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Tables IV and V contain appropriate balance equations for nonisothermal free-radical polymerizations and copolymerizations, which are seen to conform to equation 2k. Following the procedure outlined above, we obtain the CT s for homopolymerizations listed in Table VI. Corresponding CT s for copolymerizations can be. obtained in a similar way, and indeed the first and fourth listed in Table VII were. The remaining ones, however, were derived via an alternate route based upon the definitions in Table VI labeled "equivalent" together with approximate forms for pj, which were necessitated by application of the Semenov-type runaway analysis to copolymerizations, and which will subsequently be described. Some useful dimensionless parameters defined in terms of these CT s appear in Tables VIII, IX and X.

In the range of temperatures and pressures where the reaction is substantially reversible, the kinetics is much more complicated. There is no grounds to consider chemical changes described by (272) and (273) as independent, not interconnected, reactions. Conversely, if processes (272) and (273) occur on the same surface sites, then free sites will act as intermediates of both processes. Thus one must use the general approach, treating (272) and (273) as overall equations of a certain single reaction mechanism. But if a reaction is described by two overall equations, its mechanism should include at least two basic routes hence, the concept of reaction rate in the forward and reverse directions can be inapplicable in this case. However, experiments show that water-gas equilibrium (273) is maintained with sufficient accuracy in the course of the reaction. Let us suppose that the number of basic routes of the reaction is 2 then, as it has been explained in Section VIII, since one of the routes is at equilibrium, the other route, viz., the route with (272) as overall equation, can be described in terms of forward, r+, and reverse, r, reaction rates. The observed reaction rate is then the difference of these... 

Hexafluorobutyne reacts with [WBr2(CO)4]2 to form an unusual five-coordinate complex, W(CF3C=CCF3)2(CO)Br2, with vco at 2172 cm-1, above the frequency of free carbon monoxide (2143 cm-1) or that of H3BCO (2165 cm-1) (86). Further data characterizing this material will be informative it is known to react with P(OMe)3, but it does not form an r>2-vinyl product (see Section VIII,A). 

The oxidation of cyclohexene has been the subject of considerable discussion, and it is now apparent that it behaves differently from the straight-chain olefins. Cyclohexene was originally reported to yield both cyclohex-2-en-l-yl acetate, structure (VII), and cyclohex-3-en-l-yl acetate, structure (VIII), in chloride-containing acetic acid (76) and only the allylic isomer with Pd(OAc)a in chloride-free acetic acid (6). However, it has now been demonstrated that if no oxidants are present to regenerate the Pd(0) to Pd(II) in neutral or basic HOAc, the Pd(0) formed will disproportionate the cyclohexene to give benzene (22, 295). In acetic acid containing perchloric acid, cyclohexanone (structure VIII) and cyclohex-1-en-l-yl acetate are formed (22). If Pd(0) is prevented from precipitating by use of oxidants in neutral or basic acetic acid, the allylic and homoallylic acetates are formed. 

It is supposed that each autosomal locus (the von Willebrand genes) and the X-chromosome locus (the hemophilia gene) create products at the same rate, molecule for molecule, and that these are polypeptide chains (designated A and B, respectively), which subsequently combine (in the cytoplasm of the synthesizing cells ) to form factor VIII. Since two A-chains are formed for each B-chain, an excess of free A-chains remains. In hemophilia all the B-chains are abnormal (Bi ), and thus the completed molecules (A+ + B ) are all abnormal, despite the normal A+ component the excess consists entirely of normal A-chains (A" "). In von Willebrand s disease some (heterozygote) or all (homozygote) of the completed molecules are abnormal because they contain abnormal A-chains (A ). The excess will contain free A -chains. 

Analogously, for any other fluctuating value, the average square fluctuation equals the ratio of kT to the second derivative of work (free energy) of fluctuations with respect to the fluctuating parameter. We will utilize this approach in describing the optical properties of disperse systems (further down in this chapter), the electric properties of aerosols (see Chapter VIII), and the conditions of the formation of critical emulsions (see Chapter VI,2). 

A reasonable first-order picture of the valence electron structure of a transition metal is a narrow (few eV s in the s-valence electron band) d-valence electron band overlapped by a broad s-valence electron band. The group VIII transition metals contain approximately one electron per atom. This is very different from the situation in the free atom and indicates the pre-hybridized nature of transition-metal electrons in the bulk or at the surface compared to the electronic structure of the free atoms. We will return to this in the next chapter. In this subsection we focus on the d-valence electron band structure. We ignore interaction between the s-and d-electrons, except by exchange of electrons so that the Fermi level of s- and d-valence electrons is the same. The number of d-valence electrons is a function of the periodic system. As sketched in Fig.(2.63), the d-valence electron bandwidth increases moving from right to left in a row of the periodic system. 

It is important to emphasize that this kinetic treatment is valid for any chain polymerization mechanisms, i.e., free radical, cationic, anionic, and coordination. However, in the case of the ionic mechanisms, the type of initiator used and the nature of the solvent medium may influence the g and r2 values. This is due to the fact that the growing chain end in ionic systems is generally associated with a counterion, so that the structure and reactivity of such chain ends can be expected to be affected by initiator and the solvent. This will be discussed in Section VIII C. 

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