Basic solids

When a jo /r-A-alkylcarbolinium salt, unsubstituted at the ind-N atom, is treated with strong alkali, a yellow to deep orange, strongly basic solid separates. Although such products almost invariably give poor microanalytical values they can be shown to be derived from the quaternary hydroxide by loss of a molecule of water—hence the name anhydro-bases or anhydronium bases.All four carbolines form anhydro-bases e.g., j9 /r-A-methyl-j8-carbolinium iodide (419) gives 420. Most of the evidence bearing on the structures of these bases has been summarized, and discussion will therefore be limited to a few of the recent aspects of the chemistry of these compounds. 

West, R.A. Basic Solid State Chemistry, 2nd edition, John Wiley 1999. 

Knowlton has cautioned on the difference between small diameter and large diameter systems for pressure losses. The difference between these systems is especially apparent for dense phase flow where recirculation occurs and wall friction differs considerably. Li and Kwauk (1989, 1989) have also studied the dense phase vertical transport in their analysis and approach to recirculating fluid beds. Li and Kwauk s analysis included the dynamics of a vertical pneumatic moving bed upward transport using the basic solid mechanics formulation. Some noncircular geometries were treated including experimental verification. The flows have been characterized into packed and transition flows. Accurate prediction of the discharge rates from these systems has been obtained. 

West, A. R. (1988). Basic Solid State Chemistry. Wiley, New York. A very readable book that is an excellent place to start in a study of metals and other solids. 

The acidities of sulphonamides are considerably greater than those of the carboxamides and, as a consequence, their A. A -dialkylation proceeds extremely easily [3]. Generally, use is made of a basic solid.liquid two-phase system and yields are usually greater than 80%, except when secondary bromoalkanes are used (Table... 

Basic solid liquid two-phase conditions with f-butyl peroxide and N-benzylquininium chloride convert cyclohex-2-enone preferentially into the 2(S),3(S)-oxirane (20% ee) which, upon purification and treatment with hydrazine, yields (S)-cyclohex-2-enol [7]. This reaction contrasts with the direct reduction of cyclohex-2-enone to the /J-isomer by lithium aluminium hydride in the presence of quinine [20]. 

Figure 9. A comparison between the catalytic performance through 2,6-xylenol yield, and relative acidity (solid diamonds) obtained from the area of v8a and vl9b bands from pyridine adsorbed on catalyst surface at lOOOC and the relative basicity (solid circles) obtained from the area of the bands between 1700 and 1250 cm-1 from C02 adsorbed on Cul-xCoxFe204 catalysts at 250C.

Ammonia and pyridine are frequently used as probe molecules for the characterization of acidic surfaces, but they also adsorb on strongly basic sites. Tsyganenko et al. (54) proposed various species resulting from NH3 adsorption on basic solids (Scheme 1). The formation of species I corresponds to hydrogen bonding to a basic surface oxygen, and species II, formed by dissociation to give NH2 and hydroxyl species, involves an acid-base site. Such adsorption requires... 

The Wittig-Horner (W-H) reaction is a versatile method for the synthesis of functionalized alkenes. The synthesis of 3-substituted ethyl acrylates and acrylonitriles, which are used as monomers in polymerization, were successfully carried out by the reaction of triethyl phosphonoacetate or cyanomethanephosphonate, respectively, with various aldehydes with activated Ba(OH)2 as the catalyst in the presence of dioxane solvent at 343 K (294). As was observed for other basic solid... 

The parent dibenzopyrrocoline 3 was prepared by von Braun and Nelles (37) from 1-benzylisoquinoline when heated with copper powder at elevated temperatures. The product obtained was a yellow, weakly basic solid, melting at 238°C and reduced to a tetrahydro derivative by tin and hydrochloric acid. However, no structure was assigned to this product. 

West, A.R. (1988) Basic Solid State Chemistry, Chapters 2 and 7, John WUey, New York. Duffy, J. A. (1990) Bonding, Energy Levels and Bands in Inorganic Solids, Chapters 4 and 7, Longman, London. 

See Jolly, W. L. Modern Inorganic Chemistry McGraw-Hill New York, 1984 West, A. R. Basic Solid State Chemistry Wiley New York, 1988 pp 294-300. 

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Whereas solid acid catalysts (zeolites) have been intensively studied, only recently has the use of basic solid catalysts received substantial interest for production of intermediate and fine chemicals [1], Heterogeneous catalytic transformations are environmentally friendly compared with processes requiring neutralization and... 

Figure 9.1 Rate constant for isophorone isomerization at 308 K as a function of the number of sites determined by C02 adsorption for a series of basic solids ( ) KF ( ) Mg(La)0 (a) Mg(Al)0 and ( ) Ba(Al)0. Reprinted from Journal of Catalysis, vol. 211, Figueras et al., Isophorone isomerization as model reaction for the characterization of solid bases application to the determination of the number of sites, pp. 144-149, Copyright (2002), with permission from Elsevier...

The accuracy of this method used to determine the number of basic sites has been confirmed by the good agreement between these results and those obtained by C02 adsorption on basic solids of different types, i.e. MgAl, BaAl and MgLa mixed oxides and KF/alumina (Figure 9.1).[311... 

Hattori, A., Hattori, H. and Tanabe, K. Double-bond migration of allylamine to enamine over basic solid catalysts, J. Catal., 1980, 65, 245. 

These developments have only been possible because of a continuing improvement in understanding of the basic solid state science of the ceramic dielectrics, of the electrode metals and of the interaction between the two, and particularly of the technologies of ceramic powder production and the MLCC fabrication processes. 

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