Direct ammonia production methods

Notably, all commercial nitric acid production methods used today are centred around the oxidation of ammonia. It is therefore appropriate to investigate the chemistry of this process, in the knowledge that it is directly applicable to any of the production... 

Two years later Taqui Khan et al. [108] published another paper which described similar experiments in more detail. The rate of ammonia production was given as 6.8 moles NH3 per mole of catalyst per hour. It appears that the term the catalyst referred to the ruthenium complex 1 rather than to CdS. The maximum yield of ammonia and the initial rate of ammonia production varied directly with the initial concentration of 1. Ammonia was determined in the reactor and in HC1 traps by Nessler s method. Yields were shown on a graph, with a maximum yield of approximately 0.065 mol. We note that this is an exceptionally large amount of ammonia from photosynthesis and that photon efficiencies of several percent are implied. 

Direct addition of ammonia to olefmic bonds would be an attractive method for amine synthesis, if it could be carried out smoothly. Like water, ammonia reacts with butadiene only under particular reaction conditions. Almost no reaction takes place with pure ammonia in organic solvents. The presence of water accelerates the reaction considerably. The reaction of aqueous ammonia (28%) with butadiene in MeCN in the presence orPd(OAc)i and PhjP at 80 C for 10 h gives tri-2,7-octadienylamine (47) as the main product, accompanied by a small amount of di-2,7-octadienylamine (46)[46,47], Isomeric branched... 

Ma.nufa.cture. Nickel carbonyl can be prepared by the direct combination of carbon monoxide and metallic nickel (77). The presence of sulfur, the surface area, and the surface activity of the nickel affect the formation of nickel carbonyl (78). The thermodynamics of formation and reaction are documented (79). Two commercial processes are used for large-scale production (80). An atmospheric method, whereby carbon monoxide is passed over nickel sulfide and freshly reduced nickel metal, is used in the United Kingdom to produce pure nickel carbonyl (81). The second method, used in Canada, involves high pressure CO in the formation of iron and nickel carbonyls the two are separated by distillation (81). Very high pressure CO is required for the formation of cobalt carbonyl and a method has been described where the mixed carbonyls are scmbbed with ammonia or an amine and the cobalt is extracted as the ammine carbonyl (82). A discontinued commercial process in the United States involved the reaction of carbon monoxide with nickel sulfate solution. 

Selection of a suitable ionisation method is important in the success of mixture analysis by MS/MS, as clearly shown by Chen and Her [23]. Ideally, only molecular ions should be produced for each of the compounds in the mixture. For this reason, the softest ionisation technique is often the best choice in the analysis of mixtures with MS/MS. In addition to softness , selectivity is an important factor in the selection of the ionisation technique. In polymer/additive analysis it is better to choose an ionisation technique which responds preferentially to the analytes over the matrix, because the polymer extract often consists of additives as well as a low-MW polymer matrix (oligomers). Few other reports deal with direct tandem MS analysis of extracts of polymer samples [229,231,232], DCI-MS/MS (B/E linked scan with CID) was used for direct analysis of polymer extracts and solids [69]. In comparison with FAB-MS, much less fragmentation was observed with DCI using NH3 as a reagent gas. The softness and lack of matrix effect make ammonia DCI a better ionisation technique than FAB for the analysis of additives directly from the extracts. Most likely due to higher collision energy, product ion mass spectra acquired with a double-focusing mass spectrometer provided more structural information than the spectra obtained with a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. 

Amination of ketene has been studied by ab initio methods.Reactions of ammonia, its dimer, and its (mono)hydrate with ketene have been calculated and compared with earlier smdies of ammonia (at lower levels of theory), of water, and of water dimer. In general, the results favour initial addition of ammonia to the C=0 bond (giving the enol amide), as against addition to the C=C bond (which gives the amide directly). Amide formation is compared with the corresponding hydration reaction where enol acid and acid are the alternative immediate products. Most of the reactions, i.e. both additions and tautomerizations, are suggested to involve cyclic six-membered transition states. 

This route gives a much better yield and a purer compound than when K2[PtCl4] is treated with ammonia directly. A disadvantage, however, is the necessity to use silver salts (usually nitrate) with overnight stirring, resulting in the possibility of side products formed by hydrolysis of the intermediate aqua species cis-[Pt(NH3)2(H20)2]2+.12 We here present a rapid and facile one-step synthesis of cisplatin. The experimental conditions are based on Lebedinsky s method,8 slightly modified as specified. 

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