Kinetic scheme cyclic

Scheme XVlIl introduces another feature, for this is a cyclic kinetic scheme.

For the catalyst system WCU-CsHbAICIs-CzHsOH, Calderon et al. (3, 22, 46) also proposed a kinetic scheme in which one metal atom, as the active center, is involved. According to this scheme, which was applied by Calderon to both acyclic and cyclic alkenes, the product molecules do not leave the complex in pairs. Rather, after each transalkylidenation step an exchange step occurs, in which one coordinated double bond is exchanged for the double bond of an incoming molecule. In this model the decomposition of the complex that is formed in the transalkylidenation step is specified, whereas in the models discussed earlier it is assumed that the decom-plexation steps, or the desorption steps, are kinetically not significant. 

Cyclic voltammetry of thianthrene in the presence of two molar equivalents of pyridine generates thianthrene 5-oxide and not T . Having shown 2-(pyridinium-l-yl)thianthrene to have half wave potentials, 1.45 and 1.74, different from those of thianthrene, the kinetic scheme summarized by Eqs. (16)-(19) was proposed (77JOC976). 

Scheme (8) does not include additives of hydroxyl-containing reagents, and H denotes the hydroxyl groups formed as a result of the reaction. If a hydroxyl-containing compound is added to the system, the kinetic Scheme (8) should be supplemented. Finally, in the formation of autocomplexes it is necessary to distinguish linear and cyclic forms whose reactivities are rather different. The cyclic forms are completely deactivated, i.e. they do not take part either in reaction 2 or in reactions 3-5 in Scheme (8). 

Kern and Jaacks and independently Enikolopyan ) determined the ratio kt/kp for the polymerization of 1,3,5-trioxane as being dose to 1.0. This high value is attributed to the known fact that the linear polyacetals are more basic than the cyclic ones. In these systems, the interaction of the growing spedes with the polymer segments is certainly a reversible process thus, these systems cannot be quantitatively described by the kinetic Scheme (138). Nevertheless, if reversibility is tentatively ne ected, then for [Mlo 1.0 mole 1 and [IJo = 10 4mole 1 the complete conversion of the originally formed active species would take place only after 1.4% of conversion of monomer into polymer. 

A feature of this ABC, 2s, 2kc kinetic scheme is its cyclic nature photoproduct C regenerates the starting compound A. This enables it to operate in a closed system, since it does not photodegrade. Experimental photochromic, photodegradable systems involving similar processes are thus likely to exhibit similar behavior, but they need to be studied in an open system. An illustative case is the photochromism of the triphenylimidazolyl dimer (TPID). 

The process of synthesizing high-molecular-weight copolymers by the polymerization of mixed cyclics is well established and widely used in the silicone industry. However, the microstructure which depends on several reaction parameters is not easily predictable. The way in which the sequences of the siloxane units are built up is directed by the relative reactivities of the monomers and the active chain-ends. In this process the different cyclics are mixed together and copolymerized. The reaction is initiated by basic or acidic catalysts and a stepwise addition polymerization kinetic scheme is followed. Cyclotrisiloxanes are most frequently used in these copolymerizations since the chain growth mechanism dominates the kinetics and redistribution reactions involving the polymer chain are of negligible importance. Several different copolymers may be obtained by this process. They will be monodisperse and free from cyclics and their microstructure can be varied from pure block to pure random copolymers. 

In conclusion, the COX and COLE kinetic scheme possesses a structure which is reasonably compatible with macroscopic experimental observations relating to the oxidation of alkanes at low temperature. It also gives some indication about the distribution of the families of products formed (alkenes, aldehydes, cyclic ethers) as a function of the operating conditions and especially of the temperature. Its structure can be found in the detailed mechanisms of oxidation of the alkanes which will be discussed in Chapter IX. 

In this cyclic kinetic scheme, there is equiUbrium between all the species. As a consequence, we can write the equilibrium constants... 

The anionic polymerization of cyclic esters with higher-membered ring sizes (five and more) proceeds on the alkoxide active centers. Less-nucleophihc carboxyl-ates are unable to initiate the polymerization of these weakly or medium strained monomers, while the relatively high nudeophiUcity of the alkoxides gives rise to chain transfer to polymer with chain rupture side reactions (see Scheme 1.1). As discussed earlier in Section 1.2.3, only an intramolecular transfer wiU lead to a departure from Uvirigness. The kinetic scheme of polymerization accompanied by chain-transfer reactions is shown in Equation 1.42a-<. 

Dihydronaphthalene is often used as a model olefin in the study of epoxidation catalysts, and very often gives product epoxides in unusually high ee s. In 1994, Jacobsen discovered in his study on the epoxidation of 1,2-dihydronaphthalene that the ee of the epoxide increases at the expense of the minor enantiomeric epoxide.Further investigation led to the finding that certain epoxides, especially cyclic aromatically conjugated epoxides, undergo kinetic resolution via benzylic hydroxylation up to a krei of 28 (Scheme 1.4.9). 

Pineschi and Feringa reported that chiral copper phosphoramidite catalysts mediate a regiodivergent kinetic resolution (RKR) of cyclic unsaturated epoxides with dialkylzinc reagents, in which epoxide enantiomers are selectively transformed into different regioisomers (allylic and homoallylic alcohols) [90]. The method was also applied to both s-cis and s-trans cyclic allylic epoxides (Schemes 7.45 and 7.46,... 

Andersson also showed that, in addition to meso-desymmetrization, kinetic resolution of some cyclic epoxides by use of the first-generation catalyst was also possible, giving both epoxides and allylic alcohols in good yields (Scheme 7.51) [108], Kozmin reported the effective use of the same catalyst in the desymmetrization of diphenylsilacyclopentene oxide. The resulting products could be used in the ster-eocontrolled syntheses of various acyclic polyols (Scheme 7.52) [109]. 

The kinetic stabilities and the donor-acceptor properties of cyclic conjugated molecules [68] have been described (Scheme 12) in the theoretical subsection (Sect. 2.2.2) to be controlled by the phase property. There is a parallelism between the thermodynamic and kinetic stabilities. An aromatic molecule, benzene, is kinetically stable, and an antiaromatic molecule, cyclobutadiene, is kinetically unstable (Scheme 13). 

C-chiral racemic y-hydroxy sulfides were also resolved using PEL under kinetic resolution conditions. The products were transformed into optically active 3-(alkanesulfonyloxy)thiolane salts (Scheme 1). Similarly, 1,2-cyclic sulfite glycerol derivatives cis and trans) were resolved into enantiomers via a Pseudomonas cepacia-catalysed acylation with vinyl butyrate. The E values depended on the solvent used and varied from 2 to 26. ... 

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