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A list of compounds of increasing oxidation level is shown in Figure 10.5. AJkanes are at the lowest oxidation level because they have the maximum possible number of C-H bonds per carbon, and CO2 is at the highest level because it has the maximum possible number of C—O bonds per carbon. Any reaction that converts a compound from a lower level to a higher level is an oxidation, any reaction that converts a compound from a higher level to a lower level is a reduction, and any reaction that doesn t change the level is neither an oxidation nor a reduction. 

An example of an acid-base reaction that doesn t involve the transfer of a proton is the formation of carbonic acid from water and carbon dioxide as shown here ... 

Some big steric or electronic factor is clearly at work. Though the alkene 24 is hindered at one end, the enone barely is and it is electronic factors that dominate. The natural polarity of the alkene is to be nucleophilic at the CH2 group 24a. So in the thermal reaction (that doesn t happen) it could attack the electrophilic end of the enone 25a. One way to predict photochemical 2 + 2 cycloadditions is to suppose that the excited state of the enone reverses the natural polarity from 25b to 25c and the new electrophilic end now combines with the alkene 24. As the alkene is not excited, it behaves in the normal way 24a. This is of course a simplification but it works.9... 

Collaboration has played a consistent role in his research. His first collaborative project was with Professor Bob Moss, who approached Houk about help in interpreting carbene selectivity. Houk recalls a collaboration with Professor A1 Meyers concerning a failed anionic amino-Cope rearrangement. He had this reaction that didn t work and we did some calculations to explain why, he remembers, and this appeared as a JACS communication. Then for some time afterwards, A1 and others would call to say Hey, I ve got this reaction that doesn t work Can we get a JACS conununication ... 

Another redox reaction that doesn t involve oxygen occurs when a strip of zinc metal is placed in a solution of copper(II) sulfate. The progress of this reaction can be followed easily because a readily observable change takes place. As shown in Figure 16.5, copper metal quickly begins to form on the zinc strip. 

Although this mechanism seems plausible, it s not fully consistent with known facts. In particular, it doesn t explain the stereochemistry of the addition reaction. That is, the mechanism doesn t tell which product stereoisomer is formed. 

The guilty party is the triose phosphate isomerase (TIM) reaction that interconverts DHAP and G3P. To be converted to pyruvate, the DHAP first has to be converted to G3P. TIM just moves the carbonyl group between the two carbons that don t have phosphate attached. TIM doesn t touch the phosphate. So, if the DHAP is labeled at the carbon that has the phosphate attached, the G3P that comes from DHAP will be labeled at the carbon with the phosphate attached. The carbon with the phosphate attached in the G3P that was produced directly by the aldolase reaction came from C-6 of glucose, but the carbon with the phosphate attached in the G3P that was produced from DHAP came from C-l of glucose. After TIM does it stuff, the carbon of G3P that has the phosphate will be... 

It really doesn t matter whether or not the steps which are used are the actual ones in the mechanism (pathway) of the reaction because AHreaction is a state function, a function that doesn t depend on the pathway, only the initial and final states. 

Chemists don t have it so easy. Someone is paying them to do reactions. That someone doesn t have time or money for excuses about loitering reactants. So you, as a fresh-faced chemist, have to be concerned with just how completely your reactants react to form products. To compare the amount of product obtained from a reaction with the amount that should have been obtained, chemists use percent yield. You determine percent yield with the following formula ... 

A reaction that has produced as much product as it ever will is said to be at equilibrium. Equilibrium doesn t mean that no more chemistry is occurring rather, equilibrium means that the rate at which reactant converts to product equals the rate at which product converts back into reactant. (Yes, reactions go both forward and backward at all times.) So the overall concentrations of reactants and products no longer change. 

Lhemical reactions are truly the heart of chemistry, and their applications abound. For instance, the magician in Figure 9.25 has just ignited a sheet of nitrocellulose, also known as flash paper. In a moment, it will appear to have vanished. You know from the law of mass conservation, however, that materials don t simply vanish. Rather, they are transformed into new materials. Sometimes we can t see the new materials, but that doesn t mean they don t exist. One of the reactions that occur as flash paper burns is... 

So far we have described reactions strictly in terms of their reactants and products. That doesn t tell us much about how or why a reaction proceeds from reactants to products. The reaction mechanism sometimes is quite a complex process, and for many well-known reactions we still don t understand the mechanism. We confine this discussion to consideration of the relatively simple mechanism of ester hydrolysis. Ester hydrolysis entails the reaction of a water molecule with an ester, leading to the production of an alcohol and a carboxylic acid. It is depicted in equation 1, going from right to left. 

All reactions proceed spontaneously in the direction that increases the entropy of the system plus surroundings. A reaction that is nonspontaneous in the forward direction is spontaneous in the reverse direction because AStotai for the reverse reaction equals — AStotai for the forward reaction. If AStotai is zero, the reaction doesn t go spontaneously in either direction, and the reaction mixture is at equilibrium. 

Since Fe3+ is a reactant in the cathode half-reaction, Fe(N03)3 would be a good electrolyte for the cathode compartment. The cathode can be any electrical conductor that doesn t react with the ions in the solution. A platinum wire is a common inert electrode. (Iron metal can t be used because it would react directly with Fe3+, thus short-circuiting the cell.) The salt bridge contains NaN03/ but any inert electrolyte would do. Electrons flow through the wire from the iron anode (—) to the platinum cathode ( + ). Anions move from the cathode compartment toward the anode while cations migrate from the anode compartment toward the cathode. 

Many functional groups can be added to aromatic compounds via electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions. A functional group is a substituent that brings with it certain chemical reactions that the aromatic compound itself doesn t display. 

The thermolyses presented in this chapter are one example of a series of analogous reactions. The Bell-Evans-Polanyi relationship of Equation 1.3 also holds for many other series of analogous reactions. The general principle that can be extracted from Equation 1.3 is that, at least for a reaction series, the more exothermic the enthalpy of reaction, the faster it will be. But this doesn t mean that all reactions that are exothermic are fast, so be careful. 

These are guidelines. Nucleophilic substitution reactions proceed via a mechanistic continuum from Sn2 to SN1. And that doesn t include processes that proceed by SET (single electron transfer) Life is neither easy nor fair. 

Thankfully, as the quote points out, formate is not just floating around in solution. It is first attached to a vitamin called THF, a cousin of the B vitamin folic acid (don t even ask how the vitamin is synthesized). When it is attached by an enzyme to the vitamin (in a reaction requiring an energy pellet of ATP), formate is revved up and made ready for action. The THF-formate complex, however, would not join up with Intermediate IV to give Intermediate V unless directed to do so by Enzyme IV it would float away in the cell until it reacted with something else or decayed, and that would mess up our synthesis of AMP. That doesn t happen, however, because the enzyme guides the reaction to the correct products. 

When you shake a can of soda and open the lid, usually you get soaked by a spray of liquid. The spray is powered by the sudden release of carbon dioxide gas that had been dissolved in the liquid. Some carbon dioxide is also dissolved in cellular fluid (although an animal usually doesn t fizz when shaken) and can be used in biochemical reactions. That s good, because the next step in the synthesis of AMP needs carbon dioxide. In the reaction the gas molecule (actually its water-logged counterpart, bicarbonate) is placed by Enzyme VII onto carbon 3 to make Intermediate VIII. An energy pellet of ATP powers this step.4... 

Bob holds the vertebra tightly in his hand. Perhaps this is a way that her species signals a desire for shared affection. The combined energy of a nucleus of carbon-12 and of helium-4 is 7.1616 MeV. The excited state of oxygen-16 is 7.1187 MeV. Wow, that does sound too close for comfort. Doesn t the reaction that creates oxygen take off asks Miss Muxdroozol. 

The reactions mechanisms the catalyst will follow may depend on the electrode material. The difference is that in reaction mechanism 2, the last reaction step doesn t include an electron and proton. It is clear that reaction mechanism 2 can only be relevant if the barrier for recombining the two oxygen atoms is small. Later, it will be argued why including mechanism 2 in the analysis doesn t change the conclusion. 

This observation is very significant. It is not only the concentration of the nucleophile that doesn t matter—its reactivity doesn t matter either We are wasting our time adding NaOll to this reaction—water will do just as well. All the oxygen nucleophiles in Table 17.3 react at the some rate with f-BuBr though they react at. very different rates with Mel. 

Vinyl bromides can themselves be made by elimination reactions of 1,2-dibromoalkanes. Watch what happens when 1,2-dibromopropane is treated with three equivalents of K NLi first, elimination to the vinyl halide then, elimination of the vinyl halide to the alkyne. The terminal alkyne is amply acidic enough to be deprotonated by R2NU, and this is the role of the third equivalent. Overall, the reaction makes a lithiated alkyne (ready for further reactions) from a fully saturated starting material. This may well be the first reaction you have met that makes an alkyne from a starling material that doesn t already contain a triple bond, making an alkyne from 1,2-dibromopropane... 

Just because a reaction is symmetry-disallowed doesn t mean that it can t occur. Reactions that are symmetry-allowed occur by relatively low-energy, concerted pathways. Reactions that are symmetry-disallowed must take place by higher energy, nonconcerted routes. 

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