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Ammonium Cations (ammonium + cation)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Chemistry66%
Polymers and Materials Science33%

Kinds of Ammonium Cations

  • quaternary ammonium cation
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    Selected Abstracts

    ChemInform Abstract: Molecular Amplification in a Dynamic System by Ammonium Cations.

    CHEMINFORM, Issue 17 2002
    Ricardo L. E. Furlan
    Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a "Full Text" option. The original article is trackable via the "References" option. [source]

    Biodegradable polyester layered silicate nanocomposites based on poly(,-caprolactone)

    POLYMER ENGINEERING & SCIENCE, Issue 9 2002
    Nadège Pantoustier
    Nanocomposites based on biodegradable poly(,-caprolactone) (PCL) and layered silicates (montmorillonite, MMT) were prepared either by melt interaction with PCL or by in situ ring-opening polymerization of ,-caprolactone as promoted by the so-called coordination-insertion mechanism. Both non-modified clays (Na+ -MMT) and silicates modified by various alkylammonium cations were studied. Mechanical and thermal properties were examined by tensile testing and thermogravimetric analysis. Even at a filler content as low as 3 wt% of inorganic layered silicate, the PCL-layered silicate nanocomposites exhibited improved mechanical properties (higher Young's modulus) and increased thermal stability as well as enhanced flame retardant characteristics as a result of a charring effect. It was shown that the formation of PCL-based nanocomposites depended not only on the nature of the ammonium cation and related functionality but also on the selected synthetic route, melt intercalation vs. in situ intercalative polymerization. Interestingly enough, when the intercalative polymerization of ,-caprolactone was carried out in the presence of MMT organo-modified with ammonium cations bearing hydroxyl functions, nanocomposites with much improved mechanical properties were recovered. Those hybrid polyester layered silicate nanocomposites were characterized by a covalent bonding between the polyester chains and the clay organo-surface as a result of the polymerization mechanism, which was actually initiated from the surface hydroxyl functions adequately activated by selected tin (II) or tin (IV) catalysts. [source]

    Coordination behaviour and two-dimensional-network formation in poly[[,-aqua-diaqua(,5 -propane-1,3-diyldinitrilotetraacetato)dilithium(I)cobalt(II)] dihydrate]: the first example of an MII,1,3-pdta complex with a monovalent metal counter-ion

    ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 6 2008
    Urszula Rychlewska
    The title compound, {[CoLi2(C11H14N2O8)(H2O)3]·2H2O}n, constitutes the first example of a salt of the [MII(1,3-pdta)]2, complex (1,3-pdta is propane-1,3-diyldinitrilotetraacetate) with a monopositive cation as counter-ion. Insertion of the Li+ cation could only be achieved through application of the ion-exchange column technique which, however, appeared unsuccessful with other alkali metals and the ammonium cation. The structure contains two tetrahedrally coordinated Li+ cations, an octahedral [Co(1,3-pdta)]2, anion and five water molecules, two of which are uncoordinated, and is built of two-dimensional layers extending parallel to the (010) lattice plane, the constituents of which are connected by the coordinate bonds. O,Hwater...O hydrogen bonds operate both within and between these layers. The crystal investigated belongs to the enantiomeric space group P21 with only one (,) of two possible optical isomers of the [Co(1,3-pdta)]2, complex. A possible cause of enantiomer separation during crystallization might be the rigidification and polarization of the [M(1,3-pdta)]2, core, resulting from direct coordination of Li+ cations to three out of four carboxylate groups constituting the 1,3-pdta ligand. The structure of (I) differs considerably from those of the other [MII(1,3-pdta)]2, complexes, in which the charge compensation is realized by means of divalent hexaaqua complex cations. This finding demonstrates a significant structure-determining role of the counter-ions. [source]

    Theoretical and experimental study of the complexation of valinomycin with ammonium cation

    BIOPOLYMERS, Issue 12 2008
    í Dybal
    Abstract The interactions of valinomycin, macrocyclic depsipeptide antibiotic ionophore, with ammonium cation NH4+ have been investigated. Using quantum mechanical density functional theory (DFT) calculations, the most probable structure of the valinomycin-NH4+ complex species was predicted. In this complex, the ammonium cation is bound partly by three strong hydrogen bonds to three ester carbonyl oxygen atoms of valinomycin and partly by somewhat weaker hydrogen bonds to the remaining three ester carbonyl groups of the valinomycin ligand. The strength of the valinomycin-NH4+ complex was evaluated experimentally by capillary affinity electrophoresis. From the dependence of valinomycin effective electrophoretic mobility on the ammonium ion concentration in the background electrolyte, the apparent binding (association, stability) constant (Kb) of the valinomycin-NH4+ complex in methanol was evaluated as log Kb = 1.52 ± 0.22. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Biopolymers 89: 1055,1060, 2008. This article was originally published online as an accepted preprint. The "Published Online" date corresponds to the preprint version. You can request a copy of the preprint by emailing the Biopolymers editorial office at biopolymers@wiley.com [source]

    A Dual-Response [2]Rotaxane Based on a 1,2,3-Triazole Ring as a Novel Recognition Station

    CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 47 2009
    Haiyan Zheng
    Abstract Two novel multilevel switchable [2]rotaxanes containing an ammonium and a triazole station have been constructed by a CuI -catalyzed azide,alkyne cycloaddition reaction. The macrocycle of [2]rotaxane containing a C6-chain bridge between the two hydrogen bonding stations exhibits high selectivity for the ammonium cation in the protonated form. Interestingly, the macrocycle is able to interact with the two recognition stations when the bridge between them is shortened. Upon deprotonation of both [2]rotaxanes, the macrocycle moves towards the triazole recognition site due to the hydrogen-bond interaction between the triazole nitrogen atoms and the amide groups in the macrocycle. Upon addition of chloride anion, the conformation of [2]rotaxane is changed because of the cooperative recognition of the chloride anion by a favorable hydrogen-bond donor from both the macrocycle isophthalamide and thread triazole CH proton. [source]

    Fluorinated Quinine Alkaloids: Synthesis, X-ray Structure Analysis and Antimalarial Parasite Chemotherapy

    CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 31 2009
    Christoph Bucher
    Abstract Herein we report the synthesis of a series of C9-fluorinated quinine alkaloids by direct nucleophilic deoxyfluorination. This transformation gives rise to products bearing both S - and R -configured monofluoromethylene functionalities, consistent with an SN1-like mechanism. Furthermore, a series of ring-expanded 1-azabicyclo[3.2.2]nonane systems were generated by a skeletal rearrangement of the quinuclidine core. The modified alkaloids were converted to the corresponding hydrochloride salts and characterised by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The preference of the benzylic fluorine atom to adopt a gauche conformation relative to the protonated quinuclidine nitrogen atom was consistently observed throughout the cage-conserved compounds. Conversely, the molecular architecture of the 1-azabicyclo[3.2.2]nonane systems enforced an anti relationship between the fluorine atom and the protonated tertiary amine. This constitutes the first X-ray evidence of a vicinal fluorine atom at a stereogenic centre positioned anti to a substituted ammonium cation. The pharmacological efficacy of these compounds was assessed in vitro against the NF54 strain of Plasmodium falciparum (sensitive to all known antimalarial drugs). IC50 values of as low as 267,nM were observed; this highlights the potential of these materials in developing novel agents for parasite chemotherapy. [source]

    Advances in the Study of Ion Transfer at Liquid Membranes with Two Polarized Interfaces by Square Wave Voltammetry

    ELECTROANALYSIS, Issue 14 2010
    A. Molina
    Abstract A general analytical expression has been deduced for the I/E response of the square wave voltammetry corresponding to ion transfer processes in systems with two liquid/liquid polarized interfaces. This expression has been evaluated through the experimental study of a series of quaternary ammonium cations and metal chloro complex anions. We have found that systems with two liquid/liquid polarizable interfaces present the striking advantage that the difference between peak potentials of square wave voltammograms of cations and anions with similar standard ion transfer potential is much greater than in systems with a single polarizable one. [source]

    A Versatile Solvent-Free "One-Pot" Route to Polymer Nanocomposites and the in situ Formation of Calcium Phosphate/Layered Silicate Hybrid Nanoparticles

    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, Issue 11 2010
    Hans Weickmann
    Abstract Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), polystyrene (PS), and polyurethane (PU) nanocomposites containing well-dispersed calcium phosphate/layered silicate hybrid nanoparticles were prepared in a versatile solvent-free "one-pot" process without requiring separate steps, such as organophilic modification, purification, drying, dispersing, and compounding, typical for many conventional organoclay nanocomposites. In this "one-pot" process, alkyl ammonium phosphates were added as swelling agents to a suspension of calcium/layered silicate in styrene, methyl methacrylate, or polyols prior to polymerization. Alkyl ammonium phosphates were prepared in situ by reacting phosphoric acid with an equivalent amount of alkyl amines such as stearyl amine (SA) or the corresponding ester- and methacrylate-functionalized tertiary alkyl amines, obtained via Michael Addition of SA with methyl acrylate or ethylene 2-methacryloxyethyl acrylate. Upon contact with the calcium bentonite suspension, the cation exchange of Ca2+ in the silicate interlayers for alkyl ammonium cations rendered the bentonite organophilic and enabled effective swelling in the monomer accompanied by intercalation and in situ precipitation of calcium phosphates. According to energy dispersive X-ray analysis, the calcium phosphate precipitated exclusively onto the surfaces of the bentonite nanoplatelets, thus forming easy-to-disperse calcium phosphate/layered silicate hybrid nanoparticles. Incorporation of 5,15,wt% of such hybrid nanoparticles into PMMA, PS, and PU afforded improved stiffness/toughness balances of the polymer nanocomposites. Functionalized alkyl ammonium phosphate addition enabled polymer attachment to the nanoparticle surfaces. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analyses of PU and PU-foam nanocomposites, prepared by dispersing hybrid nanoparticles in the polyols prior to isocyanate cure, revealed the formation of fully exfoliated hybrid nanoparticles. [source]

    Hierarchical Zeolite Catalysts: Zeolite Catalysts with Tunable Hierarchy Factor by Pore-Growth Moderators (Adv. Funct.

    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, Issue 24 2009
    Mater.
    On page 3972, Pérez-Ramírez et al. introduce the hierarchy factor as a valuable descriptor to categorize hierarchical zeolites and to optimize their design for catalytic applications. They demonstrate a direct correlation between the catalytic performance of ZSM-5 in benzene alkylation and the hierarchy factor. Maximization of the hierarchy factor is achieved by enhancing the mesopore surface area without reducing the micropore volume. For this purpose, a novel desilication variant involving NaOH treatment in the presence of pore growth moderators (quaternary ammonium cations) is presented. [source]

    Zeolite Catalysts with Tunable Hierarchy Factor by Pore-Growth Moderators

    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, Issue 24 2009
    Javier Pérez-Ramírez
    Abstract The design of hierarchical zeolite catalysts is attempted through the maximization of the hierarchy factor (HF); that is, by enhancing the mesopore surface area without severe penalization of the micropore volume. For this purpose, a novel desilication variant involving NaOH treatment of ZSM-5 in the presence of quaternary ammonium cations is developed. The organic cation (TPA+ or TBA+) acts as a pore-growth moderator in the crystal by OH, -assisted silicon extraction, largely protecting the zeolite crystal during the demetallation process. The protective effect is not seen when using cations that are able to enter the micropores, such as TMA+ Engineering the pore structure at the micro- and mesolevel is essential to optimize transport properties and catalytic performance, as demonstrated in the benzene alkylation with ethylene, a representative mass-transfer limited reaction. The hierarchy factor is an appropriate tool to classify hierarchically structured materials. The latter point is of wide interest to the scientific community as it not only embraces mesoporous zeolites obtained by desilication methods but it also enables to quantitatively compare and correlate various materials obtained by different synthetic methodologies. [source]

    Clustering of nucleobases with alkali metals studied by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry: implications for mechanisms of multistrand DNA stabilization

    JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (INCORP BIOLOGICAL MASS SPECTROMETRY), Issue 7 2002
    Kim J. Koch
    Abstract Self-clustering of the five common nucleobases was investigated by electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry and shown to provide insight into the non-covalent interactions between identical bases. Alkali and ammonium cations significantly increase self-aggregation of the nucleobases and lead to the formation of uniquely stable magic number clusters. Sodium adducts of guanine, thymine and uracil preferentially take the form of tetrameric (quartet) clusters. This gas-phase result correlates with previously reported solution-phase data on sodium cation stabilized guanosine, thymine and uracil quartet structures believed to be responsible for telomere stabilization. In the presence of potassium, cesium or ammonium cations, pentameric magic number clusters are formed from thymine and uracil, while in solution the nucleoside isoguanosine yields clusters of this favored size. The formation of magic number metaclusters occurs for thymine and uracil in the presence of ammonium cations. These doubly charged 10- and 15-mers are tentatively attributed to the formation of pentamer/ammonium cation/ pentamer sandwich structures. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

    Preparation of Poly(, -caprolactone)/Clay Nanocomposites by Microwave-Assisted In Situ Ring-Opening Polymerization

    MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS, Issue 10 2007
    Liqiong Liao
    Abstract PCL/clay nanocomposites were prepared by microwave-assisted in situ ROP of , -caprolactone in the presence of either unmodified clay (Cloisite® Na+) or clay modified by quaternary ammonium cations containing hydroxyl groups (Cloisite 30B). This PCL showed significantly improved monomer conversion and molecular weight compared with that produced by conventional heating. An intercalated structure was observed for the PCL/Cloisite Na+ nanocomposites, while a predominantly exfoliated structure was observed for the PCL/Cloisite 30B nanocomposites. Microwave irradiation proved to be an effective and efficient method for the preparation of PCL/clay nanocomposites. [source]

    Biodegradable polyester layered silicate nanocomposites based on poly(,-caprolactone)

    POLYMER ENGINEERING & SCIENCE, Issue 9 2002
    Nadège Pantoustier
    Nanocomposites based on biodegradable poly(,-caprolactone) (PCL) and layered silicates (montmorillonite, MMT) were prepared either by melt interaction with PCL or by in situ ring-opening polymerization of ,-caprolactone as promoted by the so-called coordination-insertion mechanism. Both non-modified clays (Na+ -MMT) and silicates modified by various alkylammonium cations were studied. Mechanical and thermal properties were examined by tensile testing and thermogravimetric analysis. Even at a filler content as low as 3 wt% of inorganic layered silicate, the PCL-layered silicate nanocomposites exhibited improved mechanical properties (higher Young's modulus) and increased thermal stability as well as enhanced flame retardant characteristics as a result of a charring effect. It was shown that the formation of PCL-based nanocomposites depended not only on the nature of the ammonium cation and related functionality but also on the selected synthetic route, melt intercalation vs. in situ intercalative polymerization. Interestingly enough, when the intercalative polymerization of ,-caprolactone was carried out in the presence of MMT organo-modified with ammonium cations bearing hydroxyl functions, nanocomposites with much improved mechanical properties were recovered. Those hybrid polyester layered silicate nanocomposites were characterized by a covalent bonding between the polyester chains and the clay organo-surface as a result of the polymerization mechanism, which was actually initiated from the surface hydroxyl functions adequately activated by selected tin (II) or tin (IV) catalysts. [source]

    4-Methoxyanilinium tetrafluoroborate,dibenzo-18-crown-6 (1/1)

    ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 8 2010
    Xue-qun Fu
    In the structure of the complex of dibenzo-18-crown-6 [systematic name: 2,5,8,15,18,21-hexaoxatricyclo[20.4.0.09,14]hexacosa-1(26),9,11,13,22,24-hexaene] with 4-methoxyanilinium tetrafluoroborate, C7H10NO+·BF4,·C20H24O6, the protonated 4-methoxyanilinium (MB-NH3+) cation forms a 1:1 supramolecular rotator,stator complex with the dibenzo-18-crown-6 molecule via N,H...O hydrogen bonds. The MB-NH3+ group is attached from the convex side of the bowl-shaped crown, in contrast with similar ammonium cations that nest in the curvature of the bowl. The cations are associated via C,H..., interactions, while the cations and anions are linked by weak C,H...F hydrogen bonds, forming cation,crown,anion chains parallel to [011]. [source]

    Conformational isomers of the [(5-methyl-2-pyridinio)aminomethylene]diphosphonate dianion and [(5-methyl-2-pyridyl)aminomethylene]diphosphonate trianion in salts with 4-aminopyridine and ammonia

    ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 6 2009
    Ewa Matczak-Jon
    The crystal structures of two salts, products of the reactions between [(5-methyl-2-pyridyl)aminomethylene]bis(phosphonic acid) and 4-aminopyridine or ammonia, namely bis(4-aminopyridinium) hydrogen [(5-methyl-2-pyridinio)aminomethylene]diphosphonate 2.4-hydrate, 2C5H7N2+·C7H10N2O6P22,·2.4H2O, (I), and triammonium hydrogen [(5-methyl-2-pyridyl)aminomethylene]diphosphonate monohydrate, 3NH4+·C7H9N2O6P23,·H2O, (II), have been determined. In (I), the Z configuration of the ring N,C and amino N,H bonds of the bisphosphonate dianion with respect to the Cring,Namino bond is consistent with that of the parent zwitterion. Removing the H atom from the pyridyl N atom results in the opposite E configuration of the bisphosphonate trianion in (II). Compound (I) exhibits a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded network, in which 4-aminopyridinium cations and water molecules are joined to ribbons composed of anionic dimers linked by O,H...O and N,H...O hydrogen bonds. The supramolecular motif resulting from a combination of these three interactions is a common phenomenon in crystals of all of the Z -isomeric zwitterions of 4- and 5-substituted (2-pyridylaminomethylene)bis(phosphonic acid)s studied to date. In (II), ammonium cations and water molecules are linked to chains of trianions, resulting in the formation of double layers. [source]

    NH4Ag3(PO3F)2, a layered monofluorophosphate(V) with seven different Ag sites

    ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 5 2007
    Matthias Weil
    Single crystals of ammonium trisilver bis[fluorophosphate(V)], NH4Ag3(PO3F)2, were obtained from an aqueous solution and the structure was refined from a racemically twinned crystal. The asymmetric unit contains seven crystallographically distinct Ag atoms (two of which are located on twofold axes), four PO3F tetrahedra and two ammonium cations. The layered structure is composed of silver,monofluorophosphate sheets, [Ag3(PO3F)2],, that extend parallel to (100). The F atoms of the PO3F tetrahedra point towards the ammonium cations, which are located in the interlayer space and stabilize the structure via moderate N,H...O and N,H...F hydrogen bonds. [source]

    Ammonium O,O -dicyclo­hexyl phosphoro­dithio­ate

    ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C, Issue 3 2006
    Mustafa Serkan Soylu
    The structure of the title compound, NH4+·C12H22O2PS2,, consists of a polymeric arrangement of ammonium cations and O,O -dicyclohexyl phosphorodithioate anions linked through N,H,O and N,H,S hydrogen bonds. These inter­actions result in the formation of (100) sheets. [source]