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The solvent may serve only as the medium for the reaction, or it may in addition be a reactant, as in a solvolysis reaction. It is possible that the reaction mechanism may be changed by a change in solvent (e.g., from SnI to Sn2) or that the rate-determining step of a complex reaction may be altered. All of these phenomena can be studied by examining the solvent dependence. One goal of research on medium effects is to achieve a level of understanding that will allow us to make mechanistic interpretations from such data. Handbooks of solubility parameters are valuable (Barton, 1983). 

While Eqs. (11)-(13) are useful in understanding the general medium effects on reaction rates, their ability to quantitatively predict reaction rates will most likely suffer from inaccuracies similar to those experienced with solubility prediction in mixed solvents. Dielectric constant as a single parameter is not capable of quantitating all interactions among solvent and solute molecules. LePree and Connors reported on the use of a phenomenological approach to predict reaction rates in mixed solvents. The approach is similar to the solubility studies reported by Khossravi and Connors and uses complex equilibria to characterize solvent-solute interactions. 

For many applications in kinetics, the ratio mxI mx has been taken as unity and the medium effect determined simply from the ratio of solubilities in the two solvents (see sect. 6.1.3). 

To achieve an understanding of solvent effects on the ionisation of acids we ought to have the contributions of each species to the over-all effect, log Fa. The problems in estimating the contribution of the ion have been mentioned in sect. 3.3.3. Solubility and electromotive force measurements give us directly combinations of medium effects for two ions, e.g. (mynOL/x-) or (mrH+)/(m7Hx+)- The medium effect on a molecular species can be obtained directly from solubility measurements in water and S or indirectly by subtracting the ionic contribution from the over-all efifect. ... 

The size of the medium effect can be estimated by a study of the relative solubility of inert solutes and salts in H2O and D2O. It follows from Section 5 that the solubility, S, in L2O is given by... 

The commercial product, m.p. 53-55°, may be used. Alternatively the methyl -naphthyl ketone may be prepared from naphthalene as described in Section IV,136. The Friedel - Crafts reaction in nitrobenzene solution yields about 90 per cent, of the p-ketone and 10 per cent, of the a-ketone in carbon disulphide solution at — 15°, the proportions ore 65 per cent, of the a- and 35 per cent, of the p-isomer. With chlorobenzene ns the reaction medium, a high proportion of the a-ketone is also formed. Separation of the liquid a-isomer from the solid p-isomer in Such mixtures (which remain liquid at the ordinary temp>erature) is readily effected through the picrates the picrate of the liquid a-aceto compound is less soluble and the higher melting. 

Paine et al. [85] extensively studied the effect of solvent in the dispersion polymerization of styrene in the polar media. In their study, the dispersion polymerization of styrene was carried out by changing the dispersion medium. They used hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) as the stabilizer and its concentration was fixed to 1.5% within a series of -alcohols tried as the dispersion media. The particle size increased from only 2.0 /itm in methanol to about 8.3 /itm in pentanol, and then decreased back to 1 ixm in octadecanol. The particle size values plotted against the Hansen solubility parameters... 

Reactivity ratios for the copolymerization of AN and DM WS in DMSO were found to be rj =0,53 and r2=0,036, and in water r1=0,56 and r2=0,25. The higher reactivity of DM VPS in the copolymerization with AN in aqueous medium, as compared with its reactivity in DMSO, can be explained by a higher degree of dissociation of DMVPS in aqueous medium. This fact also produces a considerable effect on the character of the distribution of monomeric units within the copolymers, which manifests itself in the change of their solubility in water. Copolymers containing 30% of monomeric units AN obtained from a 90 10 mixture of AN and DMVPS in DMSO, irrespective of the level of conversion, are completely soluble in water, whereas copolymers of the same composition, but obtained in aqueous medium with a yield 40%, are insoluble in water. 

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