Chemical Structure and Reactivity

Functional groups containing both oxygen and nitrogen tend to impart reactivity to an organic compound. Examples of such functional groups are alkyl nitrates (R-NO2), alkyl nitrites (R-O-N=0), nitroso compounds (R-N=0), and nitro compounds (R-NO2). 

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Ridd, J. H. (i960). Studies on Chemical Structure and Reactivity, ed. J. H. Ridd, London Methuen. 

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Hazards from chemical structure and reactivity of compounds... 

Chemical structure and reactivity. A wide variety of chemicals exist that are thermodynamically unstable. These chemicals easily react, usually with a large heat effect. Most of these chemicals can undergo violent self-reaction or decomposition initialized by mechanical shock, friction, or heat. An incomplete list of dangerously reactive groups is given below ... 

Shoppee. "Christopher Kelk Ingold," 350, 358, 369 and J. H. S. Green, "Sir Christopher Ingold and the Chemistry Department, University College, London," in J. H. Ridd, ed., Studies on Chemical Structure and Reactivity Presented to Sir Christopher Ingold (London Methuen, 1966) 265274, on 271. 

One example of such a course is the Haverford Laboratory in Chemical Structure and Reactivity (146) that includes six projects, each of which involves sample preparation, sample analysis and some kind of determination of the properties of the substance prepared. The projects include organopalladium chemistry, porphyrin photochemistry, enantioselective synthesis, computer-aided modeling, enzyme kinetics and electron transfer reactions. 

Most chemists are quite comfortable thinking of chemical structure and reactivity in terms of valence bond notions - die resonance structures so often invoked in organic chemistry are one example of this phenomenon - so this approach has conceptual appeal. From a computational standpoint, the issue is how to derive a Hamiltonian operator tliat will act on VB wave functions so as to deliver useful energies. 

Over the past decade, Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) has evolved into what is now one of the major approaches in quantum chemistry.1-20 It is routinely applied to various problems concerning, among other matters, chemical structure and reactivity in such diverse fields as organic, organometallic, and inorganic chemistry, covering the gas and condensed phases as well as the solid state. What is it that makes Kohn-Sham DFT so attractive Certainly, an important reason is that it represents a first-principles... 

A second, equally important, aspect of the theoretical modelling of chemical reactions is related to the elucidation of the often radical changes in the electronic structure of a reacting system as it evolves from reactants, through one or more transition structures and/or reaction intermediates, to one or more sets of products. There is a well-recognized need to develop qualitative models based on quantitative wavefunctions but highlighting general features and tendencies in chemical structure and reactivity this can be a very difficult task, especially if... 

In the series of the poly(alkyleneimine) polymers poly(ethyleneimine) (PEI) is the most important polymer due to its salient properties and commercial availability. The linear polymer has the empirical formula (C2H5N)n and the molecular mass of its repeating unit is 43.07. This unit, however, does not express the real chemical structure and reactivity. More appropriate and closer to reality is the following structure ... 

Dunn, T. M. Studies in chemical structure and reactivity, Chapter 6. London Methuen and Co. 1966. 

This document uses the term "hydrazines" to refer to hydrazine, 1,1-dimethylhydrazine, and 1,2-dimethylhydrazine, collectively. These hydrazines are somewhat similar in chemical structure and reactivity. However, there are some clear differences in their production, uses, and adverse health effects. There are many other hydrazine compounds however, these three hydrazines are discussed together in this document because they are of interest to the U.S. Department of Defense. 

Further work on chemical structure and reactivity might well include an examination of the possibility of occurrence of an Amadori rearrangement in the case of the glycosyl ureides. In addition, studies of the tautomerism of glycosyl ureides under various conditions of pH and of the neighboring-group effect would be of value in the interpretation of many of the seemingly unorthodox chemical reactions of these compounds. 

Chain copolymerization is important both from academic and technological viewpoints. Thus much of our knowledge of the reactivities of monomers, free radicals, carbocations, and carboanions in chain polymerization comes from copolymerization studies. The behavior of monomers in copolymerization reactions is especially useful for studying the relation between chemical structure and reactivity of monomers. From the technological viewpoint. 

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