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Compared with the variety of existing carbon or nitrogen nucleophiles that were subjected to nucleophilic addition to there are few examples for phosphorus nucleophiles. Neutral trialkylphosphines turn out to be to less reactive for an effective addihon to Cjq even at elevated temperatures [114], Trialkylphosphine oxides show an increased reactivity. They form stable fullerene-substituted phosphine oxides [115] it is not yet clear if the reaction proceeds via a nucleophilic mechanism or a cycloaddition mechanism. Phosphine oxide addition takes place in refluxing toluene [115], At room temperature the charge-transfer complexes of with phosphine oxides such as tri-n-octylphosphine oxide or tri-n-butylphosphine oxide are verifiable and stable in soluhon [116],... 

Neutral organoaluminum(m) compounds have broad applicability in organic synthesis as extremely strong Lewis-acidic reaction promoters. However, the exploration of increased reactivity in aluminum is a key subject for expanding their utility, especially in polymer synthesis and in the activation of relatively stable substrates... 

Previous mechanistic studies of another silicon-mediated reaction, "group transfer polymerization" of methacrylatesl - ] indicated the involvement of pentacoordinate silicon species. Our working hypothesis for the subject reaction of silyethers is that formation of pentacoordinate silicon species (Scheme 5) should increase reactivity and promote nucleophilic character in the alkoxy ligands. 

On the other hand, if an unsymmetrical ketone is to be alkylated at the site where acylation would be favored, the hydroxymethylene derivative can be directly subjected to alkylation. Condensation with ethyl carbonate or diethyl oxalate before alkylation can also serve the purpose of increasing reactivity at the a-position of a ketone. The resulting jS-ketoesters are readily alkylated by the procedures described in the previous chapter. 

Hydrogen peroxide as supplied is normally stabilised with phosphates and sometimes tin(IV) compounds, the latter being effective at the product s natural (weakly acid) pH by hydrocolloid formation, which occludes adventitious transition metal ions and reduces their catalytic activity. In many cases, extra stabilisation is not required when H2O2 or its derivatives are used in synthesis. However, elevated temperature, high alkalinity and increased metal impurities all tend to destabilise peroxy-gens, and where these conditions are unavoidable, additional stabilisers may be employed added either to the peroxide (subject to reactivity) or separately to the reaction mixture. Such stabilisers fall into two categories. 

Allergy to flour dust in bakers has been known since 1700 [44, 45]. Baker s asthma is a well-known occupational disease caused by IgE-mediated sensitization to cereal - mainly wheat, rye and barley - proteins. Hjorth [46] stated that most baker s dermatitis was associated with an immediate-type hypersensitivity. Herxheimer [47, 48] studied the development of skin sensitivity in baker s apprentices for 5 years and showed that the percentage of sensitive subjects increased gradually until a constant figure of 20% was reached. Many different proteins were identified as allergenic in wheat flour, especially in the water-soluble albumin and globulin fractions [49]. There is extensive cross-reactivity between these cereals, and -to a minor extent - between them and other cereals such as oat, corn and rice [50]. 

With 77 % aqueous acetic acid, the rates were found to be more affected by added perchloric acid than by sodium perchlorate (but only at higher concentrations than those used by Stanley and Shorter207, which accounts for the failure of these workers to observe acid catalysis, but their observation of kinetic orders in hypochlorous acid of less than one remains unaccounted for). The difference in the effect of the added electrolyte increased with concentration, and the rates of the acid-catalysed reaction reached a maximum in ca. 50 % aqueous acetic acid, passed through a minimum at ca. 90 % aqueous acetic acid and rose very rapidly thereafter. The faster chlorination in 50% acid than in water was, therefore, considered consistent with chlorination by AcOHCl+, which is subject to an increasing solvent effect in the direction of less aqueous media (hence the minimum in 90 % acid), and a third factor operates, viz. that in pure acetic acid the bulk source of chlorine ischlorineacetate rather than HOC1 and causes the rapid rise in rate towards the anhydrous medium. The relative rates of the acid-catalysed (acidity > 0.49 M) chlorination of some aromatics in 76 % aqueous acetic acid at 25 °C were found to be toluene, 69 benzene, 1 chlorobenzene, 0.097 benzoic acid, 0.004. Some of these kinetic observations were confirmed in a study of the chlorination of diphenylmethane in the presence of 0.030 M perchloric acid, second-order rate coefficients were obtained at 25 °C as follows209 0.161 (98 vol. % aqueous acetic acid) ca. 0.078 (75 vol. % acid), and, in the latter solvent in the presence of 0.50 M perchloric acid, diphenylmethane was approximately 30 times more reactive than benzene. 

The free radical damage hypothesis of desiccation injury requires that these various protective mechanisms are unable to detoxify reactive species during dehydration and rehydration. There is evidence that free radicals increase with decreasing moisture content of seeds (Priestley et al., 1985), and, in plants subjected to episodic droughting, increased levels of malon-dialdehyde occur (Price Hendry, 1987). 

Oil palm ash was utilized as an absorbent for dry-type flue gas desulfurization. The absorbents were prepared using water hydration method with the addition of other chemicals such as CaO and CaS04. The absorbents were then subjected to synthetic flue gas under various SO2 feed concentration (500 to 2000 ppm) and reaction temperature (65°C to 400°C). It was foimd that higher feed SO2 concentration reduces the time the absorbent could maintain 100% removal of SO2. On the other hand, higher reaction temperature was found to increase the reactivity of the absorbent. However, reaction temperature above SOO C was found to have negative effect on the reactivity of the absorbent. 

Colorimetric procedures used In steroid assays are often subject to drug Interference. In the determination of 17-Ketosterolds by the Zimmerman reaction, drugs with the 17-Keto basic structure such as ascorbic acid, morphine and reserplne will cause Increased values. In the determination of 17,21 -dlhydroxysterolds by the Porter-Sllber reaction the dlhydroxy-acetone chain Is the reactive unit. Drugs like meprobamate, chloral hydrate, chloropromazlne and potassium Iodide will Interfere with this reaction and cause elevated values. In the colorimetric determination of vanlllylmandellc acid (VMA) by a dlazo reaction, drugs like methocarbamol and methyl dopa cause... 

In addition to performing experiments under pressures similar to those encountered in real processes to bridge the pressure gap , surface scientists have also been increasing the level of complexity of the model surfaces they use to better mimic real supported catalysts, thus bridging the materials gap . A few groups, including those of Professors Freund and Henry, have extended this approach to address the catalytic reduction of NO. The former has published a fairly comprehensive review on the subject [23], Here we will just highlight the information obtained on the reactivity of NO + CO mixtures on these model supported catalysts. 

During the past few years, increasing numbers of reports have been published on the subject of domino reactions initiated by oxidation or reduction processes. This was in stark contrast to the period before our first comprehensive review of this topic was published in 1993 [1], when the use of this type of transformation was indeed rare. The benefits of employing oxidation or reduction processes in domino sequences are clear, as they offer easy access to reactive functionalities such as nucleophiles (e. g., alcohols and amines) or electrophiles (e. g., aldehydes or ketones), with their ability to participate in further reactions. For that reason, apart from combinations with photochemically induced, transition metal-catalyzed and enzymatically induced processes, all other possible constellations have been embedded in the concept of domino synthesis. 

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