Combination reactions

In particular, one can combine reactions to yield the aG. , AH and ASj for fonnation of compounds from their elements, quantities rarely measurable directly. (Many AH s.for fonnation of substances are easily... 

Closs G L 1969 A mechanism explaining nuclear spin polarizations In radical combination reactions J. Am. Chem. Soc. 91 4552-4... 

A complete set of trihalides for arsenic, antimony and bismuth can be prepared by the direct combination of the elements although other methods of preparation can sometimes be used. The vigour of the direct combination reaction for a given metal decreases from fluorine to iodine (except in the case of bismuth which does not react readily with fluorine) and for a given halogen, from arsenic to bismuth. 

Table 6.5 Some Free Radical Combination Reactions Which Yield n-mers and Their Rate Laws...

A number of chemiluminescent reactions have been studied by producing key reactants through pulsed electric discharge, by microwave dissociation, or by observing the reactions of atoms and free radicals produced in the inner cone of a laminar flame as they diffuse into the flame s cool outer cone (182,183). These are either combination reactions or atom-transfer reactions involving transfer of chlorine (184) or oxygen atoms (181,185—187), the latter giving excited oxides. 

Catalytic Membrane Reactors Membrane reactors combine reaction and separation in a single vessel. By removing one of the... 

The synthesis of 1,3-dioxolanes in combined reaction-rectification process 98MI42. 

In a synthesis of minocycline, interesting use was made of a reductive alkylation of a nitro function, accompanied by loss of a diazonium group. The sequence provides a clever way of utilizing the unwanted 9-nitro isomer that arises from nitration of 6-demethyl-6-deoxytetracycline (//). When di-azotization was complete, urea and 40% aqueous formaldehyde were added, and the entire solution was mixed with 10% palladium-on-carbon and reduced under hydrogen. No further use of this combined reaction seems to have been made. 

Now we wish to obtain reaction (5) by combining reactions (6) and (7). Since NO is a reactant in reaction (5), we need the reverse of reaction (6). We obtain the heat of the reverse reaction merely by changing the algebraic sign of AHe. If 21.6 kcal of heat are absorbed when one mole of NO is formed, then 21.6 kcal of heat will be released when one mole of NO is decomposed in the reverse reaction ... 

The volumes of activation for some additions of anionic nucleophiles to arenediazonium ions were determined by Isaacs et al. (1987) and are listed in Table 6-1. All but one are negative, although one expects — and knows from various other reactions between cations and anions — that ion combination reactions should have positive volumes of activation by reason of solvent relaxation as charges become neutralized. The authors present various interpretations, one of which seems to be plausible, namely that a C — N—N bond-bending deformation of the diazonium ion occurs before the transition state of the addition is reached (Scheme 6-2). This bondbending is expected to bring about a decrease in resonance interaction in the arenediazonium ion and hence a charge concentration on Np and an increase in solvation. 

Attempts to deposit yttria-stabilized zirconia by combining Reaction (1) and a similar hydrolysis of YCI3 as source of yttrium at 700-1000°C were inconclusive, Codeposition from the chlorides... 

R8 is the simplest of a large suite of peroxyl radical combination reactions, generalized as R02 + H02 and R02 + R02 that generate poorly characterized radical and non-radical reaction products. Such reactions are of greatest significance in air with low nitric oxide concentration where the R02 species can reach elevated concentrations (95). The dependence of [H02 ] upon the tropospheric NO concentration is discussed below. 

Termination may be the result of either combination (Reaction 2.12) or disproportionation (Reaction 2.13). However, it is rarely necessary to distinguish between these two termination mechanisms, and so the rate constants are generally combined into a single rate constant, k. ... 

For a review of the stereochemistry of this type of combination reaction, see Porter, N.A. ... 

Figure 10.9 Combining reactions and separation steps leads to a loss in process design degrees of freedom.

Equation (1) consists of various resistance terms. l/Kj a is the gas absorption resistance, while 1/ K,a corresponds to the maleic anhydride diffusion resistance and l/i k represents the chemical reaction resistance. The reaction rate data obtained under the reaction conditions of 250°C and 70 atm were plotted according to equation (1). Although catalytic reaction data with respect to time on stream were not shown here, a linear correlation between reaction rate data and catalyst loading was observed as shown in Fig. 2. The gas absorption resistance (1/ a) was -1.26 h, while the combined reaction-diffusion resistance (lJK,a + 1 T]k) was determined to be 5.57 h. The small negative value of gas absorption resistance indicates that the gas-liquid diffusion resistance was very small and had several orders of magnitude less than the chanical reaction resistance, as similarly observed for the isobutene hydration over Amberlyst-15 in a slurry reactor [6]. This indicates that absorption of malei c anhydride in solvent was a rapid process compared to the reaction rate on the catalyst surface. 

The synthetic procedures for isolation of the salt appear to be rather simple. First, one prepares a solution in which the carbocation and carbanion coexist free from any combination reactions. Then, the hydrocarbon cation-anion salt is isolated after separation of the concomitant inorganic salt and evaporation of the solvent. For the purification of the crude salt recrystallization or reprecipitation with proper solvents is used. 

In the course of the salt synthesis, it was found that a hydrocarbon [3-2], which was formed by an unfavourable cation-anion combination reaction, dissociates into the original carbocation and carbanion in a polar aprotic solvent (Okamoto et ai, 1985) (1). This was the first example of ionic dissociation of the carbon-carbon a bond in genuine hydrocarbons, although a few cases of heterolytic dissociation of carbon-carbon tr bonds had been reported by Arnett (Arnett et al., 1983 Troughton et al., 1984 Arnett and Molter, 1985) for compounds bearing cyano and nitro groups, e.g. [4-6] and [5-6] as in (2). 

C15-0087. Nitrogen dioxide in smog can combine in an elementary reaction to form N2 O4 molecules. The combination reaction is exothermic by 57 kJ/mol. For the reverse reaction, the dissociation of N2 O4, = 70 kJ/mol. (a) Draw a molecular picture of NO2 combining to form N2 O4. ... 

Okrasa and co-workers reported an interesting combination reaction of glucose oxidase and peroxidase in a mixed solvent of [bmimJpFg] with water (Fig. 18). Asymmetric oxidation of sulfide was accomplished successfully in the reaction system. ... 

Membrane reactors are known on the macro scale for combining reaction and separation, with additional profits for the whole process as compared with the same separate functions. Microstructured reactors with permeable membranes are used in the same way, e.g. to increase conversion above the equilibrium limit of sole reaction [8, 10, 11, 83]. One way to achieve this is by preparing thin membranes over the pores of a mesh, e.g. by thin-fihn deposition techniques, separating reactant and product streams [11]. 

It is useful to combine reaction and separation for equilibrium-limited reactions and also for consecutive reactions, particularly when the desired intermediate products undergo faster undesirable reactions. The concept of extractive reactions for equilibrium-limited and consecutive reactions has been covered in Section 4.2.1. Distillation column reactors provide yet another strategy. 

Combining reactions (4) and (5) gives the overall reaction for the absorption of NO2 to produce HNO3. 

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