Polarized molecules

While vapor-phase corrections may be small for nonpolar molecules at low pressure, such corrections are usually not negligible for mixtures containing polar molecules. Vapor-phase corrections are extremely important for mixtures containing one or more carboxylic acids. 

Edeleanu process An extraction process utilizing liquid sulphur dioxide for the removal of aromatic hydrocarbons and polar molecules from petroleum fractions. 

Mutr> Y 1943 Force between non-polar molecules J. Phys. Math. Soc. Japan 17 629... 

Su T, Viggiano A A and Paulson J F 1992 The effect of the dipole-induced dipole potential on ion-polar molecule collision rate constants J. Chem. Phys. 96 5550-1... 

An alternative approach to obtaining microwave spectroscopy is Fourier transfonn microwave (FTMW) spectroscopy in a molecular beam [10], This may be considered as the microwave analogue of Fourier transfonn NMR spectroscopy. The molecular beam passes into a Fabry-Perot cavity, where it is subjected to a short microwave pulse (of a few milliseconds duration). This creates a macroscopic polarization of the molecules. After the microwave pulse, the time-domain signal due to coherent emission by the polarized molecules is detected and Fourier transfonned to obtain the microwave spectmm. 

The small lithium Li" and beryllium Be ions have high charge-radius ratios and consequently exert particularly strong attractions on other ions and on polar molecules. These attractions result in both high lattice and hydration energies and it is these high energies which account for many of the abnormal properties of the ionic compounds of lithium and beryllium. 

Bashin A A and K Namboodiri 1987. A Simple Method for the Calculation of Hydration Enthalpies c Polar Molecules with Arbitrary Shapes. Journal of Physical Chemistry 91 6003-6012. 

This technique has not been used as widely as transition state theory or trajectory calculations. The accuracy of results is generally similar to that given by pTST. There are a few cases where SACM may be better, such as for the reactions of some polyatomic polar molecules. 

Table 1 3 lists the dipole moments of various bond types For H—F H—Cl H—Br and H—I these bond dipoles are really molecular dipole moments A polar molecule has a dipole moment a nonpolar one does not Thus all of the hydrogen halides are polar molecules To be polar a molecule must have polar bonds but can t have a shape that causes all the individual bond dipoles to cancel We will have more to say about this m Section 1 11 after we have developed a feeling for the three dimensional shapes of molecules... 

Both water and carbon dioxide have polar bonds but water is a polar molecule and carbon dioxide is not... 

Carbon-oxygen and carbon-halogen bonds are polar covalent bonds and carbon bears a partial positive charge in alcohols ( " C—0 ) and in alkyl halides ( " C—X ) Alcohols and alkyl halides are polar molecules The dipole moments of methanol and chloromethane are very similar to each other and to water... 

Induced dipole/induced dipole forces are the only intermolecular attractive forces available to nonpolar molecules such as alkanes In addition to these forces polar molecules engage m dipole-dipole and dipole/mduced dipole attractions The dipole-dipole attractive force is easiest to visualize and is illustrated m Figure 4 3 Two molecules of a polar substance experience a mutual attraction between the positively polarized region of one molecule and the negatively polarized region of the other As its name implies the dipole/induced dipole force combines features of both the induced dipole/mduced dipole and dipole-dipole attractive forces A polar region of one mole cule alters the electron distribution m a nonpolar region of another m a direction that produces an attractive force between them... 

In many addition reactions the attacking reagent unlike H2 is a polar molecule Hydro gen halides are among the simplest examples of polar substances that add to alkenes... 

Neither bromine nor ethylene is a polar molecule but both are polarizable and an induced dipole/mduced dipole force causes them to be mutually attracted to each other This induced dipole/mduced dipole attraction sets the stage for Br2 to act as an electrophile Electrons flow from the tt system of ethylene to Br2 causing the weak bromine-bromine bond to break By analogy to the customary mechanisms for electrophilic addition we might represent this as the formation of a carbocation m a bimolecular elementary step... 

Ozone (O3) IS the triatomic form of oxygen It is a neutral but polar molecule that can be represented as a hybrid of its two most stable Lewis structures... 

Ethers like water and alcohols are polar molecules Diethyl ether for example has a dipole moment of 1 2 D Cyclic ethers have larger dipole moments ethylene oxide and tetrahydrofuran have dipole moments m the 1 7 to 1 8 D range—about the same as that of water (1 8D)... 

The carbonyl group makes aldehydes and kefones rafher polar molecules dipole momenfs fhaf are subsfanfially higher fhan alkenes... 

Section 17 2 The carbonyl carbon is sp hybridized and it and the atoms attached to It are coplanar Aldehydes and ketones are polar molecules Nucleophiles attack C=0 at carbon (positively polarized) and electrophiles especially protons attack oxygen (negatively polarized)... 

Aryl halides are polar molecules but are less polar than alkyl halides... 

Extensive intercalation of polar molecules takes place in this substance in an irreversible manner, and marked hysteresis results (Fig. 4.28). The driving force is thought to be the interaction between the polar molecules and the exchange cations present in the montmorillonitic sheets, since non-polar molecules give rise to a simple Type B hysteresis loop with no low-pressure hysteresis. 

Type III (and Type V) isotherms may originate through the adsorption of either nonpolar or polar molecules, always provided that the adsorbent-adsorbate force is relatively weak. 

Sorption of nonionic, nonpolar hydrophobic compounds occurs by weak attractive interactions such as van der Waals forces. Net attraction is the result of dispersion forces the strength of these weak forces is about 4 to 8 kj/mol ( 1 2 kcal/mol). Electrostatic interactions can also be important, especially when a molecule is polar in nature. Attraction potential can develop between polar molecules and the heterogeneous sod surface that has ionic and polar sites, resulting in stronger sorption. 

The dissolution of polar molecules in water is favored by dipole—dipole interactions. The solvation of the polar molecules stabilizes them in solution. Nonpolar molecules are soluble in water only with difficulty because the relatively high energy cost associated with dismpting and reforming the hydrogen-bonded water is unfavorable to the former occurring. 

Molecular Interactions. Various polysaccharides readily associate with other substances, including bile acids and cholesterol, proteins, small organic molecules, inorganic salts, and ions. Anionic polysaccharides form salts and chelate complexes with cations some neutral polysaccharides form complexes with inorganic salts and some interactions are stmcture specific. Starch amylose and the linear branches of amylopectin form inclusion complexes with several classes of polar molecules, including fatty acids, glycerides, alcohols, esters, ketones, and iodine/iodide. The absorbed molecule occupies the cavity of the amylose helix, which has the capacity to expand somewhat to accommodate larger molecules. The starch—Hpid complex is important in food systems. Whether similar inclusion complexes can form with any of the dietary fiber components is not known. 

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