Glassy amorphous solids

In a closed system equipped with an oil bubbler, 30 ml of tetrahydrofuran were added to a mixture of 4-amino-5-chloro-2-methoxybenzoic acid, 2.02 g (0.010 mole) and l,l -carbonyldiimidazole, 1.62 g (0.010 mole) with stirring. When evolution of carbon dioxide ceased, nitrogen was bubbled through the reaction mixture for 1 hr. A solution of 3-aminoquinuclidine, 1.26 g (0.010 mole) in 10 ml tetrahydrofuran was added dropwise to the stirred reaction mixture and stirring at room temperature continued for 3 hrs. TLC analysis (3% cone, ammonium hydroxide solution in methanol) showed some product formation. The mixture was heated at reflux temperature for 18 hours and then concentraded to an oil. TLC analysis showed the presence of the product, imidazole and 3-aminoquinuclidine. The oil was dissolved in methylene chloride (75 ml) and washed twice with 50 ml portions of aqueous sodium bicarbonate solution. The methylene chloride layer was dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and concentrated to yield 2.0 g (67%) of a glassy amorphous solid, the free base of the title compound. 

C fi3 diamond films can be deposited on a wide range of substrates (metals, semi-conductors, insulators single crystals and polycrystalline solids, glassy and amorphous solids). Substrates can be abraded to facilitate nucleation of the diamond film. 

Bodies in which the physical properties are identical in all directions e.g., glass, air, water. This class of bodies includes all gases, most liquids, and the so - called amorphous solids such as glasses (that is, solids showing no external crystalline form, and breaking with a glassy fracture). Bodies of this type are called Isotropic Bodies. 

This difference in spatial characteristics has a profound effect upon the polymer s physical and chemical properties. In thermoplastic polymers, application of heat causes a change from a solid or glassy (amorphous) state to a flowable liquid. In thermosetting polymers, the change of state occurs from a rigid solid to a soft, rubbery composition. The glass transition temperature, Tg, ... 

As polymers solidify from the molten state, their free volume decreases and their organization increases. Solid polymers fall into one of three classes rubbery amorphous, glassy amorphous, and semicrystalline, which we introduced in Chapter 1. 

Solid polymers can adopt a wide variety of structures, all of which are derived from the three basic states rubbery amorphous, glassy amorphous, and crystalline. Either of the amorphous states can exist in a pure form. However, crystallinity only occurs in conjunction with one of the amorphous states, to form a semicrystalline structure. 

Figure 5.23 Irregular diffusion energy barrier encountered in glassy or amorphous solids.

Once in the amorphous solid state, undesirable changes in the properties of amorphous ingredients and foods (e.g., stickiness, caking, collapse, loss of crispness) can occur via a reversal in the two events discussed earlier (1) an increase in moisture content (water plasticization) so that the Tg of a material is decreased to below room temperature and (2) an increase in temperature [thermal plasticization (Roos, 2003)] so that the temperature of the material rises above its Tg. In both cases and their combination, the once glassy material is now in a rubbery or liquid state and is undesirable and/or unfit for consumption. 

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The other class of motion only now being introduced into interpretive models is oscillatory motion. Anisotropic oscillatory motions of substituent groups have been considered by Chachaty (12) but not in conjunction with a lattice description of backbone motion. No attempt to develop a model based on oscillatory backbone rearrangements is known to these authors, and this avenue may be very important for the interpretation of concentrated solutions, rubbery or amorphous solids, and especially glassy polymers... 

Figure 1.49 Comparison of preparation procedures of noncrystalline solids illustrating the difference between glassy and amorphous solids. Reprinted, by permission, from H. Scholze, Glass, p. 123. Copyright 1991 by Springer-Verlag.

The properties of the polysilanes, like those of the polyphosphazenes, depend greatly on the nature of the substituent groups. Polysilanes cover the entire range of properties from highly crystalline and insoluble, through partially crystalline, flexible solids, to glassy amorphous materials and rubbery elastomers. 

M. M. (2001) Chiral studies in amorphous solids The effect of the polymeric glassy state on the racemization kinetics of bridged paddled binaphthyls. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 123,... 

Glass is a state of matter. It is a solid produced by cooling molten material so that the internal arrangement of atoms, or molecules, remains in a random or disordered state, similar to the arrangement in a liquid. Such a solid is said to be amorphous or glassy. Ordinary solids, by contrast, have regular crystalline structures. The difference is illustrated in Figure 1. 

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