Functional groups entropy

Because the entropy of formation in Hildebrand theory is ideal, this approach should be restricted to those systems in which there are no structure effects due to solute-solvent and solvent-solvent interactions. The implication of this is that the solute should be non-ionic and not have functional groups which can interact with the solvent. According to Equation (4.8), the maximum solubility occurs when the Hildebrand parameter of the solvent is equal to the Hildebrand parameter of the solute. That is, when plotting the solubility versus the Hildebrand parameter, the solubility exhibits a maximum when the solubility parameter of the solvent is equal to the solubility parameter of the solute. 

Where this factor plays a role, the hydrophobic interaction between the hydrocarbon chains of the surfactant and the non-polar parts of protein functional groups are predominant. An example of this effect is the marked endothermic character of the interactions between the anionic CITREM and sodium caseinate at pH = 7.2 (Semenova et al., 2006), and also between sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and soy protein at pH values of 7.0 and 8.2 (Nakai et al., 1980). It is important here to note that, when the character of the protein-surfactant interactions is endothermic (/.< ., involving a positive contribution from the enthalpy to the change in the overall free energy of the system), the main thermodynamic driving force is considered to be an increase in the entropy of the system due to release into bulk solution of a great number of water molecules. This entropy... 

Enfolding a substrate in this way can serve to maximize the favorable entropy change associated with removing a hydrophobic substrate molecule from water. It also allows the enzyme to control the electrostatic effects that promote formation of the transition state. The substrate is forced to respond to the directed electrostatic fields from the enzyme s functional groups, instead of the disordered fields from the solvent. 

Polymer-analogous variants reach their limits in the face of insufficient rigidity of the functionalised linear polymers which can lead to undesired coiled structures. These have to re-assume a linear structure, with an attendant loss of entropy, in order to assure reaction of all the dendrons with the functional groups attached to the backbone. The dendrons are mostly added in excess in order to facilitate complete reaction, which in turn necessitates tedious purification of the products. The additional steric hindrance occurring on attachment of larger dendrons if higher generation dendrons are already located in the close... 

It is clear that in the asymmetric epoxidation of allyl alcohols, coordination by the OH functionality to the titanium center plays a crucial role. Such a coordination has a favorable effect on the entropy of activation, that is, the rate constant (see Question 14 of Chapter 8). It also helps to orient only one of the two possible enantiofaces for a facile oxygen atom transfer. With alkenes that do not have any such functional groups, the titanium tartarate system gives poor enantioselectivities. The precatalyst that has been found to exhibit re-... 

In the 1960 s and 1970 s, much indirect evidence was obtained in favour of protein intramolecular mobility, i.e. the entropy and energy specificity of enzyme catalysis (Likhtenshtein, 1966, 1976a, b, 1979, 1988 Lumry and Rajender, 1970 Lumry and Gregory, 1986). The first observations made concerned the transglobular conformational transition during substrate-protein interaction (Likhtenshtein, 1976), the reactivity of functional groups inside the protein globule, and proteolysis. 

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