Gas-to-liquid shifts

Results for improved by introducing the surrounding 4 water molecules into the cavity, but still only leads to 45% of the gas-to-liquid shift for the 170 nucleus (97). Likewise, this method fails to account for all of the gas-to-liquid shift of 19F in fluoromethanes (99) and of 77Se in H2Se (100). Clearly, medium effects can not be treated accurately by using a reaction field model. The major problem with the above two approaches is that only the electric polarization effects are included in the model. 

Nymand et al. ° performed molecular dynamics simulations on liquid water, and they used the electric field effect formalism [Eq. (6)] to explain the gas to liquid shifts of the and O nuclei. For the proton it turned out that the resulting gas to liquid shift of — 3.86 ppm at 300 K compared well with the experimental value of —4.70 ppm, whereas for O the method failed to reproduce the experiment. Even if electric field gradient terms are introduced, requiring additional quadrupolar shielding polarizabilities, no better results could be obtained for the O gas to liquid shifts. Isotropic proton chemical shifts are obviously a special case where many higher order terms cancel, hence it is justified to use the simple electric field equations in these chemical shift calculations. 

Tests regarding the ability of current computational approaches to reproduce NMR properties were provided by Bjomsson et al. [745, 746]. They predicted a small gas-to-liquid shift for the isotropic shielding constants. This again indicates that environmental effects on NMR shifts are well captured by cluster approaches. Gester et al. [747] investigated the gas-to-liquid shift for liquid ammonia. 

Table 3.2 Comparison of an excitation energy (eV) and a gas-to-liquid shift (eV) between experimental and DPT calculation using PCM for the n-jt and the n-3i Rydberg transition of acetone [8]...

There is a gas-to-liquid shift in the BF coupling constant in BF3. The density dependence of this coupling in the gas phase and the temperature dependence in the pure liquid (liquid density varies with temperature) are both measures of the effects of van der Waals interactions on the BF coupling constant. The effects of solvent on coupling constants have been reviewed by Barfield and Johnston. ... 

The option of using alternative forms of a function depending on the value of logical variables that identify the state of the process. Typical examples are the shift in the relations uSfed to calculate the friction factor from laminar to turbulent flow, or the calculation of P — V — T relations as the phase changes from gas to liquid. 

Dispersion interactions have been shown in the absence of other effects to be responsible for gas-to-liquid changes of chemical shifts 1>2). The dispersion contribution to the electric field effect on infrared and ultraviolet spectral transitions has been shown to be proportional to McRae term 10 n)... 

A weakly bound species is also observed with bands at 3220 and 1950 cm-1 which appear at higher pressures and are rapidly removed by evacuation at room temperature. The frequency shifts for these vibrations are similar in magnitude to those found on going from gas to liquid, but the relative pressures at which these bands are observed are much smaller than those considered normal for physisorption therefore, the authors considered that this species is weakly chemisorbed and probably held parallel to the surface. 

Another commercial example involving the use of a vessel-type PER is autothermal reforming (ATR) of natural gas. It is a key step in gas-to-liquid (GTL) processes and is used to produce synthesis gas (CO -1- H2) for FT synthesis in which a mixture of hydrocarbons in the C1-C30+ range is synthesized [6]. In ATR, noncatalytic oxidation (Reaction 1.4) and Ni-catalyzed steam reforming of natural gas (Reaction 1.2) are combined, and product distribution is affected by water-gas shift (Reaction 1.5), an important side reaction of steam reforming [3, 7] ... 

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