High-affinity reaction

Inspired by the many hydrolytically-active metallo enzymes encountered in nature, extensive studies have been performed on so-called metallo micelles. These investigations usually focus on mixed micelles of a common surfactant together with a special chelating surfactant that exhibits a high affinity for transition-metal ions. These aggregates can have remarkable catalytic effects on the hydrolysis of activated carboxylic acid esters, phosphate esters and amides. In these reactions the exact role of the metal ion is not clear and may vary from one system to another. However, there are strong indications that the major function of the metal ion is the coordination of hydroxide anion in the Stem region of the micelle where it is in the proximity of the micelle-bound substrate. The first report of catalysis of a hydrolysis reaction by me tall omi cell es stems from 1978. In the years that... 

Chapter 5, may provide a rationale. Conclusions derived from a number of H-MVIR measurements indicate that cyclopentadiene has a high affinity for the interior of the micelles that were investigated, whereas the dienophile prefers the outer regions. In view of the structures of most dienes and dienophiles such a spatial separation can be expected for the majority of Diels-Alder reactions. This arrangement accounts for the unexpectedly small influence of micelles on the rates of Diels-Alder reactions as reported in the literature. 

Chapter 5 describes a study of the effect of micelles on the Diels-Alder reaction of 1 with 2. Literature studies on micellar catalysis of Diels-Alder reactions invariably failed to reveal significant accelerations. These results are unexpected, since most Diels-Alder reactants have a high affinity for... 

Collectors ndFrothers. Collectors play a critical role ia flotation (41). These are heteropolar organic molecules characterized by a polar functional group that has a high affinity for the desired mineral, and a hydrocarbon group, usually a simple 2—18 carbon atom hydrocarbon chain, that imparts hydrophobicity to the minerals surface after the molecule has adsorbed. Most collectors are weak acids or bases or their salts, and are either ionic or neutral. The mode of iateraction between the functional group and the mineral surface may iavolve a chemical reaction, for example, chemisorption, or a physical iateraction such as electrostatic attraction. 

Alkali is usually added in a second stage. However, with low reactivity high affinity dyes it is possible to add the alkah at the beginning of the dyeing process and control the rate of uptake and chemical reaction by temperature control. With high affinity dyes the exhaustion takes place at low temperature rapidly before the chemical reaction becomes significant. If dyes are carefully selected or synthesized to have identical dye uptake it is possible to include all the electrolyte from the beginning and operate an "ah-in" technique. 

Recently, a one-pot method for preparation of 2-aryl-1,5-benzotelluroazepines 60 has been developed based on the reaction of sodium 2-aminophenyltellurolate [from di(o-aminophenyl) ditelluride) with arylpropargyl aldehydes (99MI1). Considering the high affinity of supemucleophilic aryltellurolate anions to a triple bond, one may assume that at the first stage of this reaction arylvinyl tellurides 61 are formed. Cyclization of 61 spontaneously or on silica gel in a chromatographic column forms the heterocycles 60. 

Protophilic solvents are substances such as liquid ammonia, amines and ketones which possess a high affinity for protons. The overall reaction taking place can be represented as ... 

The catalytic cycle of the Na+/K+-ATPase can be described by juxtaposition of distinct reaction sequences that are associated with two different conformational states termed Ei and E2 [1]. In the first step, the Ei conformation is that the enzyme binds Na+ and ATP with very high affinity (KD values of 0.19-0.26 mM and 0.1-0.2 pM, respectively) (Fig. 1A, Step 1). After autophosphorylation by ATP at the aspartic acid within the sequence DKTGS/T the enzyme occludes the 3 Na+ ions (Ei-P(3Na+) Fig. la, Step 2) and releases them into the extracellular space after attaining the E2-P 3Na+ conformation characterized by low affinity for Na+ (Kq5 = 14 mM) (Fig. la, Step 3). The following E2-P conformation binds 2 K+ ions with high affinity (KD approx. 0.1 mM Fig. la, Step 4). The binding of K+ to the enzyme induces a spontaneous dephosphorylation of the E2-P conformation and leads to the occlusion of 2 K+ ions (E2(2K+) Fig. la, Step 5). Intracellular ATP increases the extent of the release of K+ from the E2(2K+) conformation (Fig. la, Step 6) and thereby also the return of the E2(2K+) conformation to the EiATPNa conformation. The affinity ofthe E2(2K+) conformation for ATP, with a K0.5 value of 0.45 mM, is very low. 

The initiator efficiency has to be considered jointly with the monomers involved The nucleophilicity of the initiator should be matched to the electron affinity of the monomer, as initiation should be fast and quantitative 7). If it is too small, initiation may be slow (and/or incomplete), which implies broadening of the molecular weight distribution and possibly loss of molecular weight control. If the nucleophilicity of the initiator is too high, side reactions may occur, as in the case of methyl methacrylate, where the ester carbonyl is attacked15). 

This reaction occurs in the temperature range of 900-1300°C at low pressure (ca. 10 Torr). Tantalum has a high affinity for hydrogen and, for that reason, it is preferable to heat and cool the reactor in an inert atmosphere such as argon. The hydrogen reduction of the bromide or iodide is also feasible but is used less frequently. 

An alternative method for preparing phosphinous amides makes a profit on the high affinity between silicon and halogen atoms. This is the driving force of the reactions between halophosphanes and Ar-(trimethylsilyl)anilines, AT-(tri-methylsilyl)amides or AT-(trimethylsilyl)ureas and thioureas, as represented in the Scheme 6. In these processes the desired P-N bond and an halosilane are simultaneously formed [53,58-60]. 

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