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Gas-phase Pyrolysis (gas-phase + pyrolysi)
Selected AbstractsGas-phase pyrolysis in organic synthesis: New route for synthesis of functionally substituted imidazolesJOURNAL OF HETEROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 6 2008Osman M. E. El-Dusouqui 1,2,3-Triazolylpropanone was prepared and coupled with aryldiazonium salts yielding the corresponding arylhydrazones. Gas-phase pyrolysis of the hydrazono derivative produced N -arylamino-2-acetylimidazole as well as 2-acetylimidazole. The latter is the product of further pyrolysis of the former. [source] Natural intramolecular isotope measurements in physiology: elements of the case for an effort toward high-precision position-specific isotope analysis,RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY, Issue 15 2001J. T. Brenna Chemical information available in organisms can be categorized into three major domains, macromolecular, small molecules, and isotope ratios. Information about physiological state is commonly obtained by qualitative and quantitative analysis in the macromolecular and small molecule domains. Genomics and proteomics are emerging approaches to analysis of macromolecules, and both areas yield definitive information on present physiological state. There is relatively little record of past physiological states of the individual available in these domains. Natural isotopic variability, particularly on an intramolecular level, is likely to retain more physiological history. Because of ubiquitous isotopic fractionation, every stereochemically unique position in every molecule has an isotope ratio that reflects the processes of synthesis and degradation. This fact highlights a vast amount of organismal chemical information that is essentially unstudied. Isotope measurements can be classified according to the chemical complexity of the analyte into bulk, compound-specific, and position-specific or intramolecular levels. Recent advances in analysis of isotope ratios are transforming natural science, and particularly answering questions about ecosystems using bulk methods; however, they have had relatively little impact on physiology. This may be because the vast complexities of physiological questions demand very selective information available in position-specific isotope analysis (PSIA). The relatively few high-precision PSIA studies, based on isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS), have revealed intramolecular isotope ratio differences in pivotal physiological compounds including amino acids, glucose, glycerol, acetate, fatty acids, and purines. The majority of these analyses have been accomplished by laborious offline methods; however, recent advances in instrumentation presage rapid PSIA that will be necessary to attack real physiological problems. Gas-phase pyrolysis has been shown to be an effective method to determine 13C/12C at high precision for molecular fragments, and technologies to extend C-based PSIA to N and other organic elements are emerging. Two related efforts are warranted, (a) development of rapid, convenient, and sensitive methods for high-precision PSIA, a necessary precursor to (b) a concerted investigation into the relationship of metabolic state to intramolecular isotope ratio. Inherent in this latter goal is the need to identify long-lived molecules in long-lived cells that retain a record of early isotopic conditions, as has been shown for post-mortem human neuronal DNA. Using known metabolic precursor-product relationships between intramolecular positions, future studies of physiological isotope fractionation should reveal the relationship of diet and environment to observed isotope ratio. This science of isotope physiology, or simply isotopics, should add an important tool for elucidation of early factors that effect later health, probably the most difficult class of biomedical issues. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Synthesis, thermal reactivity, and kinetics of stabilized phosphorus ylides, part 2: [(Arylcarbamoyl)(cyano)methylene]triphenylphosphoranes and their thiocarbamoyl analoguesINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL KINETICS, Issue 8 2006R. Alan Aitken A series of five cyano(arylcarbamoyl) phosphorus ylides 2 and five cyano(arylthiocarbamoyl) phosphorus ylides 3 are prepared and fully characterized. Pyrolytic reaction products of a representative example of each type obtained by flash vacuum pyrolysis technique show that they undergo thermal extrusion of Ph3PO or Ph3PS. Kinetic study of the gas-phase pyrolysis of each ylide by static method shows that these reactions are unimolecular and first order with no significant substituent effect, but the thiocarbamoyl ylides 3 react 40,65 times more rapidly than their carbamoyl analogues 2. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 38: 496,502, 2006 [source] Effects of entropy on the gas-phase pyrolysis of ethyl N,N -dimethylcarbamateJOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Issue 3 2007Chang K. Kim Abstract In this study, we examined the gas-phase pyrolysis of ethyl N,N -dimethylcarbamate theoretically at various theoretical levels. The reaction consists of a two-step mechanism, with N,N -dimethylcarbamic acid and ethylene as reaction intermediates. In the first step, the reaction proceeds via a six-membered cyclic transition state (TS), which is more favorable than that via a four-membered cyclic TS. Here, the contribution of entropy to the overall potential energy surface was found to play an important role in determining the rate-limiting step, which was found to be the second step when viewed in terms of the enthalpy of activation (,H,), but the first step when entropy changes (,T,S,) were considered. These results are consistent with experimental findings. Moreover, the experimental activation entropy can be reproduced by using the hindered rotor approximation, which converts some low vibration frequencies that correspond to internal rotational modes into hindered rotors. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 28: 625,631, 2007 [source] | ||||||||||