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To meet sales specifications, gas produced at the wellheads must be free of water and hydrocarbon liquids. Twin turboexpanders are a key component in this process, providing dewpoint control with optimal efficiency. Initial processing takes place at the wellhead platforms, where methanol is injected to inhibit hydrate formation. A corrosion inhibitor is also added to prevent gas from damaging downstream equipment. 

Efficiency, initial The efficiency determined prior to the first loading cycle in a filter test. 

Kaeriyama and Shimura [34] have reported the photoinitiation of polymerization of MMA and styrene by 12 metal acetylacetonate complex. These are Mn(acac)3, Mo02(acac)2, Al(acac)3, Cu(bzac)2, Mg(acac)2, Co(a-cac)2, Co(acac)3, Cr(acac)3, Zn(acac)2, Fe(acac)3, Ni(a-cac)2, and (Ti(acac)2) - TiCU. It was found that Mn(a-cac)3 and Co(acac)3 are the most efficient initiators. The intraredox reaction with production of acac radicals is proposed as a general route for the photodecomposition of these chelates. 

Whereas I2 was inert with Et3 A1 and inefficient in conjunction with Et2 Aid and Et2AlBr, it was an efficient initiator when used with Et2 All. 

Like carbenium ions, haionium ions may undergo propagation, transfer or termination. The significant decrease in monomer conversion in the presence of Mel and MeBr indicates that termination becomes important. Haionium ion formation also explains more pronounced poisoning with less efficient initiators, le., r-BuBr or H20 and at lower temperatures, le., —50° or below. It seems haionium ion formation is greatly favored by the decreased concentration of incipient carbenium ions, under these conditions. 

Anionic polymerizations carried out in aprotic solvents with an efficient initiator may lead to molecular weight control (Mn is determined by the monomer to initiator mole ratio) and low polydispersity indices. The chains are linear and the monomer units are placed head-to-tail. Such polymers are commonly used as calibration samples and for investigation of structure-properties relationships. 

Biochemical and genetic experiments in yeast have revealed that the b poly(A) tail and its binding protein, Pablp, are required for efficient initiation of protein synthesis. Further studies showed that the poly(A) tail stimulates recruitment of the 40S ribosomal subunit to the mRNA through a complex set of interactions. Pablp, bound to the poly(A) tail, interacts with eIF-4G, which in turn binds to eIF-4E that is bound to the cap structure. It is possible that a circular structure is formed and that this helps direct the 40S ribosomal subunit to the b end of the mRNA. This helps explain how the cap and poly(A) tail structures have a synergistic effect on protein synthesis. It appears that a similar mechanism is at work in mammalian cells. 

From reviewing much of the literature it is easy to conclude that ionic liquids are excellent solvents for catalysts and reagents but not for products, which is obviously not the case. Whilst some products can be decanted from the liquid and others can be recovered by distillation, there are many useful reactions in which removal of the product (or residual reactants) from the ionic liquid is challenging. Extraction with an organic solvent, or even water, would reduce the overall eco-efficiency. Initial... 

The effects of ftie superficial gas velocity (Ug) on the TCE removal are shown in Fig. 1. The TCE removal efficiency initially increases with the UgTJ,rf, reaches a maximum at U/Umf = 2.0, and ftiai decreases with a ftirther increase of U mf. This result shows a similar tendenq to the a previously reported result of Yue et al. [1]. Therefore, it is found that the photocatalysis of the TCE decomposition requires a sufficient high residence time and a suitable TCE gas velocity to form a proper bubble size for the intimate contacts between the photocatalysts and flie TCE molecules. 

Cyclopropanone Polymerization. Triethylamine is an efficient initiator for the polymerization of cyclopropanone. This initiator caused polymerization to start almost immediately as evidenced by the rapid increase in temperature and the formation of a precipitate within 2-3 minutes. From the data in Table 1 there does not appear to be any correlation between the amount of initiator added and the molecular weight of the resultant polymer. One possible explanation for this is that the polymer was synthesized under heterogeneous conditions thus limiting the access of monomer to growing polymer chains. 

Rings Ha, b and c were found to polymerize in bulk with DMSO as an activator and various catalytic amounts of the anionic initiator, potassium poly(dimethylsiloxane)diolate (for polymerization of Ila and b, see (22)). The latter is well known as an efficient initiator of cyclosiloxane polymerization. Thus... 

Benzenetricarbonyl trichloride and l,2,4,5-tetrakis(bromomethyl) benzene were employed as multifunctional initiators for the synthesis of 3-and 4-arm PTHF stars, respectively [147]. The living ends were reacted with sodium 2-bromoisobutyrate followed by reduction with Sml2. The samarium enolates, thus formed were efficient initiators for the polymerization of MMA to give the (PTHF-fo-PMMA) , n = 3 or 4 star-block copolymers, according to Scheme 71. 

Bedard et al. [7] studied quantitatively the initiation of the peroxidation of human low-density lipoproteins (LDL) with H00702 . In accord with the above findings the initiation rate increased when pH decreased from 7.6 to 6.5. It was suggested that initiation occurred via hydrogen atom abstraction by perhydroxyl radical from endogenous a-tocopherol, which in this process exhibited prooxidant and not antioxidant properties. Neutral, positively, and negatively charged alkyl peroxyl free radicals were the more efficient initiators of LDL peroxidation compared to superoxide. 

It has been already pointed out that nitric oxide exhibits antioxidant effect in LDL oxidation at the NO/ 02 ratio 1. Under these conditions the antioxidant effect of NO prevails on the prooxidant effect of peroxynitrite. Although some earlier studies suggested the possibility of NO-mediated LDL oxidation [152,153], these findings were not confirmed [154]. On the other hand, at lower values of N0/02 ratio the formed peroxynitrite becomes an efficient initiator of LDL modification. Beckman et al. [155] suggested that peroxynitrite rapidly reacts with tyrosine residues to form 3-nitrotyrosine. Later on, Leeuwenburgh et al. [156] found that 3-nitrotyrosine was formed in the reaction of peroxynitrite with LDL. The level of 3-nitrotyrosine sharply differed for healthy subjects and patients with cardiovascular diseases LDL isolated from the plasma of healthy subjects contained a very low level of 3-nitrotyrosine (9 + 7 pmol/mol 1 of tyrosine), while LDL isolated from aortic atherosclerotic intima had a 90-fold higher level (840 + 140 pmol/moD1 of tyrosine). It has been proposed that peroxynitrite formed in the human artery wall is able to promote LDL oxidation in vivo. 

The heuristic value of equation (3) is that we can see what is required for a good initiator D and I(R ) must be as large a possible, and AHS(R+) should be small compared to AHS(RI>1+) in other words, as an efficient initiator we need a large cation whose parent radical has a high ionisation potential, and which forms a strong bond to monomer. On the last two counts the trityl cation must be one of the least suitable. These considerations indicate that the first four ions listed in Table 1 should merit detailed study as initiators for vinyl polymerisations. 

Having analysed to some extent the factors relevant to efficient initiation, i.e., the reactivity of initiating ions in forming propagating ions, we now consider the factors which... 

It was shown by means of conductivity measurements that (Xxr)0 = c0, the initial catalyst concentration, and that initiation is almost instantaneous, but the question to what extent free ions and ion-pairs are involved is not yet entirely clear, though it seems probable that free ions are dominant because of this uncertainty we will denote these propagation constants by k. For rapid and completely efficient initiation, and termination by reaction with polymer... 

Independently the Mn"5 pyrophosphate complexes were developed as efficient initiators at very low concentrations (1 to 3 mmole/1) for grafting of vinyl monomers to starch. High yields of polymer (over 90%) and very high grafting efficiencies (98-99%) were obtained by reactions for 1 to 3 h at room temperature ( 30°C) in moderately acidic aqueous media (pH = 1.5 to 2.0). Co rresponding grafting experiments have later been carried... 

The Mn + complexed ions appear to be the most selective and efficient initiator system for grafting to polysaccharides so far described. The mechanism of the initiation reaction has been studied in our laboratories by model experiments and ESR spectroscopy. There are two possible reactions indicated. Bond cleavage of a vicinal diol according to reaction (22) is one possibility. Another and faster reaction with Mn3+ giving radicals appears to be oxidation of aldehyde groups (24) to alkoxy radicals ... 

The formation R-CO radicals from glucose is verified by spintrapping experiments with tert-butyl-nitroxide and recorded ESR spectra for the resulting compound. Ring-closed vicinal diols indicate fast bond cleavage by Mn + oxidation and efficient initiation of vinyl polymerization., ... 

Due to the development of efficient initial-value representations of the semiclassical propagator, recently there has been considerable progress in the semiclassical description of multidimensional quantum processes [104—111,... 

In all of the cyclization reactions, Moeller has found only a small difference between the use of alkyl and silyl enol ethers. Since both styrenes and enol ethers have similar oxidation potentials, even the styrene moiety could function as the initiator for oxidative cyclization reactions. The anodic oxidation of simple styrene type precursors leads to low yields of cyclized products so that enol ether moiety seems to be the more efficient initiator for intramolecular anodic coupling reactions [93]. 

Initiation of reverse transcription in HIV-infected cells relies on a critical RNA-RNA interaction between tRNA y s, which is preferentially packaged into the viral particle, and a specific viral RNA seqnence. The 3 -terminaI 18 nucleotides of tRNA y are complementary to the primer binding site (PBS) sequence located in the 5 -Iong terminal repeat (LTR) of the viral RNA genome (Figure 10.3). The UUU anticodon of the tRNA is complementary to and binds to an adenosine rich loop located 8 nucleotides upstream (5 ) of the PBS. This RNA-RNA duplex which is formed when tRNA y s binds to the PBS fits within the active site of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, bnt mnitiple interactions between the viral RNA and tRNA y are necessary for efficient initiation of reverse transcription. This interaction nucleates the reverse transcription complex which contains viral RNA, reverse transcriptase, tRNA y pl , nncleocapsid p7, and Vpr (Viral protein R), as well as multiple host factors." ... 

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