Iron oxygen containing

The iron formed in a blast furnace, called pig iron, contains impurities that make the metal brittle. These include phosphorus and silicon from silicate and phosphate minerals that contaminated the original ore, as well as carbon and sulfur from the coke. This iron is refined in a converter furnace. Here, a stream of O2 gas blows through molten impure iron. Oxygen reacts with the nonmetal impurities, converting them to oxides. As in the blast furnace, CaO is added to convert Si02 into liquid calcium silicate, in which the other oxides dissolve. The molten iron is analyzed at intervals until its impurities have been reduced to satisfactory levels. Then the liquid metal, now in the form called steel, is poured from the converter and allowed to solidify. 

Oxygen-containing molecules cannot be tolerated in the ammonia synthesis, primarily because they form iron oxide that blocks the active surface. First the CO2 is removed, through a scrubber, by reaction with a strong base. The remaining CO (and CO2) is then removed by the methanation reaction, converting the CO into methane and water. Finally the water is removed by, for example, molecular sieves. Methane does not present problems because it interacts weakly with the catalyst surface. The gas mixture (Tab. 8.6) is compressed to the roughly 200 bar needed for ammonia synthesis and admitted to the reactor. 

Kobayashi N, Nishiyama Y. 1984. Catalytic electroreduction of molecular oxygen at glassy carbon electrodes with immobilized iron porphyrins containing zero, one, or four amino groups. J Electroanal Chem 181 107. 

A group of iron (Fe)-containing isoenzymes that activate molecular oxygen to a form that is capable of interacting with organic substrates... 

Destruction of nitric oxide by superoxide in the buffers is more likely to account for the short half-life of nitric oxide in vitro. Superoxide dismutase (15-100 U/ml) substantially increased the apparent half-life of EDRF, strongly suggesting that superoxide contributes to the short biological half-life of nitric oxide. In the perfusion cascade bioassay system, the buffers are bubbled with 95% oxygen, contain 11 mM glucose as well as trace iron plus copper contamination and are incubated under the weak ultraviolet (UV) radiation of fluorescent lights. These are prime conditions for the autoxidation of glucose to form small amounts of superoxide in sufficient amounts to account for the short half-life of nitric oxide in nanomolar concentrations. The rate of reaction between superoxide and nitric oxide is 6.7 X 10 M sec L The shortest half-life of nitric oxide measured is approximately 6 sec. To achieve a half-life of 6 sec, the steady state concentration of superoxide would only need to be 17 pM, calculated as ln(2)/ (6 sec X 6.7 X 10 M" sec )-... 

In their paper in 1987, Hibbs et al. (1987a) proposed that the characteristic pattern of metabolic dysfunction inflicted by CAMs is due to iron loss from aconitase and other iron-sulfur-containing enzymes resulting from nitrite or oxygenated nitrogen intermediates in the pathway of nitrite and nitrate synthesis. Much data have since been published to support this proposal, although as described below the chemical details of this process are still not clear. 

Up to this time there has been no report of the experimental determination of the structure of the parent homotropenylium ion. The three simplest systems that have been studied are 18, 19 and the iron complex 20. Cations 18 and 19 each have an oxygen-containing electron-donor substituent and, as such, appear to have smaller induced ring currents than the parent ion. In fact 18 and 19 have almost identical chemical shift differences (A<5 = 3.10 ppm) between the two C(8) protons. In the case of 20, A<5 is very small and it was considered to be a non-cyclically delocalized model for the bicyclo[5.l.OJheptadienyl cation69. 

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