Organic compounds phenols

Typical organic acids contain the --C(0)0H group, but many other acid groupings, e.g. the sulphonic -S(0)20H give acidic properties to organic compounds. Phenols have acidic properties and are classified with enols as pseudo-acids. 

Variety of organic compounds Phenols, cyanide, and organic lead com pounds in wastewaters, compounds in air Variety of organic compounds... 

Composed of complex organic compounds (phenols, acids, alcohols, ethers, ketones, and aldehydes), volatile oils evaporate when exposed to air. Volatile oils are found in many plants and may produce the aroma of the plant. Volatile oils exhibit various properties but some common oils are antiseptic or local irritants, or sedative. Oils of peppermint, clove, cinnamon, garlic, and thyme are volatile oils. 

In comparison with many other classes of organic compounds, phenols show relatively greater toxicity. Most alkyl phenols, chlorophenols, and nitrophenols, although following different metabolic pathways and toxicokinetic patterns, exhibit a high degree of toxicity. The symptoms of acute toxicity are discussed under individual compounds in the following sections. The alkyl phenols, diphenols (benzenediols), and triphenols (benzenetriols) exhibit toxicities quite similar to those of phenols. The symptoms and severity of toxic effects are more or less similar. 

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Sodium and potassium hydroxides. The use of these efficient reagents is generally confined to the drying of amines (soda lime, barium oxide and quicklime may also be employed) potassium hydroxide is somewhat superior to the sodium compound. Much of the water may be first removed by shaking with a concentrated solution of the alkali hydroxide. They react with many organic compounds (e.g., acids, phenols, esters and amides) in the presence of water, and are also soluble in certain organic liquids so that their use as desiccants is very limited... 

Organic compounds normally cause Htde or no corrosion of magnesium. Tanks or other containers of magnesium alloys are used for phenol [108-95-2] methyl bromide [74-96 ] and phenylethyl alcohol [60-12-8]. Most alcohols cause no more than mild attack, but anhydrous methanol attacks magnesium vigorously with the formation of magnesium methoxide [109-88-6]. This attack is inhibited by the addition of 1% ammonium sulfide [12135-76-1] or the presence ofwater. 

The corrosion behavior of tantalum is weU-documented (46). Technically, the excellent corrosion resistance of the metal reflects the chemical properties of the thermal oxide always present on the surface of the metal. This very adherent oxide layer makes tantalum one of the most corrosion-resistant metals to many chemicals at temperatures below 150°C. Tantalum is not attacked by most mineral acids, including aqua regia, perchloric acid, nitric acid, and concentrated sulfuric acid below 175°C. Tantalum is inert to most organic compounds organic acids, alcohols, ketones, esters, and phenols do not attack tantalum. 

Mild acid converts it to the product and ethanol. With the higher temperatures required of the cyano compound [1003-52-7] (15), the intermediate cycloadduct is converted direcdy to the product by elimination of waste hydrogen cyanide. Often the reactions are mn with neat Hquid reagents having an excess of alkene as solvent. Polar solvents such as sulfolane and /V-m ethyl -pyrrol i don e are claimed to be superior for reactions of the ethoxy compound with butenediol (53). Organic acids, phenols, maleic acid derivatives, and inorganic bases are suggested as catalysts (51,52,54,59,61,62) (Fig. 6). 

Bromine is used as an analytical reagent to determine the amount of unsaturation in organic compounds because carbon—carbon double bonds add bromine quantitatively, and for phenols which add bromine in the ortho and para positions. Standard bromine is added in excess and the amount unreacted is deterrnined by an indirect iodine titration. Bromine is also used to oxidize several elements, such as T1(I) to T1(III). Excess bromine is removed by adding phenol. Bromine plus an acid, such as nitric and/or hydrochloric, provides an oxidizing acid mixture usefiil in dissolving metal or mineral samples prior to analysis for sulfur. 

Hydrolysis using aqueous alkaH has been found to remove ash material including pyrite. A small pilot plant for studying this process was built at the BatteUe Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio (74) and subsequentiy discontinued. Other studies have produced a variety of gases and organic compounds such as phenols, nitrogen bases, Hquid hydrocarbons, and fatty acids totaling as much as 13 wt % of the coal. The products indicate that oxidation and other reactions as weU as hydrolysis take place. 

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