Relationship between catalyst efficiency

Table 8.19 Relationship between catalyst efficiency and reaction temperature (particle size 2.5 3.0 mm)...

Bifunctional catalysis in nucleophilic aromatic substitution was first observed by Bitter and Zollinger34, who studied the reaction of cyanuric chloride with aniline in benzene. This reaction was not accelerated by phenols or y-pyridone but was catalyzed by triethylamine and pyridine and by bifunctional catalysts such as a-pyridone and carboxylic acids. The carboxylic acids did not function as purely electrophilic reagents, since there was no relationship between catalytic efficiency and acid strength, acetic acid being more effective than chloracetic acid, which in turn was a more efficient catalyst than trichloroacetic acid. For catalysis by the carboxylic acids Bitter and Zollinger proposed the transition state depicted by H. 

Ongoing research efforts will lead to the arrival of even more efficient and selective metathesis catalysts with specifically tailored properties [196]. Due to the synergistic relationship between catalyst design and subsequent application in advanced synthesis [197], this progress will further expand the scope of metathesis and its popularity amongst the synthetic community. 

Even if several studies demonstrate that PBT is less stable than PET, less attention has been paid to the improvement of the stability of poly(bntylene terephthalate). [7,8] The nsnal strategy to increase PBT stability is the addition, dnring the synthesis or the mannfactnring, of anti-oxidizers, like Ultranox and Irganox the typical phenol-type radical scavengers. [20] However, dnring the last years, a good nnmber of new catalytic systems are claimed to catalyse efficiently PBT synthesis, but in these studies very few information are available about possible relationships between catalyst composition and polymer stability. [21-23]... 

In industry, the emphasis is mainly on developing an active, selective, stable and mechanically robust catalyst. To accomplish this, tools are needed which identify those structural properties that discriminate efficient from less efficient catalysts. All information that helps to achieve this is welcome. Empirical relationships between those factors that govern catalyst composition (e.g. particle size and shape, and pore dimensions) and those that determine catalytic performance are extremely useful in catalyst development, although they do not always give fundamental insights into how the catalyst operates on the molecular level. 

Mg/Me (Me=Al, Fe) mixed oxides prepared from hydrotalcite precursors were compared in the gas-phase m-cresol methylation in order to find out a relationship between catalytic activity and physico-chemical properties. It was found that the regio-selectivity in the methylation is considerably affected by the surface acid-basic properties of the catalysts. The co-existence of Lewis acid sites and basic sites leads to an enhancement of the selectivity to the product of ortho-C-alkylation with respect to the sole presence of basic sites. This derives from the combination of two effects, (i) The H+-abstraction properties of the basic site lead to the generation of the phenolate anion, (ii) The coordinative properties of Lewis acid sites, through their interaction with the aromatic ring, make the mesomeric effect less efficient, with predominance of the inductive effect of the -O species in directing the regio-selectivity of the C-methylation into the ortho position. 

The proposed dinuclear transition-state model (1) has been supported by the observation of nonlinear relationship between enantiomeric excess (ee) of the epoxide and ee of DAT.33 The use of simple diol instead of tartrate vitiates stereoselectivity of the reaction.34,35 The ester group of DAT is indispensable for the construction of the desired catalyst. It is noteworthy that 1,2-di(o-methoxy-phenyl)ethylenediol is an efficient chiral auxiliary for titanium-mediated epoxidation, while 1,2-diphenylethylenediol is a poor one.36... 

It was found that, in a nonpolar medium, the crotyl rhodium complex 1 is relatively inactive as a codimerization catalyst. However, it becomes very active in the presence of a small amount of donors such as alcohol. The activity generally increases linearly with the amount of the added donors and then depends on the strength of the donors, either leveling off or decreasing with further increases in the donor concentration. Strong donors improve the activity at lower concentration but inhibit the reaction at higher concentration. Some representative donors and their rate enhancement efficiency are shown in Table VI. The relationships between the concentrations of various donors and the reaction rates are summarized in Figure 5. The rate enhancement efficiency (expressed as relative reactivity) of a donor was measured based on the maximum rate attainable by addition of a suitable quantity of the donor to the reaction mixture, i.e., the maximum in the activity curve of Fig. 5. The results in Table VI show that those donors with p Ka values (25) between -5 and... 

As the Beckmann rearrangement is believed to be a typical acid-catalysed reaction, many researchers have reported the relationship between the vapour phase reaction catalysis and the acidity of the catalysts tested on non-zeolitic catalysts - i2s- i3i. 318-334 and on zeolitic catalysts Another interesting point for the heterogeneous gas-phase Beckmann rearrangement is the location of the reaction on the catalyst and different studies have been published ° . The outer surface of the catalyst particle seems to be the most probable place for the Beckmann rearrangement supported by the traces of reagents, and notable amounts of by-products found only in the outer layers of the zeolite crystal. Development of new and more efficient catalysts have also been reported " . ... 

Many transformations that were inaccessible by traditional organic chemistry are now possible and thus significantly increase synthesis efficiency. In just one step, catalysts enable certain transformations that increase the complexity of the molecules in such a way that it is difficult to recognize the relationship between the product and the starting material. 

Hydrocracking is probably the most versatile of modem petroleum processes. This versatility has been achieved by the development of specific families of catalysts, of processing schemes designed to allow these catalysts to function efficiently, and of optimum refining relationships between hydrocracking and other refining processes. 

The most important operational features are the relationships between the crystallite sizes of the platinum electrocatalysts to the specific (A.real m"2 Pt) and the mass (Ag 1 Pt) activities. These features are most directly applicable to the efficiency and utilization of the catalyst in operating fuel-cells. 

Colloidal silica gels have been applied to numerous industrial fields such as thermal insulation, catalyst supports, filters and sorbents[l]. Their industrial performance is dependent not only on their chemical structures but also on their physical pore structure, which comprises pore size, pore size distribution, pore volume and surface area. Therefore, it is important to elucidate the relationship between the pore and chemical structures and the performance efficiency. 

UV irradiation of the Cu(I)ZSM-5 catalyst even at 275 K in the presence of NO leads to the formation of N2 and O2 with a linear relationship between the UV irradiation time and the NO conversion into Nj. This indicates that the direct photocatalytic decomposition of NO proceeds efficiently on the Cu(l)ZSM-5 catalyst (775, 177-180). 

It has been recognized for many decades that there is an intimate relationship between coordinated ligand type and physical properties. In particular, the rate at which a donor ligand can be displaced by another in the coordination sphere of an inert metal ion is markedly dependent on the type of ligand involved. If a variety of donors are bound to a metal ion, one particular site may be far more likely to undergo ligand exchange or substitution than others this selectivity is important in the efficient operation of many metalloenzymes and in the operation of certain catalysts. Even with simple octahedral corn-... 

From the systematic investigation of the Park and Jew group, several highly efficient and practical polymeric cinchona PTCs were developed (Scheme 6.6). Interestingly, polymeric catalysts with a specific direction of attachment between aromatic linkers (e.g., benzene or naphthalene) and each cinchona unit were found to be effective in the asymmetric alkylation of 4b. The phenyl-based polymeric PTCs with the meta-relationship between cinchona units such as 14, 15, and 18 showed their high catalytic efficiencies. Furthermore, the 2,7-dimethylnaphthalene moiety as in 16 and 17 was ultimately found to be the ideal spacer for dimeric cinchona PTC for this asymmetric alkylation. For example, with 5 mol% of 16, the benzylation of 4b was completed within a short reaction time of 30 min at 0 ° C, affording (S)-5a in 95% yield with 97% ee. Almost optically pure (>99% ee) (S)-5a was obtained at lower reaction temperature (—40 °C) with 16, and moreover, even with a smaller quantity (1 mol%), its high catalytic efficiency in terms of both reactivity and enantioselectivity was well conserved. 

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