Solvent dependency, ionic

At low ionic strengths, Tm increases exponentially with ion activity. The effect of high concentrations of salts or miscible solvents depends on the influence they have on hydrogen-bonding and may increase or decrease Tm. In the case of xanthan gum, the value of Tm can be adjusted from ambient to over 200°C by the addition of appropriate salts. Table 7.2 presents Tm values for some industrial viscosifiers. 

More pronounced solvent effects have been observed in special cases where substrates or products possess ionic character. Ito and Matsuda76 found a 35-fold reduction in the rate of addition of the arenethiyl radical 18 to cx-methylstyrene when the solvent was changed from dimelhylsulfoxide to cyclohexane. Rates for addition of other arenethiyl radicals do not show such a marked solvent dependence. The different behavior was attributed to the radical 18 existing partly in a zwitterionic quinonoid form (Scheme 1,7).77... 

From this, the expression for the solvent dependence of ionic reactions is... 

Several investigations into the photochemistry of eucarvone have shown that upon irradiation it isomerizes to a mixture of products whose composition is solvent-dependent (Biichi and Burgess, I960 Hurst and Whitham, 1963 Shuster et al., 1964 Shuster and Sussman, 1970 Takino and Hart, 1970 Hart and Takino, 1971). Ionic intermediates have been invoked in the case of polar solvents (Chapman, 1963). Irradiation of protonated eucarvone 58 in fluorosulfonic acid seems to... 

The solvent dependence of the reaction rate is also consistent with this mechanistic scheme. Comparison of the rate constants for isomerizations of PCMT in chloroform and in nitrobenzene shows a small (ca. 40%) rate enhancement in the latter solvent. Simple electrostatic theory predicts that nucleophilic substitutions in which neutral reactants are converted to ionic products should be accelerated in polar solvents (23), so that a rate increase in nitrobenzene is to be expected. In fact, this effect is often very small (24). For example, Parker and co-workers (25) report that the S 2 reaction of methyl bromide and dimethyl sulfide is accelerated by only 50% on changing the solvent from 88% (w/w) methanol-water to N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAc) at low ionic strength this is a far greater change in solvent properties than that investigated in the present work. Thus a small, positive dependence of reaction rate on solvent polarity is implicit in the sulfonium ion mechanism. 

The reactant R2 can also be considered to be a solvent molecule. The global kinetics become pseudo first order in Rl. For a SNl mechanism, the bond breaking in R1 can be solvent assisted in the sense that the ionic fluctuation state is stabilized by solvent polarization effects and the probability of having an interconversion via heterolytic decomposition is facilitated by the solvent. This is actually found when external and/or reaction field effects are introduced in the quantum chemical calculation of the energy of such species [2]. The kinetics, however, may depend on the process moving the system from the contact ionic-pair to a solvent-separated ionic pair, but the interconversion step takes place inside the contact ion-pair following the quantum mechanical mechanism described in section 4.1. Solvation then should ensure quantum resonance conditions. 

In agreement with the involvement of ionic intermediates for electrophilic halogenation of alkenes, an important role is also exerted by the solvent. Not only the reaction rate is strongly solvent-dependent, but also the stereochemical course of the addition process may be affected by the polarity of the medium. Solvent properties determine the reaction rate the overall kinetic order the nature of the products the stereochemistry of the products... 

Ionic reactions of neutral substrates can show large solvent dependence, due to the differential solvent stabilization of the ionic intermediates and their associated dipolar transition states (Reichardt, 1988). This is the case for the electrophilic addition of bromine to alkenes (Ruasse, 1990, 1992 Ruasse et al., 1991) and the bromination of phenol (Tee and Bennett, 1988a), both of which have Grunwald-Winstein m values approximately equal to 1 so that the reactions are very much slower in media less polar than water. Such processes, therefore, would be expected to be retarded or even inhibited by CDs for two reasons (a) the formation of complexes with the CD lowers the free concentrations of the reactants and (b) slower reaction within the microenvironment of the less polar CD cavity (if it were sterically possible). 

With a few exceptions solvent dependent coupling constants have been observed only in non-ionic compounds. As a result no data are available concerning correlations of coupling constant changes and heats of solvation, heats of solution, ion pairing, etc. 

The behaviour of ternary systems consisting of two polymers and a solvent depends largely on the nature of interactions between components (1-4). Two types of limiting behaviour can be observed. The first one occurs in non-polar systems, where polymer-polymer interactions are very low. In such systems a liquid-liquid phase separation is usually observed each liquid phase contains almost the total quantity of one polymer species. The second type of behaviour often occurs in aqueous polymer solutions. The polar or ionic water-soluble polymers can interact to form macromolecular aggregates, occasionally insoluble, called "polymer complexes". Examples are polyanion-polycation couples stabilized through electrostatic interactions, or polyacid-polybase couples stabilized through hydrogen bonds. 

Counterion effects similar to those in ionic chain copolymerizations of alkenes (Secs. 6-4a-2, 6-4b-2) are present. Thus, copolymerizations of cyclopentene and norbomene with rhenium- and ruthenium-based initiators yield copolymers very rich in norbomene, while a more reactive (less discriminating) tungsten-based initiator yields a copolymer with comparable amounts of the two comonomers [Ivin, 1987]. Monomer reactivity ratios are also sensitive to solvent and temperature. Polymer conformational effects on reactivity have been observed in NCA copolymerizations where the particular polymer chain conformation, which is usually solvent-dependent, results in different interactions with each monomer [Imanishi, 1984]. 

Anhydro-1,2-dimethyl-3,5-diphenyl-4-hydroxy-1,2-diazolium hydroxide (373, R = R = Me, R = R = ph) shows a band (1546 cm" in dimethyl sulfoxide), which has been assigned as a carbonyl band. This absorption band, which is much lower than, for example, the sydnones (1) (vco 1750-1770 cm ) has been briefly considered in relation to the electronic characteristics of type A and type B meso-ionic heterocycles. However, the significance of this spectral difference must surely await more extensive comparison betweeen corresponding type A and type B heterocycles. The compound (373, R = R = Me, R = R = Ph) also shows a striking solvent dependence of its ul-traviolet/visible spectrum (Ama CjHg 447 McjSO 421 CHClj 410 Bu,OH 370 MeOH 345 Hp 325 nm). °... 

Anionic polymerization Initiated by electron transfer (e.g., sodium-naphthalene and styrene In THF) usually produces two-ended living polymers. Such species belong to a class of compounds called bolaform electrolytes (27) In which two Ions or Ion pairs are linked together by a chain of atoms. Depending on chain length, counterion end solvent, Intramolecular Ionic Interactions can occur which in turn may affect the dissociation of the ion pairs Into free ions or the llgand-lon pair complex formation constants. 

Diphenylketene and more reactive haloketenes will undergo cycloaddition with allenes such as 1,1-dimethylallene giving regioisomeric mixtures of cyclobutanones. Yields of these reactions are only modest5-7 and distributions of isomers are solvent dependent, which is indicative of a nonconcerted process involving ionic intermediates.8... 

The addition of bromine to alkenes is a rapid, exothermic reaction usually taking place at room temperature. In contrast to chlorination, the rate law in bromination depends on the solvent used. On passing from hydroxylic to nonpolar aprotic solvents, the overall second-order changes to a rate law that is first-order in alkene and second-order in bromine.226 Alkene-bromine complexes with varying compositions were shown to form under reaction conditions3,218,227 228(Scheme 6.5). At low bromine concentration in protic solvents the reaction proceeds via a 1 1 complex (23). A 1 2 alkene-bromine complex (25) is involved at high bromine concentration in nonprotic solvents. The ionic intermediates (24, 26) were shown to exist as contact ion pairs, solvent-separated ions, or dissociated ions. 

The reactions are solvent dependent. Non-polar solvents favour the formation of the neutral hydride (68), whereas in polar media, ionic species predominate. Hydroformylation activity for propylene was observed only under conditions where (68) was formed.291 The dinuclear species [Co2(CO)6(PBu"3)2] (69) also appears to be catalytically inactive.290,291 If PBu"3 is added in excess over cobalt, only complexes (68) and (69) were present. The rate of hydroformylation then became first order in hydrogen, owing to the equilibrium shown in equation (60).292... 

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