Disproportionation Reaction (disproportionation + reaction)

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Disproportionation Reaction of Diarylmethylisopropyl Ethers: A Versatile Access to Diarylmethanes from Diarylcarbinols Speeded up by the Use of Microwave Irradiation.

CHEMINFORM, Issue 13 2007
Nathalie L'Hermite
Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 200 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract, please click on HTML or PDF. [source]


Voltammetric Study of Nitro Radical Anion Generated from Some Nitrofuran Compounds of Pharmacological Significance

ELECTROANALYSIS, Issue 1 2003
S. Bollo
Abstract The electrochemical behavior of 2-(5-amino- 1,3,4-oxadiazolyl)-5-nitrofuran (NF359) and its comparison with well-known drugs such as nifurtimox (NFX) and nitrofurazone (NFZ) in protic, mixed and aprotic media by cyclic voltammetry, tast and differential pulse polarography was studied. All the compounds were electrochemically reducible in all media being the reduction of the nitrofuran group the main voltammetric signal. The one-electron reduction couple due to the nitro radical anion formation was visualized in mixed (for NF359 and NFZ) and aprotic media (for all compounds). By applying a cyclic voltammetric methodology we have calculated the decay constants (k2) of the corresponding nitro radical anions in mixed and aprotic media. In mixed medium data fit well with a disproportionation reaction of the nitro radical anion but in aprotic medium fit better with a dimerization reaction. Also, considering cyclic voltammetric measurements in aprotic media we have estimated the reduction potential of the RNO2/RNO2., couple in aqueous medium, pH 7 (E17 values) finding very good correlation with E17 values obtained by pulse radiolysis. Furthermore we have calculated the equilibrium constants from the electron transfer from nitro radical anion to oxygen (kO2) finding that nitro radical anion from NF359 is thermodynamically favored to react with oxygen in respect to both NFZ and NFX. [source]


Kinetics and mechanisms of transalkylation and disproportionation of meta -diethylbenzene by triflic acid catalyst

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL KINETICS, Issue 11 2003
S. M. Al-Zahrani
The kinetics of transalkylation and isomerization of meta -diethylbenzene in the presence of benzene using triflic acid as a catalyst has been investigated. High catalytic activity of the triflic acid catalyst was observed in homogeneous liquid-phase reactions. On the basis of the product distribution obtained, transalkylation, disproportionation, and isomerization reactions have been considered and the main product of the reaction was ethylbenzene. These reactions are conducted in a closed liquid batch reactor with continuous stirring under dry nitrogen and atmospheric pressure over the temperature range of 288,308 K. The main transalkylation, disproportionation, and isomerization reactions occurred simultaneously and were considered as elementary reactions. The apparent activation energy of the transalkylation reaction was found to be 35.5 kJ/mol, while that of disproportionation reaction was 42.3 kJ/mol. The reproducibility of the experimental product distribution occurred with an average relative error of ±2%. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 35: 555,563, 2003 [source]


Synthesis, characterization, and comparison of properties of novel fluorinated poly(imide siloxane) copolymers

JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE, Issue 3 2008
Anindita Ghosh
Abstract Four new poly(imide siloxane) copolymers were prepared by a one-pot solution imidization method at a reaction temperature of 180°C in ortho -dichlorobenzene as a solvent. The polymers were made through the reaction of o -diphthaleic anhydride with four different diamines,4,4,-bis(p -aminophenoxy-3,3,-trifluoromethyl) terphenyl, 4,4,-bis(3,-trifluoromethyl- p -aminobiphenyl ether)biphenyl, 2,6-bis(3,-trifluoromethyl- p -aminobiphenyl ether)pyridine, and 2,5-bis(3,-trifluoromethyl- p -aminobiphenylether)thiopene,and aminopropyl-terminated poly dimethylsiloxane as a comonomer. The polymers were named 1a, 1b, 1c, and 1d, respectively. The synthesized polymers showed good solubility in different organic solvents. The resulting polymers were well characterized with gel permeation chromatography, IR, and NMR techniques. 1H-NMR indicated that the siloxane loading was about 36%, although 40 wt % was attempted. 29Si-NMR confirmed that the low siloxane incorporation was due to a disproportionation reaction of the siloxane chain that resulted in a lowering of the siloxane block length. The films of these polymers showed low water absorption of 0.02% and a low dielectric constant of 2.38 at 1 MHz. These polyimides showed good thermal stability with decomposition temperatures (5% weight loss) up to 460°C in nitrogen. Transparent, thin films of these poly(imide siloxane)s exhibited tensile strengths up to 30 MPa and elongations at break up to 103%, which depended on the structure of the repeating unit. The rheological properties showed ease of processability for these polymers with no change in the melt viscosity with the temperature. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2008 [source]


Transesterification of dimethyl oxalate with phenol over TiO2/SiO2: Catalyst screening and reaction optimization

AICHE JOURNAL, Issue 12 2008
Xia Yang
Abstract Physicochemical properties of silica-supported titanium oxide catalysts as well as their performances for transesterification of dimethyl oxalate (DMO) with phenol to methyl phenyl oxalate (MPO) and diphenyl oxalate (DPO) have been investigated systematically. Various wt % of TiO2 were loaded on SiO2 by a two-step wet impregnation method. The surface properties of TiO2/SiO2 catalysts were explored by various characterization techniques (BET, SEM, ICP, XPS, XRD, FTIR of pyridine adsorption, and NH3 -TPD). Catalytic performances of TiO2/SiO2 catalysts were found to be strongly dependent on TiO2 dispersion and surface acidity. Monolayer dispersion capacity of TiO2 on silica was estimated to be about 4.0 TiO2 molecules per nm2 (SiO2) and no crystalline TiO2 was detected at TiO2 loading less than 12 wt %. FTIR and TPD analysis suggested that weak Lewis acid sites on the surface of TiO2/SiO2 were responsible for their unique selectivity to the target products, MPO and DPO. An optimization of reaction conditions for the transesterification of DMO with phenol was performed over 12 wt % TiO2/SiO2 calcined at 550°C. In addition, we studied the disproportionation reaction from MPO to DPO via a catalytic distillation process, which is highly efficient to promote formation of the desired DPO. © 2008 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 2008 [source]


Deactivation reactions in the modeled 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy-mediated free-radical polymerization of styrene: A comparative study with the 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy/acrylonitrile system

JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 2 2007
Andrzej Kaim
Abstract The competitiveness of the combination and disproportionation reactions between a 1-phenylpropyl radical, standing for a growing polystyryl macroradical, and a 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy (TEMPO) radical in the nitroxide-mediated free-radical polymerization of styrene was quantitatively evaluated by the study of the transition geometry and the potential energy profiles for the competing reactions with the use of quantum-mechanical calculations at the density functional theory (DFT) UB3-LYP/6-311+G(3df, 2p)//(unrestricted) Austin Model 1 level of theory. The search for transition geometries resulted in six and two transition structures for the radical combination and disproportionation reactions, respectively. The former transition structures, mainly differing in the out-of-plane angle of the NO bond in the transition structure TEMPO molecule, were correlated with the activation energy, which was determined to be in the range of 8.4,19.4 kcal mol,1 from a single-point calculation at the DFT UB3-LYP/6-311+G(3df, 2p)//unrestricted Austin Model 1 level. The calculated activation energy for the disproportionation reaction was less favorable by a value of more than 30 kcal mol,1 in comparison with that for the combination reaction. The approximate barrier difference for the TEMPO addition and disproportionation reaction was slightly smaller for the styrene polymerization system than for the acrylonitrile polymerization system, thus indicating that a ,-proton abstraction through a TEMPO radical from the polymer backbone could diminish control over the radical polymerization of styrene with the nitroxide even more than in the latter system. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 45: 232,241, 2007 [source]


Understanding the Reactivity and Basicity of Zeolites: A Periodic DFT Study of the Disproportionation of N2O4 on Alkali-Cation-Exchanged Zeolite Y

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 17 2008
Pierre Mignon Dr.
Abstract The disproportionation of N2O4 into NO3, and NO+ on Y zeolites has been studied through periodic DFT calculations to unravel 1),the role of metal cations and the framework oxygen atoms and 2),the relationship between the NO+ stretching frequency and the basicity of zeolites. We have considered three situations: adsorption on site,II cations with and without a cation at site,III and adsorption on a site III cation. We observed that cations at sites II and III cooperate to stabilize N2O4 and that the presence of a cation at site,III is necessary to allow the disproportionation reaction. The strength of the stabilization is due to the number of stabilizing interactions increasing with the size of the cation and to the Lewis acidity of the alkali cations, which increases as the size of the cations decreases. In the product, NO3, interacts mainly with the cations and NO+ with the basic oxygen atoms of the tetrahedral aluminium through its nitrogen atom. As the cation size increases, the NO3,,,,cation interaction increases. As a result, the negative charge of the framework is less well screened by the larger cations and the interaction between NO+ and the basic oxygen atoms becomes stronger. NO+ appears to be a good probe of zeolite basicity, in agreement with experimental observations. [source]


Deactivation reactions in the modeled 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy-mediated free-radical polymerization of styrene: A comparative study with the 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy/acrylonitrile system

JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 2 2007
Andrzej Kaim
Abstract The competitiveness of the combination and disproportionation reactions between a 1-phenylpropyl radical, standing for a growing polystyryl macroradical, and a 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperidinyloxy (TEMPO) radical in the nitroxide-mediated free-radical polymerization of styrene was quantitatively evaluated by the study of the transition geometry and the potential energy profiles for the competing reactions with the use of quantum-mechanical calculations at the density functional theory (DFT) UB3-LYP/6-311+G(3df, 2p)//(unrestricted) Austin Model 1 level of theory. The search for transition geometries resulted in six and two transition structures for the radical combination and disproportionation reactions, respectively. The former transition structures, mainly differing in the out-of-plane angle of the NO bond in the transition structure TEMPO molecule, were correlated with the activation energy, which was determined to be in the range of 8.4,19.4 kcal mol,1 from a single-point calculation at the DFT UB3-LYP/6-311+G(3df, 2p)//unrestricted Austin Model 1 level. The calculated activation energy for the disproportionation reaction was less favorable by a value of more than 30 kcal mol,1 in comparison with that for the combination reaction. The approximate barrier difference for the TEMPO addition and disproportionation reaction was slightly smaller for the styrene polymerization system than for the acrylonitrile polymerization system, thus indicating that a ,-proton abstraction through a TEMPO radical from the polymer backbone could diminish control over the radical polymerization of styrene with the nitroxide even more than in the latter system. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 45: 232,241, 2007 [source]


Efficient synthesis of a long carbohydrate chain alkyl glycoside catalyzed by cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase (CGTase)

BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOENGINEERING, Issue 5 2009
David Svensson
Abstract Alkyl glycosides with long carbohydrate groups are surfactants with attractive properties but they are very difficult to synthesize. Here, a method for extension of the carbohydrate group of commercially available dodecyl-,- d -maltoside (DDM) is presented. DDM was converted to dodecyl-,- d -maltooctaoside (DDMO) in a single step by using a CGTase as catalyst and ,-cyclodextrin (,-CD) as glycosyl donor. The coupling reaction is under kinetic control and the maximum yield depends on the selectivity of the enzyme. The Bacillus macerans CGTase favored the coupling reaction while the Thermoanaerobacter enzyme also catalyzed disproportionation reactions leading to a broader product range. A high ratio ,-CD/DDM favored a high yield of DDMO and yields up to 80% were obtained using the B. macerans enzyme as catalyst. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2009; 104: 854,861. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]


Photofading of phenylazo-aniline, -pyridone and -quinolone disperse dyes on a nylon 6 substrate

COLORATION TECHNOLOGY, Issue 2 2009
Yasuyo Okada
The photofading of phenylazo-aniline, -pyridone and -quinolone disperse dyes on nylon fabric was analysed using the Kubelka,Munk (K/S) spectra of fabrics exposed to a carbon arc in air. The exposure of dyed fabric through ultraviolet and coloured filters, which do not shield the main absorption band, showed a large decrease in the initial rate (KPA) of fading. Compared with the KPA values without filters, the values using filters were half as large for dyes without the nitro groups and a quarter as large for dyes with the nitro groups. The KPA values may be qualitatively explained by the sum of azo scission (decrease of K/S value at ,max) and the conversion of nitro groups to nitroso groups. These phenomena occur, respectively, via thermal disproportionation reactions between hydrazinyl radicals (from the azo group) and the reaction between hydrazinyl and N-centred nitrosyl hydroxide radicals (from the nitro group). The azo scission is promoted by N-centred nitrosyl hydroxide radicals via the latter reactions. [source]