Esters, carboxylic acid analysis

Calixarenes, which are macrocyclic compounds, are one of the best building blocks to design molecular hosts in supramolecular chemistry [158]. Synthesis of calix[4]arenes, which have been adamantylated, has been reported [105, 109]. In calix[4]arenes, adamantane or its ester/carboxylic acid derivatives were introduced as substituents (Fig. 29). The purpose of this synthesis was to learn how to employ the flexible chemistry of adamantane in order to construct different kinds of molecular hosts. The X-ray structure analysis of p-(l-adamantyl)thiacalix[4]arene [109] demonstrated that it contained four CHCI3 molecules, one of which was located inside the host molecule cavity, and the host molecule assumed the cone-like conformational shape (Fig. 30). 

Following extraction/cleanup, quinoxaline-2-carboxylic acid can be detected by electron capture, or mass spectrometric techniques, after gas chromatographic separation on capillary or conventional columns. A prerequisite of quin-oxaline-2-carboxylic acid analysis by gas chromatography is the derivatization of the molecule by means of esterification. Esterification has been accomplished with methanol (419, 420, 422), ethanol (421), or propanol (423) under sulfuric acid catalysis. Further purification of the alkyl ester derivative with solid-phase extraction on a silica gel column (422), thin-layer chromatography on silica gel plate (420), or liquid chromatography on Hypersil-ODS, 3 m, column (423), has been reported. 

The gas chromatographic separation of acids present in plasticizers, apart from identifying volatile aliphatic carboxylic acids up to Ce, deals mainly with methyl esters. Carboxylic acids, present either as free acids or as alkali salts after saponification of the plasticizers, must be esterified. Conversion with methanol in presence of boron trifluoride (2) is recommended. But even better suited for plasticizer analysis is direct re-esterification of the plasticizers writh methanolic hydrochloric acid (2). 

The X-ray crystal analysis of 5-trimethylsilanyl-4-trimethylsilanylethynyl-l//-pyrazole-3-carboxylic acid ethyl ester was obtained only with / = 0.17 because the crystals of the molecule diffracted extremely weakly and only a very limited data set was available. This means that although the gross stereochemistry of the molecule has been determined, individual bond lengths are not reliable (88JOM247). 

Highly concentrated ether carboxylic acids with a low degree of ethoxylation even at room temperature can give an esterification reaction with the non-converted nonionic, especially with the fatty alcohol, to several percentage points. The result may be that a too low value is found for the ether carboxylate content. This mistake in analysis can be avoided by saponification of the formed ester [238]. Two hundred to 300 mg matter and ca 100 mg NaOH were weighed in a 50-ml Erlenmeyer glass, heated with 20 ml ethanol under reflux, and after cooling supplied with water to 100 ml. Afterward a two-phase titration was carried out. 

Obviously, use of such databases often fails in case of interaction between additives. As an example we mention additive/antistat interaction in PP, as observed by Dieckmann et al. [166], In this case analysis and performance data demonstrate chemical interaction between glycerol esters and acid neutralisers. This phenomenon is pronounced when the additive is a strong base, like synthetic hydrotalcite, or a metal carboxylate. Similar problems may arise after ageing of a polymer. A common request in a technical support analytical laboratory is to analyse the additives in a sample that has prematurely failed in an exposure test, when at best an unexposed control sample is available. Under some circumstances, heat or light exposure may have transformed the additive into other products. Reaction product identification then usually requires a general library of their spectroscopic or mass spectrometric profiles. For example, Bell et al. [167] have focused attention on the degradation of light stabilisers and antioxidants... 

Hunt et al. [354] used cSFC for the separation of extracts of poly(alkylene glycol) lubricants and sorbitan ester formulations. Doehl et al. [337] have compared the performance of cSFC-FID and pSFC-FID with both scC02 and scN20 in the analysis of the antiblocking agents oleamide and erucamide, the antistatic Armostat 400 and antioxidant Hostanox SE-10, none of which can be detected by UV absorption. By using open-tubular capillary columns, PAs as well as (un)substituted heavy carboxylic acids (> C ) can be eluted. 

Since the analysis of terpenic compounds is often performed together with lipids, silylation has the advantage of being able to differentiate between carboxylic acids and naturally occurring methyl esters, which can be found for example in some terpenic resins and extracted together with lipids. 

For each alkylated extract, there was an absorption at 1700 cm which was absent in the untreated extract. This absorption may be attributed to esters that form from alkylation of carboxylic acids. This interpretation is consistent with the NMR analysis described below. For each O-alkylated extract, there was an increase in the intensity of the C-H absorption bands at 2800-3000 cm consistent with the introduction of aliphatic carbon. 

The enantiomeric composition and absolute configuration of a-deuteriated primary carboxylic acids can be determined by H- and 2H-NMR analysis of the corresponding esters of methyl (S)-mandelate71 72. 

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