Synthesis and some properties of poly-(2,5-trimethylene benzimidazole) and poly-(2,5-trimethylene benzimidazole hydrochloride)

A polymer, poly(2,5-trimethylene benzimidazole), the first of a new family of nonsymmetrical polymers, was synthesized via an eight-step synthetic route. The polymer, obtained by melt polymerization, is amorphous and in its neutral form behaves as a moderate insulator. It forms 1 : 1 HCl adducts. When cast from formic acid solution, it forms 1 : 1 formic acid adducts. The acid adducts are semiconductors with resistivities in the 10⁶–10⁸ ohm-cm range. Space-charge effects are generated in the adducts as carrier mobility rises.     

Chemistry of ascorbic acid and sulfur dioxide as an antioxidant system relevant to white wine

The impact of the combined ascorbic acid and sulfur dioxide antioxidants on white wine oxidation processes was investigated using a range of analytical techniques, including flow injection analysis for free and total sulfur dioxide and two chromatographic methods for ascorbic acid, its oxidative degradation products and phenolic compounds. The combination of different analytical techniques provided a fast and simultaneous means for the monitoring of oxidation processes in a model wine system. In addition, the initial mole ratio of sulfur dioxide to ascorbic acid was varied and the model wine complexity was increased by the inclusion of metal ions (copper(II) and iron(II)). Sulfur dioxide was found not to be a significant binder of ascorbic acid oxidative degradation products and could not prevent the formation of certain phenolic pigment precursors. The results provide a detailed insight into the ascorbic acid/sulfur dioxide antioxidant system in wine conditions.     

Carbon Dioxide to Methanol: The Aqueous Catalytic Way at Room Temperature

Carbon dioxide may constitute a source of chemicals and fuels if efficient and renewable processes are developed that directly utilize it as feedstock. Two of its reduction products are formic acid and methanol, which have also been proposed as liquid organic chemical carriers in sustainable hydrogen storage. Here we report that both the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to formic acid and the disproportionation of formic acid into methanol can be realized at ambient temperature and in aqueous, acidic solution, with an iridium catalyst. The formic acid yield is maximized in water without additives, while acidification results in complete (98 %) and selective (96 %) formic acid disproportionation into methanol. These promising features in combination with the low reaction temperatures and the absence of organic solvents and additives are relevant for a sustainable hydrogen/methanol economy.     

Palladium-catalyzed conversion of beta,gamma-unsaturated silyl sulfinates into (E)-alkenes: asymmetric synthesis of polypropionate fragments

At low temperature, 1-alkoxy-1,3-dienes add to sulfur dioxide activated by a Lewis or protic acid generating zwitterionic intermediates that can be quenched by enoxysilanes. The resulting beta,gamma-unsaturated silyl sulfinates can be desilylated by 1:1 Pd(OAc)(2)/PPh(3) catalyst, liberating the corresponding beta,gamma-unsaturated sulfinic acids that undergo smooth and highly stereoselective retro-ene eliminations of sulfur dioxide. The method has been applied to generate enantiomerically pure polypropionate fragments.     

Manganese(III) Formate: A Three-Dimensional Framework That Traps Carbon Dioxide Molecules

Carbon dioxide, formic acid, and water molecules are trapped in the crystal lattice of manganese(III ) formate (see 1 ), which was obtained by reducing permanganate with formic acid. Each CO₂ guest molecule exhibits four C−H⋅⋅⋅O−C−O interactions with the three-dimensional host framework of Mn(HCOO)₃ units. Compound 1 undergoes an antiferromagnetic phase transition at 27 K.     

大气中一元酸催化亚硫酸分解反应的从头算及动力学研究

采用从头算的理论计算方法,在CCSD（T）/aug-cc-pVDZ//MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ水平下,对甲酸、乙酸、丙酸和硝酸催化亚硫酸分解成二氧化硫和水的微观反应机理进行了理论研究.结果表明,这4种一元酸均可使亚硫酸分解反应能垒显著降低,降低幅度由大到小的顺序为丙酸 > 乙酸 > 甲酸 > 硝酸.其中,丙酸甚至使反应能垒从裸反应时的99.84 kJ/mol降至27.24 kJ/mol.在此基础上,计算了200~320 K温度范围内4种一元酸催化亚硫酸分解反应的速率常数,并结合它们在大气中的实际浓度计算了有效速率常数.结果表明,在实际大气环境中,乙酸对亚硫酸分解反应的催化效果最为显著.当乙酸存在时,亚硫酸在室温下的大气寿命仅为0.02 s.     

Retention characteristics of volatile compounds on tenax TA

The chromatographic separation properties of long, thin adsorption tubes enable substance-specific quantitative enrichment and reduction to be achieved when sampling and thermal desorption are carried out in the same flow direction. The specific retention volumes, and also the breakthrough and peak end volumes, of 69 compounds in the boiling range between-164 and 126°C and of a relative molecular mass between 16 and 119 were determined at temperatures between 30 and 130°C: normal alkanes, isoalkanes, cycloalkanes, alkenes, polyenes, alkynes, aromatics, ethers, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and their esters, nitroalkanes, O-heterocycles, S-heterocycles, chloroalkanes, water, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide. The correlation between adsorbent temperature and specific retention volume of these components, presented in the form of diagrams, permits the required quantity of adsorbent to be determined for a given sample volume. Contrary to literature sources, even extremely volatile compounds such as propane, propene, methanol, formaldehyde, formic acid, and chloromethane can be quantitatively retained on Tenax provided the operating conditions are appropriately selected.     

Simple spectrophotometric and titrimetric methods for the determination of sulfur dioxide.

The proposed work describes a simple spectrophotmetric as well as a titrimetric method to determine sulfur dioxide. The spectrophotometric method is based on a redox reaction between sulfur dioxide and iodine monochloride obtained from iodine with chloramine-T in acetic acid. The reagent iodine monochloride oxidizes sulfur dioxide to sulfate, thereby reducing itself to iodine. Thus liberated iodine will also oxidize sulfur dioxide and reduce itself to iodide. The obtained iodide is expected to combine with iodine to form a brown-colored homoatomictriiodide anion (460 nm), which forms an ion-pair with the sulfonamide cation, providing exceptional color stability to the system under an acidic condition, and is quantitatively relatd to sulfur dioxide. The system obeys Beer's law in the range 5 - 100 microg of sulfur dioxide in a final volume of 10 ml. The molar absorptivity is 5.03 x 10(3) l mol(-1)cm(-1), with a relative standard deviation of 3.2% for 50 microg of sulfur dioxide (n = 10). In the titrimetric method, the reagent iodine monochloride was reduced with potassium iodide (10%) to iodine, which oxidized sulfur dioxide to sulfate, and excess iodine was determined with a thiosulfate solution. The volume difference of thiosulfate with the reagent and with the sulfur dioxide determined the sulfur dioxide. Reproducible and accurate results were obtained in the range of 0.1 - 1.5 mg of sulfur dioxide with a relative standard deviation of 1.2% for 0.8 mg of sulfur dioxide (n = 10).     

Cerate oxidimetry: Oxidation of glycerol,glycol and other organic compounds

1. Oxidation ot tartronic acid has been studied and it has been shown that the oxidation of glycerol by ceric sulphate does not proceed via this acid by was presumed by earlier workers. 2. It has been shown that the oxidation of formic acid by pure ceric sulphate is negligible, but using chromium sulphate as catalyst, formic acid can be quantitatively oxidized. 3. Oxidation of glycol and glycerol can be carried out quantitatively either to the -formic acid stage or completely to carbon dioxide and water. A combination of the above provides a method for the estimation of the two compounds when present together in a mixture.     

活性炭及甲酸催化过氧化氢氧化噻吩脱硫研究

以噻吩代表汽油中的有机硫化合物,将其溶解于正辛烷配制成反应原料,考察了活性炭对噻吩的吸附脱硫情况,研究了质量分数为30％的过氧化氢水溶液为氧化剂,在活性炭和甲酸的催化作用下,反应原料中噻吩氧化脱硫。考察了活性炭的催化性能及反应条件对其催化性能的影响。实验结果表明,30％H2O2-HCOOH-AC（活性炭）三元体系产生的过氧甲酸和羟基自由基能将模型有机硫化合物氧化,噻吩的氧化脱硫率可达到85％以上;活性炭和甲酸的催化氧化性能明显优于单纯使用甲酸催化性能。甲酸浓度、活性炭加入量、过氧化氢初始浓度及温度对噻吩硫的氧化脱除均有影响。     

Molecular characterization of homo- and heterodimeric mercury(II)-<Emphasis Type="Italic">bis</Emphasis>-thiolates of some biologically relevant thiols by electrospray ionization and triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry

A series of 24 compounds of general formula R(1)S-Hg-SR(2), R(1) and R(2) being biologically relevant thiol-containing amino acids and peptides (cysteine, homo-cysteine, penicillamine, N-acetyl-cysteine, N-acetyl-penicillamine, cysteinyl-glycine, gamma-glutamyl-cysteine and glutathione) were prepared by direct reaction of mercury(II) ions and thiols in water at millimolar concentration. The obtained products were characterized by electrospray ionization and triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry. The source spectra of equimolar mixtures of two different thiols reacting with a stoichiometric amount of mercury(II) show the peak clusters of the three theoretically expected bis-thiolato-mercury(II) complexes with relative intensities close to the theoretically expected 1:2:1 ratio, thus pointing at lack of substantial discrimination between the different thiols, the only observed exception being homo-cysteine, which is less reactive than cysteine and penicillamine. The fragment spectra are structure-specific for the different ligands bound to the metal ion and allow a stand-alone discrimination of some constitutional isomer pairs. Among the peculiar fragmentation processes observed, loss of neutral ammonia from protonated symmetrical and unsymmetrical mercury(II)-bis-thiolates with free, protonizable amino groups leads to the formation of thiirane-carboxylic bound species; this process is suppressed when the protonated amino group is in the gamma-position with respect to the sulfur atom, as in the case of compounds with homo-cysteine. This unusual behavior may hint at unforeseen mechanisms for the interaction of mercury(II) with biological structures, ultimately leading to cellular and organ toxicity. Compounds with N-acetylated amino acids show distinctive fragment ions to which the connectivity of a protonated 2-methyl-oxazoline-5-carboxylic acid may be proposed on the basis of the loss of water and of the elements of formic acid. Finally, the adducts of mercury(II) with glutathione and gamma-glutamyl-cysteine feature a distinctive decomposition channel by loss of a pyroglutamic unit, much the same as protonated glutathione, glutathione disulfide, the S-glutathionyl adducts of biologically occurring electrophiles and other (pseudo)-peptides with gamma-glutamyl bonds.     

固载Ru基催化剂上二氧化碳加氢合成甲酸的研究(IV): 反应机理

探讨了在CO₂加H₂合成HCOOH过程中原位合成的固载Ru基催化剂的可能结构、CO₂的活化方式以及可能的反应机理. 在反应中, 固载Ru配合物中的一个P配体首先解离, 被质子型溶剂ROH取代而生成循环活性物质, 然后CO₂正插入Ru—H键生成甲酸酯配合物, 之后甲酸酯配合物中的Ru—O₂CH键被H₂氢解生成HCOOH, 而本身重新转化为活性物质, 完成催化循环.     

Novel regioselective C-6 and C-19 alkylation of vitamin D3 via its sulfur-dioxide adducts

Vitamin D-sulfur dioxide adducts undergo regioselective methylation at C-6 with sodium hydride used as the base and at C-19 with lithium tetramethylpiperidide. The methylated adducts are converted to the corresponding vitamin D derivatives by extrusion of sulfur dioxide.     

Kinetic study on disproportionations of C1 aldehydes in supercritical water: methanol from formaldehyde and formic acid

The reaction pathways and kinetics of C1 aldehydes, formaldehyde (HCHO) and formic acid (HCOOH=HOCHO), are studied at 400 degrees C in neat condition and in supercritical water over a wide range of water density, 0.1-0.6 g/cm3. Formaldehyde exhibits four reactions: (i) the self-disproportionation of formaldehyde generating methanol and formic acid, (ii) the cross-disproportionation between formaldehyde and formic acid generating methanol and carbon dioxide, (iii) the water-independent self-disproportionation of formaldehyde generating methanol and carbon monoxide, and (iv) the decarbonylation of formaldehyde generating hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The self- and cross-disproportionations overwhelm the water-independent self-disproportionation and the formaldehyde decarbonylation. The rate constants of the self- and cross-disproportionations are determined in the water density range of 0.1-0.6 g/cm3. The rate constant of the cross-disproportionation is 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than that of the self-disproportionation, which indicates that formic acid is a stronger reductant than formaldehyde. Combining the kinetic results with our former computational study on the equilibrium constants of the self- and cross-disproportionations, the reaction mechanisms of these disproportionations are discussed within the framework of transition-state theory. The reaction path for methanol production can be controlled by tuning the water density and reactant concentrations. The methanol yield of approximately 80% is achieved by mixing formaldehyde with formic acid in the ratio of 1:2 at the water density of 0.4 g/cm3.     

The cis–trans transformation of cyclohexane formic acid ester compounds

Trans-alkyl cyclohexane formic acid phenol ester compounds are synthesised by reaction of trans-cyclohexane formic acid and phenols. This process also produces many harmful cis-alkyl cyclohexane formic acid phenol ester compounds that are harmful to the environment. Using p-toluenesulphonic acid as the catalyst in this experiment, these cis compounds were transformed to their trans form. The yields of trans-alkyl cyclohexane formic acid phenol ester compounds were more than 70%, which was significantly higher when compared to the yields of 40–60% obtained using the control method. The effects of catalyst, reaction time and reaction temperature on cis–trans transformation were investigated. The possible mechanism of cis–trans transformation has been discussed in this report.     

品红褪色机理的实验探究

中学阶段常用于检验二氧化硫气体的品红溶液分为酸性品红和碱性品红2种。通过设计集演示、对比于一体的绿色环保二氧化硫性质实验装置,优化实验条件,探讨了酸性品红和碱性品红与SO2、酸碱反应的性质差异及褪色机理,并提出鉴别酸性品红和碱性品红的简便办法。     

Dosage de l'oxygene dans l'uranium et ses composes par la methode au monochlorure de soufre

A sulfur monochloride method is proposed for the determination of oxygen in uranium compounds. Sulfur monochloride reacts with oxygenated compounds at temperatures depending upon their nature; the sulfur dioxide produced is titrated by iodometry, after the excess reagent has been eliminated by a selective adsorption-desorption process using activated charcoal. This method has been successfully applied to uranium oxides (UO₂, U₃O₈), to mixtures of uranium dioxide with uranium, uranium nitride, and uranium carbide, and to substituted carbides (UC_1-xO_x). The results are generally satisfactory for oxygen contents higher than 500 p.p.m. However, in the presence of free or combined carbon, this limit is considerably higher. A loss of oxygen as carbon monoxide is also possible, and a simultaneous determination of carbon monoxide must be carried out. The relative error is of the order of a few per cent.     

Analysis of ergosteroids. VIII: Enhancement of signal response of neutral steroidal compounds in liquid chromatographic-electrospray ionization mass spectrometric analysis by mobile phase additives

The signal response of moderately polar to nonpolar neutral steroidal compounds in positive ion mode was significantly improved in electrospray ionization mode by addition of volatile organic acids (trifluoroacetic acid, acetic and formic) at concentrations much lower than those normally employed for high-performance liquid chromatographic separations of ionic compounds. Each of the three acids enhanced the sensitivity, the order being: formic acid (approximately 50-200 ppm, v/v) > acetic acid (100-500 ppm) > trifluoroacetic acid (5-20 ppm). Higher concentrations caused decrease in the sensitivity. The extent of increase in the sensitivity was compound specific and also depended on the nature of organic modifier present in the mobile phase. Acetic acid was the acid of choice for the 'wrong-way-round' ionization of sulfate conjugates. The postcolumn addition of silver nitrate produced highly stable (M + Ag)+ adducts with concomitant increase in signal response and reduction in baseline noise.     

Development of a new carbon-carbon bond forming reaction. new organic chemistry of sulfur dioxide. Asymmetric four-component synthesis of polyfunctional sulfones.

At low temperature 1-alkoxy-1,3-dienes add to sulfur dioxide activated by a Lewis or Br?nstedt acid and generate zwitterionic intermediates that can be quenched by enoxysilanes. The resulting beta,gamma-unsaturated silyl sulfinates can be desilylated and reacted with methyl iodide to provide polyfunctional sulfones. Exploratory studies of this four-component synthesis of sulfones are reported. Enantiomerically pure derivatives containing up to three new stereogenic centers can be obtained using enantiomerically pure (E,E)-1-alkoxy-2-methylpenta-1,3-dienes derived from alpha-methyl benzyl alcohols, including the Greene's chiral auxiliary. The stereochemistry of the reactions is consistent with a mechanism involving the suprafacial hetero-Diels-Alder addition of sulfur dioxide to the 1-alkoxy-1,3-dienes that are rapidly ionized into zwitterionic intermediates.     

氟催化废弃硅基还原剂与CO2还原转化反应

CO2是最重要的可再生碳源之一.为了将CO2转化为有用的有机化合物,我们研究了二种模型硅基"废"材料—乙硅烷和硅粉的反应活性.在这些反应中,氟盐的催化活性最高,在常压、在质子源水和硅基还原剂的存在下,CO2可转化为甲酸.原位NMR和动力学分析表明,含氢硅烷和五配位的硅物种分别是反应中间物和活性物种.