Chain termination amines

Antioxidants markedly retard the rate of autoxidation throughout the useful life of the polymer. Chain-terminating antioxidants have a reactive —NH or —OH functional group and include compounds such as secondary aryl amines or hindered phenols. They function by transfer of hydrogen to free radicals, principally to peroxy radicals. Butylated hydroxytoluene is a widely used example. 

Monofunctional, cyclohexylamine is used as a polyamide polymerization chain terminator to control polymer molecular weight. 3,3,5-Trimethylcyclohexylamines ate usehil fuel additives, corrosion inhibitors, and biocides (50). Dicyclohexylamine has direct uses as a solvent for cephalosporin antibiotic production, as a corrosion inhibitor, and as a fuel oil additive, in addition to serving as an organic intermediate. Cycloahphatic tertiary amines are used as urethane catalysts (72). Dimethylcyclohexylarnine (DMCHA) is marketed by Air Products as POLYCAT 8 for pour-in-place rigid insulating foam. Methyldicyclohexylamine is POLYCAT 12 used for flexible slabstock and molded foam. DM CHA is also sold as a fuel oil additive, which acts as an antioxidant. StericaHy hindered secondary cycloahphatic amines, specifically dicyclohexylamine, effectively catalyze polycarbonate polymerization (73). 

Another innovative approach to controlling amine-initiated NCA polymerizations was reported in 2003 by Schlaad and coworkers [20]. Their strategy was to avoid formation of NCA anions, which cause significant chain termination after rearranging to isocyanocarboxylates [11, 12], through use of primary amine hydrochloride salts as initiators. The reactivity of amine hydrochlorides with NCAs was first explored by the group of Knobler, who found that they could react... 

Finally, we have studied the reaction of amino-terminated polyoxyethylenes with the poly(vinylbenzyl chloride) latex (18). The rate of this reaction was found to be independent of the length of the chain carrying the terminal amine. Attachment of these chains stabilized the latex against coagulation, in analogy with the "steric stabilization" produced by adsorbed polymer chains (19 ). ... 

The insertion of histidine in position two of the peptide chain results in the simultaneous binding of the N-terminal amine, the imidazole, and the intervening amide-N to the Ni11 ion. The major complex [NiH iL]+ with NH2,N am,Nim binding mode is pseudo-octahedral and in... 

The autoxidation of aldehydes, and of other organic compounds, may be lessened considerably by very careful purification—removal of existing peroxides, trace metal ions, etc.—but much more readily and effectively by the addition of suitable radical inhibitors, referred to in this context as anti-oxidants. The best of these are phenols and aromatic amines which have a readily abstractable H atom, the resultant radical is of relatively low reactivity, being able to act as a good chain terminator (by reaction with another radical) but only as a poor initiator (by reaction with a new substrate molecule). 

Isothiocyanates react with nucleophiles such as amines, sulfhydryls, and the phenolate ion of tyrosine side chains (Podhradsky et al., 1979). The only stable product, however, is with primary amine groups, and so TRITC is almost entirely selective for modifying s- and N-terminal amines in proteins. The reaction involves attack of the nucleophile on the central, electrophilic... 

The molecular weight (M 10,200,000) represents the highest molecular weight known to date for a linear, synthetic copolymer. DFT calculations suggest that steric congestion, derived from the triethylsilyl group and the amine moiety, near the polymerization reaction center diminishes the rates of chain termination or transfer processes yet permits the monomer access to the active site and the monomer s insertion into the metal-carbon bond (Fig. 21). 

Cyclic Chain Termination by Aromatic Amines and Aminyl Radicals... 

The a-aminoalkylperoxyl radicals RCH(00 )NHR possess a dual reactivity oxidative (due to the peroxyl group) and reducing (due to the amino group) [5]. As a result, many antioxidants terminate the chains of oxidized amines by the mechanisms of cyclic chain termination (see Chapter 16). 

In systems where such radicals appear (alcohols, amines, some unsaturated compounds), variable-valence metal ions manifest themselves as catalysts for chain termination (see Refs. [150,151] and Chapter 16). 

The retarding action of antioxidants (InH), such as phenols and aromatic amines, was proved to be the result of chain termination by accepting the peroxyl radicals. 

Cyclic chain termination by antioxidants. Oxidation of some substances, such as alcohols or aliphatic amines, gives rise to peroxyl radicals of multiple (oxidative and reductive) activity (see Chapters 7 and 9). In the systems containing such substances, antioxidants are regenerated in the reactions of chain termination. In other words, chain termination occurs as a catalytic cyclic process. The number of chain termination events depends on the proportion between the rates of inhibitor consumption and regeneration reactions. Multiple chain termination may take place, for instance, in polymers. Inhibitors of multiple chain termination are aromatic amines, nitroxyl radicals, and variable-valence metal compounds. 

CYCLIC CHAIN TERMINATION BY AROMATIC AMINES AND AMINYL RADICALS... 

The oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols in the presence of 1-naphthylamine, 2-naphthylamine, or phenyl-1-naphthylamine is characterized by the high values of the inhibition coefficient / > 10 [1-7], Alkylperoxyl, a-ketoperoxyl radicals, and (3-hydroxyperoxyl radicals, like the peroxyl radicals derived from tertiary alcohols, appeared to be incapable of reducing the aminyl radicals formed from aromatic amines. For example, when the oxidation of tert-butanol is inhibited by 1-naphthylamine, the coefficient /is equal to 2, which coincides with the value found in the inhibited oxidation of alkanes [3], However, the addition of hydrogen peroxide to the tert-butanol getting oxidized helps to perform the cyclic chain termination mechanism (1-naphthylamine as the inhibitor, T = 393 K, cumyl peroxide as initiator, p02 = 98 kPa [8]). This is due to the participation of the formed hydroperoxyl radical in the chain termination ... 

Later it was shown [9] that in the case of repeated chain termination with aromatic amines in the oxidation of alcohols the situation is more complicated. In parallel with the reaction of disproportionation with the aminyl radical, the following reactions occur ... 

Table 16.1 presents the inhibition coefficients / and the termination rate constants kn in systems with the cyclic chain termination mechanism with aromatic amines. Naturally, these are apparent rate constants, which characterize primarily the rate-limiting step of the chain termination process. 

Inhibition Coefficients f and Rate Constants k for the Reactions of Peroxyl Radicals with Aromatic Amines in Systems with a Cyclic Mechanism of Chain Termination (Experimental Data)... 

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