Reaction center, organic

One of the earliest investigations of the effect of the cycloamyloses on an organic reaction centered around the hydrolysis of ethyl esters of several... 

J. F., Nicholas, J.B., Heneghan, C., Methybenzenes Are the Organic Reaction Centers for Methanol-to-Olefin Catalysis on HSAPO-34, p. 10725-10727, Copyright 2000 American Chemical Society... 

Afterward, the notion of unspecified carbon deposition with an olefin-like composition (CH ) has been gradually transformed to Polymethylbenzenes (PMBs) by many research groups [87,97]. Those PMBs serve as scaffolds/cocatalysts, where methanol is added and olefins are eliminated in a closed catalytic cycle [87,98]. It is therefore indicated that the interplay between the inorganic framework and the organic reaction centers dictates the activity and selectivity. However, according to Ref. [97], the role of PMBs as the major hydrocarbon pool species appears to be independent of the zeotype catalyst chosen. Haw et al. [87] provided both experimental and theoretical evidence in favor of PMBs as the driving force for the hydrocarbon pool mechanism. In 1998, by means of pulse-quench reactions on an H-ZSM-5 catalyst and GC-MS and MAS NMR analysis, it was reported... 

On this basis Hendrickson classified organic reactions. A distinction is made between refiinctionalization reactions and skeletal alteration reactions. Refiinctiona-lizations in almost all cases have no more than four carbon atoms in the reaction center. Construction or fragmentation reactions have no more than three carbon atoms in each joining or cleaving part of the molecule. Thus, these parts are treated... 

Furthermore, for each reaction the reaction center was specified, information was given on whether the reaction is reversible or irreversible, and catabolic or anabolic. Finally, it was specified whether a reaction is part of a general pathway or occurs only in unicellular organisms, in higher plants, or in animals (Figure 10.3-21). 

Clearly, the nex.t step will be to investigate the physicochemical effects, such as charge distribution and inductive and resonance effects, at the reaction center to obtain a deeper insight into the mechanisms of these biochemical reactions and the finer details of similar reactions. Here, it should be emphasized that biochemical reactions arc ruled and driven basically by the same effects as organic reactions. Figure 10.3-22 compares the Claisen condensation of acetic esters to acctoacctic esters with the analogous biochemical reaction in the human body. 

Most of the biochemical reactions that take place in the body, as well as many organic reactions in the laboratory, yield products with chirality centers. Fo example, acid-catalyzed addition of H2O to 1-butene in the laboratory yield 2-butanol, a chiral alcohol. What is the stereochemistry of this chiral product If a single enantiomer is formed, is it R or 5 If a mixture of enantiomers i formed, how much of each In fact, the 2-butanol produced is a racemic mix ture of R and S enantiomers. Let s see why. 

The Diels-Alder cycloaddition is the best-known organic reaction that is widely used to construct, in a regio- and stereo-controlled way, a six-membered ring with up to four stereogenic centers. With the potential of forming carbon-carbon, carbon-heteroatom and heteroatom-heteroatom bonds, the reaction is a versatile synthetic tool for constructing simple and complex molecules [1], Scheme 1.1 illustrates two examples the synthesis of a small molecule such as the tricyclic compound 1 by intermolecular Diels-Alder reaction [2] and the construction of a complex compound, like 2, which is the key intermediate in the synthesis of (-)chlorothricolide 3, by a combination of an intermolecular and an intramolecular Diels-Alder cycloaddition [3]. 

The greater than unit value of Kf in pure solvents is the result expected by the field effect model (33) on a distance basis. The lower than unit value ofKj in the mixed aqueous organic solvents appears to be related to preferential hydration of the reaction center, which results in an increased effective dielectric constant from the m- compared to the p- position. The fact that values fall into two separate categories for pure organic and mixed aqueous organic solvents does not support the treatments of Exner (20) or Yukawa and Tsuno (16). 

Organosilanes, especially dimethyldichlorosilane (M2), are important chemicals used in the silicone industries. The direct reaction of silicon with an organic halide to produce the corresponding organosilanes as a gas-solid-solid catalytic reaction was first disclosed by Rochow [1]. In the reaction, a copper-containing precursor first reacts with silicon particles to form the catalytically active component, which is a copper-silicon alloy, the exact state of which is still under discussion. As the reaction proceeds. Si in the alloy is consumed, which is followed by the release of copper. This copper diffuses into the Si lattice to form new reaction centers until deactivation occurs. The main reaction of the direct process is ... 

Carotenoids protect photosynthetic organisms against potentially harmful photooxidative processes and are essential structural components of the photosynthetic antenna and reaction center complexes. Plant carotenoids play fundamental roles as accessory pigments for photosynthesis, as protection against photooxidation, and... 

We should mention the recent progress in Au(I) and Au(III) catalyzed organic reactions [24, 297]. A number of groups of theoretical chemists are currently investigating the reaction mechanisms using quantum chemical methods [298-301]. Li and Mia published DFT calculations on AU5H5X hydrometal pentagons with Dsh planar pentacoordinate nonmetal centers (X = Si, Ge, P, S) [302]. The introduction of the nonmetal centers X introduces p aromaticity to MHX complexes. 

The last two decades have witnessed rapid development of organic synthetic methods based on benzotriazole derivatives. Thus, introduction of benzotriazole moiety to organic molecules provides several practical advantages. Among other benefits, a benzotriazolyl substituent activates the reaction center, stabilizes intermediates, increases regio- and stereoselectivity, and simplifies separation and purification of the products. After the desired molecular assembly is constructed, the bond with benzotriazole is cleaved off to provide the final product. A vast variety of... 

Finally if you combine many of the concepts above, you can begin to think about developing controlled reaction centers that combine inorganic, organic,... 

Organized molecular assemblies containing redox chromophores show specific and useful photoresponses which cannot be achieved in randomly dispersed systems. Ideal examples of such highly functional molecular assemblies can be found in nature as photosynthesis and vision. Recently the very precise and elegant molecular arrangements of the reaction center of photosynthetic bacteria was revealed by the X-ray crystallography [1]. The first step, the photoinduced electron transfer from photoreaction center chlorophyll dimer (a special pair) to pheophytin (a chlorophyll monomer without... 

Among complexes of organic compounds with N-centered electrophiles, a special position is occupied by the nitrosonium complexes. Interest in these complexes has not diminished over the years as they are intermediates in several important organic reactions, such as nitrosation of aromatic compounds (35),... 

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