Polymer scavenger

A one pot formation and purification of a 5-arylidine 4-thiazolidinone library has also been reported using polymer scavenging as the principle method of purification. An automated synthesizer was employed to make a parallel array of 4080 4-thiazolidinones, prepared simultaneously from a 3-component condensation of mercaptoacetic acid with an amine and a carbonyl compound. Further structural decoration was then introduced using the libraries from libraries principle where the core template was derivatized via an aldol reaction with a second carbonyl unit at the 5-methylene position (Scheme 2.57) [84]. After both synthetic steps. 

Polymer scavengers are used to remove excess reactants and/or by-products from a chemical reaction. For example, nucleophiles are removed by polymer electrophiles and bases are removed with polymer acids. 

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Reactive with polymers, scavengers, and violently reacting with strong acid and alkalis... 

Hindered amines, such as 4-(2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyl) decanedioate, serve as radical scavengers and will protect thin Aims under conditions in which ultraviolet absorbers are ineffective. Metal salts of nickel, such as dibutyldithiocarbamate, are used in polyolefins to quench singlet oxygen or elecbonically excited states of other species in the polymer. Zinc salts function as peroxide decomposers. 

Chain reactions do not go on forever. The fog may clear and the improved visibility ends the succession of accidents. Neutron-scavenging control rods may be inserted to shut down a nuclear reactor. The chemical reactions which terminate polymer chain reactions are also an important part of the polymerization mechanism. Killing off the reactive intermediate that keeps the chain going is the essence of these termination reactions. Some unusual polymers can be formed without this termination these are called living polymers. 

Traces of formaldehyde, present in neat end-capped polymer or produced by processing polymer under abusive conditions, detract from polymer stabihty. Commercial resins typically contain formaldehyde scavengers. Nitrogen compounds, especially amines and amides, epoxies, and polyhydroxy compounds, are particularly efficacious scavengers. 

With aldehydes, primary alcohols readily form acetals, RCH(OR )2. Acetone also forms acetals (often called ketals), (CH2)2C(OR)2, in an exothermic reaction, but the equiUbrium concentration is small at ambient temperature. However, the methyl acetal of acetone, 2,2-dimethoxypropane [77-76-9] was once made commercially by reaction with methanol at low temperature for use as a gasoline additive (5). Isopropenyl methyl ether [116-11-OJ, useful as a hydroxyl blocking agent in urethane and epoxy polymer chemistry (6), is obtained in good yield by thermal pyrolysis of 2,2-dimethoxypropane. With other primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols, the equiUbrium is progressively less favorable to the formation of ketals, in that order. However, acetals of acetone with other primary and secondary alcohols, and of other ketones, can be made from 2,2-dimethoxypropane by transacetalation procedures (7,8). Because they hydroly2e extensively, ketals of primary and especially secondary alcohols are effective water scavengers. 

Phosphoms-containing additives can act in some cases by catalyzing thermal breakdown of the polymer melt, reducing viscosity and favoring the flow or drip of molten polymer from the combustion zone (25). On the other hand, red phosphoms [7723-14-0] has been shown to retard the nonoxidative pyrolysis of polyethylene (a radical scission). For that reason, the scavenging of radicals in the condensed phase has been proposed as one of several modes of action of red phosphoms (26). 

THPC—Amide Process. The THPC—amide process is the first practical process based on THPC. It consists of a combination of THPC, TMM, and urea. In this process, there is the potential of polymer formation by THPC, melamine, and urea. There may also be some limited cross-linking between cellulose and the TMM system. The formulation also includes triethanolamine [102-71-6J, an acid scavenger, which slows polymerization at room temperature. Urea and triethanolamine react with the hydrochloric acid produced in the polymerization reaction, thus preventing acid damage to the fabric. This finish with suitable add-on passes the standard vertical flame test after repeated laundering (80). 

Environmental Impact of Ambient Ozone. Ozone can be toxic to plants, animals, and fish. The lethal dose, LD q, for albino mice is 3.8 ppmv for a 4-h exposure (156) the 96-h LC q for striped bass, channel catfish, and rainbow trout is 80, 30, and 9.3 ppb, respectively. Small, natural, and anthropogenic atmospheric ozone concentrations can increase the weathering and aging of materials such as plastics, paint, textiles, and mbber. For example, mbber is degraded by reaction of ozone with carbon—carbon double bonds of the mbber polymer, requiring the addition of aromatic amines as ozone scavengers (see Antioxidants Antiozonants). An ozone decomposing polymer (noXon) has been developed that destroys ozone in air or water (157). 

In addition to the normal problems of completely dissolving particles of water-thickening polymers, xanthan gum contains insoluble residues which decrease polymer injectivity. Various methods of reducing insolubles content and improving xanthan solution injectivity are available (80—87). None appears economically viable. Oxygen scavengers (88) and bactericides (77,89) are commonly used to stabili2e injected polyacrylamide and xanthan gum solutions (90—102). 

The historical direct reaction route, which utilised phosgenation of a solution of BPA in pyridine, proved inefficient commercially because of the need for massive pyridine recycle. Calcium hydroxide was used as an HCl scavenger for a period of time. In the historical transesterification process, BPA and diphenyl carbonate are heated in the melt in the presence of a catalyst, driving off by-product phenol, which is recycled to diphenyl carbonate. Using a series of reactors providing higher heat and vacuum, the product polymer was eventually produced as a neat melt. 

Vinyhdene chloride polymers containing stabilizing features have been prepared. In general, these have been polymers containing comonomer units with functionahty that can consume evolved hydrogen chloride and do so in such a manner that good radical scavenging sites are exposed (145,146). 

Cationic polymerization in hot melts has been applied to epoxidized polymers [38,39]. No hot melts based on vinyl ether or other cation-sensitive functionalized polymers have been described in the literature. With cationic systems, it is important that the other ingredients in the adhesive be of low basicity to avoid scavenging the initiating acid generated by the photoinitiator. 

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