Solute solvent competition

Using sulpholan and acetic acid as solvents competitive nitrations were performed with solutions containing 75% and 30% of mixed acid (table 4.1, columns h, i and /, g, respectively). In the former the concentration of nitronium ions was substantial [c. 5-7 % by weight), whereas in the latter the concentration was below the level of spectroscopic detection. 

The conformation of a polymer in solution is the consequence of a competition between solute intra- and intermolecular forces, solvent intramolecular forces, and solute-solvent intermolecular forces. Addition of a good solvent to a dry polymer causes polymer swelling and disaggregation as solvent molecules adsorb to sites which had previously been occupied by polymer intra- and intermolecular interaction. As swelling proceeds, individual chains are brought into bulk solution until an equilibrium solubility is attained. 

C-nmr investigations referred to aqueous solutions whereas the results in Table 5 were mostly obtained from studies in organic solvents. Competitive bond formation with the aqueous solvent may affect the potential energy well and lead to a different well from that which applies in solution in an organic solvent. 

The retention behavior of solutes in adsorption" chromatography can be described either by the "competition" model or by the "solute-solvent interaction" model depending on the eluent composition. It appears that both mechanisms are operative but their importance depends on the composition of the eluent mixture 84). 

The solubility of solid compounds in water, as well as in other solvents, is determined by the competition between attractions in the solid state between molecules or ions and the solute-solvent attractions that occur in solution. solid that is more attracted to itself than to solvent molecules will not dissolve. A general... 

Equation (3) represents solvent-solvent competition for the nonanionic coordination positions around "MAr In the first approximation, this is a competition between Lewis bases and is related to base strength. As widespread studies of acid-base reactions in general have shown, however, there is no universal ordering of bases, and the order of base strength in which electron sharing is involved is a function of the particular acid. More specifically, for the sort of reaction we have under consideration, it is influenced by specific bonding relations of the metal ion in question. An example is illustrated in Table IV, where the relative values of heat of solution in ethers and in alcohols, for uranyl nitrate and for cobaltous nitrate, show such a specifiicity. 

The salt effects of potassium bromide and a series office symmetrical tetraalkylammonium bromides on vapor-liquid equilibrium at constant pressure in various ethanol-water mixtures were determined. For these systems, the composition of the binary solvent was held constant while the dependence of the equilibrium vapor composition on salt concentration was investigated these studies were done at various fixed compositions of the mixed solvent. Good agreement with the equation of Furter and Johnson was observed for the salts exhibiting either mainly electrostrictive or mainly hydrophobic behavior however, the correlation was unsatisfactory in the case of the one salt (tetraethylammonium bromide) where these two types of solute-solvent interactions were in close competition. The transition from salting out of the ethanol to salting in, observed as the tetraalkylammonium salt series is ascended, was interpreted in terms of the solute-solvent interactions as related to physical properties of the system components, particularly solubilities and surface tensions. 

The CD spectrum of the thiolactam (R)-5-methylpyrrolidine-2-thione reveals a pronounced solvent dependence [490], Its long-wavelength n k thiocarbonyl CD band at Imax = 326 nm (in cyclohexane) undergoes a large solvent- and concentration-dependent blue shift of Av = +4880 cm (A1 = —54 nm) on going from cyclohexane to water. This corresponds to the blue shifts usually observed for n n bands in UV absorption spectra (see Section 6.2.3) and is best explained in terms of a monomer dimer equilibrium of the thiolactam involving the formation of intermolecular solute/ solute hydrogen bonds in nonpolar solvents. In HBA solvents e.g. DMSO) and HBD solvents [e.g. EtOH), this equilibrium is disturbed by competitive solute/solvent H-... 

Solvent competition model for normal-phase liquid chromatography. Like the solvent-interaction model, the solvent-competition model assumes that the stationary phase is covered with a monolayer of molecules of the strongest component of the mobile phase. This model also assumes that the concentration of analyte in the stationary phase is small compared with the concentration of solvent molecules and that solute-solvent interactions in the mobile phase are cancelled by identical interactions in the stationary phase. The competition between the analyte molecules, x, and the mobile phase molecules. A, for the active site or sites on the stationary phase is given by... 

However, if in nonaqueous solutions (discussed next) the oxidations also proceed through oxypalladation adducts, then the two mechanisms of decomposition of the oxypalladation adducts would predict diflFerent products. First, let us consider the mechanism of Jira, Sedlmeier, and Smidt (Reactions 50-53). In this case OH in II (Reaction 52) is replaced by OR. Decomposition via Reaction 55 is impossible, so II must decompose by solvolysis. This would give 1,1-disubstituted ethanes from ethylene oxidation. On the other hand, the first suggestion (Reaction 48) would probably be more consistent with formation of the vinyl compounds since hydride elimination should be completed if a rapid rearrangement of electrons to give acetaldehyde cannot occur. Evidence exists that 1,1-disubstituted ethanes are the initial products in methanol, and in acetic acid it is claimed that both vinyl acetate and 1,1-diace-toxyethane are initial products this suggests that in this solvent competition exists between palladium (II) hydride elimination and acetate attack. However, until now there have been no detailed studies of the oxidation under conditions where 1,1-disubstituted products are formed. More work is needed before the course of the reaction under these conditions is completely understood. 

Alternatively, Jaroniec and Martire have described liquid-solid chromatography in terms of classical thermodynamics (82). They show that a rigorous consideration of solute and solvent competitive adsorption in systems with a nonideal mobile phase and a surface-influenced nonideal stationary phase leads to a general equation for the distribution coefficient of a solute involving concurrent adsorption and partition effects. This equation is phrased in terms of interaction parameters and activity coefficients, which would need to be evaluated or estimated in actual applications. 

CDCI3, CCI4, and CS2 only a small amount of free OH groups related to the cc conformer could be detected. However, the spectra in ( 03)280 indicated, that in more polar solvents there is a competitive solute-solvent interaction, which leads to a switch from the cb to the cc form. X-ray data of 3,7-dimethyl-3,7-diazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-9-ol 2H20 EtOH have shown that both nitrogen atoms take part in hydrogen bonds, either with water or ethanol, and the molecule adopts a cc conformation. With IR spectroscopy of a water-free crystal, the cb conformation was assigned to the same molecule, and this is stabilized by an intramolecular N H—O bond (136). 

Vibrational population relaxation plays a fundamental role in many physical and chemical processes in liquids. In liquid-state photochemical reactions there is often competition between relaxation and reaction and the observed reaction rates and yields can therefore be quite sensitive to solute-solvent interactions. There has also been considerable recent interest in the possible development of liquid state chemical lasers based on the long vibrational lifetimes observed in simple liquids. For both these prob-... 

The partition and displacement model considers retention to result from a two step process. The first involves formation of a mixed stationary phase by intercalation of solvent molecules from the mobile phase. The composition of the solvents in the stationary phase is established according to thermodynamic equilibrium and is usually different to the bulk mobile phase composition. Competitive sorption of solvents is modeled as a displacement process and is complete before the solute is introduced into the two-phase system. Solute retention is then modeled as a partition process between the solvent modified stationary phase and the mobile phase by taking into account all solute-solvent interactions in both phases. The phenomenological model of solvent effects attempts to model retention as a combination of solute-solvent interactions (the solvation effect) and solvent-solvent interactions (the general medium... 

Colominas et al. [143] published a very detailed study on the dimerization of formic and acetic acids in the gas phase and in aqueous and chloroform solutions. By using quantum mechanical self-consistent reaction field and Monte Carlo calculations, they showed that the dimerization is favored in the gas phase and in a chloroform solution (1M) basically due to double hydrogen-bonded interaction between the monomers. In aqueous solution, the dimerization does not seem to occur due to the competitive solute-solvent intermolecular interactions. The computed dimerization energies are shown in Table VII. 15... 

The results indicate that several of the FFs are competitive with the KBFF models for one of the systems, but none exhibited the overall balance between solute-solute, solute-solvent, and solvent-solvent distributions for aU the solutes as provided by the KBFF models. The NMA and water results are particularly concerning due to the central role of peptide-peptide interactions in determining the balance between folded and unfolded protein conformations. The observation that all the FFs display a significantly more positive solute-solute excess coordination number compared to... 

The retention model in adsorption chromatography developed by Snyder and Soczewinski is based on the assumption that there is flat adsorption in a monomolecular layer on a homogeneous adsorption surface. The adsorption is understood as a competition phenomenon between the molecules of the solute and the solvent on the adsorbent surface, so that the retention of a sample molecule requires the displacement of one or more previously adsorbed polar solvent molecules. Later, the model was corrected for adsorption on a heterogeneous surface of adsorbent. To first approximation, the solute-solvent interactions in the mobile and stationary phases are assumed to compensate each other and possible liquid-liquid partition effects are neglected. In this case, the retention in a mixed binary mobile phase comprising a nonpolar solvent, A (usually an aliphatic hydrocarbon), and a polar solvent, B, can be described by eqn [1] ... 

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