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As the name implies, an amino acid is a bifunctional molecule with a carboxylic acid group at one end and an amine group at the other. All proteins are polyamides made from condensation reactions of amino acids. Every amino acid in proteins has a central carbon atom bonded to one hydrogen atom and to a second group, symbolized in Figure 13-31 as R. 

A recent theoretical study has nicely addressed the question of mechanism on the silicon surface. Minary and Tuckerman carried out an ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) study of the [4 + 2] cycloaddition reaction on Si(100)-2 x 1 [251]. Because the previously reported ab initio DFT models were static , these were not able to address in detail the mechanisms by which the [4 + 2] product was formed. The results of the MD study indicate that rather than being concerted, the dominant mechanism is a stepwise zwitterionic process in which an initial nucleophilic attack of one of the C=C bonds by the down atom of the dimer leads to a carbocation. This carbocation exists for up to 1-2 ps, stabilized by resonance, and depending on which positively charged carbon atom reacts with which Si surface atom, can form... 

Reactions with an unsaturated carbon atom bonded to a heteroatom have been less intensively studied. However, transformations of Schiff bases and imino ethers have been reported the course of the reaction depends on the structure of the substrate and the reaction conditions,22 32,4950 e.g. formation of 26. 

There are four surface species in this reaction mechanism (1) CH(s), a surface carbon atom bonded to a hydrogen (2) C (s), a reactive surface carbon radical, namely species 1 with the hydrogen stripped away (3) CM(s), a surface CH3 group atop a surface carbon atom and (4) CM (s), a surface CH2 radical atop a surface carbon atom, namely species 3 with the hydrogen stripped away. 

The stereochemical conformation of hexachlorocyclohexane (i.e., whether the Cl atoms are axial or equatorial) has no effect on the estimated rate constant for the OH radical reaction. For the purposes of the calculation, all six carbon atoms are therefore equivalent, with each carbon atom being bonded to two carbon atoms (each with substituent H and Cl atoms) and to one H atom and one Cl atom [i.e., (-CHCl-)6]. The rate constant therefore is given by ... 

In the mid to late 1980s, transition-metal catalysts were developed that were particularly useful for carrying out olefin (alkene) metathesis reactions (Rouhi 2002). Metathesis is a reaction in which two molecules containing carbon-carbon double bonds exchange carbon atoms along with any groups attached to them ... 

Substitution of hydrogen, in an alkene, by fluorine leads to increased reactivity for a number of processes for example, with tetrafluoroethene, heats of addition of chlorine, hydrogenation and polymerisation are 58.5, 66.9 and 71.1kJmol greater, respectively, than for the analogous reactions with ethene [3, 29]. These observations could be attributed either to an increase in the carbon-fluorine bond strength upon changing the hybridisation of the carbon atoms bonded to fluorine [30] or to ir-bond destabilisation by fluorine [31]. 

A-Sulfinyl amides function as dienophiles in the Diels Alder reaction and with suitably substituted dienes yield 3,6-dihydrothiazine 1-oxides containing two stereogenic carbon atoms bonded to the sulfinyl sulfur and nitrogen93 recent studies have shown that the reaction occurs in a stepwise fashion via dipolar intermediates94. 

The imino nitrogen atom is sufficiently nucleophilic to attack the carbon atom of the seleniranium intermediate. An interesting example of these reactions is the conversion of imidates into y-lactams reported by Toshimitsu and Uemura [88-90] and by other authors [91,92] which is illustrated in Scheme 24. The cyclization of 155 occurs through the formation of a carbon-nitrogen bond with the generation of the iminium salt 156. The success of this reaction is due to the use of PhSeBr as the selenenylating agent. In this way, in fact, the bromine... 

Insertion of oxygen atom from Cpd I into the carbon-carbon double bond with formation of epoxide (Scheme Ic) reveals features characteristic for a concerted process, although formation of radical intermediates is possible in many cases. A unified description of this alternative is also provided by the two-state mechanism of catalysis by Cpd I (see the section on Hydroxylation of hydrocarbons). Essentially, the concerted oxygen insertion represents a low-spin reaction surface, whereas the distinct radical intermediate is formed on the high-spin reaction pathway. In the latter case, the carbon radical may attack the nearby heme nitrogen and modify the heme covalently. This reaction is also an important inactivation pathway of cytochromes P450 during oxidative transformations of terminal double and triple bonds. 

At the ends of the polymer chains and at the ends of the short oligomer units (see for example the trimer molecule of Table 1) a bond defect structure is expected. For the acetylene structure of the polymer chain this is a carbene —C— with two free valence electrons and in the case of the butatriene structure this is a radical carbon atom —C= with one free valence electron. In both rases there is a reactive chain end, which allows reaction of the chain with the neighbouring monomer molecules. These reactive structures and a possible nonreactive structure are listed in Table 1 as examples of the trimer molecules. 

Boer and co-workers examined the reaction of sterically hindered a-chloronitroso compounds with Me3Al [111]. The conspicuous reaction sequence is interpreted in terms of initial ring rupture, methane evolution and chlorine migration from carbon to aluminum intramolecular reaction of the carbon-carbon double bond with the rather electrophilic carbon atom from the nitrile oxide moiety leads to a seven-mem-bered ring with an exocyclic double bond as shown in Sch. 75. After hydrolysis, the corresponding oxime is obtained. 

In hydroboration reactions with vinylsilanes, the addition of the boron atom can take place at the end carbon atom of the vinyl moiety (anti-Markovnikov addition) or at the carbon atom bonded to the silicon atom (Markovnikov addition), as shown in Scheme 2. Under the employed conditions the anti-Markovnikov product was formed predominantly. 

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