Iodide transport reaction

Usually the growth rates for the iodide-transport reactions performed in silica tubes are rather low. Thus in a favorable case growth of 3 mm octahedra of... 

Another application is in tire oxidation of vapour mixtures in a chemical vapour transport reaction, the attempt being to coat materials with a tlrin layer of solid electrolyte. For example, a gas phase mixture consisting of the iodides of zirconium and yttrium is oxidized to form a thin layer of ytnia-stabilized zirconia on the surface of an electrode such as one of the lanthanum-snontium doped transition metal perovskites Lai j.Srj.M03 7, which can transmit oxygen as ions and electrons from an isolated volume of oxygen gas. 

Preliminary X-ray work on CrSBr crystals, probably formed via a chemical-transport reaction, shows rhombic symmetry (181). Powder patterns of the iodides can be indexed with respect to a hexagonal lattice, and are similar to those of Cris (17, 181). 

Figure 3.1 (a) (b) The efficiency of 1 1 and 1 4 vapour phase transport reactions, showing the marked dependence of the optimum for the 1 4 reaction on the pressure, (c) The dependence of the 1 2 and 1 4 reaction Gibbs energy on temperature and pressure, showing that the formation of nickel carbonyl is favoured by high pressure, and that of zirconium tetra-iodide, which is much more stable, is favoured by low pressures... 

Mukherjee studied the gas phase equilibria and the kinetics of the possible chemical reactions in the pack-chromising of iron by the iodide process. One conclusion was that iodine-etching of the iron preceded chromis-ing also, not unexpectedly, the initial rate of chromising was controlled by transport of chromium iodide. Neiri and Vandenbulcke calculated, for the Al-Ni-Cr-Fe system, the partial pressures of chlorides and mixed chlorides in equilibrium with various alloys and phases, and so developed for pack aluminising a model of gaseous transport, solid-state transport, and equilibria at interfaces. 

Figure 42-11. Model of iodide metabolism in the thyroid follicle. A follicular cell is shown facing the follicular lumen (top) and the extracellular space (at bottom). Iodide enters the thyroid primarily through a transporter (bottom left). Thyroid hormone synthesis occurs in the follicular space through a series of reactions, many of which are peroxidase-mediated. Thyroid hormones, stored in the colloid in the follicular space, are released from thyroglobulin by hydrolysis inside the thyroid cell. (Tgb, thyroglobulin MIT, monoiodotyrosine DIT, diiodotyro-sine Tj, triiodothyronine T4, tetraiodothyronine.) Asterisks indicate steps or processes that are inherited enzyme deficiencies which cause congenital goiter and often result in hypothyroidism.

The optimal choice depends on the total pressure of the system, and on the stoichiometry of the reaction. As an example, the transportation of zirconium as the tetra-iodide is made at low pressure, while the purification of nickel by tetracarbonyl formation is made at high pressure. These reactions may be written as... 

Both reactions involve the formation of a vapour-transporting species from four gaseous reactant molecules, but whereas the tetra-iodide of zirconium is a stable molecule, the nickel tetracarbonyl has a relatively small stability. The equilibrium constants for these reactions are derived from the following considerations ... 

Once taken up by the thyroid gland, iodide undergoes a series of enzymatic reactions that incorporate it into active thyroid hormone (Figure 38-1). The first step is the transport of iodide into the thyroid gland by an intrinsic follicle cell basement... 

This reaction occurs in about 10 ns when R is an iodide ion in the 0.5 M concentration range [5]. Diffusion of 2 through the nanocrystalline Ti02 film to the substrate Sn02 electrode and diffusion of the oxidized redox species, R +, through the solution to the counterelectrode allow both charge carriers to be transferred to the external circuit where useful work is performed. The transport of electrons [7,24-29] and redox species [30] will not be considered further except insofar as they relate to the interfacial processes that are the focus of this chapter. 

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