Acetonitrile aprotic

Table 3.1 demonstrates how charges play a large role, mostly via interactions with the environment. Thus, complex 3 has been studied in aqueous medium without appreciable metal-metal interaction" " but was found to exhibit a much more pronounced elfect in aprotic acetonitrile. ... 

A similar reaction has been observed to proceed between 6-nitroquinoline and thienylmethyl tolyl sulfone in aprotic acetonitrile. The intermediate adduct, being treated with hw-trimethylsUyl acetamide, is converted into nitrosoarene, which undergoes intramolecular condensation to give thienophenanthroline in good yield (Scheme 86) [209]. 

These solvents may be categorized as polar protic (water, methanol, formamide), polar aprotic (acetonitrile, dimethylformamide) and nonpolar aptotic (dioxane). (See Table 7.) Artaki et al. [89] explained that under base-catalyzed condensation conditions (pH > 2.5), the aprotic solvent, dioxane, is unable to hydrogen bond to the SiO" nucleophile. In addition, because it is nonpolar, it does not tend to stabilize the reactants with respect to the activated complex. Therefore, dioxane should result in a significant enhancement of the condensation rate and cause an efficient condensation leading to the formation of large, compact spherical particles. The polar, aprotic solvents, dimethylformamide and acetonitrile, also do not hydrogen bond to the silicate nucleophile involved in the condensation reaction. However, due to their polarity the anionic reactants are stabilized with respect to the activated complex slowing down the reaction to some extent. 

Are the following solvents protic or aprotic acetonitrile, CH3CN ammonia, NH3 trimethylamine, (CH3)3N formamide, HCONH2 acetone, CH3COCH3. 

Aluminum chloride dissolves readily in chlorinated solvents such as chloroform, methylene chloride, and carbon tetrachloride. In polar aprotic solvents, such as acetonitrile, ethyl ether, anisole, nitromethane, and nitrobenzene, it dissolves forming a complex with the solvent. The catalytic activity of aluminum chloride is moderated by these complexes. Anhydrous aluminum chloride reacts vigorously with most protic solvents, such as water and alcohols. The ability to catalyze alkylation reactions is lost by complexing aluminum chloride with these protic solvents. However, small amounts of these "procatalysts" can promote the formation of catalyticaHy active aluminum chloride complexes. 

A convenient agent for the preparation of perfluoroalkene epoxides is sodium hypochlorite in a mixture with aqueous acetonitrile or another aprotic solvent cis-and tr<3 5-perfluoroalkenes are oxidized with retention of configuration [9, 10, 11, 12 13] (equation 7, Table 1)... 

Other measures of nucleophilicity have been proposed. Brauman et al. studied Sn2 reactions in the gas phase and applied Marcus theory to obtain the intrinsic barriers of identity reactions. These quantities were interpreted as intrinsic nucleo-philicities. Streitwieser has shown that the reactivity of anionic nucleophiles toward methyl iodide in dimethylformamide (DMF) is correlated with the overall heat of reaction in the gas phase he concludes that bond strength and electron affinity are the important factors controlling nucleophilicity. The dominant role of the solvent in controlling nucleophilicity was shown by Parker, who found solvent effects on nucleophilic reactivity of many orders of magnitude. For example, most anions are more nucleophilic in DMF than in methanol by factors as large as 10, because they are less effectively shielded by solvation in the aprotic solvent. Liotta et al. have measured rates of substitution by anionic nucleophiles in acetonitrile solution containing a crown ether, which forms an inclusion complex with the cation (K ) of the nucleophile. These rates correlate with gas phase rates of the same nucleophiles, which, in this crown ether-acetonitrile system, are considered to be naked anions. The solvation of anionic nucleophiles is treated in Section 8.3. 

Acetonitrile and hydrogen cyanide are hy-products that may he recovered for sale. Acetonitrile (CH3CN) is a high polarity aprotic solvent used in DNA synthesizers, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and electrochemistry. It is an important solvent for extracting butadiene from C4 streams. Table 8-1 shows the specifications of acrylonitrile, HCN, and acetonitrile. ... 

The use of tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride (54) in an aprotic solvent such as acetonitrile may be more advantageous. Foster and colleagues (19, 37) have effected an SN2 type of reaction using this reagent in the conversion of l,2 5,6-di-0-isopropylidene-3-0-p-tolylsulfonyl-D-allofura-nose into the C-3 epimeric fluorodeoxy derivative. Note that whereas potassium fluoride is ineffective in displacing secondary sulfonate esters in sugars, tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride is capable of effecting a displacement with Walden inversion even in a furanose drivative. 

In contrast with protic solvents, which decrease the rates of SN2 reactions by lowering the ground-state energy of the nucleophile, polar aprotic solvents increase the rates of Sn2 reactions by raising the ground-state energy of the nucleophile. Acetonitrile (CH3CN), dimethylformamide ((Chy NCHO,... 

The conductometric results of Meerwein et al. (1957 b) mentioned above demonstrate that, in contrast to other products of the coupling of nucleophiles to arenediazonium ions, the diazosulfones are characterized by a relatively weak and polarized covalent bond between the p-nitrogen and the nucleophilic atom of the nucleophile. This also becomes evident in the ambidentate solvent effects found in the thermal decomposition of methyl benzenediazosulfone by Kice and Gabrielson (1970). In apolar solvents such as benzene or diphenylmethane, they were able to isolate decomposition products arising via a mechanism involving homolytic dissociation of the N — S bond. In a polar, aprotic solvent (acetonitrile), however, the primary product was acetanilide. The latter is thought to arise via an initial hetero-lytic dissociation and reaction of the diazonium ion with the solvent (Scheme 6-11). 

In a more recent paper (Stovpovoi et al., 1991b) Bagal and coworkers interpret their observation that Arrhenius plots of the rates of various N- and C-couplings of aromatic amines (e. g., 1-naphthylamine, 2,6-naphthylaminesulfonic acid, and 4-me-thylaniline) are linear only in aqueous systems, but not in aprotic solvents such as nitromethane or acetonitrile. Their explanation is based on an extension of the clas-... 

Obviously, this shift implies the self-association of DMSO. Further frequency shifts to even lower wave numbers (1050-1000 cm " ) are observed in both aprotic polar and protic solvents. In aprotic solvents such as acetonitrile and nitromethane, the association probably takes place between the S—O bond of DMSO and the —C=N or the —NOz group in the molecules by dipole-dipole interaction as shown in Scheme 331,32. Moreover, the stretching frequency for the S—O bond shifts to 1051 cm 1 in CHC13 and to 1010-1000 cm -1 in the presence of phenol in benzene or in aqueous solution33. These large frequency shifts are explained by the formation of hydrogen bonds between the oxygen atom in the S—O bond and the proton in the solvents. Thus, it has been... 

Hie electrochemical characteristics of overoxidation vary widely among polymers, solvents, and nucleophiles.129 Its rate depends on the degree of oxidation of the polymer (and therefore on the potential applied), and the concentration127 and reactivity of the nucleophile. Polypyrroles usually become overoxidized at lower potentials than polythiophenes because of their lower formal potentials for p-doping. In acetonitrile, the reactivity of the halides follows their nucleophilicity in aprotic solvents,... 

The electrochemical reduction of Sg in aprotic solvents like DMSO [87, 91, 92], DMF [92, 93], dimethylacetamide [94], acetonitrile [95], or methanol [95] yields primarily Sg ions which then equilibrate with other dianions and radical anions like 83 and others see Eqs. (4)-(8). In a second reduction step tetrasulfide ions are formed ... 

The higher solubility of several quaternary ammonium salts of glyphosate in polar aprotic organic solvents such as acetonitrile was discovered (2), which permitted their reaction in solution with various alkyl halides. For example, GLY(n-Bu4N)2H reacted with either o-xylylene dichloride or 1,5-dibromopentane to produce the interesting quaternary glyphosate derivatives 81 and 82, whose structures have been confirmed by x-ray analysis (2). 

OS 38] [reactor and protocol given in [107]] By reaction of N,N-dimethylaniline with 4-nitrobenzenediazonium tetrafluoroborate, the corresponding azobenzene derivative is obtained at a conversion of 37% using methanol (protic solvent) or acetonitrile (aprotic solvent) under electroosmotic flow conditions [107] (see also [14]). 

A point meriting attention is the voltage difference above. Doped polymers are rather electropositive (up to more than 4 V vs. a lithium electrode in the same solution), so much so that charging may have to be limited in order not to exceed the stability limits of the electrolyte (typically, propylene carbonate or acetonitrile as aprotic nonaqueous solvents). 

Some advice can be formulated for the choice of organic modifier, (i) Acetonitrile as an aprotic solvent cannot interact with residual silanols, whereas the protic methanol can. Thus, when measuring retention factors, methanol is the cosolvent of choice, as it reduces the secondary interactions between the solutes and the free silanol groups, (ii) For the study of the performance of new stationary phases one should use acetonitrile, as the effects of free silanol groups are fuUy expressed [35]. (iri) Acetonitrile with its better elution capacity can be considered as the best organic modifier for Hpophilicity measurements of highly Hpophihc compounds with adequate stationary phases [36]. 

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