Barium preparation

EPA. 1983a. Reportable quantity for barium. Prepared by the Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office, Cincinnati, OFI. Washington, DC US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. 

If there is a possibility of a Gl tract perforation, a water-.soluble agent is used in place of a barium sulfate preparaiiun. If there is leakage of contrast from the Gl traet into the peritoneum, rctnrpcritoneum. or mediastinum, water-soluble agents are generally rapidly ab.sorbed by the.se tissues u-iih no untoward patient effects. Barium preparations arc particulate and will not be easily cleared from these spaces. Barium mixed with feces may produce severe peritonitis and be life-threatening. 

Typical barium suspensions range from 31) to more than 120% weight/volume (w/v). and because they are eolloidal suspensions, they cannot be given intruvaseularly the colloidal particles would produce fatal pulmonary embolism. Tlie barium suspensions used for UGI or BE studies are too dense to be u.sed for gut opacification during CT studies of the abdomen, because they produce unacceptable radiographic artifacts. Instead, commercial barium preparations are diluted to I to 4% w/v. 

Many different preparations of colloidal barium sulfate for roentgenography are available commercially. The so-called barium meals are not limited to liquid suspensions they also appear as tablets (73). Barium sulfate suspensions containing an effervescent agent have been introduced for use in doublecontrast studies (74,75). Barium sulfate may also be coated with Fe203, MgO, and Al Oa (63,761. The coated material has good dispersibility and very low viscosity in acidic media. Other barium preparations are also useful. A barium titanate suspension was compared with barium sulfate (72). An emulsified mixture containing castor oil and barium sulfate can visualize colon fistula more economically than can iodinated contrast media (77). 

Dienes. Active barium prepared by treating Balj with couples allylic halides in... 

Dantas RO, Dodds WJ, Massey BT, Kern MK (1989) The effect of high- vs low-density barium preparations on the quantitative features of swallowing. AJR Am J Roentgenol 153 1191-1195... 

CH OfiSj, H2C(S03H)2- a colourless, crystalline solid which readily absorbs water vapour decomposes on distillation. The potassium salt is prepared by heating methylene chloride with an aqueous solution of potassium sulphite under pressure at 150-I60" C. The free acid is obtained by decomposing the sparingly soluble barium salt with sulphuric acid. The aryl esters are very stable, but the alkyl esters decompose on heating to give ethers. Resembles malonic acid in some of its reactions. 

Phosphine can be prepared by the reaction of a strong alkali with white phosphorus potassium, sodium and barium hydroxides may be used ... 

In the laboratory, hydrogen peroxide can be prepared in dilute aqueous solution by adding barium peroxide to ice-cold dilute sulphuric acid ... 

Chlorine, bromine and iodine form halic(V) acids but only iodic(V) acid, HIO3, can be isolated. Solutions of the chloric) V) and bromic) V) acids can be prepared by the addition of dilute sulphuric acid to barium chlorate(V) and bromate(V) respectively, and then filtering (cf. the preparation of hydrogen peroxide). These two acids can also be prepared by decomposing the corresponding halic(I) acids, but in this case the halide ion is also present in the solution. 

These can be prepared by electrolytic oxidation of chlorates(V) or by neutralisation of the acid with metals. Many chlorates(VII) are very soluble in water and indeed barium and magnesium chlorates-(VII) form hydrates of such low vapour pressure that they can be used as desiccants. The chlorate(VII) ion shows the least tendency of any negative ion to behave as a ligand, i.e. to form complexes with cations, and hence solutions of chlorates (VII) are used when it is desired to avoid complex formation in solution. 

The palladium - barium sulphate catalyst Is prepared by treating a suspension of20g. of barium sulphate (which has been precipitated in hot solution) in 400 ml. of hot water with a solution of I - 7 g. of palladium chloride (equivalent to I - 0 g. of palladium) in 50 ml. of water and with I - 5 ml. of 40 per cent, formaldehyde solution. The mixture is rendered faintly alkaline to litmus by the addition of sodium hydroxide solution and then boiled for a short time. When the supernatant liquid is clear, the grey precipitate is filtered oS, and wa.shed with hot water until the... 

Dissolve 15-0 g. of A.R. barium nitrate and 130 g. of A.R. cupric nitrate trihydrate in 450 ml. of water at 80°. Prepare a solution of sodium chromate by dissolving 89 g. of recrystallised sodium dichromate dihydrate in 200 ml. of water and adding 112 5 ml. of cone, ammonia solution (sp. gr. 0-90). Add the warm solution (80°) of nitrates in a thin stream, with stirring, to the sodium chromate solution (at 25°). Collect the orange precipitate by suction Bltration, wash it with two 50 ml. portions of 5fiter, drain well, and dry at 75-80° for 12 hours powder finely. 

Prepare a solution of 41 g. of anhydrous palladium chloride (1) in 10 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid and 25 ml. of water (as in A). Add all at once 60 ml. of 6iV-sulphuric acid to a rapidly stirred, hot (80°) solution of 63 1 g. of A.R. crystallised barium hydroxide in 600 ml. of water contained in a 2-htre beaker. Add more 6iV-sulphuric acid to render the suspension just acid to htmus (5). Introduce the palladium chloride solution and 4 ml. of 37 per cent, formaldehyde solution into the hot mechanically stirred suspension of barium sulphate. Render the suspension slightly alkaline with 30 per cent, sodium hydroxide solution, continue the stirring for 5 minutes longer, and allow the catalyst to settle. Decant the clear supernatant hquid, replace it by water and resuspend the catalyst. Wash the catalyst by decantation 8-10 times and then collect it on a medium - porosity sintered glass funnel, wash it with five 25 ml. portions of water and suck as dry as possible. Dry the funnel and contents at 80°, powder the catalyst (48 g.), and store it in a tightly stoppered bottle. 

Direct sulfonation of thiazole, as well as of 2-substituted thiazoles, leads mostly to substitution m the 5-position (330-332). 4-Thiazole sulfonic acid has been prepared through direct sulfonation of 2.5-dibromothiazole with subsequent Rane% Ni reduction (330). Sulfonation of 2.5-dimethyl- and 2-piperidyl-5-methylthiazoles affords the corresponding 4-sulfonic acids as barium salts (247). The 2-hydroxy group facilitates the sulfonation (201. 236). When the 4- and 5-positions are occupied direct sulfonation can occur in the 2-position. 5-hydroxyethyl-4-methyl-2-thiazole sulfonic acid has been prepared in this manner (7). 

Probably first obtained by Hantzsch and Arapides (105) by condensation of a,/3-dichlorether with barium thiocyanate, and identified by its pyridine-like odor, thiazole was first prepared in 1889 by G. Popp (104) with a yield of 10% by the reduction in boiling ethanol of thiazol-2-yldiazonium sulfate resulting from the diazotization of 2-aminothiazole. prepared the year before by Traumann (103). The unique cyclization reaction affording directly the thiazole molecule was described in 1914 by Gabriel and Bachstez (106). They applied the method of cyclization, developed by Gabriel (107, 108), to the diethylacetal of 2-formylamino-ethanal and obtained thiazole with a yield of 62% - Thiazole was also formed in the course of a study on the ease of decarboxylation of the three possible monocarboxylic acids derived from it (109). On the other... 

Hydroxy-4-methylthiazole has been prepared in 68% yield through the reaction of barium thiocyanate with chloroacetone (70). 

Nitdles may be prepared by several methods (1). The first nitrile to be prepared was propionitdle, which was obtained in 1834 by distilling barium ethyl sulfate with potassium cyanide. This is a general preparation of nitriles from sulfonate salts and is referred to as the Pelou2e reaction (2). Although not commonly practiced today, dehydration of amides has been widely used to produce nitriles and was the first commercial synthesis of a nitrile. The reaction of alkyl hahdes with sodium cyanide to produce nitriles (eq. 1) also is a general reaction with wide appHcabiUty ... 

Barium fluoride [7782-32-8] Bap2, is a white crystal or powder. Under the microscope crystals may be clear and colorless. Reported melting points vary from 1290 (1) to 1355°C (2), including values of 1301 (3) and 1353°C (4). Differences may result from impurities, reaction with containers, or inaccurate temperature measurements. The heat of fusion is 28 kj/mol (6.8 kcal/mol) (5), the boiling point 2260°C (6), and the density 4.9 g/cm. The solubiUty in water is about 1.6 g/L at 25°C and 5.6 g/100 g (7) in anhydrous hydrogen fluoride. Several preparations for barium fluoride have been reported (8—10). 

Oxides. Two oxides of xenon are known xenon trioxide [13776-58-4], XeO, and xenon tetroxide [12340-14-6], XeO (Table 1). Xenon trioxide is most efftcientiy prepared by the hydrolysis of XeE (47) or by the reaction of XeE with HOPOE2 (48). The XeO molecule has a trigonal pyramidal shape Xe—O, 176(3) pm (49), and XeO is tetrahedral with Xe—O, 173.6(2) pm (50). Xenon tetroxide is prepared by the interaction of concentrated sulfuric acid with sodium or barium perxenate, Na XeO, Ba2XeO ( )- Both oxides are thermodynamically unstable, explosive soHds which must be... 

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