1.2- Elimination reactions, characteristics temperature effects

Appropriate reactor structuring therefore appears as a relevant intensification strategy by offering new dimensions for operation, microstructured reactors can be used to modify selectively the hierarchy and choose the phenomenon that should impose its efficiency on the system. For example, reducing the characteristic dimension accelerates transfer phenomena with respect to homogeneous reactions, enabling one to eliminate detrimental temperature effects. 

In a detailed study, the scope and limitations of the Diels-Alder reaction of amidines and related compounds with 1,3,5-triazines arc discussed.10 The reactions with the amidine hydrochlorides 15 (X = NH2) are best conducted at temperatures of 90-100 °C and in polar aprotic solvents (particularly in dimethylformamide). As expected for inverse electron demand Diels-Alder reactions, the reaction exhibits characteristic 1,3,5-triazine substituent effects (C02Et >HI> SMe). Thioimidates, e.g. 15 (X — SMe), undergo a similar reaction with 1,3,5-tri-azines with varying yields and competing amine or thiol elimination while imidates, e.g. 15 (X = OMe) are unreactive under the examined reaction conditions.10... 

Polar Vinyl Monomers The anionic polymerization of polar vinyl monomers is often complicated by side reactions of the monomer with both anionic initiators and growing carbanionic chain ends, as well as chain termination and chain transfer reactions. However, synthesis of polymers with well-defined structures can be effected under carefully controlled conditions. The anionic polymerizations of alkyl methacrylates and 2-vinylpyridine exhibit the characteristics of living polymerizations under carefully controlled reaction conditions and low polymerization temperatures to minimize or eliminate chain termination and transfer reactions [118, 119]. Proper choice of initiator for anionic polymerization of polar vinyl monomers is of critical importance to obtain polymers with predictable, well-defined structures. As an example of an initiator that is too reactive, the reaction of methyl methacrylate (MMA)... 

Various parameters must be considered when selecting a reactor for multiphase reactions, such as the number of phases involved, the differences in the physical properties of the participating phases, the post-reaction separation, the inherent reaction nature (stoichiometry of reactants, intrinsic reaction rate, isothermal/ adiabatic conditions, etc.), the residence time required and the mass and heat transfer characteristics of the reactor For a given reaction system, the first four aspects are usually controlled to only a limited extent, if at aH, while the remainder serve as design variables to optimize reactor performance. High rates of heat and mass transfer improve effective rates and selectivities and the elimination of transport resistances, in particular for the rapid catalytic reactions, enables the reaction to achieve its chemical potential in the optimal temperature and concentration window. Transport processes can be ameliorated by greater heat exchange or interfadal surface areas and short diffusion paths. These are easily attained in microstructured reactors. 

In the continuing effort to improve the quality of ceramic powders, preferred characteristics include small and uniform particle size (<1.0 pm) and a nonagglomerated state of dispersion. Several attempts have been reported involving chemical techniques that produce ceramic powders with nanosize particles (1-7). These chemical techniques have been shown to be advantageous by eliminating the need for high temperature calcination reactions and milling procedures to achieve fine particle sizes. Processes that produce the final powder at low temperature and fast reaction time result in a more cost effective material. 

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