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Dewar and his co-workers, as mentioned above, investigated the reactivities of a number of polycyclic aromatic compounds because such compounds could provide data especially suitable for comparison with theoretical predictions ( 7.2.3). This work was extended to include some compounds related to biphenyl. The results were obtained by successively compounding pairs of results from competitive nitrations to obtain a scale of reactivities relative to that of benzene. Because the compounds studied were very reactive, the concentrations of nitric acid used were relatively small, being o-i8 mol 1 in the comparison of benzene with naphthalene, 5 x io mol 1 when naphthalene and anthanthrene were compared, and 3 x io mol 1 in the experiments with diphenylamine and carbazole. The observed partial rate factors are collected in table 5.3. Use of the competitive method in these experiments makes them of little value as sources of information about the mechanisms of the substitutions which occurred this shortcoming is important because in the experiments fuming nitric acid was used, rather than nitric acid free of nitrous acid, and with the most reactive compounds this leads to a... 

Metal-free copper phthalocyanine blue, ie. Pigment Blue 16 [574-93-6] is one of the eadiest forms of phthalocyanine. Environmental concerns about copper in pigments tended to increase the use of metal-free copper phthalocyanine, but certain shortcomings (greenish hue, lack of stabiHty in aromatic solvents) allowed only specialty uses (109). The stabiH2ed a-NC-type is used in certain automotive coatings. 

In comparison with hydrocarbon and polymeric matrices, which have their own absorptions in the IR and can react chemically with the intermediates, inert gas matrices are free of these shortcomings. Neon, krypton and xenon have been used as matrix substances in some studies. However, only argon and nitrogen matrices are widely adopted because of the availability of the pure gases and the fact that there is a variety of cryostats that can provide the optimal temperature conditions for the formation of rigid and transparent matrices from these elements. 

Gee and Orr have pointed out that the deviations from theory of the heat of dilution and of the entropy of dilution are to some extent mutually compensating. Hence the theoretical expression for the free energy affords a considerably better working approximation than either Eq. (29) for the heat of dilution or Eq. (28) for the configurational entropy of dilution. One must not overlook the fact that, in spite of its shortcomings, the theory as given here is a vast improvement over classical ideal solution theory in applications to polymer solutions. 

Most of the force fields described in the literature and of interest for us involve potential constants derived more or less by trial-and-error techniques. Starting values for the constants were taken from various sources vibrational spectra, structural data of strain-free compounds (for reference parameters), microwave spectra (32) (rotational barriers), thermodynamic measurements (rotational barriers (33), nonbonded interactions (1)). As a consequence of the incomplete adjustment of force field parameters by trial-and-error methods, a multitude of force fields has emerged whose virtues and shortcomings are difficult to assess, and which depend on the demands of the various authors. In view of this, we shall not discuss numerical values of potential constants derived by trial-and-error methods but rather describe in some detail a least-squares procedure for the systematic optimisation of potential constants which has been developed by Lifson and Warshel some time ago (7 7). Other authors (34, 35) have used least-squares techniques for the optimisation of the parameters of nonbonded interactions from crystal data. Overend and Scherer had previously applied procedures of this kind for determining optimal force constants from vibrational spectroscopic data (36). 

In hindsight, the primary factor in determining which approach is most applicable to a particular reacting flow is the characteristic time scales of the chemical reactions relative to the turbulence time scales. In the early applications of the CRE approach, the chemical time scales were larger than the turbulence time scales. In this case, one can safely ignore the details of the flow. Likewise, in early applications of the FM approach to combustion, all chemical time scales were assumed to be much smaller than the turbulence time scales. In this case, the details of the chemical kinetics are of no importance, and one is free to concentrate on how the heat released by the reactions interacts with the turbulent flow. More recently, the shortcomings of each of these approaches have become apparent when applied to systems wherein some of the chemical time scales overlap with the turbulence time scales. In this case, an accurate description of both the turbulent flow and the chemistry is required to predict product yields and selectivities accurately. 

The main shortcoming of the molecular dynamics approach discussed in the previous section is that it ignores the fact that an electron transfer at the solution/metal interface occurs between an ion in a well-defined electronic state and a continuum of electronic states in the metal. For example, depending on the ion s orbital energy, the reorganization free energy and the overpotential, the electron could be transferred from, or to, any level around the Fermi level of the metal. Therefore, a sum over all these possibilities must be performed. Analytical theories of electron transfer at the solution/metal interface recognized this issue very early on, and the reader is referred to many excellent expositions on this sub-... 

Several limitations and shortcomings are associated with the use of micelles as the pseudosta-tionary phase. Besides the irreversible incorporation of very hydrophobic compounds within the micelles, other analytes snch as proteins may strongly interact with the free molecules of the surfactant in solntion. Moreover, the significant influence of operational parameters such as temperature, pH, and composition of the BGE on the dynamic aggregation of the surfactant molecules may result in instable micelles and consequent irreproducibility. 

EXAMPLE 13.6 An Entropic Model for Steric Stabilization Due to Adsorbed Polymer Layers. Picture a flat surface to which rigid rods are attached by ball-and-socket-type joints. The free ends of the rods can lie anywhere on the surface of a hemisphere. The approach of a second surface blocks access to some of the sites on the cap of the hemisphere. Outline the qualitative argument that converts this physical picture to a theory for stabilization. What are some of the shortcomings of the model ... 

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