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Plant uptake is one of several routes by which an organic contaminant can enter man s food chain. The amount of uptake depends on plant species, concentration, depth of placement, soil type, temperature, moisture, and many other parameters. Translocation of the absorbed material into various plant parts will determine the degree of man s exposure—i.e., whether the material moves to an edible portion of the plant. Past experience with nonpolar chlorinated pesticides suggested optimal uptake conditions are achieved when the chemical is placed in a soil with low adsorptive capacity e.g., a sand), evenly distributed throughout the soil profile, and with oil producing plants. Plant experiments were conducted with one set of parameters that would be optimal for uptake and translocation. The uptake of two dioxins and one phenol (2,4-dichlorophenol (DCP)) from one soil was measured in soybean and oats (7). The application rates were DCP = 0.07 ppm, DCDD 0.10 ppm, and TCDD = 0.06 ppm. The specific activity of the com-... 

In some ways the ideal solvent for an Sn2 reaction would be a nonpolar aprotic solvent such as a hydrocarbon or a relatively nonpolar chlorinated hydrocarbon. 

Bush B., J.T. Snow, and S. Connor. 1983. High resolution gas chromatographic analysis of nonpolar chlorinated hydrocarbons in human milk. Jour. Assoc. Offic. Anal. Chem. 66 248-255. 

Bush B, Barnard EL. 1982. Determination of nonpolar chlorinated hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls in microsamples. Anal Lett 15(20) 1643-1648. 

The inclusion of a third-order term did not yield a significantly better fit (p > 0.6). There are no indications that PAHs and nonpolar chlorinated hydrocarbons have a different Ks - Ko dependence. By contrast, the moderately polar pesticides such as hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs), dieldrin, chlorpyrifos, heptachlor, and trifluralin (open and closed diamonds in Figure 3.3) have Ks values that are 0.6 log units lower than PAHs and PCBs with similar Ko values (p < 0.001). 

Was this your answer There are no natural pathways by which chlorinated hydrocarbons are readily broken down to less harmful compounds. Also, because they are nonpolar, chlorinated hydrocarbons are not readily washed away by rainwater. Organophosphorus compounds readily decompose to water-soluble products that can be carried away by rainwater. 

One patent was granted for extraction of alkaloids from Thalictrum species. Finely-powdered samples of Thalictrum species were first moistened with NH4OH (10%), and then extracted with a nonpolar chlorinated organic solvent. The extracting solvent was treated with citric acid (0.1-0.5N), and the citric acid basified to pH 9-10 before extraction (2x) with chlorinated solvent. The solvent was removed via distillation, and the residue dissolved in a mixture of polar and nonpolar solvents to afford crystalline alkaloids, such as P-allocryptopine. The alkaloids have antitussive, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-arrhythmic, and choleretic-cholagogue properties [33]. 

A. Adsorption. The physical adsorption of the nonionic, nonpolar chlorinated pesticides, lindane and toxaphene, were measured in two types of polymers ionic exchange resins and nonionic styreneidivinylbenzene polymers.The following results were obtained ... 

Bromination in polar solvents usually gives /n j -3,4-dibromo-2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol in nonpolar solvents, with incandescent light, the cis isomer is the principal product (194). Chlorine adds readily up to the tetrachloro stage, but yields are low because of side reactions (195). 

Solubility. Cross-linking eliminates polymer solubiUty. Crystallinity sometimes acts like cross-linking because it ties individual chains together, at least well below T. Thus, there are no solvents for linear polyethylene at room temperature, but as it is heated toward its (135°C), it dissolves in a variety of aUphatic, aromatic, and chlorinated hydrocarbons. A rough guide to solubiUty is that like dissolves like, ie, polar solvents tend to dissolve polar polymers and nonpolar solvent dissolve nonpolar polymers. 

This method is also used with alcohols of the stmcture Cl(CH2) OH (114). HaloaLkyl chlorosulfates are likewise obtained from the reaction of halogenated alkanes with sulfur trioxide or from the chlorination of cycHc sulfites (115,116). Chlorosilanes form chlorosulfate esters when treated with sulfur trioxide or chlorosulfuric acid (117). Another approach to halosulfates is based on the addition of chlorosulfuric or fluorosulfuric acid to alkenes in nonpolar solvents (118). 

Titanium oxide dichloride [13780-39-8] TiOCl2, is a yellow hygroscopic soHd that may be prepared by bubbling ozone or chlorine monoxide through titanium tetrachloride. It is insoluble in nonpolar solvents but forms a large number of adducts with oxygen donors, eg, ether. It decomposes to titanium tetrachloride and titanium dioxide at temperatures of ca 180°C (136). 

Dichlorine monoxide is the anhydride of hypochlorous acid the two nonpolar compounds are readily interconvertible in the gas or aqueous phases via the equilibrium CI2 O + H2 0 2H0Cl. Like other chlorine oxides, CI2O has an endothermic heat of formation and is thus thermodynamically unstable with respect to decomposition into chlorine and oxygen. Dichlorine monoxide typifies the chlorine oxides as a highly reactive and explosive compound with strong oxidhing properties. Nevertheless, it can be handled safely with proper precautions. 

Liquid-phase chlorination of butadiene in hydroxyhc or other polar solvents can be quite compHcated in kinetics and lead to extensive formation of by-products that involve the solvent. In nonpolar solvents the reaction can be either free radical or polar in nature (20). The free-radical process results in excessive losses to tetrachlorobutanes if near-stoichiometric ratios of reactants ate used or polymer if excess of butadiene is used. The "ionic" reaction, if a small amount of air is used to inhibit free radicals, can be quite slow in a highly purified system but is accelerated by small traces of practically any polar impurity. Pyridine, dipolar aptotic solvents, and oil-soluble ammonium chlorides have been used to improve the reaction (21). As a commercial process, the use of a solvent requites that the products must be separated from solvent as well as from each other and the excess butadiene which is used, but high yields of the desired products can be obtained without formation of polymer at higher butadiene to chlorine ratio. 

The resistance to heat and aging of optimized EPM/EPDM vulcanizates is better than that of SBR and NR. Peroxide-cured EPM can, for instance, be exposed for 1000 h at 150°C without significant hardening. Particularly noteworthy is the ozone resistance of EPM/EPDM vulcanizates. Even after exposure for many months to ozone-rich air of 100 pphm, the vulcanizates will not be seriously harmed. EPM/EPDM vulcanizates have an excellent resistance to chemicals, such as dilute acids, alkaUes, alcohol, etc. This is in contrast to the resistance to aUphatic, aromatic, or chlorinated hydrocarbons. EPM/EPDM vulcanizates swell considerably in these nonpolar media. 

Molecular chlorine is believed to be the active electrophile in uncatalyzed chlorination of aromatic compounds. Simple second-order kinetics are observed in acetic acid. The reaction is much slower in nonpolar solvents such as dichloromethane and carbon tetrachloride. Chlorination in nonpolar solvents is catalyzed by added acid. The catalysis by acids is probably the result of assistance by proton transfer during the cleavage of the Cl-Cl bond. ... 

Because chlorine is more electronegative than carbon, carbon tetrachloride has four polar covalent bonds. But, as pointed out earlier, the molecular symmetry cancels out the electric dipoles of the individual bonds. The result is a nonpolar molecule. Like water, carbon tetrachloride is a good solvent. At one time, it was used as a dry cleaning agent. Water and carbon tetrachloride, however, dissolve entirely different classes of compounds. Carbon tetrachloride forms solutions with nonpolar organic compounds. It is infinitely miscible, for example, with benzene, whereas water and benzene do not mix. 

Residue analytical chemistry has extended its scope in recent decades from the simple analysis of chlorinated, lipophilic, nonpolar, persistent insecticides - analyzed in the first Si02 fraction after the all-destroying sulfuric acid cleanup by a gas chro-matography/electron capture detection (GC/ECD) method that was sometimes too sensitive to provide linearity beyond the required final concentration - to the monitoring of polar, even ionic, hydrophilic pesticides with structures giving the chemist no useful feature other than the molecule itself, hopefully to be ionized and fragmented for MS or MS" detection. 

The most critical decision to be made is the choice of the best solvent to facilitate extraction of the drug residue while minimizing interference. A review of available solubility, logP, and pK /pKb data for the marker residue can become an important first step in the selection of the best extraction solvents to try. A selected list of solvents from the literature methods include individual solvents (n-hexane, " dichloromethane, ethyl acetate, acetone, acetonitrile, methanol, and water ) mixtures of solvents (dichloromethane-methanol-acetic acid, isooctane-ethyl acetate, methanol-water, and acetonitrile-water ), and aqueous buffer solutions (phosphate and sodium sulfate ). Hexane is a very nonpolar solvent and could be chosen as an extraction solvent if the analyte is also very nonpolar. For example, Serrano et al used n-hexane to extract the very nonpolar polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from fat, liver, and kidney of whale. One advantage of using n-hexane as an extraction solvent for fat tissue is that the fat itself will be completely dissolved, but this will necessitate an additional cleanup step to remove the substantial fat matrix. The choice of chlorinated hydrocarbons such as methylene chloride, chloroform, and carbon tetrachloride should be avoided owing to safety and environmental concerns with these solvents. Diethyl ether and ethyl acetate are other relatively nonpolar solvents that are appropriate for extraction of nonpolar analytes. Diethyl ether or ethyl acetate may also be combined with hexane (or other hydrocarbon solvent) to create an extraction solvent that has a polarity intermediate between the two solvents. For example, Gerhardt et a/. used a combination of isooctane and ethyl acetate for the extraction of several ionophores from various animal tissues. 

Rate studies show that chlorination is subject to acid catalysis, although the kinetics are frequently complex.13 The proton is believed to assist Cl-Cl bond breaking in a reactant-Cl2 complex. Chlorination is much more rapid in polar than in nonpolar solvents.14 Bromination exhibits similar mechanistic features. 

With suitable adjustments to the temperature, also subcritical water extraction (SWE) or pressurised hot water extraction (PHWE) allows selective extraction of polar (chlorinated phenols), low-polarity (PCBs and PAHs) and nonpolar (alkanes) organic compounds from industrial soils [418]. 

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