PARTNERS study

In the Peripheral Arterial Disease Detection, Awareness, Risk and Treatment New Resources for Survival (PARTNERS) study (64), 6979 patients age 70 years or older or age 50-69 years with diabetes mellitus or history of smoking were evaluated by history and ABI. LEAD cases were classified as such, if the ABI was <0.9 or if there was a history of limb revascularization. A main outcome measure evaluated the treatment of LEAD patients compared with other forms of arterial disease. 

In the kinetic runs always a large excess of catalyst was used. Under these conditions IQ does not influence the apparent rate of the Diels-Alder reaction. Kinetic studies by UV-vis spectroscopy require a low concentration of the dienophile( 10" M). The use of only a catalytic amount of Lewis-acid will seriously hamper complexation of the dienophile because of the very low concentrations of both reaction partners under these conditions. The contributions of and to the observed apparent rate constant have been determined by measuring k pp and Ka separately. ... 

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The stabilization of chloromethoxycarbene (234) was intensively studied. It is formed from diazirine (233) in a first order reaction with fi/2 = 34h at 20 C. It reacts either as a nucleophile, adding to electron poor alkenes like acrylonitrile with cyclopropanation, or as an electrophile, giving diphenylcyclopropenone with the electron rich diphenylacetylene. In the absence of reaction partners (234) decomposes to carbon monoxide and methyl chloride (78TL1931, 1935). 

In the photolysis of difiuorodiazirine (218) a singlet carbene was also observed (65JA758). Reactions of the difiuorocarbene were especially studied with partners which are too reactive to be used in the presence of conventional carbene precursors, such as molecular chlorine and iodine, dinitrogen tetroxide, nitryl chloride, carboxylic acids and sulfonic acids. Thus chlorine, trifiuoroacetic acid and trifiuoromethanesulfonic acid reacted with difiuorodiazirine under the conditions of its photolysis to form compounds (237)-(239) (64JHC233). 

In a continuous reaction process, the true residence time of the reaction partners in the reactor plays a major role. It is governed by the residence time distribution characteristic of the reactor, which gives information on backmixing (macromixing) of the throughput. The principal objectives of studies into the macrokinetics of a process are to estimate the coefficients of a mathematical model of the process and to validate the model for adequacy. For this purpose, a pilot plant should provide the following ... 

Pitting corrosion always remains a worthy subject for study, particularly with reference to mechanism, and the problem conveniently divides into aspects of initiation and growth. For 6061 alloy in synthetic seawater, given sufficient time, pit initiation and growth will occur at potentials at or slightly above the repassivition potential . In an electrochemical study, it was found that chloride ions attack the passive layer as a chemical reaction partner so that the initiation process becomes one of cooperative chemical and electrochemical effects . 

N-protected aminoacids 14 behave as carboxyl partners in Ag20 promoted reactions of 2-bromo-isobutyramides or -propanamides affording, respectively, esters of 2-hydroxy-isobutyramides (ref. 20a) or lactamides 15 (ref. 20b). While we plan further research on stereochemical and other aspects of these reactions, model units obtained from 2-bromo-isobutyramides have been used in conformational studies of depsi-peptides (ref. 21). 

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