Power base

Only esters containing two a-hydrogen atoms (ethyl acetate, propionate, n-butyrate, etc.) can be condensed with the aid of sodium alkoxides. For esters with one a-hydrogen atom, such as ethyl tsobutyrate, the more powerful base sodium triphenylmethide PhaC Na leads to condensation with the formation of ethyl a-tsobutyrylisobutyrate ... 

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Because carbonyl compounds are only weakly acidic, a strong base is needed for enolate ion formation. If an alkoxide such as sodium ethoxide is used as base, deprotonation takes place only to the extent of about 0. l% because acetone is a weaker acid than ethanol (pKa - 16). If, however, a more powerful base such as sodium hydride (NaH) or lithium diisopropylamide ILiNO -CjHy ] is used, a carbonyl compound can be completely converted into its enolate ion. Lithium diisopropylamide (LDA), which is easily prepared by reaction of the strong base butyllithium with diisopropylamine, is widely used in the laboratory as a base for preparing enolate ions from carbonyl compounds. 

In addition to their behavior as bases, primary and secondary amines can also act as very weak acids because an N-H proton can be removed by a sufficiently strong base. We ve seen, for example, how diisopropylamine (pK-A 40) reacts with butyilithium to yield lithium diisopropylamide (LDA Section 22.5). Dialkylamine anions like LDA are extremely powerful bases that are often used... 

The reaction exhibits first-order kinetics (in substrate) as expected. Of course the solvent is not expected to appear in the rate equation, even if it were involved in the rate-determining step (p. 291), but this point can be easily checked by adding a small amount of the conjugate base of the solvent. It is generally found that such an addition does not increase the rate of the reaction. If this more powerful base does not enter into the rate-determining step, it is unlikely that the solvent does. An example of an El mechanism with a rate-determining second step (proton transfer) has been reported. ... 

An aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide contains K , OH, and H2 O. Phosphoric acid is a weak acid, so most of its molecules remain as H3 PO4 in aqueous solution. The species present at the beginning of the reaction are K and OH ions and molecules of H3 PO4 and H2 O. The hydroxide ion is a powerful base that removes all of the acidic hydrogen atoms from both strong and weak acids. 

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Addition of potassium ferf-butoxide or of sodium isopropoxide to the solvent led to ignition of the latter. This was attributed to presence of free metal in the alkoxides, but a more likely explanation seems to be that of direct interaction between the powerful bases and the sulfoxide. 

This extremely powerful base may ignite if exposed to air (or oxygen) at elevated temperatures. 

The amide ion (NH2) of sodium amide (NaNH2) is a very powerful base ... 

Very powerful bases such as hydride ions (Hf) and alkanide ions (R -) virtually never act as leaving groups. 

An interesting example of trilithiation has been reported, wherein 3-(methylthio)thiophene 36 was exposed to the powerful base system LICKOR (t-BuOK/BuLi), giving direct access to the products 37 after quenching of the intermediate 38 with suitable electrophiles. Reactions involving 2-(methylthio)thiophene gave 2,5-disubstituted products resulting from a dilithiated intermediate <06S3855>. 

The solubilization of sodium or potassium carbonate into apolar solvents such as benzene or acetonitrile with the aid of 18-crown-6 [3] generates a powerful base that has been used for a variety of preparative transformations (Fedorynski et al., 1978). Mechanistic studies have not been reported thus far. 

Among several investigated applications, an interesting one is the development of devices for the microgeneration of power based on a combustion process [35]. 

Polymerization by trialkylamines is useful for synthesizing polypeptides of molecular weights of up to —0.5 million, and the polymerization has many characteristics similar to those of living polymerizations. Polymerizations by the most powerful bases, especially organometallic compounds, are not as useful for polymerizations to such high molecular weights because of side reactions [Imanishi, 1984 Kricheldorf, 1989]. 

Rubidium hydroxide is used as a catalyst in oxidative chlorination. It also may be used as a powerful base, stronger than caustic potash, in many preparative reactions. The compound holds promising apphcations as an electrolyte in storage batteries for use at low temperatures. 

Generally speaking we power based on the per-protocol set and then increase the sample size requirement to give the number required in the full analysis set. Under some circumstances, for example in anti-infective trials, we factor up further to take into account the patients that are recruited, but are not eligible for the full analysis set. 

The withdrawal rate to enable the trial to be powered based on those patients who do not withdraw, and the resulting recruitment target. 

Fraitteti(m.—l, By the slow oxidation of nitrogenused organic matter in the presence of powerful bases. 

Oxidants such as Oj and K,Fe(CN) facilitate the second step, which may be rate-controlling, by oxidizing the ejected H, a powerful base and a very poor leaving group, to HjO. 

Managers, however, are not constrained to use only one form of power or leadership. In practice you will use a balance of different forms of power, organizational as well as personal. Kotter (1983) holds that managers who handle power successfully appreciate that all available power bases have merit. They try to develop their skills and credibility so that they can use whichever type of power is best for the circumstances, and which they and others are comfortable with. This means being sensitive to the source of the power you are using, so that you do not, for example, try to apply your expert power in one field to another field. 

Compounds with a high HOMO and LUMO (Figure 5.5c) tend to be stable to selfreaction but are chemically reactive as Lewis bases and nucleophiles. The higher the HOMO, the more reactive. Carbanions, with HOMO near a, are the most powerful bases and nucleophiles, followed by amides and alkoxides. The neutral nitrogen (amines, heteroaromatics) and oxygen bases (water, alcohols, ethers, and carbonyls) will only react with relatively strong Lewis acids. Extensive tabulations of gas-phase basicities or proton affinities (i.e., —AG° of protonation) exist [109, 110]. These will be discussed in subsequent chapters. 

P. Grouvelle (1821)10 observed that a mol. of barium hydroxide absorbs two gram-atoms of chlorine, forming a product from which all the chlorine is expelled by carbon dioxide in two days. A. J. Balard (1834) says that the direct combination of hypochlorous acid with the powerful bases is accompanied by the development of much heat, and if the temp, is allowed to rise, the hypochlorite which may be formed changes into chlorate and chloride. By neutralizing a well-cooled soln. of the base with hypochlorous acid, A. J. Balard prepared soln. of calcium, strontium, and barium hypochlorites, the existence of which, he said, is incontestable and added that calcium and barium hypochlorites serve for the preparation of other hypo-... 

Codein is a very powerful base it turns red litmus paper blue, and precipitates the oxides of lead, iron, cobalt, and nickel from their solutions. It is precipi. tated from the solutions of its salts by potassa and by ammonia in the latter case, however, It does not fall immediately, but is slowly deposited as small transparent crystals. ... 

Hydrate of potassa is a white opaque mass, which, when broken, exhibits a crystalline fracture. Its specific gravity is 17. It fuses at a low-red heat, and at a white heat volatilizes unaltered. Its teste is acrid and corrosive. It has a strongly alkaline reaction, a rapid Bolvent action on animal matters, and is the most powerful base known. Its formula is KO, II0 it is very deliquescent, very soluble in water, and crystal-lizable. The following table, deduced from Dalton s experiments, shows the quantity of anhydrous potassa contained in solutions of various densities —... 

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