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One should also note that the interaction across the interface between the PSA and the paint takes time to build. Both continued wet-out of the adhesive and the interfacial rearrangements of the functional groups are contributing factors to this time delayed adhesion build. 

The third mode of termination which occurs in some carbonium ion polymerizations involves rearrangement of the active carbonium ion into an inactive one which cannot continue the propagation. These reactions can be avoided to a great extent by working at sufficiently low temperatures, and on the whole, they only contribute significantly to the termination reaction in a few systems. 

Continuing his studies on the metallation of tetrahydro-2-benzazepine formamidines, Meyers has now shown that the previously unsuccessful deprotonation of 1-alkyl derivatives can be achieved with sec-butyllithium at -40 °C <96H(42)475>. In this way 1,1-dialkylated derivatives are now accessible. The preparation of 3//-benzazepines by chemical oxidation of 2,5- and 2,3-dihydro-l/f-l-benzazepines has been reported <96T4423>. 3Af-Diazepines are also formed by rearrangement of the 5//-tautomers which had been previously reported to be the products of electrochemical oxidation of 2,5-dihydro-lAf-l-benzazepine <95T9611>. The synthesis and radical trapping activities of a number of benzazepine derived nitrones have been reported <96T6519, 96JBC3097>. 

Upon the spontaneous rearrangement of anhydrous phospholipids in the presence of water into a hydrated bilayer structure, a portion of the aqueous phase is entrapped within a continuous, closed bilayer structure. By this process water-soluble compounds are passively entrapped in liposomes. The efficiency of encapsulation varies and depends, for example, on the method of preparation of liposomes and the phospholipid concentration during preparation. Different parameters can be used to describe the encapsulation efficiency ... 

As a continuation to the studies by Darwish and Braverman on the [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement of allylic sulfinates to sulfones, and in view of its remarkable facility and stereospecificity (see Chapter 13), Braverman and Stabinsky investigated the predictable analogous rearrangement of allylic sulfenates to sulfoxides, namely the reverse rearrangement of that attempted by Cope and coworkers . These authors initiated their studies by the preparation of the claimed allyl trichloromethanesulfenate using the method of Sosnovsky . This method involves the reaction between trichloro-methanesulfenyl chloride and allyl alcohol in ether at 0 °C, in the presence of pyridine (equation 6). 

Molecular rearrangements of five-membered ring heterocycles with a three-atom side chain continue to attract much attention in the literature and new developments have become apparent since those detailed in CHEC-II(1996), including the appearance of a useful review encompassing the ring-degenerate version of the process... 

The use of vinylphosphonium salts in heterocyclic synthesis continues to be exploited. The kinetically controlled reactions of the / -acylvinylphosphonium salts (143) with 2-aminopyridine lead to the salts (144) similar reactions occur with 2-aminopyrimidine and cytosine. Under conditions where thermodynamic control prevails, the salts (145) are formed predominantly, resulting from a Dimroth rearrangement of (144).136... 

There continue to be a few examples reported where rearrangement has been used synthetically to develop new products sometimes important in the industrial world. Monomers for polyamides and polyimides (which are used for making moisture sensitive films, fibres and mouldings) have been synthesized24 by the reduction of a nitro compound, followed by a benzidine rearrangement of the resulting hydrazobenzene derivative as outlined in Scheme 5. 

The rearrangement reaction continues to be of synthetic utility, often involved in industrial processes. Patent references (e.g. Reference 48) refer to the formation of 4-amino phenols. Often the reactant nitro compound is reduced (to the hydroxylamine) in an acid environment so that the two-stage reaction can be accomplished as a one-pot synthesis. 4-Amino phenol itself 45 can be made in high yield directly from nitrobenzene49 and the 4-methoxy aniline derivative 46 similarly from 2-methylnitrobenzene by hydrogenation in MeOH/H2S0450. 

The acid-catalysed rearrangement of A-nitroaniline derivatives continues to provide convenient synthetic routes to some nitro compounds which are difficult to obtain by other methods. A recent example68 is given in Scheme 13, where the introduction of the third nitro group into the aromatic ring is brought about by rearrangement of the... 

Investigations of base-catalyzed isomerizations of allene derivatives have been recently continued. For instance, the rearrangement of allene ethers 53 under superbasic conditions (KOH-DMSO) is considered as one of the steps in hydration of acetylene derivatives (equation 17)31,32. 

Along with a very wide synthetic application the Cope rearrangement continues to be a subject of intense debates. The key mechanistic question is whether the rearrangement of 1,5-hexadiene derivatives is concerted and passes via a six-electron aromatic transition state, or whether it involves the formation of a diradical intermediate, i.e. a cyclization-cleavage mechanism. In the former case, bond making and bond breaking occur synchronously (a survey of this question has been published210). 

Stopped after 180 h time on stream and the reaction setup was evacuated for 10 min at 100 °C. When the experiment was continued after this procedure, the activity had indeed increased by 80% from TOFs of initially 60 h to 108 h Within the next 20 h of reaction the TOFs decreased again from 108 h to 76 h and the selectivity re-estabhshed at 95% n-butanal. A second vacuum period of 10 min resulted in improved TOFs, as depicted in Fig. 4. hi both cases the observed overshooting of the activity directly after evacuation might be caused by either simultaneous removal of CO ligand of the Rh-3-complex leading to higher activity or a rearrangement of the active surface due to sudden evaporation of dissolved heavies. In the first case, a lower selectivity would be expected, which was indeed observed directly after the evacuation. Thereafter, the catalyst solution was re-saturated with CO gas and both the activity and the selectivity approached the initial levels. 

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