Electron effects - activator

Electronic effects within the acid portion of the precursor have also been utilized for enhanced reactivity. The 4-hydroxybenzenesulfonate ester of octanoyloxyacetic acid, (15), undergoes efficient perhydrolysis at lower pHs because of the activation of the susceptible carbonyl by the beta-oxygen of the hydrophobic tail (100). 

As might be expected from a consideration of electronic effects, an amino substituent activates pyrazines, quinoxalines and phenazines to electrophilic attack, usually at positions ortho and para to the amino group thus, bromination of 2-aminopyrazine with bromine in acetic acid yields 2-amino-3,5-dibromopyrazine (Scheme 29). 

Nickel and palladium react with a number of olefins other than ethylene, to afford a wide range of binary complexes. With styrene (11), Ni atoms react at 77 K to form tris(styrene)Ni(0), a red-brown solid that decomposes at -20 °C. The ability of nickel atoms to coordinate three olefins with a bulky phenyl substituent illustrates that the steric and electronic effects (54,141) responsible for the stability of a tris (planar) coordination are not sufficiently great to preclude formation of a tris complex rather than a bis (olefin) species as the highest-stoichiometry complex. In contrast to the nickel-atom reaction, chromium atoms react (11) with styrene, to form both polystyrene and an intractable material in which chromium is bonded to polystyrene. It would be interesting to ascertain whether such a polymeric material might have any catal3dic activity, in view of the current interest in polymer-sup-ported catalysts (51). 

This manuscript describes the dendritic macromolecules for optical and optoelectronic apph-cations, particularly stimulated emission, laser emission, and nonlinear optics. Dendrimers have been designed and synthesized for these applications based on simple concepts. A coreshell structure, through the encapsulation of active imits by dendritic branches, or a cone-shaped structure, through the step-by-step reactions of active imits, can provide particular benefits for the optical high-gain media and nonlinear optical materials. It also described experimental results that support the methods presented for designing and fabricating functionalized dendrimers for optoelectronic applications, and theoretical results that reveal the intermolecular electronic effect of the dendritic structure. 

Here qi2D-vib refers to the electronic ground state of the transition state and q -vih to the vibrational ground state of the transition state. We have combined the t vo zero-point vibrations vith AE into an effective activation energy A act- We shall later explain how this important quantity can be measured. 

Susac et al. [33] showed that the cobalt-selenium (Co-Se) system prepared by sputtering and chemical methods was catalytically active toward the ORR in an acidic medium. Lee et al. [34] synthesized ternary non-noble selenides based on W and Co by the reaction of the metal carbonyls and elemental Se in xylenes. These W-Co-Se systems showed catalytic activity toward ORR in acidic media, albeit lower than with Pt/C and seemingly proceeding as a two-electron process. It was pointed out that non-noble metals too can serve as active sites for catalysis, in fact generating sufficient activity to be comparable to that of a noble metal, provided that electronic effects have been induced by the chalcogen modification. 

OS 41a] ]R 19] ]P 30] Ten different substrates (C4-C8 alcohols) were reacted with rhodium(I)-tris(fn-sulfophenyl)phosphane [110]. The variance in conversions (ranging from about 1-62%) determined was explained by differences in the solubility of the alcohols in the aqueous catalytic layer and by their different intrinsic activities. Chain length and steric/electronic effects of the different alcohols affected their reactivity in a well-known pattern (Figure 4.63). The results obtained correspond to the conversions achieved in a well-mixed traditional batch reactor (40 cm ). They further agreed with data from mono-phasic processing. 

A study of the rates of water-catalyzed detritiation of six disulfonyl-activated carbon acids contains results of interest in connection with electronic effects . Thus the carbanion stabilizing abilities of several groups as measured kinetically lie in the order SOjPh > SOjEt > S02Me. 

This means that the improvement of catalytic activity of Pd nanoparticles by involving the Pt core is completely attributed to the electronic effect of the core Pt upon shell Pd. Such clear conclusion can be obtained in this bimetallic system only because the Pt-core/Pd-shell structure can be precisely analyzed by EXAFS and Pd atoms are catalytically active while Pt atoms are inactive. 

We infer the importance of the FeO c/Au interface which occurs for films as well as nanoparticles. However, since we observe FeO c/Au nanoparticles/Si02/Si(l 0 0) to be the most active of all samples we advance the hypothesis of the occurrence of a strong electronic effect at the FeOJ nanoparticle interface coupling through the FeO layer thus producing the high catalytic activity. Au promotion was also experienced in the catalytic activity of Ti02 overlayers [207]. 

This electronic effect increases the stability of the anion created by the proton loss more than the phenolic one. It may therefore be assumed that the reactions linked to the substitution of the active hydrogen are more dangerous than with alcohols. 

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