Alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons

Parathion is very slightly soluble in water (20 parts per million), but is completely miscible in many organic solvents including esters, alcohols, ketones, ethers, aromatic and alkylated aromatic hydrocarbons, and animal and vegetable oils. It is practically insoluble in such paraffinic hydrocarbons as petroleum ether, kerosene, and refined spray oils (about 2%) unless a mutual solvent is used (1). 

Amidon, G. L., Anik, S. T. (1981) Application of the surface area approach to the correlation and estimation of aqueous solubility and vapor pressure. Alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons. J. Chem. Eng. Data 26, 28-33. 

Catalytic Condensation Also known colloquially as CATCON. A process for oligomerizing olefins, or alkylating aromatic hydrocarbons with olefins. The catalyst is a solid containing free or combined phosphoric acid. Developed by UOP. 

Detal [Detergent alkylation] A process for making detergent alkylate, i.e., alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons such as linear alkyl benzenes, as intermediates for the manufacture of detergents, by reacting C10-C13 olefins with benzene in a fixed bed of an acid catalyst. Developed by UOP and CEPSA as a replacement for their Detergent Alkylate process, which uses liquid hydrogen fluoride as the catalyst. Demonstrated in a pilot plant in 1991 and first commercialized in Canada in 1996. Offered by UOP. 

MLDW [Mobil lube dewaxing] A catalytic process for removing waxes (long-chain linear aliphatic hydrocarbons and alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons) from lubricating oil. Developed by Mobil Research Development Corporation and operated at Mobil Oil refineries since 1981. Eight units were operating in 1991. 

Lund and coworkers [131] pioneered the use of aromatic anion radicals as mediators in a study of the catalytic reduction of bromobenzene by the electrogenerated anion radical of chrysene. Other early investigations involved the catalytic reduction of 1-bromo- and 1-chlorobutane by the anion radicals of trans-stilhene and anthracene [132], of 1-chlorohexane and 6-chloro-l-hexene by the naphthalene anion radical [133], and of 1-chlorooctane by the phenanthrene anion radical [134]. Simonet and coworkers [135] pointed out that a catalytically formed alkyl radical can react with an aromatic anion radical to form an alkylated aromatic hydrocarbon. Additional, comparatively recent work has centered on electron transfer between aromatic anion radicals and l,2-dichloro-l,2-diphenylethane [136], on reductive coupling of tert-butyl bromide with azobenzene, quinoxaline, and anthracene [137], and on the reactions of aromatic anion radicals with substituted benzyl chlorides [138], with... 

Recently, alkylation of alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons such as toluene, ethylbenzene, cumene, and xylenes with ethene, propene, and 1,2-diphenylethene was investigated by Kijenski et al. (245), who used superbasic K-MgO and K-AI2O3 catalysts at low temperature at atmospheric and elevated pressures. The reaction kinetics, EPR measurements of adsorbed intermediates, and the effects of poisoning determined by the radical trap TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-l-piperidinyloxyl, free radical) led the authors to conclude that sites are the catalytically active centers. To demonstrate the importance of strong one-electron donor sites (F ) for the alkylation and the inactivity of strong two-electron donor centers, the ethylation of cumene, ethylbenzene, and toluene was carried out with MgO-10%NaOH. On this catalyst, strong basic two-electron donor sites (27 33) were found, along... 

Upon oxidizing ethene, propene, or isobutene together with aldehydes, alkylated aromatic hydrocarbons, methyl ethyl ketone or other... 

The sulfonation of alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons as typified by dodecyl benzene is a relatively simple chemical operation which can be successfully carried out with 98% sulfuric acid, fuming sulfuric acid, or any combination of the two. 

Preparative use could be made also from the perturbed redox catalysis (Eqs. (84)—(86), (93)-(95). For example, alkylated aromatic hydrocarbons that are difficult to obtain by Friedel-Crafts alkylation could be synthesized in this way. The most suitable alkylating agent is tert-butyl chloride or bromide -ass) alkyla-... 

The lower members of the homologous series of 1. Alcohols 2. Aldehydes 3. Ketones 4. Acids 5. Esters 6. Phenols 7. Anhydrides 8. Amines 9. Nitriles 10. Polyhydroxy phenols 1. Polybasic acids and hydro-oxy acids. 2. Glycols, poly-hydric alcohols, polyhydroxy aldehydes and ketones (sugars) 3. Some amides, ammo acids, di-and polyamino compounds, amino alcohols 4. Sulphonic acids 5. Sulphinic acids 6. Salts 1. Acids 2. Phenols 3. Imides 4. Some primary and secondary nitro compounds oximes 5. Mercaptans and thiophenols 6. Sulphonic acids, sulphinic acids, sulphuric acids, and sul-phonamides 7. Some diketones and (3-keto esters 1. Primary amines 2. Secondary aliphatic and aryl-alkyl amines 3. Aliphatic and some aryl-alkyl tertiary amines 4. Hydrazines 1. Unsaturated hydrocarbons 2. Some poly-alkylated aromatic hydrocarbons 3. Alcohols 4. Aldehydes 5. Ketones 6. Esters 7. Anhydrides 8. Ethers and acetals 9. Lactones 10. Acyl halides 1. Saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons Cyclic paraffin hydrocarbons 3. Aromatic hydrocarbons 4. Halogen derivatives of 1, 2 and 3 5. Diaryl ethers 1. Nitro compounds (tertiary) 2. Amides and derivatives of aldehydes and ketones 3. Nitriles 4. Negatively substituted amines 5. Nitroso, azo, hy-drazo, and other intermediate reduction products of nitro com-pounds 6. Sulphones, sul-phonamides of secondary amines, sulphides, sulphates and other Sulphur compounds... 

Kropf and co-workers200-207b carried out detailed investigations of the autoxidation of alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons, such as cumene, catalyzed by metal phthalocyanines. They concluded that in the initial stages of reaction, in which the concentration of alkyl hydroperoxides is quite low, initiation occurred by an oxygen activation mechanism, e.g.,... 

A further interesting aspect of heterogeneous photochemistry concerns oil spilled at sea near land, which is subjected to environmental effects such as evaporation, dissolution, photo oxidation, dispersion into the water column and biodegradation. The fate of heavy fuel oil stranded on rock was studied under different environmental conditions [87]. Samples exposed to full or reflected sunlight showed depletion of the larger and more alkylated aromatic hydrocarbons and formation of resins, in agreement with reported laboratory studies on thin films of oil. 

Another feature of reactions between alkyl halides and electrogenerated aromatic radical anions is that, once a single electron has been transferred to the alkyl halide to form an alkyl radical (R ), the radical can react with another radical anion to form an alkyl carbanion (R ), which is then protonated to form RH, or the radical can bond with the radical anion to yield an alkylated aromatic hydrocarbon ... 

It has long been realized that excellent correlations exist between 1/2 or and molecular orbital parameters [172,178-181]. Correlations between voltammetric data and experimental observables such as ionization potentials (IP) [172,178,182,183], charge-transfer transition energies [172], and positions of p-bands in ultraviolet (UV) absorption spectra of the hydrocarbons [4,172] have been reported as well. The basis and limitations of such correlations have been examined critically [147,175,184]. For alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons (AAHs), the slope, a, of the correlation line [Eq. (56)], where E° is the standard potential for the reversible one-electron oxidation, is close to unity and has been used to suggest that in MeCN the solvation energies of the hydrocarbon radical cations are constant throughout the series [175]. 

The phase that is most commercially available contains a weak TT-electron acceptor mononitrophenyl bonded to the sUica and usually contains a propyl spacer arm. This packing interacts with analytes through rr-donor interactions. Other nitrophases exist and, as the number of nitro groups increases on these acceptor-type phases, an increased retention of aromatic donor compounds occurs. The phases of 3-(2,4-dinitroanilino)-propyl and (2,4,6-trinitronanilino)-propyl have shown preferential adsorption of PAHs, alkyl aromatic hydrocarbons, and polyarylalkanes, in comparison to aminopropyl silica [3]. 

When an H atom is removed from a benzene molecule, C Hg, the resulting group, is called phenyl. Sometimes we name mixed alkyl-aromatic hydrocarbons on that basis. 

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