Anion pairing

If the coordination entity is negatively charged, the cations paired with the complex anion (with -ate ending) are listed first. If the entity is positively charged, the anions paired with the complex cation are listed immediately afterward. 

Example of copredpitation (a) schematic of a chemically adsorbed inclusion or a physically adsorbed occlusion in a crystal lattice, where C and A represent the cation-anion pair comprising the analyte and the precipitant, and 0 is the impurity (b) schematic of an occlusion by entrapment of supernatant solution (c) surface adsorption of excess C. 

Dicarbocyanine and trie arbo cyanine laser dyes such as stmcture (1) (n = 2 and n = 3, X = oxygen) and stmcture (34) (n = 3) are photoexcited in ethanol solution to produce relatively long-Hved photoisomers (lO " -10 s), and the absorption spectra are shifted to longer wavelength by several tens of nanometers (41,42). In polar media like ethanol, the excited state relaxation times for trie arbo cyanine (34) (n = 3) are independent of the anion, but in less polar solvent (dichloroethane) significant dependence on the anion occurs (43). The carbocyanine from stmcture (34) (n = 1) exists as a tight ion pair with borate anions, represented RB(CgH5 )g, in benzene solution photoexcitation of this dye—anion pair yields a new, transient species, presumably due to intra-ion pair electron transfer from the borate to yield the neutral dye radical (ie, the reduced state of the dye) (44). 

The concentration of salt in physiological systems is on the order of 150 mM, which corresponds to approximately 350 water molecules for each cation-anion pair. Eor this reason, investigations of salt effects in biological systems using detailed atomic models and molecular dynamic simulations become rapidly prohibitive, and mean-field treatments based on continuum electrostatics are advantageous. Such approximations, which were pioneered by Debye and Huckel [11], are valid at moderately low ionic concentration when core-core interactions between the mobile ions can be neglected. Briefly, the spatial density throughout the solvent is assumed to depend only on the local electrostatic poten-... 

Figure 3.1-1 Examples of common cation and anion pairs used in the formation of ionic...

Irradiation of the molecular radical anion of DESO, which has a yellow color, with light of X = 350-400 nm partially restores the red color and the ESR spectrum of the radical-anion pair. Similarly to the case of DMSO-d6 a comparison of the energetics of the photodissociation of the radical anion and dissociative capture of an electron by a DESO molecule permits an estimation of the energy of the hot electrons which form the radical-anion pair of DESO. This energy is equal to 2eV, similarly to DMSO-d6. The spin density on the ethyl radical in the radical-anion pair of DESO can be estimated from the decrease in hfs in comparison with the free radical to be 0.81, smaller than DMSO-d6. 

Shislov14 16 observed radiothermoluminescence associated with the recombination of radical-anion pairs in y-irradiated DMSO-d6 (peak at 105 K) and DESO (peak at 153 K). The equation of the reaction giving the indicated luminescence can be written in general as follows ... 

FIGURE 3. Qualitative energy model of a radical-anion pair in sulfoxides where A = CH3, C2H5 B = SOCH3, "SOC2H5 u is the potential energy R(AB) is the distance between A and B. Reproduced by permission of the authors from Reference 16. 

In certain cases the radical-anion pairs are considered as an example of a covalent bond, close to zero 15 and an isolated pair outside a crystal was depicted17, however Shislov and coworkers16 proposed that more likely the entire potential well for the radical-anion pairs is completely the result of the action of the crystal lattice18. As a proof they used their observation that radical-anion pairs are not formed in irradiated frozen aqueous-sulfoxide glasses. 

Interestingly, no SO 2 was evolved in this reaction as in the photolysis of a-toluenesulphonyl azide. This could be explained on the basis of a cation-radical anion pair which collapses as in Eq, (8) to give a sulphon-amido radical, and no free nitrene is formed 21>. 

The solvated H3N. . . HBr complex was studied by Ruiz-Lopez et al.m using the ellipsoidal cavity in the DFT(B88/P86)/SCRF calculations which demonstrated that the solvent stabilizes the ionic pair structure. The authors found only one conformational minimum of the complex, which electronic structure corresponded to that of anionic pair. 

The active site is viewed as an acid-base, cation-anion pair, hence, the basicity of the catalyst depends not only on the proton affinity of the oxide ion but also on the carbanion affinity of the cation. Thus, the acidity of the cation may determine the basicity of the catalyst. Specific interactions, i.e., effects of ion structure on the strength of the interaction, are likely to be evident when the carbanions differ radically in structure when this is likely the concept of catalyst basicity should be used with caution. 

Like the N-acetoxy arylamines, a reaction mechanism for N-sulfonyloxy esters would be expected to involve formation of a nitrenium/carbenium cation-sulfate anion pair which then reacts with... 

The second series of data on protic solvent effects in bromination that are related to transition states comprises the m-values of solvent-reactivity correlations. First, it is important to underline that 7-parameters, the solvent ionizing powers, established from solvolytic displacements, work fairly well in this electrophilic addition. This is expected since bromination, like SN1 reactions, leads to a cation-anion pair by heterolytic dissociation of the bromine-olefin CTC, a process similar to the ionization of halogenated or ether derivatives (Scheme 14). 

For each cation-anion pair model parameters /i J, /i J, C x, and am. 

For each cation-cation and anion-anion pair model parameters 9-,j. 

STEP 3. For each cation-anion pair MX, evaluate functions g(x) and g (x) for x = aMxsfT,... 

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