Free-radical addition of BrCCl3 to 1-decene initiated by tetrahydrofurane

Khrasch addition of BrCCl₃ to 1-decene and spin-trappinq ESR observations show that BrCCl₃ is spontaneously reduced in THF.     

Effets polaires dans les reactions de transfert homolytique intramoleculaire d'hydrogene

In this paper we analyse the influence of a phenyl substituent on the relative rates of the 1–5 and 1–6 intramolecular hydrogen transfers. Compared to the abstraction of an aliphatic H atom, the activation energy for the abstraction of a benzylic H atom is smaller. The effect is nevertheless more important with a primary alkyl radical (1,3 kcal/mole) than with an alkoxy radical (0,9 kcal/mole. This can be analysed in terms of a polar effect. In addition, the size of the effect is too small to make a short distance transfer of a H-atom feasible; this is in keeping with the statement that H atom migration requires a linear transition state.     

A Titration Microcalorimetric Study of the Effects of Halide Counterions on Vesicle-Forming Aggregation in Aqueous Solution of Branched-Chain Alkylpyridinium Surfactants

Titration microcalorimetry is used to study the influences of iodide, bromide, and chloride counterions on the aggregation of vesicle-forming 1-methyl-4-(2-pentylheptyl)pyridinium halide surfactants. Formation of vesicles by these surfactants was characterised using transmission electron microscopy. When the counterion is changed at 303 K through the series iodide, bromide, to chloride, the critical vesicular concentration (cvc) increases and the enthalpy of vesicle formation changes from exo- to endothermic. With increase in temperature to 333 K, vesicle formation becomes strongly exothermic. Increasing the temperature leads to a decrease in enthalpy and entropy of vesicle formation for all three surfactants. However the standard Gibbs energy for vesicle formation is, perhaps surprisingly, largely unaffected by an increase in temperature, as a consequence of a compensating change in both standard entropy and standard enthalpy of vesicle formation. Interestingly, standard isobaric heat capacities of vesicle formation are negative, large in magnitude but not strikingly dependent on the counterion. We conclude that the driving force for vesicle formation can be understood in terms of overlap of the thermally labile hydrophobic hydration shells of the alkyl chains. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.