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The activity and selectivity of catalysts can be evaluated using model reactions. However, it is advisable to remember some important characteristics of these reactions. 

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Although the methodology dealt with in this chapter may be applied to most types of reaction, it has seemed pertinent to choose a typical class of reaction to exemplify the ideas developed. Gas phase free radical reactions, and amongst them pyrolysis reactions, appear convenient for this purpose both for economic and fundamental reasons (not excluding, of course, the author s interests). 

Gas phase free radical reactions are used in industry for pyrolysis, halogenation and combustion reactions. Nowadays, and probably for a long time to come, the thermal cracking of hydrocarbons constitutes the main production route for olefins, which are the basic feedstocks of the chemical industry around the world. Hydrocarbon pyrolysis is thus of considerable economic interest, as is shown by the very large amount of effort dedicated both to fundamental and applied research in this field (see, for example, refs. 35—37). 

Olefin production is achieved by pyrolysis of various feedstocks, ranging from light hydrocarbons (ethane, propane) to naphthas, gas oils and even crude oils. The variety of and change in the nature of available feedstocks due to new sources (e.g. off-gas from the North Sea) or to political problems, and the marked variation in prices and 

The gaseous state is by far the simplest state of matter and, accordingly, the best understood. Thus, gas phase reactions constitute model reactions with which other reactions are compared. There has been recent progress in most topics involved in the study of gas phase reactions (see refs. 1-15, 35-37). 

the general state of knowledge about gas phase free radical reactions is now sufficiently extensive so that reaction mechanisms can be written a priori, with a good degree of confidence, for a large class of reactants and reactions. Furthermore, numerical and processing methods have lately been devised for the treatment of complex kinetic models (see below), allowing the mechanistic approach to reach its full potential. 

The activity pattern and product selectivity of a reaction for a specific catalyst can be determined experimentally using model reactions [11]. However, it is worth remembering some important features of these reactions. How much is sensitive or 

The dehydrogenation reactions are structure insensitive, while the hydrogenolysis reactions are stracture sensitive. Some reactions comprise 

These different properties of a catalyst and the effects on the activity and selectivity of the reaction, in particular for related hydrocarbon reactions, have been interpreted as two distinct phenomena geometrical and electronic effects. 

For better illustration, take, for example, the n-hexane molecule. 

This molecule can be adsorbed on one, two, or more sites, as shown in scheme (a) and (b), and can be desorbed to form different products. So, in the first case, it can be simply dehydrogenated while in the second case can isomerize or dissociate and break in two other molecules, and therefore it is classified as hydrogenolysis. 

In this section, the applications of perovskite-type materials in automotive exhaust catalysis are shortly presented. The latest advances in the field are included, with particular emphasis on structure-activity relationship. The section is devoted to two separate parts (a) application of perovkite oxides in model reactions related to three-way catalysis and (b) application of perovskite oxides under simulated or real exhaust conditions. 

CO oxidation has been extensively investigated, as a probe reaction, over several perovskite-type oxides. This particular reaction offers unique advantages toward correlating the observed activity with the surface and redox chemistry of perovskites [46]. CO oxidation over perovskites was firstly studied by Parravano in 1953 by employing Lao.ssSro.ssMnOs [46]. Later on, many other perovskites have been tested in CO oxidation (Table 25.2). 

The CO oxidation reaction has been extensively studied in M Sri. NiOs (M = Pr, Sm, and Eu) perovsldtes [47]. Sr-substituted samples were found to be more active than the unsubstituted M Ni03 counterparts. A close relationship between the CO oxidation activity and the reducibility was observed, indicating that the facilitation of oxygen removal from crystal lattice is the rate-determining step [47,49]. 

Recently, great attention has been paid to noble metals (NMs)-promoted perovsldtes as potential candidates for automotive exhaust catalysis, since NMs incorporation to perovsldte structure prevents the sintering, reducing also volatilization losses at high temperatures [50]. Hence, it has been reported that BaCeOs perovsldtes with low levels of Pd substitution exhibited superior oxidation activity compared to highly dispersed Pd/Al203 catalysts [50]. 

The mechanism of CO oxidation over Lao.8Ceo.2Mn03 has been recently investigated by step response analysis [51]. It was proposed that CO is adsorbed on the surfece in the form of stable carbonates, whereas oxygen is dissociatively adsorbed on reduced active sites. A rapid exchange between surface and sub-surfece oxygen was revealed [51]. 

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According to Kramers model, for flat barrier tops associated with predominantly small barriers, the transition from the low- to the high-damping regime is expected to occur in low-density fluids. This expectation is home out by an extensively studied model reaction, the photoisomerization of tran.s-stilbene and similar compounds [70, 71] involving a small energy barrier in the first excited singlet state whose decay after photoexcitation is directly related to the rate coefficient of tran.s-c/.s-photoisomerization and can be conveniently measured by ultrafast laser spectroscopic teclmiques. 

As it has appeared in recent years that many hmdamental aspects of elementary chemical reactions in solution can be understood on the basis of the dependence of reaction rate coefficients on solvent density [2, 3, 4 and 5], increasing attention is paid to reaction kinetics in the gas-to-liquid transition range and supercritical fluids under varying pressure. In this way, the essential differences between the regime of binary collisions in the low-pressure gas phase and tliat of a dense enviromnent with typical many-body interactions become apparent. An extremely useful approach in this respect is the investigation of rate coefficients, reaction yields and concentration-time profiles of some typical model reactions over as wide a pressure range as possible, which pemiits the continuous and well controlled variation of the physical properties of the solvent. Among these the most important are density, polarity and viscosity in a contimiiim description or collision frequency. 

Figure A3.12.5. A model reaction coordinate potential energy curve for a fluxional molecule. (Adapted from [30].)...

Nitration can be effected under a wide variety of conditions, as already indicated. The characteristics and kinetics exhibited by the reactions depend on the reagents used, but, as the mechanisms have been elucidated, the surprising fact has emerged that the nitronium ion is preeminently effective as the electrophilic species. The evidence for the operation of other electrophiles will be discussed, but it can be said that the supremacy of one electrophile is uncharacteristic of electrophilic substitutions, and bestows on nitration great utility as a model reaction. 

In this model, reaction is considered to occur preferentially at that position in the aromatic molecule to which the approach of the electrophile causes the smallest increase in zero energy. In molecules possessing polar or dipolar groups, long range electrostatic forces will initially be the most important. 

The best-known equation of the type mentioned is, of course, Hammett s equation. It correlates, with considerable precision, rate and equilibrium constants for a large number of reactions occurring in the side chains of m- and p-substituted aromatic compounds, but fails badly for electrophilic substitution into the aromatic ring (except at wi-positions) and for certain reactions in side chains in which there is considerable mesomeric interaction between the side chain and the ring during the course of reaction. This failure arises because Hammett s original model reaction (the ionization of substituted benzoic acids) does not take account of the direct resonance interactions between a substituent and the site of reaction. This sort of interaction in the electrophilic substitutions of anisole is depicted in the following resonance structures, which show the transition state to be stabilized by direct resonance with the substituent ... 

There were two schools of thought concerning attempts to extend Hammett s treatment of substituent effects to electrophilic substitutions. It was felt by some that the effects of substituents in electrophilic aromatic substitutions were particularly susceptible to the specific demands of the reagent, and that the variability of the polarizibility effects, or direct resonance interactions, would render impossible any attempted correlation using a two-parameter equation. - o This view was not universally accepted, for Pearson, Baxter and Martin suggested that, by choosing a different model reaction, in which the direct resonance effects of substituents participated, an equation, formally similar to Hammett s equation, might be devised to correlate the rates of electrophilic aromatic and electrophilic side chain reactions. We shall now consider attempts which have been made to do this. 

The more extensive problem of correlating substituent effects in electrophilic substitution by a two-parameter equation has been examined by Brown and his co-workers. In order to define a new set of substituent constants. Brown chose as a model reaction the solvolysis of substituted dimethylphenylcarbinyl chlorides in 90% aq. acetone. In the case ofp-substituted compounds, the transition state, represented by the following resonance structures, is stabilized by direct resonance interaction between the substituent and the site of reaction. 

The suitability of the model reaction chosen by Brown has been criticised. There are many side-chain reactions in which, during reaction, electron deficiencies arise at the site of reaction. The values of the substituent constants obtainable from these reactions would not agree with the values chosen for cr+. At worst, if the solvolysis of substituted benzyl chlorides in 50% aq. acetone had been chosen as the model reaction, crJ-Me would have been —0-82 instead of the adopted value of —0-28. It is difficult to see how the choice of reaction was defended, save by pointing out that the variation in the values of the substituent constants, derivable from different reactions, were not systematically related to the values of the reaction constants such a relationship would have been expected if the importance of the stabilization of the transition-state by direct resonance increased with increasing values of the reaction constant. 

Petroleum, particulady shale oil, also contains organic oxygen and nitrogen compounds. Model reactions for the removal of these materials with hydrogen include... 

Model Reactions. Independent measurements of interfacial areas are difficult to obtain in Hquid—gas, Hquid—Hquid, and Hquid—soHd—gas systems. Correlations developed from studies of nonreacting systems maybe satisfactory. Comparisons of reaction rates in reactors of known small interfacial areas, such as falling-film reactors, with the reaction rates in reactors of large but undefined areas can provide an effective measure of such surface areas. Another method is substitution of a model reaction whose kinetics are well estabUshed and where the physical and chemical properties of reactants are similar and limiting mechanisms are comparable. The main advantage of employing a model reaction is the use of easily processed reactants, less severe operating conditions, and simpler equipment. 

M. Luoma, P. Lappi, and R. Lylykangas, Evaluation of High Cell Density E-Flow Catalyst, SAE 930940, Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrendale, Pa., 1993. Good reference for mass-transfer limited model reactions. 

This study is particularly noteworthy in the evolution of QM-MM studies of enzyme reactions in that a number of technical features have enhanced the accuracy of the technique. First, the authors explicitly optimized the semiempirical parameters for this specific reaction based on extensive studies of model reactions. This approach had also been used with considerable success in QM-MM simultation of the proton transfer between methanol and imidazole in solution. 

During the hardening of PMF-resins no co-condensation occurs in the hardened state two independent interpenetrating networks exist [58]. Indications for a co-condensation via methylene bridges between the phenolic nucleus and the amido group of the melamine had been found by H-NMR only in model reactions between phenolmethylols and melamine. 

Alkaline co-condensation to yield commercial resins and the products of reaction obtained thereof [93,94] as well as the kinetics of the co-condensation of mono methylol phenols and urea [104,105] have also been reported [17]. Model reactions in order to prove an urea-phenol-formaldehyde co-condensation (reaction of urea with methylolphenols) are described by Tomita and Hse [98,102, 106] and by Pizzi et al. [93,104] (Fig. 1). 

Here, we shall examine a series of processes from the viewpoint of their kinetics and develop model reactions for the appropriate rate equations. The equations are used to andve at an expression that relates measurable parameters of the reactions to constants and to concentration terms. The rate constant or other parameters can then be determined by graphical or numerical solutions from this relationship. If the kinetics of a process are found to fit closely with the model equation that is derived, then the model can be used as a basis for the description of the process. Kinetics is concerned about the quantities of the reactants and the products and their rates of change. Since reactants disappear in reactions, their rate expressions are given a... 

The most demanding test of cesium carbonate as base was with 2,3-dihydroxypyridine (3-hydroxypyridone). The cesium salt was found to be fairly unstable, apparently oxidizing quite rapidly. Model reactions suggested that alkylation would occur 1,3 (N, 0) to give the substituted pyridone. Nevertheless, on the basis of UV and H-nmr analysis, the product of reaction between 2,3-dihydroxypyridine and tetraethylene glycol dibromide was assigned as the pyridocrown (23% yield, mp 77—78.5°) as shown in Eq. (3.60). 

A dimer-dimer (DD) surface reaction scheme of the type (1/2)A2 + B2 B2A has been proposed in order to mimic the catalytic oxidation of hydrogen A2 is O2, B2 is H2, AB is OH and B2A is H2O. The model reaction proceeds according to the Langmuir-Hinshelwood... 

E. V. Albano. Finite-size effects in kinetic phase transitions of a model reaction on a fractal surface Scahng approach and Monte Carlo investigation. Phys Rev B 42 R10818-R10821, 1990. 

A Hammett plot of the pK values of p-substituted phenols against the Op values shows serious deviations for the members of the series at the extremes of the o scale, that is, for substituents that are strongly electron donating or electron withdrawing. It was recognized very early that such deviations could be rectified by choosing an appropriate o value for such substituents in effect, this means a different model reaction was adopted. The chemical basis of the procedure can be illustrated with the p-nitro substituent. The p-nitrophenolate ion is stabilized by through resonance as shown in 2. 

Berg et al. defined a different ortho steric constant. The model reaction is the quatemization of substituted pyridines with methyl iodide in acetonitrile solution. 

Another method for studying solvent effects is the extrathermodynamic approach that we described in Chapter 7 for the study of structure-reactivity relationships. For example, we might seek a correlation between og(,kA/l ) for a reaction A carried out in a series of solvents and log(/ R/A R) for a reference or model reaction carried out in the same series of solvents. A linear plot of og(k/iJk ) against log(/ R/ linear free energy relationship (LFER). Such plots have in fact been made. As with structure-reactivity relationships, these solvent-reactivity relationships can be useful to us, but they have limitations. 

The effect of the metals used was then examined (Table 5.4). When the group 4 metals, titanium, zirconium, and hafnium, were screened it was found that a chiral hafnium catalyst gave high yields and enantioselectivity in the model reaction of aldimine lb with 7a, while lower yields and enantiomeric excesses were obtained using a chiral titanium catalyst [17]. 

Nitrones are a rather polarized 1,3-dipoles so that the transition structure of their cydoaddition reactions to alkenes activated by an electron-withdrawing substituent would involve some asynchronous nature with respect to the newly forming bonds, especially so in the Lewis acid-catalyzed reactions. Therefore, the transition structures for the catalyzed nitrone cydoaddition reactions were estimated on the basis of ab-initio calculations using the 3-21G basis set. A model reaction indudes the interaction between CH2=NH(0) and acrolein in the presence or absence of BH3 as an acid catalyst (Scheme 7.30). Both the catalyzed and uncatalyzed reactions have only one transition state in each case, indicating that the reactions are both concerted. However, the synchronous nature between the newly forming 01-C5 and C3-C4 bonds in the transition structure TS-J of the catalyzed reaction is rather different from that in the uncatalyzed reaction TS-K. For example, the bond lengths and bond orders in the uncatalyzed reaction are 1.93 A and 0.37 for the 01-C5 bond and 2.47 A and 0.19 for the C3-C4 bond, while those in... 

To determine the preferred pathway for the [4-r-2]-hetero-Diels-Alder reaction model reactions using formaldehyde (R =H for 12 in Scheme 8.5) as the carbonyl compound and 2-azabutadiene (R -R" = H for 13 in Scheme 8.5) for the hetero... 

The Lewis acid-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of nitrones to a,/ -un-saturated carbonyl compound in the presence of Lewis acids has been investigated by Tanaka et al. [31]. Ab-initio calculations were performed in a model reaction of the simple nitrone 18 reacting with acrolein 1 to give the two cycloadducts 19 and 20 (Scheme 8.7). 

Recently, the above mentioned model reaction has been extended to polycondensation reactions for synthesis of polyethers and polysulfides [7,81]. In recent reports crown ether catalysts have mostly been used in the reaction of a bifunctional nucleophile with a bifunctional electrophile, as well as in the monomer species carrying both types of functional groups [7]. Table 5 describes the syntheses of aromatic polyethers by the nucleophilic displacement polymerization using PTC. 

The correct pairing of half-cystine residues is shown to be dependent upon specific noncovalent bonds 17). With this finding in mind, oxidation of a pair of associating thiols (7 and 2) was chosen as a model reaction. Thiol 7 has the same group as cysteine side chain (HSCH2), 2 being a derivative of cysteamine. 

MO calculations were performed rarely for thiopyrans except for an MNDO study of 2 [84ZN(A)267], Charge distribution and orbital interaction concepts were explored in an interpretation of model reactions of thiopyrylium ions with azides giving 68 and the corresponding 3,5-unsub-stituted thiopyrans (84T3549) as well as for the equilibria between 1 and 2 or 167 and 168, respectively (92JOC4431). 

Since the Ugi reaction was originally used as a method of synthesizing peptides66 and, in model reactions, amino acid derivatives67, the asymmetric Ugi reaction with potentially removable auxiliaries is described first. 

The model for the liquid phase may be obtained by analogy with the solid phase. Equation (11) is the ionic model reaction for... 

In one model reaction where tris(para-hydroxybenzyl)amine was heated to 205°C in the presence of 2,4-xylenol (1 1 ratio), the ortho-ortho, ortho-para,... 

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