Synthesis and uses

In the laboratory, H2 may be prepared by electrolysis of acidified water (H2 is liberated at the cathode), but small quantities of H2 are most conveniently prepared by reactions between dilute acids and suitable metals (e.g. Fe, Zn, equation 9.7), by treating metals that form amphoteric hydroxides (e.g. Zn, Al) with aqueous alkali (equation 9.8) or by reacting metal hydrides with water (equation 9.9). 

A metal is passivated if it possesses a surface coating of the metal oxide which protects it from reaction with, for example, water. 

Dihydrogen has industrial applications, the most important being in the Haber process (see Sections 14.5 and 

Attempts to impart metallic character to solid H2 have so far been unsuccessful. Under extremely high pressures, H2 (normally a non-polar molecule) undergoes a redistribution of electronic charge such that the ionic contribution to the bonding (represented by the resonance form H -H ) becomes important. This remarkable finding may go some way to helping to explain why attempts to form metallic hydrogen in the solid state have not met with success. 

Edwards and F. Hensel (1997) Nature, vol. 388, p. 621 - Will solid hydrogen ever be a metal  

Dihydrogen has industrial applications, the most important being in the Haber process (see Sections 15.5 and 27.8), the hydrogenation of unsaturated fats (to produce, for example, margarine), and the production of organic compounds such as methanol (equation 10.11). 

For these industrial uses, H2 is produced in situ (because the very low density and boiling point make transport costs unacceptably high). The reagents in reaction 10.11 are collectively called synthesis gas. The mixture is manufactured by the water-gas shift reaction - reaction of carbon or a 

A photolytic process photolysis) is initiated by light in an equation, this is indicated by hu over the arrow the reactants are said to be photolysed. 

Box 10.2 Will the fuel cell replace the internal combustion engine  

Refuelling a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle with liquid H2 in Munich, Germany. 

In 1839, William Grove observed that when the current was switched off in an electrolysis cell using R electrodes in which water was being electrolysed to give O2 and H2, a small current continued to flow, but in the opposite direction to the current that had driven the electrolysis cell. The observation constituted the first fuel cell, although this name was not introduced until 1889. Chemical energy produced from the reaction  

Appl5fing fuel cell technology to the world s transport system as a whole, or even a fraction of it, has huge obstacles. Firstly, 

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Polyimides (PI) were among the eadiest candidates in the field of thermally stable polymers. In addition to high temperature property retention, these materials also exhibit chemical resistance and relative ease of synthesis and use. This has led to numerous innovations in the chemistry of synthesis and cure mechanisms, stmcture variations, and ultimately products and appHcations. Polyimides (qv) are available as films, fibers, enamels or varnishes, adhesives, matrix resins for composites, and mol ding powders. They are used in numerous commercial and military aircraft as stmctural composites, eg, over a ton of polyimide film is presently used on the NASA shuttle orbiter. Work continues on these materials, including the more recent electronic apphcations. 

These two methods ate popular for a-amino acid synthesis, and used in the industrial production of some amino acids since taw materials are readily available. 

The first synthesis and use of a chiral oxazoline was reported by Meyers in 1974. The chiral oxazoline 1 was prepared in two steps by condensation of (-i-)-l-phenyl-2-amino-1,3-propanediol (6) with the ethyl imidate of propionitrile followed by 0-methylation of the resulting alcohol 7 with NaH/Mel. Meyers demonstrated chiral oxazoline 1 could be... 

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Recent review articles on the synthesis and use of N-(trimethylsilyl)imines [104] or N-(trimethylstannyl)imines [105] focus primarily on the preparation of / -lactams. 

With so many different neurosteroids with differing and even opposing neuronal effects, much will depend on their relative concentrations at any time and any evaluation of their function must take this into consideration. Hopefully the synthesis and use of appropriate antagonists will throw more light on the physiological role of steroids in the CNS and facilitate the development and clinical use of new neuroactive steroids (see Gasior et al. 1999). 

The fourth chapter Selected Five-Membered Phosphorus Heterocycles Containing a Stereogenic Phosphorus presents the description of the synthesis and use of these compounds in a few asymmetric syntheses. 

There is one general way of introducing chemical energy into synthesis and use of it in pumps which is to transduce any environmental source to pyrophosphate. Once again is this a uniquely suitable route ... 

Mukkala, V.-M., Mikola, H., and Hemmila, I. (1989) The synthesis and use of activated N-benzyl derivatives of diethylenetriaminetetraacetic acids Alternative reagents for labeling of antibodies with metal ions. Anal. Biochem. 176, 319-325. 

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