Methylene group, proton hydrocarbons

Proton chemical shift data from nuclear magnetic resonance has historically not been very informative because the methylene groups in the hydrocarbon chain are not easily differentiated. However, this can be turned to advantage if a polar group is present on the side chain causing the shift of adjacent hydrogens downfteld. High resolution C-nmr has been able to determine position and stereochemistry of double bonds in the fatty acid chain (62). Broad band nmr has also been shown useful for determination of soHd fat content. 

Two physically reasonable but quite different models have been used to describe the internal motions of lipid molecules observed by neutron scattering. In the first the protons are assumed to undergo diffusion in a sphere [63]. The radius of the sphere is allowed to be different for different protons. Although the results do not seem to be sensitive to the details of the variation in the sphere radii, it is necessary to have a range of sphere volumes, with the largest volume for methylene groups near the ends of the hydrocarbon chains in the middle of the bilayer and the smallest for the methylenes at the tops of the chains, closest to the bilayer surface. This is consistent with the behavior of the carbon-deuterium order parameters,. S cd, measured by deuterium NMR ... 

Here a surface Lewis acid (denoted by j) abstracts a hydride ion from the methylene group adjacent to the double bond. This mechanism is in accord with the essential Lewis acid nature of the silica-alumina surface and is consistent with the previously demonstrated ability of this surface to abstract hydride ions from tertiary hydrocarbons. Since an alkenyl carbonium ion is stabilized by resonance to a greater extent than is a saturated carbonium ion, it may well be the most stable species which could form in the chemisorption of an aliphatic olefin or its precursor. It seems reasonable, therefore, to presume that such species may be involved in heterogeneous acid catalysis to a greater extent than has been generally recognized. This chemisorption process does not, of course, exclude the more conventional acid addition to the double bond which may occur under suitable circumstances but rather, it introduces an alternate path which may well exert a considerable influence on the overall course of catalytic reactions. Thus, for example, since a substituted ally lie carbonium ion may be converted to a conjugated diene by loss of a proton, it may be an important intermediate in the formation... 

Most fluorescent PET molecular sensors, including pH indicators of this type, consist of a fluorophore linked to an amine moiety via a methylene spacer. Photo-induced electron transfer (see Chapter 4, Section 4.3), which takes place from amino groups to aromatic hydrocarbons, causes fluorescence quenching of the latter. When the amino group is protonated (or strongly interacts with a cation), electron transfer is hindered and a very large enhancement of fluorescence is observed. 

In alkanes (aliphatic or saturated hydrocarbons) aU of the CH hydrogen absortions are typically found from about 0.7 to 1.7 ppm. Hydrogens in methyl groups are the most highly shielded type of proton and are found at chemical shift values lower (0.7-1.3 ppm) then methylene (1.2-1.2 ppm) or methine hydrogens (1.4-1.7 ppm). 

The nonsteric interactions in ipc depend on the chemical structure of the analyte, and also on nature of stationary and mobile phases. In normal- or reversed-phase hplc, neutral solutes are separated on the basis of their polarity. In the former case, polar stationary phases are employed (eg, bare sihca with polar silanol groups) and less polar mobile phases based on nonpolar hydrocarbons are used for elution of the analytes. Solvent selectivity is controlled by adding a small amoimt of a more polar solvent, such as 2-propanol or acetonitrile or other additives with large dipole moments (methylene chloride and 1,2-dichloroethane), proton donors (chloroform, ethyl acetate, and water), or proton acceptors (alcohols, ethers, and amines). Correspondingly, the more polar the solute, the greater is its retention on the column, yet increasing the polarity of the mobile phase results in decreased solute retention. 

On the basis of the absolute configuration of (16) it could be deduced that in this C34 hydrocarbon the extra methyls are installed at the si face of the trisubstituted double bonds (iS) however nothing is known about the stereochemistry of deprotonation in the carbocationic intermediates. It can only be said that the proton lost during alkylation generally arises from a vinylic methyl, with the exception of C34 (18) in which a proton was removed from the allylic methylene C(5), when methylation occurred at C(7), and of C33 (14) where deprotonation occurred on the methyl group introduced at C(3). 

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