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Electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions are important for synthetic purposes and also are one of the most thoroughly studied classes of organic reactions from a mechanistic point of view. The synthetic aspects of these reactions are discussed in Chapter 11 of Part B. The discussion here will emphasize the mechanisms of several of the most completely studied reactions. These mechanistic ideas are the foundation for the structure-reactivity relationships in aromatic electrophilic substitution which will be discussed in Section 10.2... 

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The material in this section is divided into three parts. The first subsection deals with the general characteristics of chemical substances. The second subsection is concerned with the chemistry of petroleum it contains a brief review of the nature, composition, and chemical constituents of crude oil and natural gases. The final subsection touches upon selected topics in physical chemistry, including ideal gas behavior, the phase rule and its applications, physical properties of pure substances, ideal solution behavior in binary and multicomponent systems, standard heats of reaction, and combustion of fuels. Examples are provided to illustrate fundamental ideas and principles. Nevertheless, the reader is urged to refer to the recommended bibliography [47-52] or other standard textbooks to obtain a clearer understanding of the subject material. Topics not covered here owing to limitations of space may be readily found in appropriate technical literature. 

Probability Theory.—To pursue our study of methods of operations research, a brief, although incomplete, and somewhat abstract, presentation of ideas from probability theory will be given. In part it shows that mathematical abstraction and rigor are also in the nature of operations research. Illustrations of this topic will be given in later sections. We then give a longer discussion of maximization and minimization methods and in turn illustrate the ideas in subsequent sections. Probability and statistics and optimization methods are two major sources of operations research tools. 

The last chapter in this introductory part covers the basic physical chemistry that is required for using the rest of the book. The main ideas of this chapter relate to basic thermodynamics and kinetics. The thermodynamic conditions determine whether a reaction will occur spontaneously, and if so whether the reaction releases energy and how much of the products are produced compared to the amount of reactants once the system reaches thermodynamic equilibrium. Kinetics, on the other hand, determine how fast a reaction occurs if it is thermodynamically favorable. In the natural environment, we have systems for which reactions would be thermodynamically favorable, but the kinetics are so slow that the system remains in a state of perpetual disequilibrium. A good example of one such system is our atmosphere, as is also covered later in Chapter 7. As part of the presentation of thermodynamics, a section on oxidation-reduction (redox) is included in this chapter. This is meant primarily as preparation for Chapter 16, but it is important to keep this material in mind for the rest of the book as well, since redox reactions are responsible for many of the elemental transitions in biogeochemical cycles. 

Many of the functional relationships needed in thermodynamics are direct applications of the rules of multivariable calculus. This section reviews those rules in the context of the needs of themodynamics. These ideas were expounded in one of the classic books on chemical engineering thermodynamics [see Hougen, O. A., et al., Part II, Thermodynamics, in Chemical Process Principles, 2d ed., Wiley, New York (1959)]. 

The last part covers a few theoretical issues. I expect that theory will play an increasingly role in electrochemistry, so every student should be introduced into the basic ideas behind current models and theories. I have tried to keep this section simple and in several cases have provided simplified versions of more complex theories. Only the last chapter, which covers the quantum theory of electron transfer reactions, requires some knowledge of quantum mechanics and of more advanced mathematical techniques, but no more than is covered in a course on quantum chemistry. 

There is good agreement between the overall dimensions of the histone octamer found by Klug et al. and data obtained from other types of histone fibers discussed here. Similarity of cross-linking data of histone octamer fibers, octamer free in solution, and octamer in nucleosomes makes the extrapolation from the octamer model in the fibers to the octameric core of nucleosome valid (Klug et al., 1980). This further substantiates the idea that histones are part of an assembly system, and therefore the histone core of the nucleosome can be regarded as a truncated histone fiber (see Section IV). 

The remainder of this chapter is devoted to describing the results of computer simulations which have used the ideas discussed above. The overall goal of these studies is to describe and understand phenomena which depend for the most part on bonding ( medium-range ) interactions. For example, simulations of the reaction of small molecules on metal surfaces are discussed in section 3.1, where bond formation occurs at thermal energies. The major drawback for using simulations to study these types of processes is that the... 

The time required for a system to reach equilibrium can be determined by shake-out tests, as described in earlier sections. Contact times are varied between about 0.5 and 15 min, at suitable intervals, and the extraction coefficient for each contact time plotted as a function of time. With this method, there is a lower practical limit on the contact time of about 0.25 min. These data will not be directly applicable to a continuous process because the rate of metal extraction is a function, in part, of the type and degree of agitation. However, a good idea of whether the extraction rate is sufficiently fast for the system to be suitable for use in a large contactor can be obtained. For example, if equilibrium is attained in less than 1 min, almost any type of contactor may be used. 

Our organization and intent in this part of the text is quite different from that in the previous sections. Previously we have tried to be systematic in developing the ideas so that they flow logically as increasing degrees of complexity are introduced. In the following sections we try to show how the principles developed in the previous sections can be apphed to these types of processes. 

As a part of our program to develop new adjuvants for the into-cell delivery of phosphorylated nucleotide-type antiviral agents (see Section 3 of this chapter), we became interested in developing a sapphyrin-based approach to phosphate anion chelation. As proved true for halide anion recognition, important initial support for the idea that sapphyrins could function as phosphate anion receptors came from single crystal X-ray diffraction studies. In fact, to date, five X-ray structures of sapphyrin-phosphate complexes have been obtained. ... 

The Rate-Determining Step. Determination of the step that decides the overall rate in a series of consecutive or parallel reactions in heterogeneous catalysis is the most significant part of mechanism determination. It is best to deal with the ideas here in a general way they will be exemplified in three reactions later on in the section. 

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