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Berteau montmorillonite subjected to 2 (i), 5 ( ) and 10 ( ) wetting-drying cycles (101). Jurves re a simulation. Table VI shows these data for the (Ca - Cs ) equilibrium. Reproduced with permission from Ref. 101. Copyright 1985, The Clay Minerals Society. 

TABLE VI. InK values and site group capacities (meq 100/g) for simulating the Cs Ca equilibria at 25°6 of potassium-exchanged Camp Berteau montmorillonite subjected to alternate wettingdrying cycles... 

The sol-pillared clay was prepared following the procedures of Yamanaka et al (1). The mixing ratio of Afsi (mol)/A/T,(moI)/CEC equivalent of clay was 30/3/1. SiC -TiCh sol pillared montmorillonite, subjected to a calcination for 4h at 773 K, was labeled as sol-PILM. Portions of the wet cake prepared with bentonite were subjected to SCD or treatment with surfactants as described below. 

Changes in the surface properties of cationic complexes, in which the surface metal cations of natural clays have been exchanged with an ammonium cationic surfactant, could be simply confirmed by mixing them with polar solvents and observing their dispersibility. It should be noted that quantitative measurements of surface properties may be obtained by contact-angle measurements [4, 10]. This method allowed measuring the change of surface polarity of Cloisite 30B (a dimethylbenzyl tallow ammonium chloride-modified montmorillonite) subjected to elevated temperatures for the duration of typical... 

This hypothesis is confirmed in the case of montmorillonite subjected to the Hofmann-... 

Allyl groups are subject to oxidative deprotection with Chromiapillared Montmorillonite Clay, -BuOOH, CH2CI2, isooctane, 85% yield. Allylamines are cleaved in 84—90% yield, and allyl phenyl ethers are cleaved in 80% yield. 

The great importance of minerals in prebiotic chemical reactions is undisputed. Interactions between mineral surfaces and organic molecules, and their influence on self-organisation processes, have been the subject of much study. New results from Szostak and co-workers show that the formation of vesicles is not limited to one type of mineral, but can involve various types of surfaces. Different minerals were studied in order to find out how particle size, particle shape, composition and charge can influence vesicle formation. Thus, for example, montmorillonite (Na and K10), kaolinite, talc, aluminium silicates, quartz, perlite, pyrite, hydrotalcite and Teflon particles were studied. Vesicle formation was catalysed best by aluminium solicate, followed by hydrotalcite, kaolinite and talcum (Hanczyc et al., 2007). 

A diverse group of organic reactions catalyzed by montmorillonite has been described and some reviews on this subject have been published.19 Examples of those transformations include addition reactions, such as Michael addition of thiols to y./bunsatu rated carbonyl compounds 20 electrophilic aromatic substitutions,19c nucleophilic substitution of alcohols,21 acetal synthesis196 22 and deprotection,23 cyclizations,19b c isomerizations, and rearrangements.196 24... 

Figure 5. Percentage illite layers versus layer charge for K-smectites subjected to 100 WD cycles in water at 60°C and 1 Sr-exchange. Numbers in parentheses refer to percentage of octahedral charge. Best fit line is for montmorillonites having 69% or more octahedral charge. Data from Tables III and IV.

The most-popular nanofiller is a natural layered silicate, montmorillonite, that is subjected to specific treatments. The properties of the final nanocomposite depend on the these treatments and the mixing efficiency. 

Some of the clays that enter the ocean are transported by river input, but the vast majority of the riverine particles are too large to travel fer and, hence, settle to the seafloor close to their point of entry on the continental margins. The most abundant clay minerals are illite, kaolinite, montmorillonite, and chlorite. Their formation, geographic source distribution and fete in the oceans is the subject of Chapter 14. In general, these minerals tend to undergo little alteration until they are deeply buried in the sediments and subject to metagenesis. 

On the subject of montmorillonite clay, the quite interesting reaction reported by Paechthorowitz and Eirich (1988) should be mentioned. The reaction sequence involves the coupling of an amino acid to form a polypeptide-nucleotide compound, as shown in Figure 4.2. 

The DMA of rubber-based nanocomposites has been the subject of recent research. Many literature reports describe the dynamic mechanical behavior of rubber-based nanocomposites [155, 156]. Das et al. have studied the DMA of CR nanocomposites based on montmorillonite clay and LDH [157]. The montmorillonite clay is... 

Let us now take a phase of montmorillonite composition (fully expandable at low temperature) and subject it to an increase in temperature and... 

To activated montmorillonite K-10 clay (2 g) in a 100-mL Erlenmeyer flask was added a mixture of freshly distilled phenol (0.50 g, 5.3 mmol) and recrystallized p-methoxycinnamic acid (0.94 g, 5.3 mmol) dissolved in CH2CI2 (5 mL) along with one drop of concentrated H2SO4. The solvent was evaporated and the resultant free-flowing solid placed on a silica bath and subjected to microwave irradiation at 640 W for 10 min. Dichloromethane (20 mL) was added, the reaction mixture filtered and the filtrate washed with saturated NaHC03 solution, brine and dried over Na2S04. Evaporation of the solvent in vacuo yielded the product, 1.05 g (82%). 

IV-allylaniline (1.33 g, 10 mmol) was admixed with Zn2+ montmorillonite and subjected to microwave irradiation at 650 W (BPL, BMO-700T, operating at 2450 MHz) for 3 min. After cooling down to room temperature, the reaction mass was directly charged on a silica gel column (100-200 mesh) and eluted with ethyl acetate-rc-hexane (3 7) to afford 2-methylindoline (1.06 g, 80% yield) as pale yellow liquid. 

The a-phenoxy acetophenone 2 (212 mg, 1 mmol) was dissolved in minimum amount of dichloromethane, adsorbed over montmorillonite KSF clay (sub-strate clay=l 2 w/w). It was transferred into a test tube and subjected to micro-wave irradiation (BPL make, BMO 700T, 650 W, high power). The reaction was monitored by TLC. After completion of the reaction (6 min) it was leached with dichloromethane (3x 10 mL). The solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure and purified through column chromatography using ethyl acetate-hexane (9 1) to give 3-phenylbenzofuran (165 mg, 85%). 

In these experiments a commercially available bentonite, marketed under the name Colclay A90 (Ankerpoort, Geertruidenberg, The Netherlands) was used. It is a sodium-montmorillonite with a third of the exchange complex occupied by calcium. 5.0 g of the air-dried powdered bentonite was weighed into a stainless steel mould with an ID of 50 mm between two porous stones of the same diameter. Then the clay was subjected to a compaction pressure of 20.3 MPa for 30 minutes. After compaction, the mould was placed in a bowl of NaCl-solution for five days in which the clay became saturated and swollen. Thus samples were obtained with thickness of 3.8 and 2.8 mm respectively and a diameter of 50 mm. 

Soils high in montmorillonite possess high CEC and high H20 holding capacity but exhibit slow intake of H20, puddle easily swell and shrink and thus subject to dispersion-flocculation phenomena... 

The role of sodium ions is predicted to be small according to Schulze-Hardy s rule that is, the effectiveness of counterions in the interfacial phenomena is approximately proportional to the sixth power of the counterion charge. The formation of complexes between Na+-ions and anionic sites on the montmorillonite surface is included here for the sake of completeness, although such complexes are subject to reservations because they are unknown in aqueous solutions, and evidence against their physical reality has been presented (Janssen and Stein 1986). Indeed, as will be seen later, they are not prevalent. 

The acid-activation process can be understood by considering the stmctural and chemical changes that occur when the montmorillonite stmcture is subjected to reaction by strong acid (Figure 2). During the acid-activation process, acidic protons dissolve magnesium, aluminum, and ferric ions from the octahedral layer. Two important consequences are as follows (1) Mobile alkali and alkahne earth cations... 

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