Tritium-hydrogen exchange reaction

There are numerous reports and review articles on the use of tritiated water in acid, base and heterogeneous or homogeneous metal catalyzed tritium-hydrogen exchange reactions and their importance for the preparation of labeled physiologically active compounds in support of drug research and early development . Modern synthetic methods such as... 

When applied to hydrogen exchange reactions in benzene derivatives containing a deuterium or tritium atom in the ith position, the relationship becomes simplified and assumes the form... 

Hydrogen exchange reactions in liquid ammonia can be used to prepare many organic compounds labelled with tritium or deuterium. 

Isotopic Exchange Reactions. Exchange reactions between the isotopes of hydrogen are well known and well substantiated. The equihbrium constants for exchange between the various hydrogen molecular species have been documented (18). Kinetics of the radiation-induced exchange reactions of hydrogen, deuterium, and tritium have been critically and authoritatively reviewed (31). The reaction T2 + H2 — 2HT equiUbrates at room temperature even without a catalyst (30). 

J. W. Pyper and C. K. Briggs, Kinetics of the Radiation-induced Exchange Reactions of Hydrogen, Deuterium, and Tritium, Eawrence Eipermore Eaboratory Report... 

The production of tritium-labelled organic compounds was enormously facilitated by K. E. Wilz-bach s discovery in 1956 that tritium could be introduced merely by storing a compound under tritium gas for a few days or weeks the radiation induces exchange reactions between the hydrogen atoms in the compound and the tritium gas. The excess of gas is recovered for further use and the tritiated compound is purified chro-matographically. Another widely used method of... 

If reactions of the above type occur during extraction, one would expect that gradually less hydrogen exchange takes place as the extraction proceeds because the number of reactive groups decreases. This assumption was tested in the last experiment shown in Table V. The coal was heated for 6 hours at 340°C. with nontritiated phenanthrene prior to extraction with tritiated phenanthrene. When this pretreated coal was extracted, the tritium content of the product was only 15.6% as compared with 21.4%, in the nonpretreated product. This decreased tritium content supports the above assumption and agrees with the proposed reaction mechanism. 

Yakushin and Shatenshtein (1960) and Yakushin et al. (1959) have determined the ratio of the rate constants for tritium and deuterium replacement by protium in ammonia solutions of fluorene and methyl 2-naphthyl ketone at 25°. Yakushin has obtained data for these reactions in anhydrous methylamine. Streitwieser et al. (1960, 1962b) have measured the ratio fcD/ T for the hydrogen exchange of ethylbenzene and toluene catalysed by a solution of lithium cyclohexylamide in cyclohexylamine at 49-9°. 

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