Precursors contacting method

The galvanic or contact method was the precursor to electrochemical treatment [283]. In an electrolytically conducting solution, the artifact is brought into contact with a piece of a less noble metal— usually zinc or aluminium. While the metal corrodes, the electrons supplied to the object allow the reduction of the tarnish layer. Although simple, this method presents some drawbacks, like the progressive contamination of the solution by the corrosion products of the active metal and also limitations with respect to the choice of applicable solution. 

First author and reference number Year Precursor chemical Method used to make hydrophobic Additional reagent employed Drying method Density (g/mL) Surface area (m /g) Hydrophobicity (contact angle or water uptake) Optical transmission ... 

Covalent Coupling of Two Polymeric Precursors. This method requires selective, fast and complete coupling reaction to give satisfactory results. Due to their incompatibility, polymer chains of different nature tend to minimize their contacts and therefore the collisions between their antagonist reactive sites hardly occur. An example of this method is given by the synthesis of styrene-dimethylsiloxane block copolymers ... 

These precursors were successfully employed for the solution-based fabrication of OFET devices, and the charge mobility of these devices was measured by the top- or bottom-contact method [60]. The high charge mobility was recorded in the cases of 44a-Cu (0.92cm s )... 

Four members of the tetraponerine family (the major constituents of the contact poison of the New Guinean ant Tetraponera sp.) were prepared by RRM methods [156]. The key step leading to tetraponerine T7 (374) from the readily available cyclopentene precursor 372 is shown in Scheme 72. When compound 372 was exposed to catalyst A in the presence of ethylene, the desired ROM-RCM sequence proceeded smoothly to furnish heterocycle 373 with complete conversion, whereas the corresponding di-nosyl (2-nitrophenylsulfonyl)-protected analog of 372 led only to a 1 2 equilibrium mixture of starting material and RRM product. 

The field of surface-mediated synthesis of metal carbonyl clusters has developed briskly in recent years [4-6], although many organometallic chemists still seem to be unfamiliar with the methods or consider themselves ill-equipped to carry them out. In a typical synthesis, a metal salt or an organometallic precursor is brought from solution or the gas phase onto a high-area porous metal oxide, and then gas-phase reactants are brought in contact with the sample to cause conversion of the surface species into the desired products. In these syntheses, characteristics such as the acid-base properties of the support influence fhe chemisfry, much as a solvenf or coreactant influences fhe chemisfry in a convenfional synfhesis. An advanfage of... 

Acyl azides (see Section 2.13) The acyl-azide method of coupling is unique for two reasons. First, it is the only case in which the immediate precursor of the activated form of the peptide is not the parent acid. The starting material is the peptide ester that is obtained from the amino acid ester by usual chain assembly (Figure 2.25, path A). Second, it is the only method that just about guarantees production of a peptide that is enantiomerically pure, provided scrupulous attention is paid to details of procedure. There is no danger for loss of chirality during conversion of the ester to the hydrazide and then the azide, but care must be taken to avoid contact of... 

Figure 6.13. Experimental arrangement of the hot-explosive compaction method for the preparation of consolidated Ni-Al alloys (after Kecskes etal. 2004). (a) Precursor powder sample inside a steel-tube container placed in, (b) an asbestos thermal insulation sheet (c) a concentric card-box filled with the powdered explosive (80% NH4NO3 + 20% TNT) (d) threaded steel plugs serving as contacts for the preliminary heating and to be lifted off just before detonating the explosive (e) detonating cords.

The distillation method (see Alternate Protocol 1) involves recovering malonaldehyde from an acidified food product. It is similar to that of the direct heating approach (see below), except that TBA is reacted only with an aliquot of the distillate. Consequently, physical and chemical interference by extraneous food constituents in the reaction with TBA is minimized because the food is never directly in contact with TBA. Unfortunately, direct heating of a food under acidic conditions enhances the degradation of existing lipid hydroperoxides as malonaldehyde precursors, and generates additional reactive radicals and scission products other than malonaldehyde that can react with TBA (Raharjo and Sofos, 1993). More malonaldehyde or reactive substances will be gener-... 

Silicon carbides are generally synthesized by the pyrolysis of precursors, prepared by liquid phase methods. One possible way for precursor synthesis is the addition of carbon black or sucrose, to a gelling silica.8 In this method, the carbon is introduced from an external source. A more intimate contact between the carbon and silicon in the precursor is assured with the use of organometallic polymer precursors. The use of silane polymers for silicon carbide production was initiated by Yajima.9,10 Polymers having a -[Si-C]- backbone are crosslinked and pyrolysed to yield SiC." In the initial work, dimethyldichlorosilane was used as a starting monomer, which was subjected to a sodium catalyzed polymerization (reaction (C)). 

Most relevant for the oxygen transport should be the defective crystal structure of both catalyst components. The defective structure and the intimate contact of crystallites of the various phases are direct consequences of the fusion of the catalyst precursor and are features which are inaccessible by conventional wet chemical methods of preparation. Possible alternative strategies for the controlled synthesis of such designed interfaces may be provided by modem chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods with, however, considerably more chemical control than is required for the fusion of an amorphous alloy. 

Several methods have been proposed for preparing highly dispersed catalyst on carbon. The three most common procedures are impregnation, ionic exchange and vapor phase condensation. The former consists in wetting the carbon by a solution of an appropriate salt (11, 12) while the second is based on the exchange of carbon surface groups with cationic complexes (13, 14). In the vapor phase condensation the support is contacted with the volatile metal or metallic derivate (15, 16) When necessary, the supported precursor is then reduced into the metallic state. 

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