Strong interaction with inorganic salts

In general nonionic polyacrylamides do nor interact strongly with neutral inorganic salts. 

Needless to say, the fixation of inorganic chemicals in wood by interaction with the wood substrate and extractives is beneficial and greatly improves the durability of these preservatives. Contrarily, other interactions provide less desirable reactions. For example, under certain circumstances copper and zinc can become so tightly bound to the wood that their efficacy as wood preservatives is reduced. This result occurs when copper acetate and zinc acetate are used to treat wood (53). In this form, these elements are salts of acetic acid and they form ion-exchange bonds with the wood components that are stable in the weak acid environment and cannot be ionized readily by water. Conversely, this reduction in efficacy does not occur when copper sulfate and zinc chloride are used because they are salts of strong acids and the pH of the environment prevents insolubilization of these elements by the wood. 

The presence of other materials in the impregnating solution can have a marked effect on the location of the metal within the support particle. These additives have been conveniently divided into three classes. Class 1 additives consist of simple inorganic electrolytes which influence the electrostatic interactions at the solution-support interface. Simple salts such as sodium nitrate, sodium chloride, or calcium chloride do not adsorb strongly enough on alumina to compete with platinum salts for adsorption. Fig. 13.9a 0 shows the concentration profile of platinum on an alumina particle when the impregnation of chloroplatinic acid was done in the absence of any additives. This a somewhat diffused egg shell profile. Fig. 13.9b shows the adsorption profile for the catalyst prepared by impregnation in the presence of an amount of sodium nitrate equimolar to the chloroplatinic acid. Here the amount of platinum adsorbed decreases while the adsorption profile approaches a uniform distribution. It is... 

In TLPTC, the essential step is to form the third liquid phase by adjusting the contents of inorganic salts and PT catalyst, and the interaction of the strong bases added. The overall reaction rates catalyzed by applying the third liquid phase are commonly enhanced tremendously, compared with the same reaction proceeding in liquid-liquid phases. The variables influencing the reaction rate can be summarized as follows ... 

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