Thermodynamically favorable

Olefin Isomerization- a variety of transition metal (RhCl3 H20) catalyst will isomerize doubles bonds to more thermodynamically favorable configurations (i.e. more substituted, trans, conjugated)... 

Olefin synthesis starts usually from carbonyl compounds and carbanions with relatively electropositive, redox-active substituents mostly containing phosphorus, sulfur, or silicon. The carbanions add to the carbonyl group and the oxy anion attacks the oxidizable atom Y in-tramolecularly. The oxide Y—O" is then eliminated and a new C—C bond is formed. Such reactions take place because the formation of a Y—0 bond is thermodynamically favored and because Y is able to expand its coordination sphere and to raise its oxidation number. 

An interesting aspect of this reaction is the contrasting stereoselective behaviour of the dimethyisulfonium and dimethyloxosuifonium methylides in reactions with cyclic ketones (E.J. Corey, 1963 B, 1965 A C.E. Cook, 1968). The small, reactive dimethyisulfonium ylide prefers axial attack, but with the larger, less reactive oxosulfonium ylide only the thermodynamically favored equatorial addition is observed. 

In polycyclic systems the Birch reduction of C—C double bonds is also highly stereoselective, e.g. in the synthesis of the thermodynamically favored trans-fused steroidal skeletons (see p. 104 and p. 278). 

The sign of AG can be used to predict the direction in which a reaction moves to reach its equilibrium position. A reaction is always thermodynamically favored when enthalpy decreases and entropy increases. Substituting the inequalities AH < 0 and AS > 0 into equation 6.2 shows that AG is negative when a reaction is thermodynamically favored. When AG is positive, the reaction is unfavorable as written (although the reverse reaction is favorable). Systems at equilibrium have a AG of zero. 

A good solvent is the technical as well as descriptive term used to identify a solvent which tends to increase coil dimensions. Since this is a consequence of thermodynamically favorable polymer-solvent interactions, good solvents also dissolve polymers more readily in the first place. 

We now turn specifically to the thermodynamics and kinetics of reactions (5. EE) and (5.FF). The criterion for spontaneity in thermodynamics is AG <0 with AG = AH - T AS for an isothermal process. Thus it is both the sign and magnitude of AH and AS and the magnitude of T that determine whether a reaction is thermodynamically favored or not. As usual in thermodynamics, the A s are taken as products minus reactants, so the conclusions apply to the reactions as written. If a reaction is reversed, products and reactants are interchanged and the sign of the AG is reversed also. 

The first HCN addition (eq. 3) occurs at practical rates above 70°C under sufficient pressure to keep butadiene condensed in solution and produces the 1,4- and 1,2-addition products (3-pentenenitrile [4635-87-4] 3PN, and 2-meth5i-3-butenenitrile [16529-56-9] 2M3BN) in a 2 to 1 ratio. Fortunately, thermodynamics favors 3PN (about 20 1) and 2M3BN may be isomerized to 3PN (eq. 4) in the presence of a nickel catalyst. 

Electron Transport Between Photosystem I and Photosystem II Inhibitors. The interaction between PSI and PSII reaction centers (Fig. 1) depends on the thermodynamically favored transfer of electrons from low redox potential carriers to carriers of higher redox potential. This process serves to communicate reducing equivalents between the two photosystem complexes. Photosynthetic and respiratory membranes of both eukaryotes and prokaryotes contain stmctures that serve to oxidize low potential quinols while reducing high potential metaHoproteins (40). In plant thylakoid membranes, this complex is usually referred to as the cytochrome b /f complex, or plastoquinolplastocyanin oxidoreductase, which oxidizes plastoquinol reduced in PSII and reduces plastocyanin oxidized in PSI (25,41). Some diphenyl ethers, eg, 2,4-dinitrophenyl 2 -iodo-3 -methyl-4 -nitro-6 -isopropylphenyl ether [69311-70-2] (DNP-INT), and the quinone analogues,... 

Catalysis (qv) refers to a process by which a substance (the catalyst) accelerates an otherwise thermodynamically favored but kiaeticahy slow reaction and the catalyst is fully regenerated at the end of each catalytic cycle (1). When photons are also impHcated in the process, photocatalysis is defined without the implication of some special or specific mechanism as the acceleration of the prate of a photoreaction by the presence of a catalyst. The catalyst may accelerate the photoreaction by interaction with a substrate either in its ground state or in its excited state and/or with the primary photoproduct, depending on the mechanism of the photoreaction (2). Therefore, the nondescriptive term photocatalysis is a general label to indicate that light and some substance, the catalyst or the initiator, are necessary entities to influence a reaction (3,4). The process must be shown to be truly catalytic by some acceptable and attainable parameter. Reaction 1, in which the titanium dioxide serves as a catalyst, may be taken as both a photocatalytic oxidation and a photocatalytic dehydrogenation (5). 

Reaction of (T)-(-)-2-acetoxysuccinyl chloride (78), prepared from (5)-mahc acid, using the magnesiobromide salt of monomethyl malonate afforded the dioxosuberate (79) which was cyclized with magnesium carbonate to a 4 1 mixture of cyclopentenone (80) and the 5-acetoxy isomer. Catalytic hydrogenation of (80) gave (81) having the thermodynamically favored aH-trans stereochemistry. Ketone reduction and hydrolysis produced the bicycHc lactone acid (82) which was converted to the Corey aldehyde equivalent (83). A number of other approaches have been described (108). 

ButylatedPhenols and Cresols. Butylated phenols and cresols, used primarily as oxidation inhibitors and chain terrninators, are manufactured by direct alkylation of the phenol using a wide variety of conditions and acid catalysts, including sulfuric acid, -toluenesulfonic acid, and sulfonic acid ion-exchange resins (110,111). By use of a small amount of catalyst and short residence times, the first-formed, ortho-alkylated products can be made to predominate. Eor the preparation of the 2,6-substituted products, aluminum phenoxides generated in situ from the phenol being alkylated are used as catalyst. Reaction conditions are controlled to minimise formation of the thermodynamically favored 4-substituted products (see Alkylphenols). The most commonly used is -/ fZ-butylphenol [98-54-4] for manufacture of phenoHc resins. The tert-huty group leaves only two rather than three active sites for condensation with formaldehyde and thus modifies the characteristics of the resin. 

This decomposition is thermodynamically favored by decreasing temperature and increasing pressure (28). Decomposition is extremely slow below 673 K in the absence of a catalyst however, between 673—873 K many surfaces, particularly iron (29), cobalt, and nickel (30), promote the disproportionation reaction. 

Physical and Chemical Properties. Cinnamic acid is generally encountered as the thermodynamically favored (E)-isomer. (H)-Cinnamic acid [140-10-3] is an off-white soHd having the properties outlined in Table 1 (6,7). 

In cases where two 1,2-acetonides are possible, the thermodynamically favored one prevails. Secondaiy alcohols have a greater tendency to form cyclic acetals than do primaiy alcohols,but an acetonide from a primaiy alcohol is preferred over an acetonide from two trans, secondaiy alcohols. 

Now, equations are given to identify whether the reactions are thermodynamically favorable. The method uses Gibbs free energy of formation for the reactants and products. 

Estimation of the free-energy change associated with a reaction permits the calcula-aon of the equilibrium position for a reaction and indicates the feasibility of a given chemical process. A positive AG° imposes a limit on the extent to which a reaction can x cur. For example, as can be calculated using Eq. (4.2), a AG° of 1.0 kcal/mol limits conversion to product at equilibrium to 15%. An appreciably negative AG° indicates that e reaction is thermodynamically favorable. 

The idea of kinetic versus thermodynamic control can be illustrated by discussing briefly the case of formation of enolate anions from unsymmetrical ketones. This is a very important matter for synthesis and will be discussed more fully in Chapter 1 of Part B. Most ketones, highly symmetric ones being the exception, can give rise to more than one enolate. Many studies have shown tiiat the ratio among the possible enolates that are formed depends on the reaction conditions. This can be illustrated for the case of 3-methyl-2-butanone. If the base chosen is a strong, sterically hindered one and the solvent is aptotic, the major enolate formed is 3. If a protic solvent is used or if a weaker base (one comparable in basicity to the ketone enolate) is used, the dominant enolate is 2. Enolate 3 is the kinetic enolate whereas 2 is the thermodynamically favored enolate. 

The ring contraction of a cyclohexyl cation to a methylcyclopentyl cation is thermodynamically favorable but would require a substantial energy of activation if the rearrangement proceeded through a primary cyclopentylmethyl catiotL... 

The most important sigmatropic rearrangements from the synthetic point of view are the [3,3] processes involving carbon-carbon bonds. The thermal rearrangement of 1,5-dienes by [3,3] sigmatropy is called the Cope rearrangement. The reaction establishes equilibrium between the two 1,5-dienes and proceeds in the thermodynamically favored direction. The conversion of 24 to 25 provides an example ... 

Unfortunately, the thermodynamically favored reactions of trichlo-rolluoromethane (CFC-11) and dichlorodifluoromethane (CFC-12) with water do not proceed to a significant degree below 300 C and at least 200 atm (1 atm = 101.325 kPa) or greater [42] (equation 44) Even at 4000 atm randoimzation rather than complete hydrolysis occurs, leaving another chlorofluorocarbon, chlorotri-fluoromethane (CFC-13), which is also potentially harmful to the earth s ozone layer... 

For the GPC separation mechanism to strictly apply, there must be no adsorption of the polymer onto the stationary phase. Such adsorption would delay elution of the polymer, thereby resulting in the calculation of too low a molecular weight for the polymer. The considerable variety of undesirable interactions between polymers and column stationary phases has been well reviewed for GPC by Barth (1) and this useful reference is recommended to the reader. Thus, the primary requirement for ideal GPC is that the solvent-polymer interaction be strongly thermodynamically favored over the polymerstationary phase interaction. 

Table 4-1 lists some rate constants for acid-base reactions. A very simple yet powerful generalization can be made For normal acids, proton transfer in the thermodynamically favored direction is diffusion controlled. Normal acids are predominantly oxygen and nitrogen acids carbon acids do not fit this pattern. The thermodynamicEilly favored direction is that in which the conventionally written equilibrium constant is greater than unity this is readily established from the pK of the conjugate acid. Approximate values of rate constants in both directions can thus be estimated by assuming a typical diffusion-limited value in the favored direction (most reasonably by inspection of experimental results for closely related... 

Passive diffusion is the simplest transport process. In passive diffusion, the transported species moves across the membrane in the thermodynamically favored direction without the help of any specific transport system/molecule. For an uncharged molecule, passive diffusion is an entropic process, in which movement of molecules across the membrane proceeds until the concentration of the substance on both sides of the membrane is the same. For an uncharged molecule, the free energy difference between side 1 and side 2 of a membrane (Figure 10.1) is given by... 

The hydrolysis of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate to fructose-6-phosphate (Eigure 23.7), like all phosphate ester hydrolyses, is a thermodynamically favorable (exergonic) reaction under standard-state conditions (AG° = —16.7 kj/mol). Under physiological conditions in the liver, the reaction is also exergonic (AG = —8.6 kJ/mol). Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase is an allosterically regulated enzyme. Citrate stimulates bisphosphatase activity, hut fructose-2,6-bisphosphate is a potent allosteric inhibitor. / MP also inhibits the bisphosphatase the inhibition by / MP is enhanced by fructose-2,6-bisphosphate. 

The / -methoxybenzylidene acetal is a versatile protective group for diols that undergoes acid hydrolysis 10 times faster than the benzylidene group. As with the benzylidene derivative, the 1,3-derivative is thermodynamically favored over the 1,2-derivative. ... 

Select Energy (Properties menu). Notice that it updates automatically as you go from one frame to another. This allows you to easily construct reaction energy diagrams (energy vs. frame number or vs. a specific geometrical parameter). Make such a plot for this Sn2 reaction. Note, that the reaction as written is thermodynamically favorable, i.e., it is exothermic. Note also, that only a relatively small energy barrier needs to be surmounted. 

A negative AE indicates an exothermic (thermodynamically favorable) reaction, while a positive AE an endothermic (thermodynamically unfavorable) reaction. 

Examine atomic charges and display the electrostatic potential map for 2,7-octadione. Are you able to say which hydrogens (at Ci or at C3) are more likely to be abstracted by base, and conclude which is the kinetically-favored enolate Which enolate (2,7-octadione, Cl enolate or C3 enolate) is the lower in energy What do you conclude is the thermodynamically-favored enolate Is this also the enolate in which the negative charge is better delocalized Compare electrostatic potential maps to tell. 

Next, calculate the energy for each step in your mechanism. Were your predictions correct Is the Dieckmann condensation a thermodynamically favorable process overall ... 

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