Gas-phase thermolysis of sulfur compounds. Part IV. n-propyl allyl sulfide

The pyrolysis of n-propyl allyl sulfide has been studied in static and stirred-flow systems at temperatures between 270 and 400°C. Propene and 2,4,6-triethyl-1,3,5-trithiane were the only reaction products. The order of the reaction was 0.99 ± 0.05 at 377°C. The first-order rate coefficients followed the Arrhenius equation The rate coefficients and the product distribution remained unchanged when cyclohexene was used as carrier gas. A molecular mechanism involving a six-centered cyclic transition state is proposed to explain the present results. This mechanism is further supported by the pyrolysis of 4-thia-5-dideutero-1-heptene at 377°C, where only 3-deuteropropene is formed. The kinetic deuterium isotope effect had a value of 2.6 ± 0.3 at this temperature. The results are compared with those obtained in the pyrolysis of n-butyl allyl sulfide previously reported.     

Gas phase thermolysis of sulfur compounds. II. Ditertiary butyl sulfide

The pyrolysis of di-tert-butyl sulfide has been investigated in static and stirred-flow systems at subambient pressures. The rate of consumption of the sulfide was measured in some experiments, and the rate of pressure increase was followed in others. The results suggest that the reaction is essentially homogeneous in a seasoned reactor and proceeds through a free radical mechanism. In the initial stages, the decomposition rate follows first-order kinetics, and the rate coefficient in the absence of an inhibitor is given by between 360 and 413°C. The stoichiometry of the uninhibited reaction at 380°C and 50% decomposition is approximately between 360 and 413°C. The stoichiometry of the uninhibited reaction at 380°C and 50% decomposition is approximately.     

Gas-phase thermolysis of sulfur compounds. Part VIII. Chloromethyl allyl,cyanomethyl allyl, 1-cyanoethyl allyl and neopentyl allyl sulfides

The pyrolyses of four alkyl allyl sulfides with substituents on the α? C atom of the alkyl moiety have been studied in a stirred-flow system over the temperature range 340-400°C and pressures between 2 and 12 torr. The only products formed are propene and thioaldehydes. The reactions showed first-order kinetics with the rate coefficients following the Arrhenius equations: Chloromethyl allyl sulfide: Cyanomethyl allyl sulfide: 1-cyanoethyl allyl sulfide: Neopentyl allyl sulfide: The effects of these and other substituents on the reactivity is discussed in relation with the stabilization of a polar six-centered transition state. The results support a non-concerted mechanism where the 1–5 α? H atom shift is assisted by its acidic character.     

Gas-phase thermolysis of benzotriazole derivatives. Part 3: Kinetic and mechanistic evidence for biradical intermediates in pyrolysis of aroylbenzotriazoles and related compounds

Gas-phase pyrolysis (static and FVP) of 1-aroylbenzotriazoles gave the corresponding substituted benzoxazole, benzimidazole, benzamide, N-phenylbenzamide, phenanthridin-6(5H)-one derivatives and 1-cyanocyclopentadiene. The present kinetic and mechanistic findings also provide further evidence of the involvement of biradical or carbene reactive intermediates in the reaction pathway of gas-phase pyrolysis of benzotriazoles.     

Acetylenic ketones. Part III . Reaction of acetylenic ketones with nucleophilic sulfur compounds

Aroylphenylacetylenes reacted with ammonium dithiocarbamate and ammonium hydrogen sulfide in 60% dioxane-waler mixture at 15° to give mainly a mixture of the corresponding β-hydroxy-α-thiobenzoylstyrene derivatives (III) and (E,Z)-β,β'-di(α-aroylstyryl) sulfides (IV), whereas with sodium xanthate and sodium sulfide they gave only (III). However, when benzoyl-(Ia) or p-ehlorobenzoyl-(Id)phenylacetylenes was refluxed with ammonium dithiocarbamate in ethyl alcohol, it gave a mixture of (IIIa or d) and the (E,E)-β,β'-di(α-aroylstyryl) sulfide (VIa or d). β-Hydroxy-α-thiobenzoylstyrene derivatives (III), (E,Z)-(IV) and (E,E)-(VI)-β,β'-di(α-aroylstyryl) sulfides reacted with hydrazine hydrate and phenylhydrazine to give 3(5)-aryl-5(3)-phenyl-(IX)- and 5-aryl-1,3-diphenyl-(X)pyrazoles, respectively. The former compounds (III) reacted with guanidine and ethyl hydrazinecarboxylate to give the corresponding aminopyrimidines (XIII) and acetophenone-N-ethoxycarbonyl hydrazones (XI), respectively.     

Gas-phase thermolysis reaction of formaldehyde diperoxide. Kinetic study and theoretical mechanisms

Gas-phase thermolysis reaction of formaldehyde diperoxide (1,2,4,5-tetroxane) was performed in an injection chamber of a gas chromatograph at a range of 463-503 K. The average Arrhenius activation energy and pre-exponential factor were 29.3 ± 0.8 kcal/mol and 5.2 × 10¹³ s⁻¹, respectively. Critical points and reaction paths of the ground singlet and first triplet potential energy surfaces (PES) were calculated, using DFT method at BHANDHLYP/6-311+G^∗∗ level of the theory. Also, G3 calculations were performed on the reactant and products. Reaction by the ground-singlet and first-triplet states turned out to be endothermic and exothermic, respectively. The mechanism in three steps seemed to be the most probable one. An electronically non-adiabatic process appeared, in which a crossing, at an open diradical structure, from the singlet to the triplet state PES occurred, due to a spin-orbit coupling, yielding an exothermic reaction. Theoretical kinetic constant coming from the non- adiabatic transition from the singlet to the triplet state agrees with the experimental values.     

Crystalographic and structural characterization of heterometallic platinum compounds. Part III: heterotrinuclear compounds

This review article includes over three hundred and sixty heterotrinuclear platinum complexes of the composition Pt₂M (205 examples), PtM₂ (132 examples) and PtMM (24 examples). The heterometals include the non-transition and transition metals. Three metal atoms form a wide variability of frameworks: M₃ triangular, dicapped M₃ triangular, V shaped M₃, M₃ linear, five-, six- and seven- metallocycles and unique structures of which triangular and linear are the most common. This has led to a rich chemistry of platinum not only from variability of metals, but also from their framework and stereochemistry. The shortest Pt-M (non-transition) and Pt-M (transition) bonds are 2.315(1) Å for Pt-Ga and 2.4896(9) Å for Pt-Co. The shortest Pt-Pt bond distance is 2.581(1) Å. Two complexes exist in two isomeric forms and several others contain crystallographically independent molecules. All are typical examples of distortion isomerism. Correlations between structural parameters, heterometal and ligand donor atoms are developed and discussed.      

Electrochemical behaviour of organotin compounds: Part III. Dialkyltin mercaptocarboxylates

Electrochemical behaviour of di-n-octyltin dithioglycolate has been investigated in acetate buffer (pH 7.0) containing 80% (v/v) ethanol. It has been found to give two well-defined polarographic waves, one of which is anodic and involves two-electron oxidation of the mercaptide. The other wave has been found to be cathodic and is due to one-electron reduction of the dioctyltin compound to a free radical. Strong adsorption of the compound at the DME was indicated by depression in its drop time curve. A mechanism of the electrode process is postulated and a method for detection of these compounds down to p.p.m. level has been developed.     

Gas-phase thermolysis of N-cyanomethyl-N-ethyl aniline,N-cyanomethyl-N-ethyl-p-anisidine,and N-cyanomethyl-N-ethyl-p-nitroaniline

N-cyanomethyl-N-ethyl aniline (CEAN) and N-cyanomethyl-N-ethyl-p-anisidine (CEPA) have been thermolyzed in a stirred-flow reactor, in the range of 510–560 °C, pressures of 7–11 torr and residence times of 0.5–0.9 s, using toluene as carrier gas. N-cyanomethyl-N-ethyl-p-nitroaniline (ECNA) was thermolyzed at 640°C and 13% conversion. Ethylene and HCN formed in 43% yield each as products from all three starting materials. Phenyl methanaldimine and p-anisidyl methanaldimine were also products of CEAN and CEPA, respectively. The consumption of CEAN and CEPA showed first-order kinetics for a three-fold increase of reactant inflow and initial conversions of up to 40 percent. The following Arrhenius equations were obtained from the rate coefficients for the production of ethylene: CEAN: k=10^15.10±0.74 exp(−238±11 kJ/mol·RT); CEPA: k=10^15.61±0.29 exp(−246±4 kJ/mol·RT). The results are explained by means of radical, nonchain thermolysis mechanisms. The thermochemistry of relevant reaction steps has been estimated from thermochemical parameters calculated by using the semiempirical AM1 method. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet: 30: 451–456, 1998     

Gas-phase thermolysis of condensed-1,2,4-triazines: interesting routes toward heterocyclic ring systems

Gas-phase thermolysis of thieno[2,3-e][1,2,4]triazines gave benzonitrile, isothiazole, pyridazine, and thieno[2,3-d]thiazole derivatives. Similar transformation of benzo[1,2,4]triazine and phenanthro[9,10-e][1,2,4]triazine derivatives into their corresponding condensed thiazoles has been achieved by heating at 350 °C with sulfur. A mechanism for these pyrolytic transformations was proposed.     

Gas-phase spectroscopy of the unstable sulfur diisocyanate molecule S(NCO)2.

Sulfur diisocyanate is generated from a heterogeneous reaction of gaseous sulfur dichloride with silver cyanate and studied for the first time in the gas phase. Combined with quantum chemical calculations, the electronic structure is characterized by photoelectron spectroscopy (PES). Simultaneously, an investigation of the possible ionization and dissociation processes for the molecular cation is presented based on experimental soft ionization mass spectrometry. From the calculated bond-dissociation energies, the dissociation pathway is determined. S(NCO)2+ undergoes 1,3-sigmatropic rearrangement with a smaller barrier height (9.9 kcal mol(-1)) than the neutral counterpart. Thus, the 1,3-sigmatropic rearrangement is preferred for the molecular cation, and OCNCO+ and NS+ is produced by subsequent dissociation of the rearrangement product. The analysis agrees very well with the experimental mass spectrum.     

Formation and thermal decomposition of silicon oxynitride compounds. Part III

The formation of a previously unknown compound with stoichiometry Li₆SiN₂O₂ was found during studies on the reactivity of Li₂SiN₂ with Li₂O, of SiO₂ with Li₃N and of Li₃SiNO₂ with Li₃N.

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Zusammenfassung Die Bildung einer bisher unbekannten Verbindung der Stöchiometrie Li₆SiN₂O₂ wurde bei Untersuchungen der Reaktivität von Li₂SiN₂ mit LiO, von SiO₂ mit Li₃N und von Li₃SiNO₂ mit Li₃N beobachtet.

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Li₆SiN₂O₂ Li₂SiN₂ , , Li₃SiNO₂ .

     

Studies on the analytical chemistry of iodonium compounds. Part III

Summary A procedure is described for the determination of the diphenyliodonium cation in the range 1.0 to 4.0 mg, by extraction from solution buffered at p_H 9.5 into chloroform as the diethyldithiocarbamate followed by conversion into the copper(II) complex. Absorbance measurements are made on the chloroform solution of the copper(II) diethyldithio-carbamate at 435 nm, and a linear relation exists between absorbance and cation content within the range specified. The optimum conditions for the extraction are discussed.

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Zusammenfassung Ein Verfahren zur Bestimmung von Diphenyliodoniumkationen in der Größenordnung von 1,0 bis 4,0 mg wurde beschrieben. Es beruht auf deren Extraktion aus gepufferter Lösung (p_H=9,5) mit Chloroform als Diäthyldithiocarbamat und dessen Überführung in einen Kupfer(II)-komplex. Die Absorption des Kupfer(II)-diäthyldithiocarbamats in Chloroformlösung wurde bei 435 nm gemessen. Sie steht in linearem Verhältnis zur Kationenkonzentration. Die optimalen Bedingungen für die Extraktion werden erörtert.

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Résumé On décrit un procédé pour le dosage du cation diphényliodonium dans le domaine de 1,0 à 4,0 mg, en l'extrayant d'une solution tamponnée à p_H 9,5 par le chloroforme, à l'état de diethyldithiocarbamate puis en le transformant en complexe du cuivre-II. On effectue les mesures de densité optique sur la solution dans le chloroforme du diéthyldithiocarbamate de cuivre-II à 435 nm; il existe une relation linéaire entre la densité optique et la teneur en cation dans le domaine spécifié. On discute les conditions optimales pour effectuer l'extraction.

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Part II. Mikrochim. Acta [Wien]1966, 539.     

Reaction of organic sulfur compounds with superoxide anion—III : Oxidation of organic sulfur compounds to sulf1nic and sulfonic acids

Organic sulfur compounds such as disulfide, thiolsulfinate, thiolsulfonate, thiol, sodium thiolate, and sodium sultinale were readily oxidized to both sulfinic and sulfonic acids with superoxide anion generated from potassium superoxide and 18-crown-6-ether under mild conditions. However, both sulfide and sulfoxide did not react with superoxide anion, O₂^-. Although thiol was easily oxidized to disulfide with O₂^? at room temperature, it was oxidized further with O₂^? at 60° to the corresponding sulfinic and sulfonic acids. Symmetrical disulfide was obtained in the reaction of unsymmetrical thiolsulfinate or thiolsulfonate along with both sulfinic and sulfonic acids. Most reactive was thiolsulfinate which reacted at lower temperature ranging between ?40 and 0° to afford the products within 30 min. Relative reactivities fall in the following order: thiolsulfinate > thiolsulfonate > disulfide ? sodium thiolate ? sodium sulfinate. Polar solvents such as pyridine and acetonitrile were more effective than such a less polar solvent as benzene in the oxidation of the substrate, and increased amount of the crown ether shortened the reaction time. Nucleophilic attack of O₂^? and electron transfer processes are believed to be involved in these oxidations.     

Computerized technique in organic microelemental analysis: Part II. Automatic determination of sulfur in organic compounds

Described is the automatic and computerized rapid microanalytical determination of sulfur in organic and organometallic compounds. The procedure consists of the combustion of the compound in an empty tube, transfer of combustion products to the titration vessel by automatic wash, and, finally, colorostatic titration of sulfuric acid with Ba(ClO₄)₂ against dimethylsulfonazo III.The entire analysis and preparation of the equipment for the next determination are programmed in time of the 6-min cycle.The analyzer is interfaced to the departmental real-time time-sharing computer, along with electronic microbalances and other analyzers, as a part of the microanalytical laboratory computer service.Results of the analyses are reported on CR terminals and are also stored on the magnetic disc for further processing.     

Pyrolysis—gas chromatography—mass spectrometry of model compounds from coal hydrogenates: Part III. Sulphur compounds

A pyrolysis—gas chromatography—mass spectrometry study of some model sulphur compounds encountered in coal hydrogenates was performed in order to determine the fate of the sulphur during thermal cracking in an inert atmosphere. Heterocyclic sulphur compounds such as thiophene, 3-methylthiophene and benzothiophene were thermally more stable than thiophenol and 4-methylthiophenol. For all these compounds, the first pyrolysis step was a dimerization reaction. Desulphurization was always unimportant and therefore the amounts of desulphurized light aromatic hydrocarbons obtained were always very low. Several cracking mechanisms are proposed.     

Gas-phase thermolysis of benzotriazole derivatives. Part 2: Synthesis of benzimidazo[1,2-b]cinnolines, a novel heterocyclic ring system, by pyrolysis of benzotriazole derivatives. Kinetic and mechanistic study

Gas-phase pyrolysis of benzotriazolyl ketones and their arylhydrazones gave indole, benzimidazole and benzimidazo[1,2-b]cinnoline derivatives via interesting novel routes. The homogeneous first-order gas-phase pyrolysis of 10 arylhydrazono derivatives of α-benzotriazol-1-yl ketones was investigated over the temperature range 420-530 K. Five of these substrates were 2-(arylhydrazono)-2-(benzotriazol-1-yl)-1-phenylethanone derivatives (Series 1), and the remaining five were the corresponding acetone analogues (Series 2). The values of the Arrhenius frequency factor (log A/s⁻¹) for the pyrolysis of the compounds of Series 1 and 2 were, respectively, 12.27±1.44 and 9.07±1.20, while the values of the Arrhenius activation energy (E_a/kJ mol⁻¹) were 132.8±8.4 and 123.2±23.0, respectively. Besides, reaction pathways are offered to rationalize the kinetic results and to account for the products of pyrolysis of the substrates under study, namely: (i) extrusion of N₂ and formation of a 1,3-biradical reactive intermediate leading to substituted imidazoles (Series 1); (ii) intramolecular nucleophilic addition, cyclization and subsequent fragmentation with or without loss of H₂O/N₂ fragments (Series 1 and 2).