Hydrogen bonds spectroscopy

Hydrogen bonding spectroscopy for the detection of hydrogen bonding interactions in polymer blend. 

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Poly(vinyl acetate). The dielectric and mechanical spectra of hybrids produced by mixing a poly(vinyl acetate)—THE solution with TEOS, followed by the addition of HCl have been investigated (45). Mixtures were made which were beheved to be 0, 5, 10, 15, and 20 wt % Si02, respectively. These composites were transparent and Eourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ftir) revealed hydrogen bonding between the siUcate network and carbonyl units of the poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc). No shift in the T of the composites from that of the pure PVAc was observed. Similarly, the activation... 

In dimers composed of equal molecules the dimer components can replace each other through tunneling. This effect has been discovered by Dyke et al. [1972] as interconversion splitting of rotational levels of (HF)2 in molecular beam electric resonance spectra. This dimer has been studied in many papers by microwave and far infrared tunable difference-frequency laser spectroscopy (see review papers by Truhlar [1990] and by Quack and Suhm [1991]). The dimer consists of two inequivalent HE molecules, the H atom of one of them participating in the hydrogen bond between the fluorine atoms (fig. 60). PES is a function of six variables indicated in this figure. 

The enol can be observed by NMR spectroscopy and at —20°C has a half-life of several hours. At -1-20°C the half-life is only 10 minutes. The presence of bases causes very r id isomerization to acetaldehyde via the enolate. Solvents have a significant effect on the lifetime of such unstable enols. Solvents such as DMF and DMSO, which are known to slow rates of proton exchange by hydrogen bonding, increase the lifetime of unstable enols. ... 

Most rubbers used in adhesives are not resistant to oxidation. Because the degree of unsaturation present in the polymer backbone of natural rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, nitrile rubber and polychloroprene rubber, they can easily react with oxygen. Butyl rubber, however, possesses small degree of unsaturation and is quite resistant to oxidation. The effects of oxidation in rubber base adhesives after some years of service life can be assessed using FTIR spectroscopy. The ratio of the intensities of the absorption bands at 1740 cm" (carbonyl group) and at 2900 cm" (carbon-hydrogen bonds) significantly increases when the elastomer has been oxidized [50]. 

Intimate information about the nature of the H bond has come from vibrational spectro.scopy (infrared and Raman), proton nmr spectroscopy, and diffraction techniques (X-ray and neutron). In vibrational spectroscopy the presence of a hydrogen bond A-H B is manifest by the following effects ... 

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