Carboxylic acids, analysis

Crude oils contain carboxylic acids. These are analyzed by titration with potassium hydroxide and the result of the analysis is expressed in mg of KOH/g crude. 

The silver salts of most carboxylic acids are only sparingly soluble in cold water, and hence are readily prepared. Moreover they very rarely contain water of crystallisation, and therefore when dried can be analysed without further treatment. The analysis itself is simple, rapid and accurate, because gentle ignition of a weighed quantity of the silver salt in a crucible drives off the organic matter, leaving a residue of pure metallic silver. 

Polarography is used extensively for the analysis of metal ions and inorganic anions, such as lOg and NOg. Organic compounds containing easily reducible or oxidizable functional groups also can be studied polarographically. Functional groups that have been used include carbonyls, carboxylic acids, and carbon-carbon double bonds. 

THE APPLICATION OF CARBOXYLIC ACIDS PEROXIDE DERIVATIVES IN THE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND MEDICINE... 

Pentafluorobenzyl bromide has been used in the derivatization of mercaptans [55] and phenols [36], m the analysis of prostaglandins [37], and in quantitative GC-MS [5S] 1,3 Dichlorotetrafluoroacetone is used for the derivatization of amino acids to the corresponding cyclic oxazolidinones and allows the rapid analysis of all 20 protein ammo acids [d] Pentafluorophenyldialkylchlorosilane derivatives have facilitated the gas chromatographic analysis of a wide range of functionally substituted organic compounds, including steroids, alcohols, phenols, amines, carboxylic acids, and chlorohydrms [4]... 

Alkenes are cleaved to carbonyl compounds by ozonolysis. This reaction is useful both for synthesis (preparation of aldehydes, ketones, or carboxylic acids) and analysis. When applied to analysis, the carbonyl compounds are isolated and identified, allowing the substituents attached to the double bond to be deduced. 

The X-ray crystal analysis of 5-trimethylsilanyl-4-trimethylsilanylethynyl-l//-pyrazole-3-carboxylic acid ethyl ester was obtained only with / = 0.17 because the crystals of the molecule diffracted extremely weakly and only a very limited data set was available. This means that although the gross stereochemistry of the molecule has been determined, individual bond lengths are not reliable (88JOM247). 

The structures of 5-ethyl-1 ]-methyl-9-oxo-5,l l-dihydro-9/7-pyrido[2,1-6]-quinazohne-8-carboxylic acid (00K669), the chromophore 4 of isopyoverdin siderophores (01T1019), and that of 5,5n,6,7,8,9-hexahydro-l l//-pyrido [2,]-6]quinazoline (99SL1383) were justified by X-ray analysis. 

The solid state structure of (3>S,8 Sj-10-(8-amino-6-azaspiro[3,4]octan-6-yl)-9-fluoro-3-methyl-7-oxo-2,3-dihydro-7//-pyrido[l,2,3-dfe]-l,4-benzoxa-zine-6-carboxylic acid (218) was determined by X-ray diffraction study (98CPB1710). The structure of 6,10-dihydropyrido[2,l-c][l,4]benzoxazine-6,10-dione 219 was established by X-ray diffraction analysis. It contains a crystal solvate with /j-xylene (99MI40). 

Scheme 13. Retrosynthetic analysis of ketophosphonate carboxylic acid 14.

Other substituted systems, however, might be planar due to conjugation effects with acceptor substituents, as has been found in an X-ray structural analysis of 1,4-dioxocin-6-carboxylic acid chloride the eight-membered ring is practically planar with a coplanar arrangement of the substituent.9... 

Only one report is concerned with the synthesis, molecular structure, and X-ray analysis of this ring system as 2 (86KGS477). The synthesis of 2 was achieved by the cyclization of 2-aziridine carboxylic acid hydrazide with acetone as shown in Scheme 2. 

In his pioneering work, Sus (1944) assumed that the final product of photodediazoniation of 2,1-diazonaphthoquinone (10.75) is indene-l-carboxylic acid (10.79, not the 3-isomer 10.78). He came to this conclusion on the basis of some analogies (in addition to an elemental analysis). Cope et al. (1956) as well as Yates and Robb (1957) found that the infrared spectrum of the product was consistent with an a,P-unsaturated acid. Later, Melera et al. (1974) verified the structure 10.78 by H NMR spectroscopy. Friedrich and Taggart (1975) showed that the equilibrium between 10.78 and 10.79 at 233 K lies on the side of the latter, but 10.78 clearly predominates at or above 0°C. Ponomareva et al. (1980) showed that not only 2,1-, but also 1,2-diazo-naphthoquinone yields indene-3- and not -1-carboxylic acid. 

Peroxides, test for, 41, 92 Peroxy acids from carboxylic acids and 70% hydrogen peroxide, 43, 96 Peroxybenzoic acid, 43,93 iodometric analysis of, 43, 94 Peroxystearic acid, 43,96 Phenacylamine hydrochloride, 41, 82... 

In comparison with other anionics, little has been published concerning methods of analysis of ether carboxylates. Gerhardt et al. [238] investigated the analytical determination of ether carboxylic acids in reaction mixtures obtained by reaction of nonylphenol ethoxylates with sodium chloroacetate as well as by cyanoethylation by different methods. Several methods, used for other surfactants as well [239], can be used for ether carboxylates. 

Highly concentrated ether carboxylic acids with a low degree of ethoxylation even at room temperature can give an esterification reaction with the non-converted nonionic, especially with the fatty alcohol, to several percentage points. The result may be that a too low value is found for the ether carboxylate content. This mistake in analysis can be avoided by saponification of the formed ester [238]. Two hundred to 300 mg matter and ca 100 mg NaOH were weighed in a 50-ml Erlenmeyer glass, heated with 20 ml ethanol under reflux, and after cooling supplied with water to 100 ml. Afterward a two-phase titration was carried out. 

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