Protonation strong acid

In the first proton-transfer step, ethanol acts as a base, removing a proton in the second it acts as an acid, donating a proton. Strong acids or strong bases (for example, HCl or NaOH) increase the rate of hemiacetal or hydrate formation because they allow these proton-transfer steps to occur before the addition to the carbonyl group. 

Acids are chemical substances that can donate protons (H ions) in solution, and bases are substances that accept protons. Strong acids readily give up H, whereas strong bases readily accept H". Thus the conjugate base of a strong acid is a weak base and vice versa. 

Ordered polymers are processed from their solutions in highly protonated strong acids including polyphosphoric acid (PPA), methanesulfonic acid (MSA), and chlorosulfonic acid (CSA). This begins with de-aeration of the extremely viscous PPA solutions. 

Ionisations 2, 3 and 5 are complete ionisations so that in water HCI and HNO3 are completely ionised and H2SO4 is completely ionised as a monobasic acid. Since this is so, all these acids in water really exist as the solvated proton known as the hydrogen ion, and as far as their acid properties are concerned they are the same conjugate acid species (with different conjugate bases). Such acids are termed strong acids or more correctly strong acids in water. (In ethanol as solvent, equilibria such as 1 would be the result for all the acids quoted above.) Ionisations 4 and 6 do not proceed to completion... 

The mechanism of the formation of these three compounds is based on the initial reaction between ethanol and a strong acid such as sulphuric acid, which involves protonation of the ethanolic oxygen to form the ion (1). 

The state of aqueous solutions of nitric acid In strongly acidic solutions water is a weaker base than its behaviour in dilute solutions would predict, for it is almost unprotonated in concentrated nitric acid, and only partially protonated in concentrated sulphuric acid. The addition of water to nitric acid affects the equilibrium leading to the formation of the nitronium and nitrate ions ( 2.2.1). The intensity of the peak in the Raman spectrum associated with the nitronium ion decreases with the progressive addition of water, and the peak is absent from the spectrum of solutions containing more than about 5% of water a similar effect has been observed in the infra-red spectrum. ... 

Strong acids catalyse nitration by protonating nitric acid, as shown below H2NO3+ + HSO4-,... 

The NMR determination in strongly acidic medium (trifluoroacetic acid) of the chemical shifts of the protons in the 4- or 5-position can be used to establish a reactivity scale. If the proton appears at low field, this indicates that this substitution site wiE be poorly or not at all nitrated (111). 

Furthermore a substance such as HCl that dissociates completely when dissolved m water also dissociates completely when dissolved m an alcohol Many important reactions of alco hols involve strong acids either as reactants or as catalysts In all these reachons the first step IS formation of an alkyloxonium ion by proton transfer from the acid to the alcohol... 

Proton transfers from strong acids to water and alcohols rank among the most rapid chemical processes and occur almost as fast as the molecules collide with one another Thus the height of the energy barrier the activation energy for proton transfer must be quite low... 

Step 3 IS new to us It is an acid-base reachon m which the carbocation acts as a Br0n sted acid transferrmg a proton to a Brpnsted base (water) This is the property of carbo cations that is of the most significance to elimination reactions Carbocations are strong acids they are the conjugate acids of alkenes and readily lose a proton to form alkenes Even weak bases such as water are sufficiently basic to abstract a proton from a carbocation... 

We can gam a general understanding of the mechanism of hydrogen halide addi tion to alkenes by extending some of the principles of reaction mechanisms introduced earlier In Section 5 12 we pointed out that carbocations are the conjugate acids of alkenes Therefore strong acids such as HCI HBr and HI can protonate the double bond of an alkene to form a carbocation... 

Even though they are weaker bases arylammes like alkylammes can be com pletely protonated by strong acids Aniline is extracted from an ether solution into 1 M hydrochloric acid by being completely converted to a water soluble amlimum salt under these conditions... 

Strong and Weak Acids The reaction of an acid with its solvent (typically water) is called an acid dissociation reaction. Acids are divided into two categories based on the ease with which they can donate protons to the solvent. Strong acids, such as Fid, almost completely transfer their protons to the solvent molecules. 

Equivalent Weights Acid-base titrations can be used to characterize the chemical and physical properties of matter. One simple example is the determination of the equivalent weighf of acids and bases. In this method, an accurately weighed sample of a pure acid or base is titrated to a well-defined equivalence point using a mono-protic strong acid or strong base. If we assume that the titration involves the transfer of n protons, then the moles of titrant needed to reach the equivalence point is given as... 

Ca.ta.lysis by Protons. The discovery of hydrogen peroxide hydroxylation of phenol in the presence of strong acids such as perchloric, trifluoromethane-sulfonic, or sulfuric acids allows suppression of all previous drawbacks of the process (18,19). This mode of hydroxylation gives high yields (85% based on H2O2 at phenol conversion of 5—6%). It can be mn without solvents and does not generate resorcinol. Its main advantage rehes on... 

Indole is a neutral compound but can be protonated or deprotonated under strongly acidic or basic conditions, respectively. The piC of the conjugate acid is about —2.4 that of the neutral compound is about 16.7 (1). 

PMo220 4q, is analytically usehil, being formed in the molybdenum test for phosphate ion. Poly- and heteropolymolybdate ions are used in the precipitation of dyes. The protonated forms of the ions are strongly acidic and many poly- and heteropolymolybdate compounds have catalytic activity that is attributable to their acid—base or redox properties. 

Protonic initiation is also the end result of a large number of other initiating systems. Strong acids are generated in situ by a variety of different chemistries (6). These include initiation by carbenium ions, eg, trityl or diazonium salts (151) by an electric current in the presence of a quartenary ammonium salt (152) by halonium, triaryl sulfonium, and triaryl selenonium salts with uv irradiation (153—155) by mercuric perchlorate, nitrosyl hexafluorophosphate, or nitryl hexafluorophosphate (156) and by interaction of free radicals with certain metal salts (157). Reports of "new" initiating systems are often the result of such secondary reactions. Other reports suggest standard polymerization processes with perhaps novel anions. These latter include (Tf)4Al (158) heteropoly acids, eg, tungstophosphate anion (159,160) transition-metal-based systems, eg, Pt (161) or rare earths (162) and numerous systems based on tri flic acid (158,163—166). Coordination polymerization of THF may be in a different class (167). 

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