Progress reaction

Keep one of the concentrations high while maintaining the other low (this is achieved by charging one of the feeds as the reaction progresses). 

In the preceding section, the choice of reactor type was made on the basis of which gave the most appropriate concentration profile as the reaction progressed in order to minimize volume for single reactions or maximize selectivity for multiple reactions for a given conversion. However, after making the decision to choose one type of reactor or another, there are still important concentration effects to be considered. 

Product removal during reaction. Sometimes the equilibrium conversion can be increased by removing the product (or one of the products) continuously from the reactor as the reaction progresses, e.g., by allowing it to vaporize from a liquid-phase reactor. Another way is to carry out the reaction in stages with intermediate separation of the products. As an example of intermediate separation, consider the production of sulfuric acid as illustrated in Fig. 2.4. Sulfur dioxide is oxidized to sulfur trioxide ... 

Another way to keep the concentration of PRODUCT low is to remove the product as the reaction progresses, e.g., by intermediate separation followed by further reaction. For example, in a reaction system such as Eq. (2.18), intermediate separation of the PRODUCT followed by further reaction maintains a low concentration of PRODUCT as the reaction progresses. Such intermediate separation is most appropriate when separation of the product from the reactants is straightforward. 

Removal of the product as the reaction progresses is also effective in suppressing the series element of the byproduct reactions, providing the separation is straightforward. 

Using a batch reactor, a constant concentration of sulfuric acid can be maintained by adding concentrated sulfuric acid as the reaction progresses, i.e., semi-batch operation. Good temperature control of such systems can be maintained, as we shall discuss later. 

The autliors analyse tliese results in considerable detail, demonstrating tliat botli tlie stmcture of tlie surface and steric interactions between F atoms on neighbouring SiF groups influence the reaction progress. 

The presence of the base brings about the irreversible elimination of hydrogen chloride between the acid chloride and the acid the resulting p3rridine hydrochloride precipitates out as the reaction progresses. 

In order to define how the nuclei move as a reaction progresses from reactants to transition structure to products, one must choose a definition of how a reaction occurs. There are two such definitions in common use. One definition is the minimum energy path (MEP), which defines a reaction coordinate in which the absolute minimum amount of energy is necessary to reach each point on the coordinate. A second definition is a dynamical description of how molecules undergo intramolecular vibrational redistribution until the vibrational motion occurs in a direction that leads to a reaction. The MEP definition is an intuitive description of the reaction steps. The dynamical description more closely describes the true behavior molecules as seen with femtosecond spectroscopy. 

The foregoing conclusion does not mean that the rate of the reaction proceeds through Table 5.1 at a constant value. The rate of reaction depends on the concentrations of reactive groups, as well as on the reactivities of the latter. Accordingly, the rate of the reaction decreases as the extent of reaction progresses. When the rate law for the reaction is extracted from proper kinetic experiments, specific reactions are found to be characterized by fixed rate constants over a range of n values. 

Use management systems (tagging) or interlocks to prevent opening of reactor during reaction progress... 

Provide means of detecting reaction progress and completion before proceeding further... 

Provide adequate heat transfer surface area or temperature gradient (keeping in mind that fluid properties and temperature change as the reaction progresses)... 

Crystalline acetic acid separates at first but redissolves as the reaction progresses. 

Chemical methods involve removing a portion of the reacting system, quenching of the reaction, inhibition of the reaction that occurs within the sample, and direct determination of concentration using standard analytical techniques—a spectroscopic metliod. These methods provide absolute values of the concentration of the various species that are present in the reaction mixture. However, it is difficult to automate chemical mediods, as the sampling procedure does not provide a continuous record of tlie reaction progress. They are also not applicable to very fast reaction techniques. 

If homolytic reaction conditions (heat and nonpolar solvents) can be avoided and if the reaction is conducted in the presence of a weak base, lead tetraacetate is an efficient oxidant for the conversion of primary and secondary alcohols to aldehydes and ketones. The yield of product is in many cases better than that obtained by oxidation with chromium trioxide. The reaction in pyridine is moderately slow the intial red pyridine complex turns to a yellow solution as the reaction progresses, the color change thus serving as an indicator. The method is surprisingly mild and free of side reactions. Thus 17a-ethinyl-17jS-hydroxy steroids are not attacked and 5a-hydroxy-3-ket-ones are not dehydrated. 

Sketch the reaction progress diagram for the pyridine-catalyzed hydrolysis of acetic anhydride. 

The first compound studied (56) was quinolizidine (41), which can be readily converted to J >-dehydroquinolizidine (42) in 60% yield by the action of 4 moles of mercuric acetate in 5% aqueous acetic acid on 1 mole of the amine. Mercurous acetate precipitates as the reaction progresses at... 

A useful device to have installed in a stirred autoclave is a liquid sampling tube by which liquid samples are withdrawn under pressure through a filter attached to the lower end of the tube. This device is especially useful for analysis of reaction progress and supplements information obtained from pressure-drop determinations. It is much easier to improve a less than satisfactory yield, if it can be determined what is going wrong and when. For academically orientated persons, a study of the rise and decline of various reaction products, as a function of reaction parameters and catalyst, can be a fertile source of useful publications. 

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