Sulfonic acids structure

Fig. 7-12. Reactions of phenolic /8-aryl ether and a-ether structures (1) during neutral sulfite pulping (Gierer, 1970). R = H, alkyl, or aryl group. The quinone methide intermediate (2) is sulfonated to structure (3). The negative charge of the a-sulfonic acid group facilitates the nucleophilic attack of the sulfite ion, resulting in /8-aryl ether bond cleavage and sulfonation. Structure (4) reacts further with elimination of the sulfonic acid group from a-position to form intermediate (5) which finally after abstraction of proton from /8-position is stabilized to a styrene-/8-sulfonic acid structure (6). Note that only the free phenolic structures are cleaved, whereas the nonphenolic units remain essentially unaffected.

Stelling (1928) found an absorption band in formaldehyde and acetone bisulfite addition compounds at 4992.0 A similar to that in sulfonic acids at 4992.2 and differing from that of metal alkyl (4996.0) and dialkyl sulfites (4997.7). He concluded from this that the sulfonic acid structure must be present. Raman spectral examinations of several aldehyde and ketone bisulfites by Caughlan and Tartar (1941) revealed the presence of a carbon-sulfur bond, possibly a carbon-hydroxyl bond, but no carbon doubly bonded to oxygen. This thus aided in discrediting both the tripartite molecule and the sulfurous acid ester structures. Sundman (1949) believes that formation of a stable monomolecular complex of boric acid and glucose bisulfite would be impossible if Schroeter s tripartite molecular structure were correct. His examinations of this complex led him to believe that its structure could be represented only by ... 

Acetamidothiazole and its 4-alkyl derivatives react with chloro-sulfonic acid. The structure of the resulting products was a subject of controversy (172. 393-397). N-acetyl-A -(2-thiazolyl)-sulfamoyl chlorides (189) first proposed were then shown to be 2-acetamido-5-chloro-sulfonylthiazoles (190) (Scheme 120) (367. 368. 398). the latter assignment is based on infrared (368) and chemical evidence (367). 

Two substituents on two N atoms increase the number of diaziridine structures as compared with oxaziridines, while some limitations as to the nature of substituents on N and C decrease it. Favored starting materials are formaldehyde, aliphatic aldehydes and ketones, together with ammonia and simple aliphatic amines. Aromatic amines do not react. Suitable aminating agents are chloramine, N-chloroalkylamines, hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid and their simple alkyl derivatives, but also oxaziridines unsubstituted at nitrogen. Combination of a carbonyl compound, an amine and an aminating agent leads to the standard procedures of diaziridine synthesis. 

In the case of substances whose structures are pH-dependent (e.g. phenols, carboxylic and sulfonic acids, amines etc.) it is possible to produce fluorescences or make them disappear by the deliberate manipulation of the pH [213] (Table 20). Shifts of the positions of the absorption and emission bands have also been reported. This is particularly to be observed in the case of modified silica gels, some of which are markedly acidic or basic in reaction (Table 25). 

Thus the structure of the oxazirane must formally involve elimination of water from one molecule each of the carbonyl compound and of an alkyl hydroxylamine. (In the synthesis of oxazirane from N-methylhydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid and benzaldehyde, this method... 

A simple chemical proof of structure of the diaziridines is given by the synthesis of the same diaziridine 42 from cyclohexanone either using methylamine and hydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid or using ammonia and methylhydroxylamine-O-sulfonic acid. ... 

Normally, reactive derivatives of sulfonic acids serve to transfer electrophilic sulfonyl groups259. The most frequently applied compounds of this type are sulfonyl halides, though they show an ambiguous reaction behavior (cf. Section III.B). This ambiguity is additionally enhanced by the structure of sulfonyl halides and by the reaction conditions in the course of electrophilic sulfonyl transfers. On the one hand, sulfonyl halides can displace halides by an addition-elimination mechanism on the other hand, as a consequence of the possibility of the formation of a carbanion a to the sulfonyl halide function, sulfenes can arise after halide elimination and show electrophilic as well as dipolarophilic properties. 

The structure and carbon chain distribution of sodium vinylidenesulfonate (VOS) has been investigated by Hashimoto et al. [119] using NMR, IR, and chromatographic techniques. The double-bond distribution of VOS was determined using ozonolysis-reduction-GLC. The position of the sulfonic acid groups... 

Neutralization of the sulfonation product from a-olefins is more complex than neutralization of the corresponding products of alkylbenzenes. This is because the S03-a-olefin acid product contains about 50% free sulfonic acid, the rest being C(l,3) and D(l,4) sultones, assuming that with acid aging the 0(1,2) sultones have disappeared. In the case of a-olefins an excess of caustic (1.5-2.0% excess) must be added to neutralize both the sulfonic acid initially present and that formed on subsequent hydrolysis of the C(l,3) and D(l,4) sultones. The sultones (ring-structured esters) cannot be converted to their proper salts by a simple neutralization but need a hydrolysis step. 

Experimental Procedure. Morwell brown coal was solubilised by reacting with phenol, in the presence of para toluene sulfonic acid, at 1830C, and the reaction product was then separated into four fractions and analysed according to procedures described elsewhere (lj. The structural characteristics of the four fractions as determined by the present work and confirmed by reference to the literature ( ,3) are summarised in Table I. As these characteristics are influenced to some extent by the presence of chemically combined phenol, the content of this in each fraction is also estimated. 

Reported redox potentials of laccases are lower than those of non-phenolic compounds, and therefore these enzymes cannot oxidize such substances [7]. However, it has been shown that in the presence of small molecules capable to act as electron transfer mediators, laccases are also able to oxidize non-phenolic structures [68, 69]. As part of their metabolism, WRF can produce several metabolites that play this role of laccase mediators. They include compounds such as /V-hvdi oxvacetan i I ide (NHA), /V-(4-cyanophenyl)acetohydroxamic acid (NCPA), 3-hydroxyanthranilate, syringaldehyde, 2,2 -azino-bis(3-ethylben-zothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) (ABTS), 2,6-dimethoxyphenol (DMP), violuric acid, 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HBT), 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpipperidin-iV-oxide radical and acetovanillone, and by expanding the range of compounds that can be oxidized, their presence enhances the degradation of pollutants [3]. 

To reach the reductive step of the azo bond cleavage, due to the reaction between reduced electron carriers (flavins or hydroquinones) and azo dyes, either the reduced electron carrier or the azo compound should pass the cell plasma membrane barrier. Highly polar azo dyes, such as sulfonated compounds, cannot pass the plasma membrane barrier, as sulfonic acid substitution of the azo dye structure apparently blocks effective dye permeation [28], The removal of the block to the dye permeation by treatment with toluene of Bacillus cereus cells induced a significant increase of the uptake of sulfonated azo dyes and of their reduction rate [29]. Moreover, cell extracts usually show to be more active in anaerobic reduction of azo dyes than whole cells. Therefore, intracellular reductases activities are not the best way to reach sulfonated azo dyes reduction the biological systems in which the transport of redox mediators or of azo dye through the plasma membrane is not required are preferable to achieve their degradation [13]. 

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