Unsaturated compounds definition

Finely divided nickel absorbs a large volume of hydrogen at high temperatures. Even at ordinary temperatures, considerable occlusion of hydrogen occurs on to the metal surface and no definite composition of any hydride formed is known. The metal activates molecular hydrogen to its atomic state, contributing to its catalytic action in hydrogenation of unsaturated compounds. 

Hydrogen atoms and hydroxyl radicals react with aliphatic compounds mainly by H-abstraction from the chain, although reactions with certain substituents are also important. With hydrated electrons the functioned group is the only site of reaction and its nature determines the reactivity. The reactions of hydrated electrons are by definition electron transfer reactions. The rate of reaction of a certain substrate will depend on its ability to accommodate an additional electron. For example, in an unsaturated compound the rate may depend on the presence of a site with a partial positive charge. Thus acrylonitrile and benzonitrile are three orders of magnitude more reactive toward e q than are ethylene and benzene. On the other hand, this large difference does not exist in the case of addition of H and OH. 

It seems appropriate to inquire whether or not it is possible to carry out other Michael reactions and, generally, other nucleophilic additions to unsaturated compounds as a sequence of kinetically independent steps using one s choice of nucleophiles and electrophiles The answer is definitely yes . A rationale similar to that used to describe the Robinson annulation provides us with the key to how this goal may be attained. First of all, the initial step of the reaction, addition of the nucleophilic component across a double (or triple) bond, needs to be carried out in the absence of the external electrophiles (preferably in aprotic solvents). Secondly, a carbanionic intermediate, incipiently formed at this step, requires sufficient stabilization to survive as a chemical entity under... 

We begin with benzene and then examine other cycUc, planar, and conjugated ring systems to learn the modern definition of what it means to be aromatic. Then, in Chapter 18, we will learn about the reactions of aromatic compounds, highly unsaturated hydrocarbons that do not undei o addition reactions like other unsaturated compounds. An explanation of this behavior relies on an understanding of the structure of aromatic compounds presented in Chapter 17. 

The relationships between these different series have been definitely established by means of reactions which enable us to pass from one series to another. Such reactions bring out a very important fact that the hydrocarbons of the unsaturated series differ from those of the saturated series in a very definite way, viz., in the formation of addition products. These addition products, most readily formed with the halogens or halogen-hydro acids, are always the result of the addition of twOj fourj or six monovalent atoms to each unsaturated molecule, with the conversion of the unsaturated compound into a saturated one. 

Similar results were reported (77), where it was found that the adsorption coefficients of various unsaturated compounds related to 1-hexene may be correlated using Eq. (23) only in the case of unsaturated alcohols, and hence in systems similar to the one chosen by definition for the determination of 0. 

The term aromaticity or aromatic character is used in organic chemistry to indicate an extremely high thermodynamic ground-state stability, as well as high kinetic stability, which may be observed in some cyclic conjugated unsaturated compounds in comparison with appropriate non-cyclic unsaturated reference compounds i 4K This definition is vague because aromaticity denotes an experimental excess property whose magnitude depends on a more or less arbitrary selection of the reference compound. 

There are relatively few unsaturated compounds and, by definition, none are fully conjugated. There has been only one review published [Pg.1110]

The fats and oils obtained from various sources differ from one another in the proportion of the several esters present in each. This difference in composition results in a difference in physical properties, such as specific gravity, viscosity, index of refraction, and melting point. All the fats and vegetable oils are soluble in ether, however,—a fact made use of in the analysis of foods to separate fats from the other constituents of food-products. As the physical properties of a fat or an oil obtained from a definite source are more or less constant, the determination of these properties is of value in the analysis of such substances. The chemical analysis of fats and oils is based upon determinations of the proportion of unsaturated compounds present, of the relation between the acids of low and high molecular weight obtained on hydrolysis, and of the proportion of substances which do not undergo hydrolysis. This statement will be made clearer by a brief consideration of a few of the more important methods employed in the analysis of fats and oils. 

The half-lives of the unsaturated compounds were smaller than the half-lives of the corresponding saturated compounds. This effect was expected because natural rubber is non-polar, and on non-polar GC liquid phases unsaturated compounds have shorter retention times than saturated. By broadening the definition of N to equivalent carbon number with the saturated compounds as the reference, monoenes can be correlated with the same regression equation parameters (Equation 4) as the saturated compounds. The N values may then possess fractional values. In the acetate series at 20 C, the N values for the monoenes were as follows (14) Z7-12 Ac,... 

He proposed the law two molecules with the same empirical formula are identical when the chemical relation of every single atom to other elements (not to definite elementary atoms) is the same. This was generally admitted. There was a polemic between Butlerow and Lodiar Meyer on the formulation of unsaturated compounds, Meyer adopting the view that the double bond involved free affinities he did not understand Butlerow s views (which are correct). 

The term aromatic was coined in 1855 by August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818-1892), before the physical mechanism determining so-called aromaticity was unraveled. Originally, this definition was derived from a characteristic property, namely a sweet scent that was associated with some aromatic compounds. Subsequently, it was shown that arenes are unsaturated compounds, but showed a chemical reactivity which differed from that of both aUcenes or aUcynes. This unique reactivity pattern of arenes was used at the end of the nineteenth century as the only criterion of aromaticity. At the start of the twentieth century, additional... 

However, it should be noted at this stage of the discussion that the metal-alkyl compounds resulting from the addition of the hydrocarbonyls to the unsaturated compounds must remain hypothetical. No such alkyl-cobalt compounds have been isolated or definitely proved so far [35, 37]. 

Dent and Kohes (27) proposed a definite bond between propylene and zinc oxide, infrared spectroscopy being used to study the sorption process. A series of articles by Gil-Av et al. (28-31) demonstrated the use of stationary phases containing silver nitrate to separate saturated and unsaturated compounds. 

In the course of the tempestuous development of organophosphorus chemistry, interest has only recently been focused on compounds of formally quinquevalent phosphorus having coordination number 3, such as 1, 2, or 3, although one of the other species of this kind has long been postulated as reactive intermediate of solvolysis of phosphorylation reactions. Definite evidence of even proof of the existence of such coordinatively unsaturated phosphorus compounds, however, has been obtained only recently in mechanistic studies, by trapping reactions with suitable cycloaddends, or actually by direct isolation. 

A further successful attempt to detect a,(3-unsaturated SPC (SPC-2H) during the degradation of LAS was achieved by Eichhorn and Knepper [34] (Fig. 5.1.8). An SPC-2H has m/z of two mass units below that of the corresponding SPC, and compounds of this type have been described in the degradation of impurities in LAS, the monocarboxylated DATS [88,104]. However, a definite distinction between the known DATS carboxylates [88] and the putative SPC-2H could be provided by LC-ESI-MS analysis, which enabled structural assignment via... 

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