Anionic kinetic studies

Triphenylmethyl, tropylium, xanthylium, acylium and diazonium salts have also been used successfully in the study of the polymerization of THF [50]. In fact the true equilibrium conversions were first demonstrated using p-chlorophenyl diazonium hexafluorophosphate [41, 115], and at the same time the polymerizations were shown to be living . The lower equilibrium yields [50] observed when other counter-ions are employed, e.g. SbClg, appear to arise because of a termination mechanism associated with the anions. Kinetic studies [50] of the polymerization of bulk THF with Phg C SbCl have established the apparent rate law... 

Each act of proton abstraction from the a carbon converts a chiral molecule to an achi ral enol or enolate ion The sp hybridized carbon that is the chirality center m the start mg ketone becomes sp hybridized m the enol or enolate Careful kinetic studies have established that the rate of loss of optical activity of sec butyl phenyl ketone is equal to Its rate of hydrogen-deuterium exchange its rate of brommation and its rate of lodma tion In each case the rate determining step is conversion of the starting ketone to the enol or enolate anion... 

The azo coupling reaction proceeds by the electrophilic aromatic substitution mechanism. In the case of 4-chlorobenzenediazonium compound with l-naphthol-4-sulfonic acid [84-87-7] the reaction is not base-catalyzed, but that with l-naphthol-3-sulfonic acid and 2-naphthol-8-sulfonic acid [92-40-0] is moderately and strongly base-catalyzed, respectively. The different rates of reaction agree with kinetic studies of hydrogen isotope effects in coupling components. The magnitude of the isotope effect increases with increased steric hindrance at the coupler reaction site. The addition of bases, even if pH is not changed, can affect the reaction rate. In polar aprotic media, reaction rate is different with alkyl-ammonium ions. Cationic, anionic, and nonionic surfactants can also influence the reaction rate (27). 

IS further extended by the replacement of X by other anionic or neutral ligands. The inertness of the compounds makes such substitution reactions slow (taking hours or days to attain equilibrium) and, being therefore amenable to examination by conventional analytical techniques, they have provided a continuing focus for kinetic studies. The forward (aquation) and backward (anation) reactions of the pentaammines ... 

During the next fifty years the interest in derivatives of divalent carbon was mainly confined to methylene (CHg) and substituted methylenes obtained by decomposition of the corresponding diazo compounds this phase has been fully reviewed by Huisgen. The first convincing evidence for the formation of dichlorocarbene from chloroform was presented by Hine in 1950. Kinetic studies of the basic hydrolysis of chloroform in aqueous dioxane led to the suggestion that the rate-determining step was loss of chloride ion from the tri-chloromethyl anion which is formed in a rapid pre-equilibrium with hydroxide ions ... 

Detailed kinetic studies of the substitution reactions of anions with heterocyclic compounds to include, for example, the effects of solvent, added salts, and ion pair formation have not been made as yet. 

Carboxyl-related and acyl substituents. Included here are cyano, protonated amidinium ion, thionoacyl, acyl (Ar—CO, H—CO, Alkyl—CO), carboxamido, carboaryloxy, carboalkoxy, carboxy (unionized), amidino (unionized), and carboxylate anion, listed approximately in order of decreasing electron attraction or activation. The relative activation by some of these groups (e.g., ketone, aldehyde, nitrile) will change upon reversible interaction with the nucleophile, which will vary with the group and with the nucleophile (e.g., MeO , N3, NCS ). Irreversible interaction will be obvious when the reaction products in kinetic studies are characterized. 

Kinetic studies have been carried out on the displacement reactions of various chloroazanaphthalenes with ethoxide ions and piperi-dine. - 2-Chloroquinoxaline is even more reactive than 2-chloro-quinazoline, thus demonstrating the powerfully electrophilic nature of the -carbon atoms in the quinoxaline nucleus. The ease of displacement of a-chlorine in the quinoxaline series is of preparative value thus, 2-alkoxy-, 2-amino-, - 2-raethylamino-, 2-dimethyl-amino-,2-benzylamino-, 2-mercapto-quinoxalines are all readily prepared from 2-chloroquinoxaline. The anions derived from substituted acetonitriles have also been used to displace chloride ion from 2-chloroquinoxaline, ... 

A kinetic study of the nucleophilic substitution of Cl in [FeCp(PhCl)]+ BF by these different N-, O-, and S-anionic nucleophiles was performed using the titration of displaced Cl- by AgN03. The reactivity order increases according to the sequence ... 

The same conclusion was reached in a kinetic study of solvent effects in reactions of benzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate with substituted phenols. As expected due to the difference in solvation, the effects of para substituents are smaller in protic than in dipolar aprotic solvents. Alkyl substitution of phenol in the 2-position was found to increase the coupling rate, again as would be expected for electron-releasing substituents. However, this rate increase was larger in protic than in dipolar aprotic solvents, since in the former case the anion solvation is much stronger to begin with, and therefore steric hindrance to solvation will have a larger effect (Hashida et al., 1975 c). 

The water elimination reactions of Co3(P04)2 8 H20 [838], zirconium phosphate [839] and both acid and basic gallium phosphates [840] are too complicated to make kinetic studies of more than empirical value. The decomposition of the double salt, Na3NiP3O10 12 H20 has been shown [593] to obey a composite rate equation comprised of two processes, one purely chemical and the other involving diffusion control, for which E = 38 and 49 kJ mole-1, respectively. There has been a thermodynamic study of CeP04 vaporization [841]. Decomposition of metal phosphites [842] involves oxidation and anion reorganization. 

Kinetic studies of the polymerization of mono-functional polymethyl methacrylate led to the determination of the propagation constants, k , of the sodium, potassium, and cesium salts 29- 35 36) of polymethyl methacrylates anions. Surprisingly, they... 

A kinetic study for the polymerization of styrene, initiated with n BuLi, was designed to explore the Trommsdorff effect on rate constants of initiation and propagation and polystyryl anion association. Initiator association, initiation rate and propagation rates are essentially independent of solution viscosity, Polystyryl anion association is dependent on media viscosity. Temperature dependency correlates as an Arrhenius relationship. Observations were restricted to viscosities less than 200 centipoise. Population density distribution analysis indicates that rate constants are also independent of degree of polymerization, which is consistent with Flory s principle of equal reactivity. 

Kinetic studies of the hydride cluster [W3S4H3(dmpe)3] with acids in a non-coordinating solvent, i.e., dichloromethane, under the pseudo-first-order condition of acid excess, show a completely different mechanism with three kineti-cally distinguishable steps associated to the successive formal substitution of the coordinated hydrides by the anion of the acid, i.e., Ch in HCl [37]. The first two kinetic steps show a second-order dependence with the acid concentration. 

It is known that chlorine acts as severe poison for NH3 synthesis [20,21]. Hence recent kinetic studies used chlorine-free Ru precursors like Ru3(CO)i2 [8,22] or Ru(N0)(N03)3 [7]. In addition to chlorine, the presence of sulphur was found to poison Ru catalysts. Fig. 2A demonstrates that both poisons may originate from the Ru precursor. The binding energies for the Cl 2p peak and of the S 2p peak observed for Ru prepared form RUO3 are typical for chloride and sulfide anions, respectively [23]. Ru prepared from Rus(CO)i2 was found to have a significantly higher purity. As shown in fig. 2B, sulphur and chlorine impurities can also originate from the support. The XPS data of MgO with a purity of 98 % reveal the presence... 

Recent kinetic studies on thiophosphoric aryl ester dianilides suggest analogous decomposition. The rate law observed is in agreement with a hydrolysis scheme in which both the monoanion and the dianion decompose to metaphosphorothioimi-date and its anion, respectively, which then react fast with water133). 

Rhaman and coworkers [112,113] studied the adsorption of lipase on [MgAl] LDH and its biocatalytic activity for butyl oleate synthesis. They demonstrated that up to 277 and 531 mgg-1 of lipase were adsorbed on [MgAl-N03] and [MgAl-Dodecylsulfate] LDH, respectively, showing the highest adsorption capacity of the anionic clays compared to smectite or inorganic phosphate. Recently, we reported the adsorption isotherms of urease on [ZnRAl] LDH under various experimental conditions (pH, buffer) [117]. The kinetic study showed the fast adsorption process (less than 60 min) (Figure 15.3). 

In the case of the experiments performed by Hohman and co-workers [149], the fluoride anion would readily displace the silicon-leaving group. The peroxide anion could then further react via an intramolecular nucleophilic attack, resulting in cyclization to form the reactive intermediate responsible for the chemiluminescence that was observed. A recent kinetic study by Stevani and Baader [150] of the reaction of 4-chlorophenyl-O,O-hydrogen monoperoxyoxalate with various oxygen and nitrogen bases suggested that the intermediate formed must be 1,2-dioxetandione. 

The kinetic study of the reaction of ethylene with PdCl42- proved that this reaction is bimolecular and empirical rate constant kexf> depends on the concentration of acid (H30+) and the chloride anion [251],... 

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