Homogeneous acid-base catalysis

Modeling of Chemioal Kinetios and Reaotor Design ACID-BASE CATALYSIS HOMOGENEOUS LIQUID PHASE... 

A catalyst is defined as a substance that influences the rate or the direction of a chemical reaction without being consumed. Homogeneous catalytic processes are where the catalyst is dissolved in a liquid reaction medium. The varieties of chemical species that may act as homogeneous catalysts include anions, cations, neutral species, enzymes, and association complexes. In acid-base catalysis, one step in the reaction mechanism consists of a proton transfer between the catalyst and the substrate. The protonated reactant species or intermediate further reacts with either another species in the solution or by a decomposition process. Table 1-1 shows typical reactions of an acid-base catalysis. An example of an acid-base catalysis in solution is hydrolysis of esters by acids. 

Apart from acid-base catalysis, homogeneous catalysis occurs for other liquid-phase reactions. An example is the decomposition of H202 in aqueous solution catalyzed by iodide ion (II). The overall reaction is... 

Catalog of Teratogenic Agents, 25 209 Catalysis 5 200-254. See also Acid-base catalysis Catalyst entries Catalytic entries Heterogeneous catalysis Homogeneous catalysis Photocatalysis of aromatic reactions, 16 844 cerium applications, 5 685-688... 

Catalytic antibodies, like enzymes, must be isolated and purified to homogeneity before they can be studied. Initially this was done by using the hybridoma technique for isolation of monoclonal antibodies (Box 31-A). After induction of antibody formation by injecting a selected hapten into a mouse, large numbers of monoclonal antibodies had to be tested for catalytic activity. Even if several thousand different monoclonal antibodies were tested, only a few with catalytic properties could be found.1 Newer methods have incorporated recombinant DNA techniques (Box 31-A) and use of combinatorial libraries and phage display.) Incorporation of acidic or basic groups into the haptens used to induce antibody formation may yield antibodies capable of mimicking the acid-base catalysis employed by natural enzymes. 0... 

Comprehensive discussions are to be found in (a) M. L. Bender, Mechanisms of Homogeneous Catalysis from Protons to Proteins, Wiley, New York, 1971 (b) W. P. Jencks, Catalysis in Chemistry and Enzymology, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1969 (c) M. L. Bender, Ckem. Rev., 60, 53 (1960). For more specialized treatments of particular aspects, see (d) W. P. Jencks, Chem. Rev., 72, 705 (1972), general acid-base catalysis (e) S. L. Johnson, Advan. Phys. Org. Chem., 5,237 (1967), ester hydrolysis (f) L. P. Hammett, Physical Organic Chemistry, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1970, chap. 10, acid—base catalysis. 

Murakami et al. utilized catalytic bilayer membranes to catalyze the (1-replacement reaction of serine with indoles [44], The bilayer vesicle formed with 32 and 36 drastically accelerated the (1-replacement reaction by 51-fold (krel) relative to pyridoxal in homogeneous aqueous solution. They attributed this to the hydrophobic microenvironmental effect provided by the bilayer vesicle, which affords effective incorporation of indole molecules and elimination of water molecules in the reaction site. The imida-zolyl group of 33 enhanced the reaction further, krd being 130, possibly due to general acid-base catalysis by the imidazolyl group. Copper(n) ions also improved the reaction. 

The most common and most thoroughly studied type of homogeneous catalysis is acid-base catalysis. It includes hydrolysis, alcoholysis, esterification, and condensation reactions among many others. It is characterized by the fact that the equilibrium between base and conjugate acid, or between acid and conjugate base, is coupled with the actual catalytic cycle. 

As a general introduction, the first chapter deals with homogeneous catalysis of organic reactions, mainly acid—base catalysis, but also with nucleophilic catalysis and catalysis by metal ions. In Chapter 2, proton transfer to and from carbon is discussed and in Chapter 3 proton transfer to and from other atoms, mainly oxygen and nitrogen. 

In homogeneous catalysis (one phase in solution for example) the catalyst is usually another molecule or ion which itself occurs in an activated complex with a reduced value oiAG, and, when this decays to form the products, the catalyst re-emerges. Acid-base catalysis (p. 208) is of this type. 

The most important t5q)es of homogeneous catalysis in water are performed by acids, bases and trace metals. A wide variety of mechanisms have been outlined for acid/base catalysis and are presented in kinetics texts (e.g. Moore and Pearson, 1981 Laidler, 1965). A number of bases have been observed to catalyze the hydration of carbon dioxide (Moore and Pearson, 1981 Dennard and Williams, 1966). Examples are listed in Table 9.7 for OH and the base Co(NH3)gOH2. The most dramatic effect is the catalysis of HS-oxidation by cobalt-4,4, 4",4"-tetrasulfophthalocyanine (Co-TSP ). At concentrations of 0.1 nM Co-TSP the reaction rate was catalyzed from a mean life of roughly 50 h to about 5 min. The investigators attributed the reason for historically inconsistent experimentally determined reaction rates for the H2S-O2 system by different researchers partly to contamination by metals. Clearly, catalysis by metal concentrations that are present in less than nanomolar concentrations is likely to be effective in aquatic systems. We shall see that similar arguments apply to catalysis by surfaces and enzymes. 

We shall now look at a particular type of homogeneous catalyst that is very important in organic chemistry, namely acid/base catalysis. 

Prior to 1970 the term homogeneous catalysis usually connoted acid-base catalysis, and this is the best understood type of catalysis . Since then, however, homogeneous catalysis has come to mean primarily transition-metal-complex catalysis, which has been the object of intensive research motivated in part by a series of technological accomplishments . ... 

M. L. Bender, Mechanisms of Homogeneous Catalysis form Protons to Proteins, Wiley Inter-science, New York, 1971. Includes a thorough review of acid-base catalysis. 

An attempt has been made to study the working mechanism of ionites during the catalytic hydration of 4-cyanopyridine on AB-17-8 ionite in OH form [28-31a]. TWo mechanisms have been proposed the catalysis by counterions and the catalysis by fixed ionite ions. According to the former mechanism, the reaction proceeds by the homogeneous acid-base route ... 

At low pH, acid catalysis promotes hydrolysis but hinders both condensation and dissolution reactions, " leading to small and homogeneous particles. Base catalysis of sol-gel hydrolysis and condensation reactions, in contrast, promotes fast condensation and dissolution. This leads to the production of an inhomogeneous system due to rapid condensation of the hydrolyzed precursor monomers and to dense silica particles formed by the ripening of aggregates during the collision of droplets. As a result, the microparticles show essentially no porosity, with the particles being stabilized by a water/surfactant layer on the particle surface that prevents particle precipitation. ... 

Acid/base catalysis is probably the oldest type of homogenous catalytic reactions. Following the definitions by Bronstedt [6] and Lowry [7], the acids are proton donators and the bases are proton acceptors. Let us consider a bimolecular catalytic reaction with the equation presented as following ... 

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