Solvents and Solubility

Although the procedure described above is effective for controlling for most reaction materials, there are some exceptions. First, water-soluble solvents and substrates, particularly saccharides and glycols, continuously adsorb water without reaching an equilibrium condition. ° ° In addition, salts may react with substrates. Furthermore, certain salts exhibit either nonideal thermodynamic behavior or too slow a rate of equilibration. ... 

This technique is based on the interaction of at least three compounds the chosen polymer and two other compounds, one in which the polymer is soluble (solvent) and another in which the polymer is insoluble (nonsolvent). The solvent and the nonsolvent should be miscible with each other. 

The synthesis of low-molecular-weight products is usually carried out in bulk. High-molecular-weight products for coatings and laminates are manufactured in solution with solvents such as butanol. Injectionmolding quality material is synthesized in water-soluble solvents and the product is isolated by precipitation in water. 

Water which is contaminated with soluble solvent, and almost certainly cannot be emitted without treatment . 

Although ultrafiltration can easily control resist-bath conductivity, any small water-soluble molecule is allowed to pass through the membrane, including solvent, which constitutes an environmental/waste treatment problem. Many ED resists have been formulated to include water-soluble solvents, and maintaining bath solvent level therefore requires periodic analysis and addition of fresh solvents. (This is not the case with resists that have been ultrafiltered during manufacture to remove water-soluble solvent (section 2.4.10).)... 

Suppose that a given volume of the solvent when cold can dissolve 15 g. of A and 5 g. of B. If too g. of the crude product are dissolved in this volume of the hot solvent, and the solution allowed to cool, then (ignoring the small mutual effect on the solubility of each compound caused by the presence of the other) it is clear that 82 g. of A will crystallise, whilst the whole of B will remain in solution, since the latter is not saturated with respect to B. 

The oxime is freely soluble in water and in most organic liquids. Recrystallise the crude dry product from a minimum of 60-80 petrol or (less suitably) cyclohexane for this purpose first determine approximately, by means of a small-scale test-tube experiment, the minimum proportion of the hot solvent required to dissolve the oxime from about 0-5 g. of the crude material. Then place the bulk of the crude product in a small (100 ml.) round-bottomed or conical flask fitted with a reflux water-condenser, add the required amount of the solvent and boil the mixture on a water-bath. Then turn out the gas, and quickly filter the hot mixture through a fluted filter-paper into a conical flask the sodium chloride remains on the filter, whilst the filtrate on cooling in ice-water deposits the acetoxime as colourless crystals. These, when filtered anddried (either by pressing between drying-paper or by placing in an atmospheric desiccator) have m.p. 60 . Acetoxime sublimes rather readily when exposed to the air, and rapidly when warmed or when placed in a vacuum. Hence the necessity for an atmospheric desiccator for drying purposes. 

Dinitrophenylhydra2ones usually separate in well-formed crystals. These can be filtered at the pump, washed with a diluted sample of the acid in the reagent used, then with water, and then (when the solubility allows) with a small quantity of ethanol the dried specimen is then usually pure. It should, however, be recrystallised from a suitable solvent, a process which can usually be carried out with the dinitrophenylhydrazones of the simpler aldehydes and ketones. Many other hydrazones have a very low solubility in most solvents, and a recrystallisation which involves prolonged boiling with a large volume of solvent may be accompanied by partial decomposition, and with the ultimate deposition of a sample less pure than the above washed, dried and unrecrystal-lised sample. 

This method of Molecular Weight determination should be used only with solvents in which the particular substance is freely soluble, since it is essential that, on cooling, the solvent, and hot the solute, should crystallise out. 

The theory underlying the removal of impurities by crystaUisation may be understood from the following considerations. It is assumed that the impurities are present in comparatively small proportion—usually less than 5 per cent, of the whole. Let the pure substance be denoted by A and the impurities by B, and let the proportion of the latter be assumed to be 5 per cent. In most instances the solubilities of A (SJ and of B (/Sb) are different in a particular solvent the influence of each compound upon the solubility of the other will be neglected. Two cases will arise for an3 particular solvent (i) the impurity is more soluble than the compound which is being purified (/Sg > SA and (ii) the impurity is less soluble than the compound Sg < S ). It is evident that in case (i) several recrystallisations will give a pure sample of A, and B will remain in the mother liquors. Case (ii) can be more clearly illustrated by a specific example. Let us assume that the solubility of A and 5 in a given solvent at the temperature of the laboratory (15°) are 10 g. and 3 g. per 100 ml. of solvent respectively. If 50 g. of the crude material (containing 47 5 g. of A and 2-5 g. of B) are dissolved in 100 ml. of the hot solvent and the solution allowed to cool to 15°, the mother liquor will contain 10 g. of A and 2-5 g. (i.e., the whole) of B 37-5 g. of pure crystals of A will be obtained. 

If the substance is found to be far too soluble in one solvent and much too insoluble in another solvent to allow of satisfactory recrystallisation, mixed solvents or solvent pairs may frequently be used with excellent results. The two solvents must, of course, be completely miscible. Recrystallisation from mixed solvents is carried out near the boiling point of the solvent. The compound is dissolved in the solvent in which it is very soluble, and the hot solvent, in which the substance is only sparingly soluble, is added cautiously until a slight turbidity is produced. The turbidity is then just cleared by the addition of a small quantity of the first solvent and the mixture is allowed to cool to room temperature crystals will separate. Pairs of liquids which may be used include alcohol and water alcohol and benzene benzene and petroleum ether acetone and petroleum ether glacial acetic acid and water. 

A polar substance is more soluble in polar solvents and less soluble in non-polar solvents. 

Mono- and di saccharides are colourless solids or sjrrupy liquids, which are freely soluble in water, practically insoluble in ether and other organic solvents, and neutral in reaction. Polysaccharides possess similar properties, but are generally insoluble in water because of their high molecular weights. Both poly- and di-saccharides are converted into monosaccharides upon hydrolysis. 

The use of dimethylformamide (b.p. 153°) as a solvent and diluent often increases the yield materially. The vigour of the exothermic reaction which occurs with a relatively reactive aryl hahde is moderated and, furthermore, the dimethylformamide is easily removed from the reaction product since it is water soluble. Aryl hahdes which are inert under the usual Ullmann conditions do not react in the presence of dimethylformamide. 

Phenyldiazonium chloride and other similar diazonium compounds are very soluble in water, are completely insoluble in ether and other organic solvents, and are completely dissociated in aqueous solution to organic cations and inorganic anions (e.g., chloride ions) a convenient formulation is therefore, for example, CjHjNj+CP. 

All solubility determinations for Group tests are carried out at the laboratory temperature in small test-tubes (e.g., 100 X 12 mm.) but of suflScient size to permit of vigorous shaking of the solvent and the solute. 

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