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With titanium enolates it was found that use of excess (3 equiv.) of the titanium reagent reversed facial selectivity of oxazolidinone enolates.140 This was attributed to generation of a chelated TS in the presence of the excess Lewis acid. The chelation rotates the oxazolidinone ring and reverses the facial preference, while retaining the Z-configuration syn diastereoselectivity. 

Gennaro, M. C., Bertolo, P. L., and Marengo, E., Determination of aromatic amines at trace levels by ion interaction reagent reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. Analysis of hair dyes and other water-soluble... 

Organolithium derivatives are strongly nucleophilic reagents, and their use in synthesis would be greatly increased if they could easily be converted to electrophilic reagents. Reversed reactivity of lithium derivatives would be... 

Methylmagnesium bromide (191) exerts a great influence on the stereoselectivity of the reactions between mesitonitrile oxide 10 and the Baylis-Hillman adducts 192. In the absence of a Grignard reagent, a mixture of isomers is formed in which compounds 194 are the main products. The presence of a Grignard reagent reverses the stereoselectivity (Scheme 9.59). When Fisera [107] performed these reactions under microwave irradiation, the reaction times decreased from days to less than 5 min without any loss of stereoselectivity for noncatalyzed cycloadditions, but with a small change in the stereoselectivity in the chelated reactions. 

A chemical reaction is typically the transformation of one compound into another by one or more reagents (reversible reactions which proceed towards equilibrium are considered later). The rate of reaction (r) is defined as the change in the extent of the reaction (f) with time, Equation 3.1,... 

Ion pair chromatography typically uses a reversed-phase column in conjunction with a special type of chemical in the mobile phase called an ion-pairing reagent. Reversed phase essentially means that the column s stationary phase is nonpolar (less polar, more organic) than the mobile-phase solvents. For RP-IPC, the stationary phase is a carbon chain, most often consisting of 8 or 18 carbon atoms (C8, C18) bonded to a silica support. The mobile-phase solvents usually consist of water mixed with a water-miscible organic solvent, such as acetonitrile or methanol. 

The reverse of this process was termed reduction and reagents which removed oxygen were termed reducing agents. Consider the reactions... 

Iodine has the lowest standard electrode potential of any of the common halogens (E = +0.54 V) and is consequently the least powerful oxidising agent. Indeed, the iodide ion can be oxidised to iodine by many reagents including air which will oxidise an acidified solution of iodide ions. However, iodine will oxidise arsenate(lll) to arsenate(V) in alkaline solution (the presence of sodium carbonate makes the solution sufficiently alkaline) but the reaction is reversible, for example by removal of iodine. 

With some acids (e.g., succinic acid and sulplianilic acid) more satisfactory results are obtained by reversing the order of mixing, i.e., by adding the solution of the so um salt of the acid to the reagent. It should be pointed out that the melting points of the derivatives as determined on the electric hot plate (Fig. II, 11, 1) may differ by 2-3° from those obtained by the capillary tube method. In view of the proximity of the melting points of the derivatives of many acids, the mixed m.p. test (Section 1,17) should be applied. 

Acetylation with acetic anhydride is comparatively expensive because of the cost of the reagent. The use of the inexpensive glacial acetic acid depends upon the displacement of the reversible equilibrium ... 

The enyne system in the amines 828=88-8 8-882 can be reversed by potassium amide in liquid ammonia. Addition of the enyne amines to an equivalent amount of this reagent gives the potassium acetylides, K-8e8-88=88-8R2, from which the ynene" amines can be obtained in excellent yields by addition of solid ammonium chloride. 

Antithetical connections (the reversal of synthetic cleavages) and rearrangements are indicated by a con or rcarr on the double-lined arrow. Here it is always practical to draw right away the reagents instead of synthons. A plausible reaction mechanism may, of course, always be indicated. 

Experiments ( P nmr) using 0.8 and 2 equivalents of octyhnagnesium chloride with ethyl ben2enephosphinate indicate that the nucleophilic displacement occurs first, foHowed by proton abstraction (80). Interestingly, the order of the two steps is reversed when methyhnagnesium chloride is used (81). This reaction demonstrates the difference ia reactivity between the octyl and the methyl Grignard reagents. 

Herbicidal Inhibition of Enzymes. The Hst of known en2yme inhibitors contains five principal categories group-specific reagents substrate or ground-state analogues, ie, rapidly reversible inhibitors affinity and photo-affinity labels suicide substrate, or inhibitors and transition-state, or reaction-intermediate, analogues, ie, slowly reversible inhibitors (106). 

Substitution Reactions on Side Chains. Because the benzyl carbon is the most reactive site on the propanoid side chain, many substitution reactions occur at this position. Typically, substitution reactions occur by attack of a nucleophilic reagent on a benzyl carbon present in the form of a carbonium ion or a methine group in a quinonemethide stmeture. In a reversal of the ether cleavage reactions described, benzyl alcohols and ethers may be transformed to alkyl or aryl ethers by acid-catalyzed etherifications or transetherifications with alcohol or phenol. The conversion of a benzyl alcohol or ether to a sulfonic acid group is among the most important side chain modification reactions because it is essential to the solubilization of lignin in the sulfite pulping process (17). 

For continuing polymerization to occur, the ion pair must display reasonable stabiUty. Strongly nucleophilic anions, such as C/ , are not suitable, because the ion pair is unstable with respect to THE and the alkyl haUde. A counterion of relatively low nucleophilicity is required to achieve a controlled and continuing polymerization. Examples of anions of suitably low nucleophilicity are complex ions such as SbE , AsF , PF , SbCf, BE 4, or other anions that can reversibly coUapse to a covalent ester species CF SO, FSO, and CIO . In order to achieve reproducible and predictable results in the cationic polymerization of THE, it is necessary to use pure, dry reagents and dry conditions. High vacuum techniques are required for theoretical studies. Careful work in an inert atmosphere, such as dry nitrogen, is satisfactory for many purposes, including commercial synthesis. 

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