Methyl Acetate (methyl + acetate)

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Selected Abstracts


Kinetic study of transesterification of methyl acetate with n -butanol catalyzed by NKC-9

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL KINETICS, Issue 2 2009
Baoyun Xu
The transesterification of methyl acetate and n -butanol catalyzed by cation-exchange resin, NKC-9, was studied in this work to obtain the reaction kinetics. The experiments were carried out in a stirred batch reactor at different temperatures (328.15, 333.15, 338.15, 343.15, 345.15 K) under atmospheric pressure. The effects of temperature, molar ratio of reactants, and catalyst loading on the reaction rate were researched under the condition of eliminating the effect of diffusion. The experimental data were correlated with a kinetic model based on the pseudo-homogeneous catalysis. The kinetic equation describing the reaction catalyzed by NKC-9 was developed. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 41: 101,106, 2009 [source]


Determination of %polyvinyl alcohol in vinyl acetate-alcohol resins by quantitative near infrared spectroscopic analysis

ADVANCES IN POLYMER TECHNOLOGY, Issue 1 2010
S. H. Patel
Abstract A number of vinyl acetate-alcohol resins (VAAR) samples were collected during partial hydrolysis of poly(vinyl acetate) at different conversions levels (<30%). Using these VAAR samples with known OH (hydroxyl) content, it has been demonstrated that near infrared (NIR) spectroscopic data produced a near perfect fit for the calibration of OH content. A 4-factor partial least-squares method was employed and gave the best results. Further work also confirmed that NIR, operating at a well-controlled environment, is able to quantify, with great precision, the OH content of the selected model compound. In the case for the OH content analysis of VAAR resins, solvent mix ratio (methyl acetate: methanol) and temperature have been identified to be the two most influential factors on the analytical results. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Adv Polym Techn 29:1,10, 2010; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/adv.20166 [source]


Rational determination of charge distributions for free energy calculations

JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY, Issue 4 2003
Christophe Chipot
Abstract Point charges derived from RHF/6-31G* electrostatic potentials are attractive because they tend to exaggerate the polarity of solvated molecules, thereby compensating in an average fashion missing induction effects. In the context of free energy calculations, wherein the molecule is transferred from a polar environment to a nonpolar one, we propose a more rational approach based on a self-consistent reaction field computation at a higher level of theory, supplemented by an estimation of the corresponding distortion energy to account for the change of polarity of the surroundings. Application of this method to the test cases acetamide, acetic acid, methyl acetate and phenol, using multinanosecond molecular dynamics/"umbrella sampling" simulations, yields consistent hydration free energies in reasonably good agreement with experiment. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 24: 409,415, 2003 [source]


Synthesis of [1- 11C]ethyl iodide from [11C]carbon monoxide and its application in alkylation reactions

JOURNAL OF LABELLED COMPOUNDS AND RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS, Issue 11 2004
Jonas Eriksson
Abstract A method is presented for preparing [1- 11C]ethyl iodide from [11C]carbon monoxide. The method utilizes methyl iodide and [11C]carbon monoxide in a palladium-mediated carbonylation reaction to form a mixture of [1- 11C]acetic acid and [1- 11C]methyl acetate. The acetates are reduced to [1- 11C]ethanol and subsequently converted to [1- 11C]ethyl iodide. The synthesis time was 20 min and the decay-corrected radiochemical yield of [1- 11C]ethyl iodide was 55 ± 5%. The position of the label was confirmed by 13C-labelling and 13C-NMR analysis. [1- 11C]Ethyl iodide was used in two model reactions, an O -alkylation and an N -alkylation. Starting with approximately 2.5 GBq of [11C]carbon monoxide, the isolated decay-corrected radiochemical yields for the ester and the amine derivatives were 45 ± 0.5% and 25 ± 2%, respectively, based on [11C]carbon monoxide. Starting with 10 GBq of [11C]carbon monoxide, 0.55 GBq of the labelled ester was isolated within 40 min with a specific radioactivity of 36 GBq/µmol. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Solvent-dependent conformation of amylose tris(phenylcarbamate) as deduced from scattering and viscosity data

BIOPOLYMERS, Issue 9 2009
Taichi Fujii
Abstract The z -average mean-square radius of gyration ,S2,z, the particle scattering function P(k), the second virial coefficient, and the intrinsic viscosity [,] have been determined for amylose tris(phenylcarbamate) (ATPC) in methyl acetate (MEA) at 25°C, in ethyl acetate (EA) at 33°C, and in 4-methyl-2-pentanone (MIBK) at 25°C by light and small-angle X-ray scattering and viscometry as functions of the weight-average molecular weight in a range from 2 × 104 to 3 × 106. The first two solvents attain the theta state, whereas the last one is a good solvent for the amylose derivative. Analysis of the ,S2,z, P(k), and [,] data based on the wormlike chain yields h (the contour length or helix pitch per repeating unit) = 0.37 ± 0.02 and ,,1 (the Kuhn segment length) = 15 ± 2 nm in MEA, h = 0.39 ± 0.02 and ,,1 = 17 ± 2 nm in EA, and h = 0.42 ± 0.02 nm and ,,1 = 24 ± 2 nm in MIBK. These h values, comparable with the helix pitches (0.37,0.40 nm) per residue of amylose triesters in the crystalline state, are somewhat larger than the previously determined h of 0.33 ± 0.02 nm for ATPC in 1,4-dioxane and 2-ethoxyethanol, in which intramolecular hydrogen bonds are formed between the CO and NH groups of the neighbor repeating units. The slightly extended helices of ATPC in the ketone and ester solvents are most likely due to the replacement of those hydrogen bonds by intermolecular hydrogen bonds between the NH groups of the polymer and the carbonyl groups of the solvent. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Biopolymers 91: 729,736, 2009. 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]