Hydrogen isobars

Hydrogen Isobars on Evaporated Tungsten Films and on Tungsten Powder ... 

Fig. 6.12 Nomalized hydrogen isobars (PH2O = 23 hPa) for different perovskites, reported by Kroner [156], For BaZrOs-based compositions, data for different hypovalent dopants (Y, Sc, Gd, In ) are included (Reproduced by permission of Annual Reviews)...

The cold plasmas tend to be unstable, are sometimes difficult to maintain, and provide ion yields that are less than those of the hot plasmas. To obviate the difficulties of the interfering isobaric molecular ions from hot plasmas, it has been found highly beneficial to include a collision cell (hexapole see Chapter 22) before the mass analyzer itself. This collision cell contains a low pressure of hydrogen gas. lon/molecule collisions between the hydrogen and, for example, ArO+... 

In the kinetic study, data were obtained from the amount of hydrogen consumed by the reaction over time using an automated gas uptake control system. The apparatus is designed to maintain isothermal and isobaric conditions while monitoring H2 consumption. Procedures used were as described previously.3"5... 

A gas-phase hydrogenation reactioa C2H (A) + H2 - C2H6, is conducted under isothermal and isobaric conditions in a CSTR The feed, consisting of equimolar amounts of each reac-... 

Under isobaric conditions (k2 = k2 H2 J. many hydrogenations exactly follow this model. The classical example is the asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral dehydroamino acid derivatives with Rh or Ru catalysts [21]. 

There exists a multitude of possibilities to monitor hydrogenations in various pressure ranges. In principle, isochoric and isobaric techniques are feasible. In the latter case, the kinetics allows simplification because the concentration of... 

By contrast, the measurement of the hydrogen consumption under normal pressure is relatively simple. The elementary structure of many such measuring devices is similar, and is based principally on the fact that the pressure drop is balanced by reduction in the reaction volume or by supply of the consumed gas, thus ensuring isobaric conditions. An appropriate device for monitoring major gas consumptions is described in [38]. 

For hydrogenations under normal pressure and isobaric conditions, we use a device which registers gas consumption automatically (Fig. 10.3). Possible error sources resulting from such gas consumption measurements and possibilities of their minimization will be discussed. 

The result of the described methodical solution to monitor gas-consuming reactions at reduced partial pressure under isobaric conditions is shown in Figure 10.8 for the catalytic hydrogenation of COD with a cationic Rh-complex. The slope of the measured straight lines corresponds to the maximally obtainable rate (Vsat = k2 [E]0 = k 2 [H2] [E]0) [42 b], which is directly proportional to the hydrogen concentration in solution and at validity of Henry s law to the hydrogen partial pressure above the reaction solution. The experiments prove that the dilution factor of the gas phase can adequately be found in the rate constant (Further examples can be found in [47].)... 

The common further treatment of the approach - assumption of steady-state conditions for the intermediate substrate complexes, consideration of the catalyst balance ([catalyst]0=[solvent complex] + [IRe] + [Isi] + [IIRe] + [Hsi]) and of the stoichiometry of the hydrogenation - provides the rate of hydrogen consumption under isobaric conditions (Eq. (13)) [57f]. A more general derivation can be found in [59]. 

The pseudothermodynamic analysis of solvent elfects in 1-PrOH-water mixtures over the whole composition range (shown in Figure 7.3) depicts a combination of thermodynamic transfer parameters for diene and dienophile with isobaric activation parameters that allows for a distinction between solvent elfects on reactants (initial state) and on the activated complex. The results clearly indicate that the aqueous rate accelerations are heavily dominated by initial-state solvation effects. It can be concluded that for Diels-Alder reactions in water the causes of the acceleration involve stabilization of the activated complex by enforced hydrophobic interactions and by hydrogen bonding to water (Table 7.1, Figure 7.4). °... 

Example the molecular ions of nitrogen, N2, carbon monoxide, CO, and ethene, C2H4, have the same nominal mass of 28 u, i.e., they are so-called iso-baric ions. The isotopic masses of the most abundant isotopes of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen are 1.007825 u, 12.000000 u, 14.003070 u and 15.994915 u, respectively. Using these values, the calculated ionic masses are 28.00559 u for Nz"" , 27.99437 u for CQ-", and 28.03075 u for CjH/. This means they differ by some millimass units" (mmu) from each other, and none of these isobaric ions has precisely 28.00000 u (Chap. 3.3.4 and Chap. 6.9.6). 

It is shown in this section with the help of hydrogen sorption isobars on evaporated metal films sintered at various temperatures that the sorption process consists of absorption into the interior of the structure as well as of... 

Fig. 4. Sorption isobars of hydrogen ( —196°C. to temperature of presintering, up and down) at 0.1 mm. Hg pressure on evaporated nickel films presintered at various temperatures.

In order to study the effect of absorption in the nickel-hydrogen system in more detail, Beeck et al. (11) have investigated the hydrogen sorption isobars between 20°K. and room temperature. As shown in Fig. 6, the solid curves represent the isobars for increasing and decreasing temperature. With increasing temperature (the part between 20 and 80°K. will be discussed later), sorption increases fast between 80 and... 

Fig. 6. Sorption isobars at 0.1 mm. pressure of hydrogen on an evaporated nickel film sintered at 23°C. (To obtain the ordinate in molecules X 10 18/100 mg., divide by 9.07.)...

Fig. 7. Sorption isobars at 0.1 mm. pressure of hydrogen on an evaporated nickel...

It is of interest to note that in the measurement of the hydrogen absorption on the ascending isobar of Fig. 6, a sudden desorption of hydrogen took place, after raising the temperature, followed by a slow... 

Before leaving the nickel experiments, it may be well to refer to the experiments on hydrogen adsorption variously reported in the literature. As an example, the work of Maxted and Hassid (13) had as its main objective the measurement of the slow activated adsorption of hydrogen on reduced nickel oxide catalysts. It has been proved by the foregoing that the slow adsorption is actually absorption. When plotting their data as isobars, as was done in Fig. 9, the similarity between these isobars and those obtained with sintered nickel films is evident. 

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