Organic molecules, unsaturated

Silane coupling agents are generally synthesized through addition of silicon hydrides to unsaturated organic molecules ... 

Ethylene, a simple, unsaturated organic molecule, is made into translucent, inexpensive, waxy polyethylenes at high pressures. When polyethylenes are applied to substrates, the resulting film is resilient and resistant to acids and oxidizers,... 

The bulk of derivatives are obtained by the displacement of CO by other ligands. These include phosphines and other group 15 donors, NO, mer-captans and unsaturated organic molecules such as alkenes, alkynes and cyclopentadienyls. 

Unsaturated organic molecules, such as ethylene, can be chemisorbed on transition metal surfaces in two ways, namely in -coordination or di-o coordination. As shown in Fig. 2.24, the n type of bonding of ethylene involves donation of electron density from the doubly occupied n orbital (which is o-symmetric with respect to the normal to the surface) to the metal ds-hybrid orbitals. Electron density is also backdonated from the px and dM metal orbitals into the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of the ethylene molecule, which is the empty asymmetric 71 orbital. The corresponding overall interaction is relatively weak, thus the sp2 hybridization of the carbon atoms involved in the ethylene double bond is retained. 

Reactions on the surface are interesting. The adsorptions of unsaturated organic molecules on the surface provide a means for fabricating well-ordered monolayer films. Thin film organic layers can be used for diverse applications such as chemical and biological sensors, computer displays, and molecular electronics. 

Monomers [39] are defined singly as vinyl unsaturated organic molecules with well-characterized molecular weights (100-500 g/mol). 

Since the first reports on Wilkinson s catalyst,19,20 many transition-metal-based catalytic systems for hydrogenation of unsaturated organic molecules have been developed. Two major pathways seem to occur, one involving monohydride (M—11) species, and the other, dihydride (MH2)... 

Addition Compounds of Magnesium with Unsaturated Organic Molecules 105... 

Addition Compounds with Unsaturated Organic Molecules 137... 

This chapter focuses on cycloaddition reactions in which at least two new cr-bonds are formed between allene derivatives and other unsaturated organic molecules. Intramole-cular cycloaddition reactions are also described. The reactions are categorized according to assembly modes, such as [m + n]-cycloaddition, where the variables m and n simply denote the number of atoms that each component contributes to the ring construction. Some electrocyclic reactions of allene derivatives are also included. 

Hovis, J. S., Liu, H. and Hamers, R. J. Scanning-tunneling-microscopy of cyclic unsaturated organic-molecules on Si(001). Applied Physics -Materials Science Processing 66, S553-S557 (1998). 

Oxidation of unsaturated organic molecules in H2S04/Ac0H 363... 

When activated by metallic catalysts, hydrogen may be transferred from the metallic center to unsaturated organic molecules. The nature and reactivity of transition metal hydrides depend on the central metals as well as on the electronic and steric properties of the ligands. Metal hydrides with optically active ligands are chiral and thus, are capable of asymmetric hydrogenation. 

Unsaturated organic molecules such as alkenes, alkynes, dienes, polyenes and arenes can also stabilize low oxidation states in metal complexes, being both o donors (filled bonding jt orbitals) and jt acceptors (empty antibonding jt orbitals). In these so-called Jt complexes, only jt orbitals are involved in the metal-to-ligand bonds. This latter type of complex is beyond the scope of this chapter and only a few examples will be given. 

A large number of nickel(O) phosphine complexes with rj2-bonded unsaturated organic molecules have been reported. Here we will review relevant examples of complexes with f 2-bonded molecules which contain a number of Ni—C bonds not exceeding the number of bonds from nickel to non-carbon atoms (usually phosphorus). The early examples (up to 1972) of complexes with alkenes have been extensively reviewed.11... 

Stereo-isomerizations are quite common photochemical processes with unsaturated organic molecules (the primary photochemical reaction of vision is of this type). 

The photochemical oxidation reactions of unsaturated organic molecules lead to the formation of peroxides which are characterized by the weak bond O-O. In terms of bond energies this is one of the weakest covalent bonds weak enough to be split in thermal processes. When a cyclic peroxide dissociates into carbonyl compounds, one of these may be formed in an electronically excited state (Figure 4.83). The energy difference results from the loss of the weak 0-0 bond and the formation of two C=0 tt bonds over 60kcalmol-1 is then available as free energy. There are also reasons of... 

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