Chemical modification of polymers. XII. Control of triboelectric charging properties of polymers by chemical modification

Chemical modification of polymers leads to changes in triboelectric charging properties which are proportional to the degree of conversion. This contrasts to physical mixtures in which the surface energy causes one component to dominate the surface, hence the charging properties. Relationships between molecular structure and triboelectric charging have been deduced from the results. Thus the direction of change of triboelectric charging on chemical modification is governed by the nature of the reaction and the magnitude of the change is governed by the extent of reaction.     

Phase transfer catalysis in the chemistry of heterocyclic compounds. A review

This review covers new data on the use of phase transfer catalysis in the chemistry of heterocyclic compounds. The following reactions are considered: alkylation, acylation, reactions with dihalocarbenes, preparations of ethers and esters, the formation of halo derivatives, oxidation and reduction, and isotope exchange. The advantages of phase transfer catalysis are examined and the prospects for its further development in heterocyclic chemistry are discussed.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 11, pp. 1443–1459, November, 1983.     

Phase transfer catalysis in the chemistry of aliphatic nitrocompounds

The methylation of trinitromethane (TNM) Na-salt under phase transfer catalysis (PTC) conditions was studied in a two-phase system (aqueous solution of TNM Na-salt-CH₃I). The obtained data revealed a relationship between the yield of the methylation product (1,1,1-trinitroethane) and the nature of the phase transfer catalyst and the degree of TNM anion transfer to the organic phase. The kinetic measurements showed that higher efficiency of methylation was achieved under PTC conditions than occurs in a homogeneous reaction due to the fact that the reaction proceeded in the CH₃I medium.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1086–1088, June, 1993.     

Dehydrochlorination reactions in polymers. Part II. Chlorinated polystyrene

The dehydrochlorination of chlorinated polystyrene was studied in the temperature range 120–220°C., when HCl was the sole volatile product. The dehydrochlorination was accompanied by the slow development of color and chain scission. The elimination rate fell too rapidly with reaction extent to be accounted for by reduction of reagent. Solution studies in o-dichlorobenzene indicated that the reaction was initially first-order in polymer concentration but was retarded by the polyene reaction products. The overall elimination was interpreted as a radical process in which the product was an active retarder. These observations are also valid for the elimination of HBr from brominated polystyrene.     

Phase transfer catalysis in the chemistry of five-membered nitrogen-containing heterocycles

The methods for synthesis and reactions of five-membered nitrogen-containing heterocycles under the conditions of phase transfer catalysis as well as the application of quaternized heterocycles as phase transfer catalysts are discussed.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2115–2121, November, 1995.     

Phase transfer catalysis: Amine catalyzed alkylation

Certain primary, secondary, and tertiary amines have been successfully employed as catalysts for the phase transfer catalytic alkylation of phenyl acetone. Studies strongly suggest that the alkylation is preceded by conversion of the amine catalyst into a quarternary ammonium salt.     

Phase transfer catalysis using cobalt tricarbonyl nitrosyl

The first example of the use of a mononuclear cobalt complex in a phase- transfer catalyzed process is described. The carbonylation of halides catalyzed by cobalt tricarbonyl nitrosyl gives, depending on the organic substrate, appreciably different results as compared with dicobalt octacarbonyl.     

Phase transfer catalysis of modified dextran anion exchangers

Dextran anion exchangers with lipophilic substituents have been synthesized, which were found to be useful as phase transfer catalysts for displacement and hydrogenation reactions under triphase conditions.     

Homogeneous redox catalysis of electrochemical reactions: Part III. Rate determining electron transfer. Kinetic characterization of follow-up chemical reactions

Electrochemical systems involving moderately fast charge transfers and very fast irreversible follow-up chemical reactions usually escape from kinetic and mechanistic characterization through the standard use of electrochemical techniques. It is shown that these difficulties can be overcome using an indirect approach which involves the homogeneous redox catalysis of the considered electrochemical reaction. A procedure for determining the rate constant of such fast follow-up reaction is presented. It is illustrated by the determination of the cleavage rate constant of the chlorobenzene anion radical in DMF which reaches a value on the order of 10⁷ s^?1.     

Oxygen transfer catalysis by chemical analogs of monooxygenases

New chemical analogs of monooxygenases and new reactions of alkane oxidation mediated by metal complexes are reviewed. Mechanisms of dioxygen and alkane activation and those of oxygen transfer from O₂ and active oxygen donors to C-H bonds via ferryl and other intermediates are discussed.Submitted as an invited lecture at the VIIIth International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis held on August 2–7, 1992 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands).Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 272–279, February, 1993.     

Theory of chemical reactions in solids. Part II

The probability W is deduced for an elementary chemical reaction due to fluctuations in a solid. W is found as a function of the phonon coupling constant. It is shown that anomalous diffusion kinetics can occur.     

Studies on coordination polymers : Part II. Coordination polymers of 1,6-dihydroxyphenazine

Coordination polymers of 1, 6-dihydroxyphenazine (I) with Cu(II), Zn(II), Ni (II), Co(II) and Hg(II) were prepared and studied. All the polymers formed were dark blue to black powders, very insoluble in the common solvents, apparently of low molecular weight, and decomposed at temperatures ranging from 200 to 280°. The zinc polymer was the most stable, mercury the least. Infrared studies confirmed the proposed chelation reaction between the metal ion and (I). The polymers of Co and Hg were amorphous, whereas those of Cu, Zn, and Ni were crystalline. When used as a spot test reagent, (I) gave instant color reactions with 15 common ions but neither the sensitivity nor selectivity of the reagent is impressive.     

相转移催化氧化合成苯甲酸

苯甲酸一般由甲苯氧化而成 ,工业上采用液相空气氧化生产苯甲酸[1 ] 。ＫＭｎＯ4氧化甲苯制备苯甲酸的方法是在实验室中最常见的一种方法[2 ] ,该法的优点是反应条件温和 ,操作简便 ;其缺点是反应时间长 ,产率低 (低于 40 % ) [3] 。为了提高ＫＭｎＯ4氧化法的产率 ,本文采用十六烷基三丁基溴化磷 (ＨＤＴＢＰ)和苄基三乙基氯化铵(ＢＴＥＡ)作相转移催化剂氧化甲苯制备苯甲酸 ,具有时间短 ,收率高等优点。同时又考虑到ＨＤＴＢＰ的催化效果虽然好 ,但价格昂贵 ,因此本文采用价廉易得的苄基三乙基氯化铵 (ＢＴＥＡ)作相转移催化剂氧化甲苯制…     

相转移催化反应研究 II.相转移催化产生的二卤卡宾的环加成反应动力学研究

本文研究了在50%NaOH,CH~2Cl~2体系中相转移催化产生的二氯及二溴卡宾与对位取代的苯乙烯反应的相对速率常数k~rel并用Brown式进行了线性相关分析。在此条件下,二氯及二溴卡宾都是有亲电性,其中二氯卡宾的选择性大于二溴卡宾。本文还测定了上述相转移反应中,反应物烯烃、溴仿浓度随时间变化的情况,并用动力学公式对所得的曲线进行了分析,得出在此条件下,反应为二级,其中对烯烃和溴仿各为一级,溴仿过量时,反应对烯烃呈准一级。     

Functional polymers and sequential copolymers by phase transfer catalysis. XXII. Vinylidene fluoride–trifluoroethylene copolymers by surface modification of polyvinylidene fluoride

Polyvinylidene fluoride films and powders have been used to synthesize vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymers. The synthetic procedure involves a phase transfer catalyzed heterogenous dehydrofluorination, followed by electrophilic chlorination or bromination. A phase transfer catalyzed displacement of bromine or chlorine by fluoride ion completes the synthesis. Dehydrofluorinations were up to 40% complete at room temperature and up to 100% complete at 90°C. Electrophilic chlorination of the resulting carbon–carbon double bonds were complete on both powder or films. The bromination of dehydrohalogenated polymers does not go to completion even when the reaction is carried out in solution. Displacement reactions were incomplete and resulted in further dehydrohalogenation when tetrabutylammonium hydrogen sulfate (TBAH) or 18-crown-6 and KF were used in organic solvents. Using TBAH, KHF₂, and water, high degrees of displacement were achieved only on the brominated compounds. The chlorinated products gave both displacement and elimination.     

Homogeneous redox catalysis of multielectron electrochemical reactions: Part II. Competition between homogeneous electron transfer and addition on the catalyst

Homogeneous redox catalytic processes in which catalysis competes with partial destruction of the catalyst are investigated. The kinetics are shown to depend upon three parameters: the excess factor (concentration of substrate over concentration of the catalyst), a dimensionless kinetic parameter representing the rate of the initial homogeneous electron transfer step and a dimensionless parameter representing the competition between the second electron transfer and the addition on the catalyst. Procedures are described that allow the rate constant of the initial electron transfer step and the ratio of the rate constants of the second electron transfer vs. the addition step to be extracted from the experimental data. The reduction of n-butyl chloride and bromide, mediated by aromatic anion radicals, is taken as an example illustrating the application of the proposed procedures to experimental systems.     

Phase transfer catalysis: some recent applications in organic synthesis

A survey dealing with the use of anhydrous potassium carbonate as an efficient base for promoting organic reactions under solid–liquid phase transfer catalysis (SL-PTC) conditions is reported. In particular, the generation in situ of trifluoro- and trichloroacetamidide, and reactions of these azaanions with 2-bromocarboxylic esters and epoxides, affording protected α-amino acids and β-amido alcohols, respectively, are described. The reduction of allylic nitroderivatives with CS₂ to oximes or nitriles under SL- and liquid–liquid PTC (LL-PTC) is also presented. Finally, new preparation methods and a study of the reactivity of quaternary onium fluorides, hydrogendifluorides and dihydrogentrifluorides, together with the use of dihydrogentrifluorides as hydrofluorinating agents under SL-PTC conditions, are reported.     

Substrate-selective aqueous organometallic catalysis. How size and chemical modification of cyclodextrin influence the substrate selectivity

Randomly hydroxypropylated and methylated cyclodextrins with different cavity size have been used as inverse phase transfer catalysts in a palladium catalyzed Tsuji-Trost reaction with water-insoluble alkylallylcarbonates and alkylallylurethanes as substrate. It has been shown that the molecular recognition ability of both α-CD and β-CD derivatives towards these substrates was responsible for an increase in the reaction rates and remarkable substrate selectivities between a linear and a branched structure. By contrast, the too wide cavity of γ-CD derivatives did not allow these carriers to be efficient in terms of substrate selectivity. Thus, the performances of a cyclodextrin carrier in this cleavage reaction strongly depended on the size of the cavity in which the substrate had to fill in as close as possible the available space.     

Mechanistic aspects of proton chain transfer in the green fluorescent protein. Part II. A comparison of minimal quantum chemical models

In this paper we report the results of extensive quantum chemical reaction pathway calculations for the electronic ground state of several different cluster models that mimic the proton chain transfer path within the green fluorescent protein (GFP). Our principal objective is to establish the robustness with respect to variations in the model of our recent mechanistic inferences for the ground state proton chain transfer [S. Wang and S. C. Smith, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2006, 110, 5084]. Additionally, comparison of our ground state results with the excited state proton transfer (ESPT) study by Vendrell et al. [O. Vendrell, R. Gelabert, M. Moreno and J. M. Lluch, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 3564] leads to the conclusion that the mechanism of proton chain transfer may be expected to be analogous in ground and excited states, principally because in both cases the loss of the chromophore's phenolic proton contributes strongly to the reaction coordinate only late in the reaction path.