Denitration selective

The membrane is critically important in osomometry. Selection of a membrane involves reconciliation of high permeability toward the solvent with virtual impermeability to the smallest polymer molecules present in the sample. Membranes of cellulose are most widely used. Commercially Regenerated cellulose film is a common source. The undried gel cellophane film is often preferred, but the dry film may be swollen in water (or in aqueous solutions of caustic or zinc chloride ) to satisfactory porosity. Useful cellulose membranes may also be prepared by denitration of nitrocellulose films/ and special advantages have been claimed for bacterial cellulose films. The water in the swollen membrane in any case may be replaced by a succession of miscible organic solvents ending with the one in which osmotic measurements are to be made. Membranes of varying porosity may be... 

As the nitro group is removed by radical denitration with Bu3SnH, allylic alkylation of a-nitro ketones with allyl carbonates in the presence of Pd(0) followed by denitration with Bu3SnH provides a new regio-selective allylation of ketones under neutral conditions (Eq. 5.55).79... 

In recent years, the importance of aliphatic nitro compounds has greatly increased, due to the discovery of new selective transformations. These topics are discussed in the following chapters Stereoselective Henry reaction (chapter 3.3), Asymmetric Micheal additions (chapter 4.4), use of nitroalkenes as heterodienes in tandem [4+2]/[3+2] cycloadditions (chapter 8) and radical denitration (chapter 7.2). These reactions discovered in recent years constitute important tools in organic synthesis. They are discussed in more detail than the conventional reactions such as the Nef reaction, reduction to amines, synthesis of nitro sugars, alkylation and acylation (chapter 5). Concerning aromatic nitro chemistry, the preparation of substituted aromatic compounds via the SNAr reaction and nucleophilic aromatic substitution of hydrogen (VNS) are discussed (chapter 9). Preparation of heterocycles such as indoles, are covered (chapter 10). 

In a recent application of this strategy, nitrocyclohexane 143 (prepared from nitrosugar 142 by intramolecular Henry reaction) was subjected to a radical denitration by HSnBu3, after protection of the hydroxyl groups to avoid side reactions. Inositol 146 was selectively obtained in good yield, once the hydroxyl protecting groups were removed (Scheme 45).101... 

Cytochrome P450 (CYP) is well-known for its capacity to catalyze the denitration of nitrovasodilators. Thus, experiments in a variety of cultured cell lines have confirmed the role of cytochrome P450 in the activation of nitroglycerin (9.3) and isosorbide dinitrate (9.11) [56], Such studies also suggested that the hemoprotein-mediated denitration of nitroglycerin is a high-affinity-low-capacity pathway with clear selectivity for the formation of... 

Interest has focused on derivatives of mannitol hexanitrate (14) as potential explosives because although this nitrate ester is a powerful explosive it has some property characteristics of a primary explosive. Treatment of mannitol hexanitrate (14) with pyridine or ammonium carbonate " in aqueous acetone leads to a very selective denitration with the formation of mannitol-1,2,3,5,6-pentanitrate (77). Marans and co-workers synthesized the acetate (78), the propionate (79), and the phenylacetate (80) derivatives of mannitol-1,2,3,5,6-pentanitrate and all have significantly lower melting points than mannitol hexanitrate. The incorporation of such groups can also help to increase the solubility of an explosive in the melt of another explosive. 

Selective denitration has also been effected by performing the reaction with sodium iodide in 2-pentanone,240 methanol,233 pyridine,233 and acetic anhydride.237... 

Selective denitration of methyl 4,6-O-benzylidene- and 4,6-O-alkyl-idene-D-hexopyranoside 2,3-dinitrates to yield 3-nitrates has also been achieved by using sodium nitrite in ethanol as the reagent.233,238, 241.242 interestingly, when the nitrate group is on a primary carbon atom, reaction with this reagent takes place to give the primary alcohol,232,241,243 but the conversion may, on occasion, proceed only with... 

Perhaps the most fascinating examples of selective denitration are those observed in the hexitol series. For example, the action of pyridine on D-mannitol hexanitrate249-251 yields D-mannitol 1,2,3,5,6-pen-... 

Although hydrazine hydrate in ethanol is effective in achieving denitration of carbohydrate nitrates,243,244 the reagent showed little selectivity in its reactions244 with the 2,3-dinitrates of methyl 4,6-O-ben-zylidene-a- and methyl 4,6-0-ethylidene-a- and -/3-D-glucopyranoside. 

Selective denitration is illustrated in the reaction of pyridine and D-mannitol hexanitrate (LXXXVII). The product of this reaction was... 

As described in Figure 3.7, TRU separation is performed by implementing the DIDPA process on pretreated PUREX raffinates. A front-end denitration step by formic acid is thus required to reduce the nitric acid concentration of the feed down to 0.5 M to allow the TRU elements to be extracted by the cation exchanger di-fvo-dccyl-phosphoric acid (DIDPA). This preliminary step, however, induces the precipitation of Mo and Zr (and thus the potential carrying of Pu), which requires filtration steps. The TRU and Ln(III) elements are coextracted by a solvent composed of the dimerized DIDPA and TBP, dissolved at 0.5 and 0.1 M, respectively, in n-dodecane. The An(III) + Ln(III) fraction is back-extracted into a concentrated 4 M nitric acid solution, whereas Np and Pu are selectively stripped by oxalic acid. 

In the reverse TALSPEAK process, the An(III) + Ln(III) fraction is first coextracted from a feed, the acidity of which has to be reduced to 0.1 M by denitration or nitric acid extraction. An(III) are then selectively stripped using DTPA in citric acid (1 M) at pH 3 (hence the name reverse TALSPEAK process), and the Ln(III) are finally stripped by 6 M HN03. Attempts to apply this TALSPEAK variant to the treatment of actual UREX + raffinates are reported in the literature, but they involve several steps. The problematic Zr and Mo elements are first removed by direct extraction with HDEHP (0.8 M in di-iso-propylbenzene) from the high-acidity raffinate stream arising from the UREX + co-decontamination process (238). The remaining fission products and actinides can then be concentrated by acid evaporation and denitration processes. This concentrate is further diluted to a lower acidity (e.g., [HN03] = 0.03 M) to allow the coextraction of An(III) and Ln(III) by the TALSPEAK solvent. 

Di-iso-decylphosphoric Acid The DIDPA Process An(III) and Ln(III) can be partitioned using the DIDPA solvent (DIDPA and TBP, respectively dissolved at 0.5 and 0.1 M in n-dodecane) in a two-step process approach. First coextracted and costripped in a 4 M nitric acid solution in a first DIDPA cycle (see Section 3.3.1.1.4), the An(III) + Ln(III) fraction is partitioned in a second cycle after denitration of the An(III) + Ln(III) product by formic acid to reduce the nitric acid concentration to at least 0.5 M. In this second DIDPA cycle, An(III) and Ln(III) are first coextracted by the DIDPA solvent, and the An(III) are selectively stripped by DTPA (0.05-0.1 M) in a solution buffered at pH 3 with lactic acid (1 M). The triva-lent lanthanides are further stripped with a 4 M nitric acid solution (134). 

Tetraphenylborate (TPB) was used at Savannah River to recover cesium from alkaline solutions, but attempts to treat HLW tanks with TPB resulted in the production of benzene (a TPB decomposition product) at levels that did not permit the safe operation of the process.8 Crown ethers and dicarbollides were proposed as extractants to remove cesium from acidic HAW, but these compounds are not selective enough to allow cesium to be removed from solutions containing large amounts of nitric acid or sodium nitrate.9 Dicarbollides were used in Russia at industrial scale to recover cesium from HAW, but the removal of cesium was only possible after partial denitration of the liquid waste.10... 

Recently, several studies suggested that protein nitration could be a cellular signaling mechanism and is often a reversible and selective process, similar to protein phosphorylation (Aulak et al., 2004 Koeck et al., 2004). In addition, modified proteins are believed to be either degraded or subject to processes that could lead to enzymatic denitration (Gow et al., 1996 Kamisaki et al., 1998 Me et al., 2003). The latter possibility is intriguing because this would allow the process of tyrosine nitration to be reversible and thus enable a more dynamic physiological role. Protein nitration is observed under normal conditions in all tissues. In AD brain levels of nitrated proteins were found to be increased compared to that of control (Smith et al.. 

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