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Reactions, in which ionic species are generated, show a large volume contraction and, hence a powerful pressure-induced acceleration which can be exploited for synthetic purposes. Among the nucleophilic substitutions and additions (such as 

As the name implies, ionic reactions involve the participation of charged entities, i.e. ions. Bondmaking and bond-breaking processes in ionic reactions are indicated by curly arrows that represent the movement of two electrons. The tail of the arrow indicates where the electrons are coming from, the arrowhead where they are going to. 

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Lone pairs, originally nonbonding electrons, can also be used in bond-making processes. 

Carbon has four bonding electrons and can attain a stable octet of electrons by bonding to four other atoms, i.e. it has a valency of four. 

These simple examples illustrate the basic rules for mechanism and the use of curly arrows. The concepts are no different from those we have elaborated for drawing resonance structures (see Section 2.10)  

High pressure is generally effective in accelerating those reactions that involve either an ionization process or a dipolar transition state [9]. 

Nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SnAr) reactions are not, in general, facile and usually require the presence of at least one strongly electron-withdrawing group, such as a nitro group, or otherwise a very good leav- 

The high-pressure reaction of 2-methylfuran with alkyl glyoxylates, catalyzed by a chiral (salen)Co(II) complex, is reported to afford the corresponding Friedel-Crafts products both in moderate yield and enantioselectiv-ity [96]. 

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Prepared from ethyne and ammonia or by dehydration of ethanamide. Widely used for dissolving inorganic and organic compounds, especially when a non-aqueous polar solvent of high dielectric constant is required, e.g. for ionic reactions. 

The mechanism of the diene synthesis appears to involve an electron transfer from the diene to the dienophile, .e., it is initiated by an ionic reaction. The following scheme may represent the addition of 2 3-dimethylbutadiene to maleic anhydride ... 

Caution For ionic reactions in solution, solvent effects can play a significant role. These, of course, are neglected in calculations on a single molecule. You can obtain an indication of solvent effects from semi-empirical calculations by carefully adding water molecules to the solute molecule. 

The alkene is allowed to react at low temperatures with a mixture of aqueous hydrogen peroxide, base, and a co-solvent to give a low conversion of the alkene (29). These conditions permit reaction of the water-insoluble alkene and minimise the subsequent ionic reactions of the epoxide product. Phase-transfer techniques have been employed (30). A variation of this scheme using a peroxycarbimic acid has been reported (31). 

When sulfuric acid is present in the mixed acids, the following ionisation reactions occur. These ionic reactions are rapid, and equiHbrium concentrations of NO2 are likely to be present at all times in the acid phase. NO2 concentrations depend mainly on the composition of the mixed acids but decrease to some extent as the temperature increases (3). 

Chemical Properties. Higher a-olefins are exceedingly reactive because their double bond provides the reactive site for catalytic activation as well as numerous radical and ionic reactions. These olefins also participate in additional reactions, such as oxidations, hydrogenation, double-bond isomerization, complex formation with transition-metal derivatives, polymerization, and copolymerization with other olefins in the presence of Ziegler-Natta, metallocene, and cationic catalysts. All olefins readily form peroxides by exposure to air. 

Although the alkylation of paraffins can be carried out thermally (3), catalytic alkylation is the basis of all processes in commercial use. Early studies of catalytic alkylation led to the formulation of a proposed mechanism based on a chain of ionic reactions (4—6). The reaction steps include the formation of a light tertiary cation, the addition of the cation to an olefin to form a heavier cation, and the production of a heavier paraffin (alkylate) by a hydride transfer from a light isoparaffin. This last step generates another light tertiary cation to continue the chain. 

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. 

Heterolytic (ionic) reactions occur with both electrons remaining with one of the atoms. 

The quantitative theory of ionic reactions, within the limitations of a continuum model of the solvent, is based on the Bom equation for the electrostatic free energy of transfer of an ion from a medium of e = 1 to the solvent of dielectric constant... 

Hey et al. also cyclized (21) to the a-carboline (22) with copper powder the yield, however, was low, the main product being a salt whose cation was formulated as (23) and which was presumably formed by an ionic reaction. ... 

Polar impurities, including moisture and traces of acids, had to be excluded because they tend to promote ionic reactions. Previous work by Reffstrup and... 

Chain extension by means of the reaction of alkyl halides with cyanide is frequently alluded to but rarely employed, mainly because of the long reaction times and poor yields usually encountered. The use of DMSO as a solvent has greatly simplified the procedures and improved the yields of many ionic reactions, and the conversion of alkyl chlorides to nitriles is a good example. 

Aluminum metal reacts with aqueous acidic solutions to liberate hydrogen gas. Write the two half-reactions and the net ionic reaction. 

The concentration of a particular ion in an ionic reaction can be increased by the addition of a compound which produces that ion upon dissociation. The... 

The stability of complex ions varies within very wide limits. It is quantitatively expressed by means of the stability constant. The more stable the complex, the greater is the stability constant, i.e. the smaller is the tendency of the complex ion to dissociate into its constituent ions. When the complex ion is very stable, e.g. the hexacyanoferrate(II) ion [Fe(CN)6]4", the ordinary ionic reactions of the components are not shown. 

The reaction should be relatively fast. (Most ionic reactions satisfy this condition.) In some cases the addition of a catalyst may be necessary to increase the speed of a reaction. 

It can be shown from a consideration of the overall stability constants of the ions [Ni( CN)4] 2 " (1027) and [ Ag( CN)2 ] (1021) that the equilibrium constant for the above ionic reaction is 1015, i.e. the reaction proceeds practically completely to the right. An interesting exercise is the analysis of a solid silver halide, e.g. silver chloride. 

In quantitative analysis we are chiefly concerned with reactions which take place in solution, i.e. ionic reactions. We shall therefore limit our discussion of oxidation-reduction to such reactions. The oxidation of iron(II) chloride by chlorine in aqueous solution may be written ... 

Many reactions that take place in a solvent do not occur in the gas phase. This statement is generally true for ionic reactions. Homolytic decompositions of neutral molecules can sometimes be observed in both. One reaction that can be studied in the gas phase and in a variety of solvents is the decomposition of N2O5,... 

From this, the expression for the solvent dependence of ionic reactions is... 

SALT EFFECTS ON SECOND-ORDER IONIC REACTIONS... 

Ionic reactions are usually studied in the presence of an inert electrolyte so as to avoid salt effects. The investigator decides on one ionic strength and then adjusts the concentration of the electrolyte from one experiment to the next as the reactant... 

FIGURE 1.5 (a) Silver chloride precipitates immediately when sodium chloride solution is added to a solution of silver nitrate, (b) If we imagine the removal of the spectator ions from the complete ionic reaction (top), we can focus on the essential process, the net ionic reaction (bottom). 

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