+i—SO3) and SAS from an industrial blend in combination with APCI—LC—MS(—) detection is presented as total ion mass trace (Fig. 2.11.2(f)) together with selected mass traces (m/z 277, 291, 305 and 319 for (re +x = 11-14)) in Fig. 2.11.2(b)-(e), respectively. The resolved mass traces proved the presence of large number of isomers of every SAS homologue in this blend. This complexity is generated because of the linear isomer precursor and the mixture of branched alkyl precursor compounds applied to chemical synthesis [22], In parallel to elution behaviour observed in GC the branched isomers of alkylsulfates in LC separation were expected to elute first. 

Genapol C 050 (alcohol ethoxylate, AEO) and Marlon PS 65 (secondary alkane sulfonate, SAS) at 1000 mg L-1 for each compound. These mixtures were also used for the preparation of the spiked wastewaters (effluent from WWTP Aachen-Soers, Germany, sampled on January 7, 1999). 

Numerous laboratory sorption studies have been conducted for the most common surfactants non-ionics, such as AE and alkylphenol ethox-ylates (APEOs) anionics such as LAS, secondary alkane sulfonates (SASs) and sodium dodecylsulfates (SDS) and on different natural sorbents [3,8,15-17], Until now, cationic and amphoteric surfactants have received less study than the other types, probably because they represent only 5 and 2%, respectively, of the total surfactant consumption in Western Europe (1998) [18]. 

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