High pressure techniques, application

Tfctcro-Diels Alder reaction is a powerful methodology in the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds. Using the high pressure technique has greatly extended the synthetic applications of this methodology. 

Inorganic and Bioinorganic Reaction Mechanisms Application of High-Pressure Techniques Rudi van Eldik, Carlos Diicker-Benfer, and Florian Thaler... 

Inorganic and Bioinorganic Reaction Mechanisms Application of High-Pressure Techniques... 

A prolific author, Professor van Eldik has been responsible for some 580 papers in refereed journals, and four books as editor or co-editor. His current research intrests are the application of high pressure techniques in mechanistic studies metal-catalyzed autoxidation processes and bioinorganic studies. As such he is eminently qualified to edit the prestigious Advances in Inorganic Chemistry. We are confident that he is a worthy successor to Professor Geoff Sykes and that he will maintain the high standards for which the series is known. 

INORGANIC AND BIOINORGANIC REACTION MECHANISMS APPLICATION OF HIGH-PRESSURE TECHNIQUES... 

In this section a number of different reaction types are presented, for which the application of high-pressure techniques has resulted in important mechanistic information. 

One of the principal applications of high pressure technique in industry is to increase the chemical reaction rate... 

Infrared, near-infrared (see Sec. 6.2), and Raman high-pressure techniques are very suitable tools for the characterization of fluid states and especially for the quantitative analysis of fluids. Sec. 6.7.2 shows a few cells which are u.sed for the vibrational spectroscopy of fluids at pressures up to a maximum of 7 kbar and at temperatures up to 650 °C, although the maximum conditions of both pressure and temperature arc not simultaneously applied (see also Buback, 1991). Sec. 6.7.3 describes changes in the vibrational spectra of polar substances and of aqueous solutions, and Sec. 6.7.4 presents a few applications of high-pressure spectroscopy in the investigation of chemical transformations. 

Since the late 1960s pressure has become a common and important variable in the study of chemical kinetics and equilibrium [11-13, 66]. High-pressure techniques have been developed for the majority of physicochemical methods (NMR, IR, and UV-visible spectroscopy, electrochemistry, etc.), generally up to 200 MPa (= 2000bars) pressure [14, 15]. Applications for organometallic aqueous systems are shown here. 

In this chapter, our focus will be on the application of high-pressure techniques in the study of the photochemical behavior of transition metal complexes (coordination, organometallic, and bioinorganic) in solution. This information is based on the very successful application of pressure techniques in the study of thermal reactions of transition metal complexes... 

Pressure is an important physical variable in materials science. The development of high-pressure techniques has led, in particular, during the last fifty years, to advances in fundamental scientific research and to industrial applications. 

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