Polarized structure

The group moment always includes the C—X bond. When the group is attached to an aromatic system, the moment contains the contributions through resonance of those polar structures postulated as arising through charge shifts around the ring. 

The contribution of this polar structure to the bonding lowers the energy of the transition state. This may be viewed as a lower activation energy for the addition step and thus a factor which promotes this particular reaction. The effect is clearly larger the greater the difference in the donor-acceptor properties of X and Y. The transition state for the successive addition of the same monomer (whether X or Y substituted) is structure [V] ... 

Ollis and Ramsden state that A compound may be appropriately called mesoionic if it is a five-membered heterocycle which cannot be represented satisfactorily by any one covalent or polar structure and possesses a sextet of electrons in association with the five atoms comprising the ring . From the point of view of systematic nomenclature, compounds of this type are difficult to deal with, since most available nomenclature systems are designed so as to name one particular bond- and charge-localized canonical form. 

The electrical insulation properties are quite good at room temperature in dry conditions and at low frequencies. Because of the polar structure they are not good insulators for high-frequency work and since they absorb water they are... 

Because all tubulin dimers in a microtubule are oriented similarly, microtubules are polar structures. The end of the microtubule at which growth occurs is the plus end, and the other is the minus end. Microtubules in vitro carry out a GTP-dependent process called treadmiUing, in which tubulin dimers are added to the plus end at about the same rate at which dimers are removed from the minus end (Figure 17.3). 

Some metahrich silicides have isolated Si atoms and these occur either in typical metallike structures or in more polar structures. With increasing Si content, there is an increasing tendency to catenate into i.solated Si2 or SU, or into chains, layers or 3D networks of Si atoms. Examples are in Table 9.3 and further structural details are in refs. 24, 26 and 27. 

The A-oxide group is more strongly activating in nucleophilic substitution than the aza group itself because of the increased contribution of the polarized structure 38. ... 

There are two main differences between the structure of the NH4NbOF4 chains and that of the Rb5Nb30Fi8 chains. The first difference is, that in the case ofRbjNbjOFu neighboring octahedrons along the chain are rotated by 7t/4 relative to one another (the rotation axis coincides with z-axis), as shown in Fig. 31. The second difference is that in the NbOF4 complexes, the niobium atoms are all shifted in the same direction, forming a polar structure. 

In other cases, if the fluorination process leads to cardinal changes in the crystal structure of the initial oxide compounds, new compounds with polar structures can be obtained. A demonstrative example of such materials are compounds that belongs to the system Na5(W3 xNbx)09..xF5+x and that have chiolite-type structures, when neither pure fluoride nor oxide display any ferroelectric properties [393 - 395]. 

Fig. 12a-c. Schematic representation of the tilted layer structures for the polyphilic molecules in a strongly fractured conformation a the random up-down configuration b polar packing of molecules within the layer c two-dimensional (modulated) polar structure (Blinov et al. [44])... 

An alternative electrical method that has been used in the study of glass-ionomer cements has been the measurement of dielectric properties. Tay Braden (1981, 1984) measured the resistance and capacitance of setting cements at various times from mixing. From the results obtained, relative permittivity and resistivity were calculated. In general, as these cements set, their resistivity was found to fall rapidly, then to rise again. Both these results and the results of relative permittivity measurements were consistent with the cements comprising highly ionic and polar structures. 

Jandera, P., Correlation of retention and selectivity of separation in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with interaction indices and with lipophilic and polar structural indices, J. Chromatogr. A, 656, 437, 1993. 

Substituent effects on the are remarkable. Electron-withdrawing groups at the 5 -position, e.g., 5 -nitro-substitution (indoline component), and donor substituent at the 8-position (benzothiopyran component) in 44 leads to a longer wavelength shift. As the polarity of the solvent increases, the max of the colored form of spiroindolinobenzothiopyran results in hypsochromic shift. This can be interpreted as the existence of a polar structural component of the colored form in the ground state. Kinetic study has suggested that the zwitterionic structure largely contributes to the colored form of 6-nitrospiroindolinobenzothiopyran, as well as spiropy-rans.97 Based on H-NMR and X-ray analysis,98 99 the existence of an... 

All of the aliphatic and aromatic hydrophobic residues often are located at the interior of protein molecules or in areas that interact with other non-polar structures such as lipids. They usually form the hydrophobic core of proteins and are not readily accessible to water or other hydrophilic molecules. 

The most stable oils are the paraffmics because of their ability to resist oxidative attack. The oxidative instability of an oil is related to the presence or otherwise of polar structures, such as nitrogen and sulphur heterocyclic structures. The higher the aromaticity of an oil, the worse will be its resistance to oxidation. 

X-ray structural analysis of the methylsulfate compound indicates the orthorhombic crystal unit cell contains two translationally inequivalent cations positioned on mirror planes and tilted at 3 ° relative to the two-fold screw (c) axis (23). This is a compromise orientation for simultaneously, rather than individually, maximizing x ccc and x /> bbc in this polar structure. This structure is therefore consistent with the extremely large SHG intensity reported in Table 1 while, also consistently, preliminary x-ray data show the perrhenate and tetrafluoroborate salts to be isostructural (23.). Details of the packing... 

The transition state of this reaction has a polar structure and therefore this reaction occurs more rapidly in polar solvents (compare rate constants in chlorobenzene and /V,/V-dimethylforma-mide for reactions of styrene and butyl methacrylate in Table 4.4). The effect of multidipole interaction was observed for reactions of polyatomic esters [47 49],... 

We observe that both the activation energy and preexponential factor increase with the polarity of the solvent. That is probably due to the polar structure of reactants and TS. In hexane, this reaction proceeds via two routes at the total rate v. 

Biosynthetic and secretory cargo leaving the ER is packaged in COPII-coated vesicles for delivery to the Golgi complex 146 The Golgi apparatus is a highly polarized structure consisting of a series of flattened cisternae, usually located near the nucleus and the centrosome 146... 

How the Golgi apparatus maintains its polarized structure while molecules move from one compartment to another is still a matter of debate. Two models were originally proposed based on different experimental evidence (Fig. 9-5) the vesicular transport model and the cisternal maturation model. A third model known as the dual transport model combines elements from both vesicular transport and cisternal maturation models and can better explain intra-Golgi transport. 

The taste bud is a polarized structure with a narrow apical opening, termed the taste pore, and basolateral synapses with afferent nerve fibers. Solutes in the oral cavity make contact with the apical membranes of the TRCs via the taste pore. There is a significant amount of lateral connectedness between taste cells within a bud both electrical synapses between TRCs and chemical synapses between TRCs and Merkel-like basal cells have been demonstrated to occur [39]. Furthermore, there are symmetrical synapses between TRCs and Merkel-like basal cells [39]. In addition, these basal cells synapse with the afferent nerve fiber, suggesting that they may function in effect as interneurons [39]. The extensive lateral interconnections... 

Polar structures may have rotation symmetry and reflection symmetry. However, there can be no rotation or reflection normal to the principal rotation axis. Thus, the presence of the mirror plane normal to the C2 axis precludes any properties in the SmC requiring polar symmetry the SmC phase is nonpolar. 

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