Derivatives Hydrocarbons

Just as the alkanes and alkenes had general formulas, the carbon derivatives all have general formulas. The hydrocarbon backbone provides a portion of the general formula, and the functional group provides the other part. In each case, the hydrocarbon derivative is represented by the formula R-, and the hydrocarbon backbone has its own specific formula. The term substituted hydrocarbon is another name for hydrocarbon derivative, because the functional group is substituted for one or more hydrogen atoms in the chemical reaction. 

Hydrocarbon-derivative compounds do not occur naturally. They are manmade from hydrocarbon compounds, as discussed earlier, with some additional elements added. Hydrocarbon derivatives belong to families just as the hydrocarbons. In order to make hydrocarbon derivatives, hydrogen needs to be removed from the alkane family. Alkene hydrocarbons have one or more double bonds that can be broken and 

Other elements added. They may or may not have hydrogen removed. Elements commonly added to hydrocarbon compounds to create hydrocarbon derivatives include oxygen, ninogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine. Together with the hydrocarbons, these elements make up over 50% of all hazardous materials. 

Dimethylamine, (CH3)2NH, an amine hydrocarbon derivative, is a gas with an ammonia-like odor. It is a dangerous fire risk, with a flammable range of 2.8 to 14% in air. It is insoluble in water. The vapor density is 1.55, which is heavier than air. The boiling point is 44°F, and the ignition temperature is 806°F. Dimethylamine is an irritant, with a TLV of 10 ppm in air. The four-digit UN identification number is 1032. The NFPA 704 designation is health 3, flammability 4, and reactivity 0. The 

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Langmuir also gave needed emphasis to the importance of employing pure substances rather than the various natural oils previously used. He thus found that the limiting area (at the Pockels point) was the same for palmitic, stearic, and cerotic acids, namely, 21 per molecule. (For convenience to the reader, the common names associated with the various hydrocarbon derivatives most frequently mentioned in this chapter are given in Table IV-1.)... 

Highly pure / -hexane is used to extract oils from oilseeds such as soybeans, peanuts, sunflower seed, cottonseed, and rapeseed. There has been some use of hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon-derived solvents such as methylene chloride to extract caffein from coffee beans, though this use is rapidly being supplanted by supercritical water and/or carbon dioxide, which are natural and therefore more acceptable to the pubHc. 

Acetylene Derived from Hydrocarbons The analysis of purified hydrocarbon-derived acetylene is primarily concerned with the determination of other unsaturated hydrocarbons and iaert gases. Besides chemical analysis, physical analytical methods are employed such as gas chromatography, ir, uv, and mass spectroscopy. In iadustrial practice, gas chromatography is the most widely used tool for the analysis of acetylene. Satisfactory separation of acetylene from its impurities can be achieved usiag 50—80 mesh Porapak N programmed from 50—100°C at 4°C per minute. 

Hydrocarbon Oxidation. The oxidation of hydrocarbons (qv) and hydrocarbon derivatives can be significantly altered by boron compounds. Several large-scale commercial processes, such as the oxidation of cyclohexane to a cyclohexanol—cyclohexanone mixture in nylon manufacture, are based on boron compounds (see Cylcohexanoland cyclohexanone Eibers, polyamide). A number of patents have been issued on the use of borate esters and boroxines in hydrocarbon oxidation reactions, but commercial processes apparently use boric acid as the preferred boron source. The Hterature in this field has been covered through 1967 (47). Since that time the Hterature consists of foreign patents, but no significant appHcations have been reported for borate esters. 

Hexachloroethane is formed in minor amounts in many industrial chlorination processes designed to produce lower chlorinated hydrocarbons, usually via a sequential chlorination step. Chlorination of tetrachloroethylene, in the presence of ferric chloride, at 100—140°C is one convenient method of preparing hexachloroethane (142). Oxychlorination of tetrachloroethylene, using a copper chloride catalyst (143) has also been used. Photochemical chlorination of tetrachloroethylene under pressure and below 60°C has been studied (144) and patented as a method of producing hexachloroethane (145), as has recovery of hexachloroethane from a mixture of other perchlorinated hydrocarbon derivatives via crystalH2ation in carbon tetrachloride. Chlorination of hexachlorobutadiene has also been used to produce hexachloroethane (146). 

Many completely conjugated hydrocarbons can be built up from the annulenes and related structural fragments. Scheme 9.2 gives the structures, names, and stabilization energies of a variety of such hydrocarbons. Derivatives of these hydrocarbons having heteroatoms in place of one or more carbon atoms constitute another important class of organic compounds. 

The ketones are a group of compounds with the general formula R-C-R. The -C-functional group is known as the carbonyl group or carbonyl radical it appears in many different classes of hydrocarbon derivatives. There are only a few important ketones, and they are all extremely hazardous. 

Petroleum engineers are traditionally involved in activities known in the oil industry as the front end of the petroleum fuel cycle (petroleum is either liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons derived from natural deposits—reservoirs—in the earth). These front end activities are namely exploration (locating and proving out the new geological provinces with petroleum reservoirs that may be exploited in the future), and development (the systematic drilling, well completion, and production of economically producible reservoirs). Once the raw petroleum fluids (e.g., crude oil and natural gas) have been produced from the earth, the back end of the fuel cycle takes the produced raw petroleum fluids and refines the.se fluids into useful products. 

Natural gas and crude oils are the main sources for hydrocarbon intermediates or secondary raw materials for the production of petrochemicals. From natural gas, ethane and LPG are recovered for use as intermediates in the production of olefins and diolefms. Important chemicals such as methanol and ammonia are also based on methane via synthesis gas. On the other hand, refinery gases from different crude oil processing schemes are important sources for olefins and LPG. Crude oil distillates and residues are precursors for olefins and aromatics via cracking and reforming processes. This chapter reviews the properties of the different hydrocarbon intermediates—paraffins, olefins, diolefms, and aromatics. Petroleum fractions and residues as mixtures of different hydrocarbon classes and hydrocarbon derivatives are discussed separately at the end of the chapter. 

Bacteria Heterotroph (methylotroph) Hydrocarbon derivatives (methanol) As carbon source NHs, NH4+... 

Considerable interest arose during the 1970 s and 1980 s in the use of micro-organisms to produce useful fatty adds and related compounds from hydrocarbons derived from the petroleum industry. During this period, a large number of patents were granted in Europe, USA and Japan protecting processes leading to the production of alkanols, alkyl oxides, ketones, alkanoic adds, alkane dioic acids and surfactants from hydrocarbons. Many of these processes involved the use of bacteria and yeasts associated with hydrocarbon catabolism. 

The sulfenic acids have been found to be extremely active radical scavengers showing rate constants of at least 107 m"1 s 1 for the reactions with peroxyl radicals at 333 K17. It has also been suggested that the main inhibiting action of dialkyl sulfoxides or related compounds in the autoxidation of hydrocarbon derives from their ability to form the transient sulfenic acids on thermal decomposition, i.e.17... 

The names of branched-chain hydrocarbons and hydrocarbon derivatives are based on the name of the longest continuous carbon chain in the molecule (which may not be shown in a horizontal line). 

Phenol (C5H5OH) or carboUc acid is an aromatic hydrocarbon derived originally from coal tar, but prepared synthetically in a process that utilizes monochlorobenzene as a starting point. Ninety-eight percent phenol appears as transparent crystals, while liquefied phenol consists of 88% USP solution of phenol in water. 

Dodds, E.C., Fitzgerald, M.E.H., and Lawson, W. (1937). Oestrogenic activity of some hydrocarbon derivatives of ethylene. Nature 140, 772-772. 

Tumors Employing a., aj-Bis(disubstituted phosphino) hydrocarbon Derivatives of Bi s(d i su bsti tuted phosphino)... 

Drosophila melanogaster is another dipteran where pheromone biosynthesis has been studied [92]. Adult sexually mature female D. melanogaster utilizes primarily Z7,Z11-27 H as a contact sex pheromone. The biosynthesis of this compound follows the biosynthesis of other hydrocarbon-derived pheromones (Fig. 3). It is biosynthesized in oenocytes [93], transported through the hemo-lymph by lipophorin [94], and deposited on the cuticle surface. Biosynthesis in the oenocytes follows a similar pathway [95] as that described for the house fly... 

DA reactions with polycyclic hydrocarbon derivatives have also been applied to other macrocycles. Lukyanets and coworkers have explored this methodology by adding the unsubstituted tetraazaporphine 20 to a series of anthracene derivatives (Scheme 6). For instance, the reaction with naphthacene (after 6 h at reflux) afforded the chlorin 21 and a tetraazabacteriochlorin (bisadduct) in small amounts <00JPP525>. 

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