Hydrophobic character

The observation that in the activated complex the reaction centre has lost its hydrophobic character, can have important consequences. The retro Diels-Alder reaction, for instance, will also benefit from the breakdown of the hydrophobic hydration shell during the activation process. The initial state of this reaction has a nonpolar character. Due to the principle of microscopic reversibility, the activated complex of the retro Diels-Alder reaction is identical to that of the bimoleciilar Diels-Alder reaction which means this complex has a negligible nonpolar character near the reaction centre. O nsequently, also in the activation process of the retro Diels-Alder reaction a significant breakdown of hydrophobic hydration takes placed Note that for this process the volume of activation is small, which implies that the number of water molecules involved in hydration of the reacting system does not change significantly in the activation process. 

The hydrophobic character exhibited by dehydroxylated silica is not shared by the metal oxides on which detailed adsorption studies have been made, in particular the oxides of Al, Cr, Fe, Mg, Ti and Zn. With these oxides, the progressive removal of chemisorbed water leads to an increase, rather than a decrease, in the affinity for water. In recent years much attention has been devoted, notably by use of spectroscopic and adsorption techniques, to the elucidation of the mechanism of the physisorption and chemisorption of water by those oxides the following brief account brings out some of the salient features. 

Green coloration, present in many vegetable oils, poses a particular problem in oil extracted from immature or damaged soybeans. Chlorophyll is the compound responsible for this defect. StmcturaHy, chlorophyll is composed of a porphyrin ring system, in which magnesium is the central metal atom, and a phytol side chain which imparts a hydrophobic character to the stmcture. Conventional bleaching clays are not as effective for removal of chlorophylls as for red pigments, and specialized acid-activated adsorbents or carbon are required. 

Up to 0.4 g/L of the iodine stays in solution and the rest precipitates as crystallized iodine, which is removed by flotation (qv). This operation does not require a flotation agent, owing to the hydrophobic character of the crystallized element. From the flotation cell a heavy pulp, which is water-washed and submitted to a second flotation step, is obtained. The washed pulp is introduced into a heat exchanger where it is heated under pressure up to 120°C to melt the iodine that flows into a first reactor for decantation. From there the melt flows into a second reactor for sulfuric acid drying. The refined iodine is either flaked or prilled, and packed in 50- and 25-kg plastic-lined fiber dmms. 

Very unstable modifications, like the reddish, chlorine-free a-copper phthalocyanine, can be stabilized with amides or salts of copper phthalocyanine sulfonic acids (59—63). Mixture with other metal phthalocyanines, eg, tin, vanadium, aluminum, or magnesium, also inhibits crystallization change and poor performance in binders and prints (flocculation) due to the hydrophobic character of unsubstituted phthalocyanines. 

The compositions of the conversion baths are proprietary and vary greatly. They may contain either hexavalent or trivalent chromium (179,180), but baths containing both Cr(III) and Cr(VI) are rare. The mechanism of film formation for hexavalent baths has been studied (181,182), and it appears that the strength of the acid and its identity, as well as time and temperature, influences the film s thickness and its final properties, eg, color. The newly prepared film is a very soft, easily damaged gel, but when allowed to age, the film slowly hardens, assumes a hydrophobic character and becomes resistant to abrasion. The film s stmcture can be described as a cross-linked Cr(III) polymer, that uses anion species to link chromium centers. These anions may be hydroxide, chromate, fluoride, and/or others, depending on the composition of the bath (183). 

Lesk and Chothia did find, however, that there is a striking preferential conservation of the hydrophobic character of the amino acids at the 59 buried positions, but that no such conservation occurs at positions exposed on the surface of the molecule. With a few exceptions on the surface, hydrophobic residues have replaced hydrophilic ones and vice versa. However, the case of sickle-cell hemoglobin, which is described below, shows that a charge balance must be preserved to avoid hydrophobic patches on the surface. In summary, the evolutionary divergence of these nine globins has been constrained primarily by an almost absolute conservation of the hydro-phobicity of the residues buried in the helix-to-helix and helix-to-heme contacts. 

The layers in the plate-like structure of talc are Joined by very weak van der Waals forces, and therefore delamination at low shear stress is produced. The plate-like structure provides high resistivity, and low gas permeability to talc-filled polymers. Furthermore, talc has several other structure-related unique properties low abrasiveness, lubricating effect, and hydrophobic character. Hydrophobicity can be increased by surface coating with zinc stearate. 

The preceding example implied that water solubility is related to polarity, and indeed the equating of hydrophilic character with polarity (and of hydrophobic character with nonpolarity) is often made. Thus, we may add water solubility to the list of pertinent physical (or chemical) properties related to polarity. If a substance is infinitely soluble in water, high polarity is usually inferred. 

The same procedure has been employed to increase the hydrophobic character of cellulose, by introducing fluorine-containing groups, e.g., 2,2-difluoroethoxy 2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy and octafluoropentoxy. Incorporation of hydrophobic moieties into cellulose is expected to increase the polymer compatibility with other materials, e.g., synthetic polymers. Note that an important part of incompatibility is due to the highly hydrophilic character of cellulose. Decreasing this character is expected to affect Tg of the derivative, as shown by cellulose propionate/octafluoropentoxy acetate (total DS = 3.0, partial DS in each moiety = 1.5), whose Tg is only 53 °C. The products are more stable than their fluorine-free counterparts, and the terminal CF2 - H group affects Tg much less than OH-substituted trifluoroethoxy celMose derivatives [196,197]. 

The DS increase as a function of increasing the chain-length of the acyl group may be also attributed to hydrophobic interactions between the cellu-losic surface, whose hydrophobic character increases as a function of increasing DS, and the acylating species. This cooperative interaction. Fig. 10, may contribute to the activation enthalpy, as a result of desolvation of the entering species. Since association between the chains attached to cellulose and those... 

Engberts [3e, 9] has extensively investigated the Diels Alder reaction in aqueous medium. Recently Engberts and colleagues reported [9c] a kinetic study of a Diels Alder reaction of N-alkyl maleimides with cyclopentadiene, 2,3-dimethyl-1,3-butadiene and 1,3-cyclohexadiene in different solvents. The reaction rates of the cycloadditions with the open-chain diene relative to w-hexane are reported in Table 6.3. The aqueous medium greatly accelerates the Diels Alder reaction and the acceleration increases as the hydrophobic character of the alkyl group of the dienophile increases. These and other kinetic data [3e, 9], along with the observation that the intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction is also accelerated in... 

The third application reveals the effects of wall and solute hydropathic states on the accumulation of solute molecules at the wall. The studies show that hydrophobic solutes accumulate in significant concentration at walls with hydrophobic character. 

Summarizing, the in situ UV-Vis, XANES, and EXAFS studies of Bonino et al. [49] and of Prestipino et al. [50] on hydrated and anhydrous peroxo/hy-droperoxo complexes on crystalhne microporous and amorphous meso-porous titanosilicates have shown, for the first time, the equilibriiun between r] side-on and end-on complexes. The amount of water is the key factor in the equilibrium displacement. In this regard please note that, owing to the hydrophobic character of TS-1, substrates such as olefins are the dominant species in the channels. This fact assures a relatively local low concentration of water, which in turn guarantees a sufficient presence of the active end-on... 

Compared with liquid column chromatography, in PLC there is a certain limitation with respect to the composition of the mobile phase in the case of reversed-phase chromatography. In planar chromatography the flow of the mobile phase is normally induced by capillary forces. A prerequisite for this mechanism is that the surface of the stationary phase be wetted by the mobile phase. This, however, results in a Umitation in the maximum possible amount of water applicable in the mobile phase, is dependent on the hydrophobic character of the stationary RP phase. To... 

The products of hydrolysis and dissociation depend on the pH. In an acid medium, hydrogen sulfide, which has no depressing action, evolves. It is, therefore, necessary to use alkaline circuits in which HS, predominates. These sulfide ions are adsorbed on the copper sulfide mineral surface and react with the surface previously coated with cuprous xanthate. The reaction causes desorption of the collector, and as a result of this desorption the copper sulfide minerals generally become hydrophilic. There is, however, no action of the sulfide ions on molybdenite, and so molybdenite retains its hydrophobic character. 

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