Anhydrides stability

Etherification of starch dialdehyde is possible. The reaction of starch dialdehyde with propylene oxide and other etherification reactions were described.530 Esterification of starch dialdehyde with carboxylic anhydrides stabilizes the viscosity and adhesiveness of starch dialdehyde.531 This adhesive is additionally blended with urea. 

Without additional reagents a-Aminocarboxylic borinic anhydrides Stabilized borazanes... 

White crystals, m.p. 114" C. Manufactured by reacting aniline with excess ethanoic acid or ethanoic anhydride. Chief use is in the manufacture of dye intermediates such as p-nitro-acetanilide, p-nitroaniline and p-phenylene-diamine, in the manufacture of rubber, and as a peroxide stabilizer. 

The general pattern of alkylation of 2-acylaininothiazoles parallels that of 2-aminothia2ole itself (see Section III.l). In neutral medium attack occurs on the ring nitrogen, and in alkaline medium a mixture of N-ring and N-amino alkylation takes place (40, 43, 161. 163). In acidic medium unusual behavior has been reported (477) 2-acetamido-4-substituted thiazoles react with acetic anhydride in the presence of sulfuric acid to yield 2-acetylimino-3-acetyl-4-phenyl-4-thiazolines (255) when R = Ph. but when R4 = Me or H no acetylation occurs (Scheme 151). The explanation rests perhaps in an acid-catalyzed heterocyclization with an acetylation on the open-chain compound (253), this compound being stabilized... 

An important difference between Fnedel-Crafts alkylations and acylations is that acyl cations do not rearrange The acyl group of the acyl chloride or acid anhydride is transferred to the benzene ring unchanged The reason for this is that an acyl cation is so strongly stabilized by resonance that it is more stable than any ion that could con ceivably arise from it by a hydride or alkyl group shift... 

Acid anhydrides The carbonyl group of an acid anhydride is better stabilized by electron donation than the carbonyl group of an acyl chloride Even though oxygen... 

Esters Like acid anhydrides the carbonyl group of an ester is stabilized by elec tron release from oxygen Because there is only one carbonyl group versus two m anhydrides esters are stabilized more and are less reactive than anhydrides... 

Conversions of acid anhydrides to other carboxylic acid derivatives are illustrated m Table 20 2 Because a more highly stabilized carbonyl group must result m order for nucleophilic acyl substitution to be effective acid anhydrides are readily converted to carboxylic acids esters and amides but not to acyl chlorides... 

The carbonyl group of an amide is stabilized to a greater extent than that of an acyl chlo ride acid anhydride or ester amides are formed rapidly and m high yield from each of these carboxylic acid derivatives... 

Nitrogen is a better electron parr donor than oxygen and amides have a more stabilized carbonyl group than esters and anhydrides Chlorine is the poorest electron pair donor and acyl chlorides have the least stabi lized carbonyl group and are the most reactive... 

TetrabromophthalicAnhydride. Tetrabromophthalic anhydride [632-79-1] (TBPA) is widely used as a reactive flame retardant in unsaturated polyesters as weU as the precursor to a number of other fine retardants. Polyesters prepared from this compound have relatively poor photochemical stabiUty and tend to discolor upon exposure to light. This tendency to discolor can be reduced, but not eliminated, by the use of uv stabilizers. 

Despite the anhydride stmcture, it is remarkably stable, surviving addition to the highly alkaline viscose, the acidic coagulating bath, and also resisting multiple laundering of the rayon fabric. The unusual stability may be attributed to the sulfur atoms, which enhance hydrophobicity, and to the stericaHy hindering neopentyl groups that retard hydrolysis. 

A.lkyl Sulfosuccinate Half Asters. These detergents are prepared by reaction of maleic anhydride and a primary fatty alcohol, followed by sulfonation with sodium bisulfite. A typical member of this group is disodium lauryl sulfosucciaate [26838-05-1]. Although not known as effective foamers, these surfactants can boost foams and act as stabilizers when used ia combination with other anionic surfactants. In combination with alkyl sulfates, they are said to reduce the irritation effects of the latter (6). 

Heat Release and Reactor Stability. Highly exothermic reactions, such as with phthaHc anhydride manufacture or Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, compounded with the low thermal conductivity of catalyst peUets, make fixed-bed reactors vulnerable to temperature excursions and mnaways. The larger fixed-bed reactors are more difficult to control and thus may limit the reactions to jacketed bundles of tubes with diameters under - 5 cm. The concerns may even be sufficiently large to favor the more complex but back-mixed slurry reactors. 

Succinic anhydride is stabilized against the deteriorative effects of heat by the addition of small amounts (0.5 wt %) of boric acid (27), the presence of which also decreases the formation of the dilactone of gamma ketopimelic acid (28). Compared with argon, CO2 has an inhibiting effect on the thermal decomposition of succinic acid, whereas air has an accelerating effect (29,30). 

Product Quality. Under ideal plant operating conditions, the quahty of products derived from continuous SO film sulfonator units is unlikely to be significantly different (1). Typical LAB sulfonic acid composition is ca 96.6% active sulfonic acid, 1.2% free oil, 1.2% H2SO4, and 1.0% water, the last added for stabilization purposes to break sulfonic acid anhydrides and pyro-acids (279). Klett color for a 5% active solution is typically 15—25. 

The initiating step in these reactions is the attachment of a group to the sulfoxide oxygen to produce an activated intermediate (5). Suitable groups are proton, acyl, alkyl, or almost any of the groups that also initiate the oxidations of alcohols with DMSO (40,48). In a reaction, eg, the one between DMSO and acetic anhydride, the second step is removal of a proton from an a-carbon to give an yUde (6). Release of an acetate ion generates the sulfur-stabilized carbonium ion (7), and the addition of acetate ion to the carbonium ion (7) results in the product (eq. 15) ... 

Neodecanoic acid is also used as the carrier for metals in poly(vinyl chloride) heat stabilizers (qv). Metals used in this appHcation include barium, cadmium, and zinc. Tin as the neodecanoate salt has also been claimed as a heat stabilizer for maleic anhydride (97). 

The performance of many metal-ion catalysts can be enhanced by doping with cesium compounds. This is a result both of the low ionization potential of cesium and its abiUty to stabilize high oxidation states of transition-metal oxo anions (50). Catalyst doping is one of the principal commercial uses of cesium. Cesium is a more powerflil oxidant than potassium, which it can replace. The amount of replacement is often a matter of economic benefit. Cesium-doped catalysts are used for the production of styrene monomer from ethyl benzene at metal oxide contacts or from toluene and methanol as Cs-exchanged zeofltes ethylene oxide ammonoxidation, acrolein (methacrolein) acryflc acid (methacrylic acid) methyl methacrylate monomer methanol phthahc anhydride anthraquinone various olefins chlorinations in low pressure ammonia synthesis and in the conversion of SO2 to SO in sulfuric acid production. 

Acetals. Acetal resins (qv) are polymers of formaldehyde and are usually called polyoxymethylene [9002-81-7]. Acetal homopolymer was developed at Du Pont (8). The commercial development of acetal resins required a pure monomer. The monomer is rigorously purified to remove water, formic acid, metals, and methanol, which act as chain-transfer or reaction-terminating agents. The purified formaldehyde is polymerized to form the acetal homopolymer the polymer end groups are stabilized by reaction with acetic anhydride to form acetate end groups (9). 

In order to become useful dmg delivery devices, biodegradable polymers must be formable into desired shapes of appropriate size, have adequate dimensional stability and appropriate strength-loss characteristics, be completely biodegradable, and be sterilizahle (70). The polymers most often studied for biodegradable dmg delivery applications are carboxylic acid derivatives such as polyamides poly(a-hydroxy acids) such as poly(lactic acid) [26100-51-6] and poly(glycolic acid) [26124-68-5], cross-linked polyesters poly(orthoesters) poly anhydrides and poly(alkyl 2-cyanoacrylates). The relative stabiUty of hydrolytically labile linkages ia these polymers (70) is as follows ... 

The methylated maleic acid adduct of phthalic anhydride, known as methyl nadic anhydride VI, is somewhat more useful. Heat distortion temperatures as high as 202°C have been quoted whilst cured systems, with bis-phenol epoxides, have very good heat stability as measured by weight loss over a period of time at elevated temperatures. The other advantage of this hardener is that it is a liquid easily incorporated into the resin. About 80 phr are used but curing cycles are rather long. A typical schedule is 16 hours at 120°C and 1 hour at 180°C. 

When cured with room temperature curing system these resins have similar thermal stability to ordinary bis-phenol A type epoxides. However, when they are cured with high-temperature hardeners such as methyl nadic anhydride both thermal degradation stability and heat deflection temperatures are considerably improved. Chemical resistance is also markedly improved. Perhaps the most serious limitation of these materials is their high viscosity. 

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