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Other, currently more specialist but of potential wide applicability, methods include the optical detection of quadrupole resonances—a sample is laser-excited to an electronically excited state, the return to the ground state is by phosphorescence the intensity of the phosphorescence is sensitive to whether or not concurrent microwave radiation matches an energy separation in some quadrupole-split intermediate state. Yet another method depends on correlations between successive p or y emissions from excited quadrupolar nuclei (where the excitation can be achieved by suitable nuclear bombardment). These do not exhaust the list of current developments—they have been chosen to illustrate the wide front on which new techniques are emerging. It is likely that because of these developments the future will see a wider use of NQR spectroscopy. It is also likely that the interpretation of the data will become more sophisticated. Traditionally, the experimental data have been interpreted to give the percentage ionic character of a bond. This is because, for example, in the CP ion all of the p orbitals are equally occupied whilst in CI2 the a bond, if composed of p orbitals only, corresponds to one electron in the p orbital of each chlorine atom, and so CP and Cl 2 differ in their resonant frequencies. Interpolation allows a value for the ionic character of a Cl-M bond to be determined from the chlorine resonance... 

In a third step, the anhydrobase reacts on the carbon which is the most sensitive to nucleophilic attack. The unstable intermediate 23 splits into aminothiophenol and trimethine thiazolocyanine 124). 

The results for the tunneling splitting calculated with the use of some of the earlier proposed reaction paths for a single PES (4.40) (with the parameters adopted here) are collected by Bosch et al. [1990]. All of them underestimate by at least an order of magnitude the numerically exact value 10.6 cm which is also given in that paper. The parameters C and Q hit the intermediate region between the sudden and adiabatic approximations, described in sections 2.5 and 4.2, and neither of these approximations is quantitatively applicable to the problem. 

Figure 4-13. Sidestream radial machines of four to eight stages with horizontally split casing and one or two pairs of intermediate nozzles, generally for connecting external intercoolers.

The third approaeh to synthetic polymers is of somewhat less commereial importance. There is in fact no universally accepted deseription for the route but the terms rearrangement polymerisation and polyaddition are commonly used. In many respects this process is intermediate between addition and condensation polymerisations. As with the former teehnique there is no moleeule split out but the kinetics are akin to the latter. A typical example is the preparation of polyurethanes by interaction of diols (di-alcohols, glycols) with di-isocyanates Figure 2.7). 

Whenever a rate law contains non-integers orders, there are intermediates present in the reaction sequence. When a fractional order is observed in an empirical rate expression for a homogeneous reaction, it is often an indication tliat an important part of the mechanism is the splitting of a molecule into free radicals or ions. 

The stability of the o-bromothienyllithium reagents at —70°C contrasts sharply with the behavior of o-bromophenyllithium which is very unstable even at — 100°C, readily splitting off lithium bromide to form benzyne (dehydrobenzene).Only by heating bis-(3-iodo-2-thienyl)mercury to 240°C in the presence of tetracyclone could some evidence for the intermediate existence of 2,3-dehydrothiophene be obtained. ... 

The transformation of pyrazoles causes the splitting of the C=N bond followed by cyclization of the intermediate hydrazine. 

With a change to non-polar solvent, the reaction of ylides 269 with alkynes and alkenes changed dramatically, as shown in Scheme 10. With DM AD in toluene the ylides give pyrazolopyridines 272 in good yield (91TL4977), and with methyl propiolate (MEP) give indolizines 273 (92H(33)203). The reaction with acrylates is much less clean, but the variety of products is said to be formed from a diazene intermediate, which splits to give a diradical (93H(35)851). 

A number of refiners split the debutanized gasoline into light and heavy gasoline. This optimizes the refinery gasoline pool when blending is constrained by sulfur and aromatics. In a few gasoline splitters, a third heart cut is withdrawn. This intermediate cut is low in octane and it is processed in another unit for further upgrading. 

Increasing feed/catalyst mix zone temperature. Conversion and LPG yield can be increased by injecting a portion of the feed, or naphtha, at an intermediate point in the riser (see Figure 6-1). Splitting or segregation of the feed results in a high-mix zone temperature, producing more LPG and more olefins. This practice... 

Step 3 of Figure 29.7 Phosphorylation Fructose 6-phosphate is converted in step 3 to fructose 1,6-bisphosphate (FBP) by a phosphofmctokinase-catalyzed reaction with ATP (recall that the prefix bis- means two). The mechanism is similar to that in step 1, with Mg2+ ion again required as cofactor. Interestingly, the product of step 2 is the tv anomer of fructose 6-phosphate, but it is the (3 anomer that is phos-phorylated in step 3, implying that the two anomers equilibrate rapidly through the open-chain form. The result of step 3 is a molecule ready to be split into the two three-carbon intermediates that will ultimately become two molecules of pyruvate. 

Fig. 1.12 Mechanism of the bioluminescence reaction of firefly luciferin catalyzed by firefly luciferase. Luciferin is probably in the dianion form when bound to luciferase. Luciferase-bound luciferin is converted into an adenylate in the presence of ATP and Mg2+, splitting off pyrophosphate (PP). The adenylate is oxygenated in the presence of oxygen (air) forming a peroxide intermediate A, which forms a dioxetanone intermediate B by splitting off AMP. The decomposition of intermediate B produces the excited state of oxyluciferin monoanion (Cl) or dianion (C2). When the energy levels of the excited states fall to the ground states, Cl and C2 emit red light (Amax 615 nm) and yellow-green light (Amax 560 nm), respectively.

Trio-beds (triple beds) This is an MB double compartment design with an intermediate-density inert resin added to physically split the cation/anion resins during regeneration to minimize leakage. 

As the reaction proceeds higher sulfanes and finally Ss are formed. The reaction is autocatalytic which makes any kinetic analysis difficult. The authors discussed a number of reaction mechanisms which are, however, obsolete by today s standards. Also, the reported Arrhenius activation energy of 107 17 kJ mol is questionable since it was derived from the study of the decomposition of a mixture of disulfane and higher sulfanes. Nevertheless, the observed autocatalytic behavior may be explained by the easier ho-molytic SS bond dissociation of the higher sulfanes formed as intermediate products compared to the SS bond of disulfane (see above). The free radicals formed may then attack the disulfane molecule with formation of H2S on the one hand and higher and higher sulfanes on the other hand from which eventually an Ss molecule is split off. 

Figure 7-6. Mechanism for catalysis by an aspartic protease such as HIV protease. Curved arrows Indicate directions of electron movement. Aspartate X acts as a base to activate a water molecule by abstracting a proton. The activated water molecule attacks the peptide bond, forming a transient tetrahedral Intermediate. Aspartate Y acts as an acid to facilitate breakdown of the tetrahedral intermediate and release of the split products by donating a proton to the newly formed amino group. Subsequent shuttling of the proton on Asp X to Asp Y restores the protease to its initial state.

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