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Apart from halide and protic impurities, ionic liquids can also be contaminated with other ionic impurities from the metathesis reaction. This is especially likely if the alkali salt used in the metathesis reaction shows significant solubility in the... 

The dark- and photoconductivity of organic compounds has long been regarded as a sort of side-effect arising from impurities, ionic carriers, or traces of adsorbed water. 

Apart from halide and protic impurities, ionic liquids can also be contaminated with other ionic impurities from the metathesis reaction. This is especially likely if the alkali salt that is used in the metathesis reaction shows significant solubility in the ionic liquid formed. In this case the ionic liquid can contain significant amounts of the alkali salt. While this may not be a problem even for some catalytic applications (since the presence of the alkali cation may not effect the catalytic cycle of a transition metal catalyst) it is of great relevance for the physicochemical properties of the ionic liquid. 

However, if the customer does not feel comfortable with the task of recycling the ionic liquid there is a further option at hand why not rent or lease the ionic liquid rather than buy it The customers would in this case perform their reaction and send the, probably impure, ionic liquid back to the supplier, who has the expertise to recycle and clean it up. This scenario could be interesting from an economic point of view for truly commercial applications on a large scale. 

On the basis of this mechanism, a great number of ionophore-based ISEs were developed. It should also he noted here that polyvinyl chloride (PVC) has been used since the early 1970s to support liquid membranes, and the term plasticized liquid membrane" has been coined to describe these systems. In those days, the addition of ionic sites was not explicitly realized, but instead, impure ionic sites in the PVC (anionic sites) played virtually the same role. However, the membrane including such an impurity does not allow quantitative control of the optimized amounts of ionic sites, and therefore, it was supplemented later by deliberately added ionic sites. 

The calculated values of displacements for ions of the first eight coordinational shells of impurity ions in the LiTmF4 crystal are given in table 19. As expected, the displacements of the nearest neighbours of impurities are maximal and they correlate with the excess of the impurity ionic radii over that of Tm + ion [ionic radius of Tm equals 0.99 A Lu +, 0.97 A Nd +, 1.12A (Kaminskii 1975)]. It is seen that the ionic displacements do not decrease monotonously with the increase of the distance from an impurity ion. 

The relationships described in Eq. (5.139) correspond exactly with the behaviour of pure silicon. Figure 5.45 illustrates the conductivity values for this semiconductor over a wide temperature range. The values measured at lower temperatures are evidently not intrinsic (compare with Fig. 5.36c) and vary from sample to sample. An analogous situation occurs with impure ionic conductors (compare with Figs. 5.36a,b). These effects will be discussed now. Since we treat the general case of mixed conductors (i.e. ionic plus electronic conductivity), effects as they occur in typical semiconductors are automatically included. 

After preparation, colloidal suspensions usually need to undergo purification procedures before detailed studies can be carried out. A common technique for charged particles (typically in aqueous suspension) is dialysis, to deal witli ionic impurities and small solutes. More extensive deionization can be achieved using ion exchange resins. 

The most direct effect of defects on tire properties of a material usually derive from altered ionic conductivity and diffusion properties. So-called superionic conductors materials which have an ionic conductivity comparable to that of molten salts. This h conductivity is due to the presence of defects, which can be introduced thermally or the presence of impurities. Diffusion affects important processes such as corrosion z catalysis. The specific heat capacity is also affected near the melting temperature the h capacity of a defective material is higher than for the equivalent ideal crystal. This refle the fact that the creation of defects is enthalpically unfavourable but is more than comp sated for by the increase in entropy, so leading to an overall decrease in the free energy... 

Properly end-capped acetal resins, substantially free of ionic impurities, are relatively thermally stable. However, the methylene groups in the polymer backbone are sites for peroxidation or hydroperoxidation reactions which ultimately lead to scission and depolymerisation. Thus antioxidants (qv), especially hindered phenols, are included in most commercially available acetal resins for optimal thermal oxidative stabiUty. 

Impurity atoms having an ionic radius greater than that of silicon cause lattice expansion. 

Isolation. Isolation procedures rely primarily on solubiHty, adsorption, and ionic characteristics of the P-lactam antibiotic to separate it from the large number of other components present in the fermentation mixture. The penicillins ate monobasic catboxyHc acids which lend themselves to solvent extraction techniques (154). Pencillin V, because of its improved acid stabiHty over other penicillins, can be precipitated dkecdy from broth filtrates by addition of dilute sulfuric acid (154,156). The separation process for cephalosporin C is more complex because the amphoteric nature of cephalosporin C precludes dkect extraction into organic solvents. This antibiotic is isolated through the use of a combination of ion-exchange and precipitation procedures (157). The use of neutral, macroporous resins such as XAD-2 or XAD-4, allows for a more rapid elimination of impurities in the initial steps of the isolation (158). The isolation procedure for cephamycin C also involves a series of ion exchange treatments (103). 

When ahovalent, ie, different valence, impurities are added to an ionic soHd, the crystal lattice compensates by forming defects that maintain both electrical neutraUty and the anion to cation ratio of the host lattice. For example, addition of x mol of CaO to Zr02 requires the formation of x mol of oxygen vacancies. 

In insulating oxides, ionic defects arise from the presence of impurities of different valence from the host cation. An aluminum ion impurity substituting in a magnesium oxide [1309-48-4] MgO, hostlattice creates Mg vacancies. 

In Solution. Although hypochlorite solutions ate much mote stable than HOCl, they ate subject to decomposition, which is influenced by concentration, ionic strength, pH, temperature, light, and impurities. Decomposition occurs in two ways ... 

Liquid-phase chlorination of butadiene in hydroxyhc or other polar solvents can be quite compHcated in kinetics and lead to extensive formation of by-products that involve the solvent. In nonpolar solvents the reaction can be either free radical or polar in nature (20). The free-radical process results in excessive losses to tetrachlorobutanes if near-stoichiometric ratios of reactants ate used or polymer if excess of butadiene is used. The "ionic" reaction, if a small amount of air is used to inhibit free radicals, can be quite slow in a highly purified system but is accelerated by small traces of practically any polar impurity. Pyridine, dipolar aptotic solvents, and oil-soluble ammonium chlorides have been used to improve the reaction (21). As a commercial process, the use of a solvent requites that the products must be separated from solvent as well as from each other and the excess butadiene which is used, but high yields of the desired products can be obtained without formation of polymer at higher butadiene to chlorine ratio. 

Color from Transition-Metal Compounds and Impurities. The energy levels of the excited states of the unpaked electrons of transition-metal ions in crystals are controlled by the field of the surrounding cations or cationic groups. Erom a purely ionic point of view, this is explained by the electrostatic interactions of crystal field theory ligand field theory is a more advanced approach also incorporating molecular orbital concepts. 

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