Chain method

Anilino vinyl derivatives of thiazolium (30, R = H) or acetanilido (30, R = C0CH3), as well as formyl methylene 30b (methods E-G), give asymmetrical dyes when condensed with a methyl reactive group of another species (Scheme 42). Mesosubstituted symmetrical or unsymmet-rical thiazolocyanines are obtainable via /S-alkylmercaptovinyl thiazolium derivatives (32) (methods H and I) (Scheme 43). a or /S carbon atoms of the trimethine chain can be substituted by acetyl when a dye is treated with acetic anhydride (method L). The hydrolysis of neocyanines lead to trimethine cyanine by fractional elimination of a composant chain (method K). 

The Locally Updated Plane.s- (LUP) minimization is related to the chain method, but the relaxation is here done in the hyperplane perpendieular to the reaction coordinate, rather than along a line defined by the gradient. Furthermore, all the points are moved in each iteration, rather than one at a time. 

The Conjugate Peak Refinement (CPR) method may be eonsidered as a dynamical version of the chain method, where points are added or removed based on a sequenee of maximizations along line segments and minimizations along the conjugate directions. 

Figure 14.8 Illustration of the chain method. Initial points along the path are denoted by jc, and relaxed points are denoted by ...

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Unless a substrate or reagent contains an acidic or basic site, the conditions for most radical reactions are neutral. Thus, ionic side reactions such as base-catalyzed epimerization are rarely a problem. While radical reactions are typically conducted at temperatures above ambient, this is often solely for experimental convenience most commercially available initiators require heating to generate radicals. Many radical reactions should succeed at lower temperatures provided that the chain is maintained (in chain methods) or that the rate of generation of radicals is sufficiently rapid (in nonchain methods). Low temperature initiators are available.30,31... 

Although chain methods have been the foundation of the recent resurgence of radical reactions in synthesis, many of the earliest preparatively useful radical addition reactions were based on nonchain processes. Of late, such nonchain processes have regained importance. 

In chain methods, it is important to avoid radical-radical reactions. However, radicals that are generated in a stoichiometric quantity by bond homolysis can be productively removed by radical-radical coupling. Despite the inherent problems in controlling reactions that occur at rates near the diffusion-controlled limit, radical-radical coupling reactions can be selective and preparatively useful. 

Most radical cyclizations are conducted by one of the common chain methods. Kinetic analysis and synthetic planning are usually more straightforward than in addition reactions because the cyclizations are intramolecular. 

The main question is whether the hydrated ions behave as hard spheres while this seems plausible for ions much larger than the water molecules, it is probably not entirely applicable to small ions, whose hydration shells continuously change. Marcelj a calculated recently the double layer interaction8 using the anisotropic hypemetted chain method and potentials of mean force between pairs of ions in water, provided by Monte Carlo simulations. This... 

It should be noted that many attempts have been made to explain the hydration force by microscopic models. For example, the disagreements between experiment and the traditional mean field theory were attributed to the ion-ion correlations (ignored by the mean field theory) one of the most successful theories is based on the anisotropic hyper-netted chain method [23], It was shown on the basis of that theory that an additional repulsion (similar to the hydration force) can indeed occur at small separations and large ionic strengths [24], However, the results are so strongly dependent on the choice of the interaction potentials between the ion-pairs, that even a double layer attraction could be predicted [25], In addition, the hydration force in the absence of an electrolyte, or at moderate ionic strength, could not be explained by this model. 

N C The Locally Updated Planes (LUP) minimization " is related to the chain method, but... 

Since its introduction in carbohydrate chemistry by Hicks and Fraser-Reid in 1975 [22], applications of the opening of epoxide with carbon nucleophiles abound in the literature. Just a few seminal examples will be mentioned here, other examples will be found in combination with other branching-chain methods. 

The probability distribution w(r) of Eq. (4.13) has been derived by application of the Markoff chain method. An alternative and equivalent method is to use the diffusion equation (30). Since in the zeroth approximation the chain rotates at an angular velocity q 2 we may determine K (r) in the next approximation from... 

The Chain method initially calculates the energy at a series of points placed at regular intervals (tfmax) along a suitable reaction coordinate. This may either he a straight line,... 

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