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A significant improvement was achieved when Shvo s Ru-catalyst 2 (Fig. 12b) was employed in combination with the addition of DMP to suppress dehydrogenation reactions [106]. Poly-(R)-6-MeCL, with a promising ee of 86% and Mp of 8.2 kDa, was obtained after workup starting from optically pure (5 )-6-MeCL. The low rate of reaction compared to DKR (typically complete after 48 h with the Shvo catalyst) is attributed to the low concentration of the terminal alcohol as well as to the iterative nature of the system. Racemic 6-MeCL showed comparable rates of reaction for both enantiomers, which polymerized within 220 h with complete conversion of both enantiomers, yielding polymers of high ee (92%) and Mp (9.4 kDa). Successful polymerizations with more than 100 consecutive and iterative enzymatic additions and Ru-catalyzed racemizations on one polymer chain were realized. 

The apparent activation energy for this reaction has been measured to be in the range 0.9-1.0 kcal mol. This reaction was confirmed by EPR studies using 02 labeled with 170 (119) when 160 on the surface was found to be replaced by l7OsT. The rate constant measured for the exchange was 0.9 x 1 O 19 cm3 mol" 1 at 300 K and only about 70% of the O sites were found to react. The relatively slow rate of reaction compared to the reaction... 

Pre-reduced catalysts. The previous experiments were repeated again but catalysts were reduced before poisoning. Reduction of the film at various temperatures before sulfur deposition decreased very dramatically the rate of reaction compared to fresh unreduced films. Total deactivation is attained at much lower levels of surface sulfur poisoning than in the case of the unreduced catalysts. For a S/Pd ratio of 0.18, conversion decrease from 60 (fresh unreduced) to 7% when the reduction temperature is as low as 200°C. For a reduction temperature of 300°C only a 1% conversion is measured, and no conversion is detected when the reduction temperature is 400°C. The AFM images of these catalysts show that the surface breaks up in islands of varying sizes. As the reduction temperature increases, the sizes of these islands decrease, but their heights increase. 

Conversion versus clock time at various space times (taus) in a TS-PFR experiment on the oxidation of carbon monoxide. The steepness of the curves at high conversion attests to the high rates of reaction compared to those at short clock times, when the feed temperatures are low. The reaction is essentially irreversible and proceeds to 100% conversion for the feed composition used Taus are shown on the right. The shortest tau refers to the rightmost curve. 

Competition experiments indicated that aryl halides bearing electron-withdrawing groups were more reactive, producing accelerated rates of reaction compared with electron-donating groups. Both phenylboronic acid and ( )-(2-bromovinyl)benzene were also viable coupling partners (68 and 63% yield, respectively) (eq 37). 

The addition of water depresses zeroth-order rates of nitration, although the effect is very weak compared with that of nitrate ions concentrations of 6x io mol 1 of water, and 4X io mol 1 of potassium nitrate halve the rates of reaction under similar conditions. In moderate concentrations water anticatalyses nitration under zeroth-order conditions without changing the kinetic form. This effect is shown below (table 3.5) for the nitration of toluene in nitromethane. More strikingly, the addition of larger proportions of water modifies the kinetic... 

Because of the chemical similarity between benzoyl nitrate and the acetyl nitrate which is formed in solutions of nitric acid in acetic anhydride, it is tempting to draw analogies between the mechanisms of nitration in such solutions and in solutions of benzoyl nitrate in carbon tetrachloride. Similarities do exist, such as the production by these reagents of higher proportions of o-substituted products from some substrates than are produced by nitronium ions, as already mentioned and further discussed below. Further, in solutions in carbon tetrachloride of acetyl nitrate or benzoyl nitrate, the addition of acetic anhydride and benzoic anhydride respectively reduces the rate of reaction, implying that dinitrogen pentoxide may also be involved in nitration in acetic anhydride. However, for solutions in which acetic anhydride is also the solvent, the analogy should be drawn with caution, for in many ways the conditions are not comparable. Thus, carbon tetrachloride is a non-polar solvent, in which, as has been shown above,... 

The significance of establishing a limiting rate of reaction upon encounter for mechanistic studies has been pointed out ( 2.5). In studies of reactivity, as well as settii an absolute limit to the significance of reactivity in particular circumstances, the experimental observation of the limit has another dependent importance if further structural modification of the aromatic compound leads ultimately to the onset of reaction at a rate exceeding the observed encounter rate then a new electrophile must have become operative, and reactivities established above the encounter rate cannot properly be compared with those measured below it. 

Thus with dihalocarbenes we have the interesting case of a species that resem bles both a carbanion (unshared pair of electrons on carbon) and a carbocation (empty p orbital) Which structural feature controls its reactivity s Does its empty p orbital cause It to react as an electrophile s Does its unshared pair make it nucleophilic s By compar mg the rate of reaction of CBi2 toward a series of alkenes with that of typical electrophiles toward the same alkenes (Table 14 4) we see that the reactivity of CBi2... 

Reaction and Transport Interactions. The importance of the various design and operating variables largely depends on relative rates of reaction and transport of reactants to the reaction sites. If transport rates to and from reaction sites are substantially greater than the specific reaction rate at meso-scale reactant concentrations, the overall reaction rate is uncoupled from the transport rates and increasing reactor size has no effect on the apparent reaction rate, the macro-scale reaction rate. When these rates are comparable, they are coupled, that is they affect each other. In these situations, increasing reactor size alters mass- and heat-transport rates and changes the apparent reaction rate. Conversions are underestimated in small reactors and selectivity is affected. Selectivity does not exhibit such consistent impacts and any effects of size on selectivity must be deterrnined experimentally. 

The ACR Process. The first step in the SCR reaction is the adsorption of the ammonia on the catalyst. SCR catalysts can adsorb considerable amounts of ammonia (45). However, the adsorption must be selective and high enough to yield reasonable cycle times for typical industrial catalyst loadings, ie, uptakes in excess of 0.1% by weight. The rate of adsorption must be comparable to the rate of reaction to ensure that suitable fronts are formed. The rate of desorption must be slow. Ideally the adsorption isotherm is rectangular. For optimum performance, the reaction must be irreversible and free of side reactions. 

The reactivity of five-membered rings with one heteroatom to electrophilic reagents has been quantitatively compared in a variety of substitution reactions. Table 2 shows the rates of substitution compared to thiophene for formylation by phosgene and iV,AT-dimethylfor-mamide, acetylation by acetic anhydride and tin(IV) chloride, and trifluoroacetylation with trifluoroacetic anhydride (71AHC(13)235). 

The reactivity sequence furan > tellurophene > selenophene > thiophene is thus the same for all three reactions and is in the reverse order of the aromaticities of the ring systems assessed by a number of different criteria. The relative rate for the trifluoroacetylation of pyrrole is 5.3 x lo . It is interesting to note that AT-methylpyrrole is approximately twice as reactive to trifluoroacetylation as pyrrole itself. The enhanced reactivity of pyrrole compared with the other monocyclic systems is also demonstrated by the relative rates of bromination of the 2-methoxycarbonyl derivatives, which gave the reactivity sequence pyrrole>furan > selenophene > thiophene, and by the rate data on the reaction of the iron tricarbonyl-complexed carbocation [C6H7Fe(CO)3] (35) with a further selection of heteroaromatic substrates (Scheme 5). The comparative rates of reaction from this substitution were 2-methylindole == AT-methylindole>indole > pyrrole > furan > thiophene (73CC540). 

Set up an equation which you would expect to correlate the observed rate of reaction with both the Ar and Ar substituents. Check the performance of yoiu equation by comparing the correlation with the data given below. Discuss the results of flie correlatiotL... 

Empirical measures of nucleophilicity may be obtained by comparing relative rates of reaction of a standard reactant with various nucleophiles. One measure of nucleophilicity is the nucleophilic constant ( ), defined originally by Swain and Scott. Taking methanolysis of methyl iodide as the standard reaction, n was defined as... 

If cyclic ketones are monosubstituted in the a-position, their rates of reaction decrease as compared to the rate for the parent ketone (9,41). More highly substituted ketones (e.g., diisobutyl ketone, diisopropyl ketone) can be caused to react using newer preparative techniques (39,43,44, see Section VII). Monosubstituted acetones often can give selfcondensation products, but the recent literature (13,39,43) contains reports of the successful formation of the enamines of methyl ketones. 

Reactions of benzoylperoxide with morpholinocyclohexene and morpho-linocyclopentene furnished the corresponding a-benzoyloxyketones in modest yields (480,481). This oxidation has also been applied to some vinylogous amides (482), and the expected faster rate of reaction of the enamine system as compared with enamides has been noted in derivatives of 20-ketosteroids, in reactions with perbenzoic acid (59,483). 

Relative reactivity wiU vary with the temperature chosen for comparison unless the temperature coefficients are identical. For example, the rate ratio of ethoxy-dechlorination of 4-chloro- vs. 2-chloro-pyridine is 2.9 at the experimental temperature (120°) but is 40 at the reference temperature (20°) used for comparing the calculated values. The ratio of the rate of reaction of 2-chloro-pyridine with ethoxide ion to that of its reaction with 2-chloronitro-benzene is 35 at 90° and 90 at 20°. The activation energy determines the temperature coefficient which is the slope of the line relating the reaction rate and teniperature. Comparisons of reactivity will of course vary with temperature if the activation energies are different and the lines are not parallel. The increase in the reaction rate with temperature will be greater the higher the activation energy. 

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