CH Acidity of Di- and Trisubstituted Methanes

It is shown that the CH acidity of di- and trisubstituted methanes can be studied using the ap- proaches consisting in singling out the contributions of physically significant factors from the overall acidification mechanisms in the gas phase and in solution. This procedure implies formal decomposition of the calculated gas-phase deprotonation energy Edeprot into the following terms: electrostatic energy of proton detachment from the acid CH bond, with the state of the remainder of the molecule absolutely unperturbed (E ₁); electronic relaxation energy of the resulting molecular residue and formation of a virtual carbanion therefrom (E ₂); the Edeprot component due to displacement of the atomic nuclei on changing from the virtual to real carbanion E ₃. Relationships between the energy components E ₁, E ₂, E ₃, and the commonly used characteristics of the molecular structure were investigated. The parameter E ₁ is selectively sensitive to the inductive effect of the substituent. Imperfect correlation between E ₁ and the sum of the _I constants can be due to the fact that the contributions to the _I constants from the effective charge on the hydrogen atom of the CH bond being deprotonated and from the polarizabilities of the substituents are not taken into account. In contrast to monosubstituted methanes, in di- and trisubstituted methanes there is no correlation between the E ₂ component and the ¹ J(^13CH) constants. The linear dependence linking the sums of the components E ₁ + E ₂ and the pyramidal angle in the carbanions is responsible for the relaxation nature of the effects associated with the E ₂ + E ₃ sum. Comparison of the data obtained with the calculated patterns of redistribution of the effective charges on atoms accompanying conversion of CH acids to carbanions enabled elucidation of the relative contribution of each of the components, E ₂ and E ₃, to the deprotonation energy of selected groups of substituted methanes. The previously developed technique of separating the energy of protolytic equilibrium in the gas from that of solvation processes in solution enabled assessment of the contributions from electrostatic solvation to pK _a in DMSO. The same technique of singling out the solvation component due to intermolecular hydrogen bonds from pK _a(H₂O) was used in studying the acid-base equilibria for substituted methanes in aqueous solution. It was shown that the solvation effects manifested in the liquid-phase CH acidity can be modeled by the effects revealed for analogous hydrogen bonds of ion-molecule complexes in the gas phase. The relationships between the strength of hydrogen bonds and the CH-acidic properties of compounds in the gas phase and liquid water are similar.     

Energetics of intramolecular hydrogen bonds and conformations of ω-diphenylphosphoryl- and ω-diphenylthiophosphoryl-substituted aliphatic alcohol molecules

A series of conformationally heterogeneous and energetically multilevel -diphenylphosphoryl- and -diphenylthiophosphoryl-substituted aliphatic alcohols, whose molecules are capable of five-, six-, and seven-membered ring closure due to the OH...O=P or OH...S=P intramolecular hydrogen bond (IHB), was studied by IR spectroscopy and molecular mechanics. The data obtained confirm the previous assumption that the energy of IHB (E _IHB) differs substantially from the difference of enthalpies of conformers with and without IHB (–H ), which is experimentally determined by the temperature dependence of the intensity of IR (OH) absorption bands. The measured –H values can be positive, zero, or negative at significant IHB effects, i.e., at high (OH) and E _IHB values.     

Solubilities in aqueous mixtures oft-butanol andtrans-dichlorotetra(3-alkylpyridine) cobalt(III) hexachlororhenate(IV): Gibbs energies of transfer of the complex cations

The solubilities of the hexachlororhenate(IV) salts of the complex cations trans-[Co(3Mepy)₄Cl₂]⁺ and trans-[Co(3Etpy)₄Cl₂]⁺ have been determined in water+t-butyl alcohol mixtures. By reference to the solubilities of Cs₂ReCl₆ and the Gibbs energies of transfer of Cs⁺ from water into water+t-butyl alcohol mixtures, G _t ^o (Cs⁺), G _t ^o [Co(3Mepy)₄Cl ₂ ⁺ ] and G _t ^o [Co(3Etpy)₄Cl ₂ ⁺ ] are calculated. These latter values, when introduced into the equation for a free energy cycle applied to the process of the initial state going to the transition state for the solvolyses of these two cations, produces values for G _t ^o [Co(3Mepy)₄Cl^2+*] and G _t ^o [Co(3Etpy)₄Cl^2+*] for the Co³⁺ cations in the transition state. These values are compared with (G _t ^o (i) for i=[Co(Rpy)₄Cl₂]⁺, [Co(Rpy)₄Cl]^2+*, [Coen₂XCl]⁺ and [Coen₂X]^2+* to investigate the influence of the hydrophobicity of the surface of the complex on its stability in the mixtures. G _t ^o (i) (solvent sorting) are compared with G _t ^o (i) (TATB).     

Electronic structure,energy of hydration,and stability of metal aquo ions

The stability of metal aquo ions with respect to redox reactions is determined by the ionization energies of the atoms and the Gibbs energies of hydration for the ions(–_hG⁰). We present critically selected values of –_hG⁰ for 55 metal ions, determined from electrochemical, thermochemical, and spectra data. We consider the factors determining the values of –_hG⁰ (charges, ionic radii, electronic structure, and relativistic effects). For isoelectronic ions, we observe correlations between the ratios of the Gibbs energies of hydration for these ions with different charges and the ratios of their ionic radii. Based on the use of these correlations, we find –_hG⁰ for a number of aquo ions not observed experimentally and we estimate the unknown oxidation-reduction potentials for the pairs of ions M³⁺/M²⁺. We formulate the principles for stabilization of unstable oxidation states of the metals by including the corresponding ions in complexes with certain classes of ligands.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1–11, January–February, 1994.     

Intramolecular hydrogen bonding and conformation of 1,3-propanediol

Conformational differences in molecules of 1,3-propanediol with variations of medium, temperature, and phase composition appear in their IR and Raman spectra. In the gas phase and in dilute solutions of 1,3-propanediol in CCl₄ forms with intramolecular hydrogen bonding (IHB) and without it exist in comparable amounts. The difference in the weighted mean energies of the corresponding groups of conformers was found from the temperature dependence of the intensities of the bands for free _OH and bounded _OH. By calculating the conformational term of E^* and by using the energy values of the 25 conformers of the diol molecules, calculated by molecular mechanics methods, the IHB energy was determined for two of them.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 2277–2284, October, 1991.     

INTRAMOLECULAR OH···S HYDROGEN BONDS AND MOLECULAR CONFORMATIONS IN 2-METHYLMERCAPTOETHANOL

Abstract

The infrared absorption spectrum of monomeric 2-methylmercaptoethanol in dilute CC1₄, solution exhibits four overlapped bands in the fundamental OH stretching region. The individual band components were resolved using digital computing techniques [1], and the relative band intensities are temperature dependent. The “free” OH bands at 3634 and 3623 cm correspond to gauche and trans orientations about the C-O bond, respectively, by analogy with similar band components in the infrared spectrum of ethanol in dilute CC1₄, solution. The OH bands at 3539 and 3446 cm^?1 are assigned to gGt and gGg¹ conformers, respectively, each involving an intramolecular OH···S hydrogen bond (conformer notation refers to the orientation about the C-O, C-C and C-S(CH₃) bonds, respectively). A similar interpretation of the matrix isolated infrared spectra of ethylene glycol, involving two conformers with intramolecular OH···O hydrogen bonds and differing principally in the orientation of the proton-acceptor OH group, has been presented recently [2]. The microwave spectrum of 2-mercaptoethanol in the vapour phase arises from an all-gauche conformation with an intramolecular OH···S hydrogen bond [3].     

untersuchung der Molekularassoziation des (p-Chlorbenzolsulfonamido)benzolthiophosphonsäure-O-äthylesters mit Hilfe der IR-Spektroskopie

O-Ethyl (p-chlorobenzenesulfonamido)benzenethiophosphonate (1) is shown to be associated by hydrogen-bonding by means of its i.r. spectrum in CCl₄ solution. Quantitative examination allows to determine the dissociation konstantK, the temperature dependence of which leads to a H-value of 8.3 kcal/mole. From this value it is concluded that the associated molecules are cyclic dimers2. The comparison of the H- and pK-values with the corresponding data of other compounds which form cyclic dimers, shows that the strength of the hydrogen bonding is greater in those compounds which possess smaller pK-values.

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XLIV. Mitt.:L. Almasi, N. Popovici undJ. Zsakó, Chem. Ber.106, 1384 (1973).     

Charge control in the formation of complexes of phenol with ethylene derivatives containing organoelemental group IVB substituants

The v(OH) frequency shifts of phenol and the v_R resonance components of these shifts in the IR spectra of phenol H-complexes with ethylene derivatives containing various substituents including organosilicon, organogermanium, and organotin groups have been studied. The relationship between v and v_R and the values that characterize the influence of substituents on the effective charges of the double bonded carbon atoms was established; the latter values have been calculated previously usingab initio quantum chemical methods. The effective charges for the compounds with organoelemental substituents have been calculated. It has been elucidated that of the two types of possible interactions, charge controlled and orbital controlled, occurring in the formation of a complex of a hard acid, phenol, with the studied ethylene derivatives, the former is predominant.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1383–1387, August, 1993.     

Raman spectra from partially deuterated water and ice VI to 10.1 kbar at 28°C

High-pressure argon-ion laser-Raman spectra (4880 Å excitation) have been obtained from partially deuterated water and ice VI (20 volume % D₂O) in the OD and OH stretching regions to pressures of 10.1 kbar at 28°C. The Raman spectra from ice VI are the first to be reported at room temperature, and they are similar to the liquid spectra obtained at 9.7 kbar. Raman shifts corresponding to contour intensity maxima were observed to change with pressure rise in the OD and OH stretching regions from v =2513–2490 cm^–1 and v = 3402–3380 cm^–1, respectively, for pressures from 1 bar to 10.1 kbar (ice VI). In addition, a shoulder observed at 1 bar on the OD contour near v = cm^–1 became less distinct and was visually absent for pressures from 6.4 to 10.1 kbar, although a shoulder on the OH contour at about v = cm^–1 intensified gradually for pressures to 9.7 kbar, and abruptly upon freezing at 10.1 kbar. The small effects of pressure on the OD component percentages obtained from computer analysis indicate that hydrogen-bond breakage is not a significant effect of pressure rise, and a downward change in the position of the OD stretching component having the largest Raman shift indicates that the nonhydrogen-bonded OD units or broken O-D...O bonds that exist at 1 bar are probably transformed by close packing due to compression into weak O-D...O bonds that are angularly deformed. In addition, intensification of the OH component at v = cm^–1 upon freezing or upon pressurizing the liquid to 9.7 kbar is indicated by the computer analyses, and an increase in intermolecular coupling is thus favored, as opposed to enhancement of Fermi resonance, because the positions of components at v = cm^–1 and v = cm^–1 are nearly independent of pressure. The computer results also strengthen previous evidence indicating that the OD component which occurs at about v = cm^–1 at 1 bar arises from broken O-D...O bonds, when it is understood that the severely deformed O-D...O bonds of ice VI give rise to intensity at a Raman shift of v = cm^–1, a difference of 37 cm^–1 in the direction of stronger hydrogen-bonding.This paper was presented at the symposium, The Physical Chemistry of Aqueous Systems, held at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 12–14, 1972, in honor of the 70th birthday of Professor H. S. Frank.     

Structure and proton-donor ability of N-(1-trifluoromethylsulfonylamino-2,2,2-trichloroethyl)-acrylamide

Quantum-chemical calculations (B3LYP/6-311G**) of N-(1-trifluoromethylsulfonylamino-2,2,2-trichloroethyl)acrylamide CF₃SO₂NHCH(CCl₃)NHC(O)CH=CH₂ (I) in the isolated state revealed four local minima corresponding to the conformers with the syn- and antiperiplanar orientation of the C=O and N-H bonds in the amide fragment, two of which containing the intramolecular C(O)NH…O=S or SO₂NH…O=C hydrogen bonds. Judged from the data of IR spectroscopy and dielectrometry, compound I in inert media exists predominantly in the form of conformer with antiperiplanar amide fragment and free NH group. Its self-associates in molecular crystals and solutions are formed by hydrogen bonds SO₂NH…O=C. Spectroscopic acidity of compound I determined as the value of Δν(NH) upon interactions with DMF in CCl₄ is higher than that of N-methyltrifluoromethanesulfonamide.     

Etude des interactions a l'etat solide du nordazepam III-polyoxyethylene glycol 6000 et nordazepam III-acide succinique

We have determined the eutectic composition nordazépam (NDZ) polyoxyethylene glycol 6000 (PEG): 4% NDZ, 96% PEG (T _f =59,0±0,5°C H _f=155,9±2,4 J·g^–1; NDZ succinic acid: 0,32n (NDZ) and 0,68n (succinic acid) (T _f=163,8±0,4°C and H _f=119,34±2,1 J·g^–1). No solid solution has been found. The negative and high absolute value of mixing enthalpy indicates that the eutectic composition is formed by interactions between OH, CO, NH groups of carrier and drug with hydrogene bonds formation, confirmed by X-ray diffraction.

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Zusammensetzung Folgende eutektische Zusammensetzungen wurden bestimmt: Nordazepam (NDZ) Polyoxyethylenglykol 6000 (PEG): 4% NDZ, 96% PEG (T_f = 59,0±⁰.5°C H_f=155,9±2.4 J·g^–: NDZ Bernsteinsäure: 0,32n (NDZ) und 0,68 n (Bernsteinsäure) (T _f=163,8±0,4°C und H _f= 119,34±2,4 J·g^–1). Es wurden keine Mischkristalle gefunden. Der negative und absolut gesehen grosse Wert der Mischenthalpie zeigt, dass das Eutektikum durch Wechselwirkungen zwischen den OH CO NH Gruppen von Carrier und Droge in Form von Wasserstoffbrückenbindungen gebildet wird, was durch Röntgendiffraktion bestätigt wurde.

     

Study on the Melting Process of Nitrocellulose by Thermal Analysis Method

The melting process of NC is studied by using modulated differential scanning calorimetry (MDSC) technique, the microscope carrier method for measuring the melting point and the simultaneous device of the solid reaction cell in situ/RSFT-IR. The results show that the endothermic process in the MDSC curve is reversible. It is caused by the phase change from solid to liquid of the mixture of initial NC, decomposition partly into condensed phase products. The values of the melting point, melting enthalpy (H_m), melting entropy (S_m), the enthalpy of decomposition (H_dec) and the heat-temperature quotient (S_dec) obtained by the MDSC curve of NC at a heating rate of 10 K min^–1 are 476.84 K, 205.6 J g^–1, 0.4312 J g^–1 K^–1, –2475.0 J g^–1 and –5.242 Jg^–1K^–1, respectively. The MDSC results of NC with different nitrogen contents show that with increasing the nitrogen content in NC, the absolute values of H_m, S_m, H_dec and S_dec increase.This revised version was published online in November 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Gibbs Energy and Entropy of Mixing in the NaNO2-KNO3 System

The activity and activity coefficients of the components of the NaNO₂-KNO₃ system, determined from the experimental data on the saturated vapor pressure at 798, 823, and 848 K, are used to calculate the relative and excess partial molar Gibbs energies (G _i and G _i ^{e x c}), entropies (S _i and S _i ^{e x c}), and integral relative and excess thermodynamic functions (G, G ^{e x c}, S, and S ^{e x c}) of the system.     

Temperature effect on the solvent extraction of some lanthanides with thenoyltrifluoroacetone

The solvent extraction of Pr, Gd and Yb with thenoyltrifluoroacetone solutions in C₆H₆, CHCl₃ and CCl₄ at 288 K, 298 K, 308 K and 318 K has been investigated. The values of the equilibrium constant have been calculated as well as the values of the thermodynamic parameters H, S and G. The temperature effect on the solvent extraction of lanthanides with thenoyltrifluoroacetone is discussed.

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Einfluß der Temperatur auf die Extraktion einiger Lanthanoide mit Thenoyltrifluoraceton

Zusammenfassung Es wurde die Extraktion von Pr, Gd und Yb mit Lösungen von Thenoyltrifluoraceton in C₆H₆, CHCl₃ und CCl₄ bei 288 K, 298 K, 308 K und 318 K untersucht. Es wurden die Gleichgewichtskonstanten für die untersucht3n Metalle, Lösungsmittel und Temperaturen sowie die Werte der thermodynamischen Parameter H, S und G berechnet. Der Einfluß der Temperatur auf die Extraktion von Lanthaniden wird diskutiert.

     

Ligand-structure effect on electrochemical reduction of copper(II) complexes

Summary Half-wave potentials for a one-electron reduction of copper(II) complexes containing polydentate ligands can be calculated using the equationE _1/2=E ⁰(Cu^2+/+)+ _{i j} E _i where E _i are contributions related to the electronic and steric properties of the ligands. The values of 18 E _i contributions are presented and explained, and the effect of the solvents on the half-wave potentials is exemplified.Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Viktor Gutmann to his 70th birthday     

Effects of alkyl chain length on surface and micellar properties of octaethyleneglycol-n alkyl ethers

Summary Surface and micellar properties of a homologous series of Octaethylene glycol-n-alkyl ethers (C _n E₈;n = 9 to 15) have been studied in aqueous solutions by the surface tension measurements. The effects of the alkyl chain length comprising even and carbon numbers have been examined in order to evaluate the surface free energy G _A-W and the standard free energy G _m for the micellization obtained from their surface tension data. The areas per molecule and the equilibrium surface tension values at the CMC decreased with an increasing carbon number and they showed zigzag curves by the difference in even and odd carbon numbers.These findings may be attributed to the differences in the molecular orientation between the molecules with even carbon number and ones with odd carbon number on the air-water interface at CMC. G _A-W values decreased linearly with an increasing alkyl chain length but did not show a zigzag line by the differences in even and odd carbon numbers. This suggests that the molecular orientation is not influenced by the difference between their even and odd carbon numbers in the alkyl chain on the surface of the very diluted solution, and their molecules form some stable adsorbed films with an increase of the alkyl chain length. A division of G _A-W into the contribution made both by the hydrophilic group G _A-W (-W) and by the hydrophobic group G _A-W (-CH₂-) was attempted as follows; G _A-W (-CH₂-) = – 0.80 kcal/mol and G _a-W (-W) = + 0.15 kcal/mol.The free energy changes G _m of micellization were discussed on the basis of the CMC data obtained from the surface tension measurements by treating the formation of micelles as analogous to phase separation, and the contribution from the each moieties in the molecule were calculated as follows; G _m (-CH₂-) = – 0.68 kcal/mol and G _m (-W) = + 1.54 kcal/mol. The difference between G _A-W and G _m is discussed using their data.     

Kinetics of base hydrolysis of trans-{Cr([15]aneN4)Cl2}+ ([15]aneN4 = 1,4,8,12-tetra-azacyclopentadecane)

Summary Reaction of CrCl₃(DMF)₃ with [15]aneN₄ (L; L = 1,4,8,12-tetra-azacyclopentadecane) gives the green trans-{Cr([15]-aneN ₄)Cl₂}Cl in high yield. The base hydrolysis kinetics of the cations [CrLCl₂]⁺ and [CrLCl(OH)] ⁺ have been investigated over a temperature range. For the dichloro complex, k _OH = 1.03 dm³ mol^–1 s^–1] at 25° C with H =30.4 kJmol^–1 and S _inf298 ^sup = -143 JK^–1 mol^–1. The substantial negative entropy of activation implies more association of water in the loss of Cl^– from the conjugate base in a D_CB mechanism. The kinetic parameters for the chlorohydroxo complex are k _OH = 1.9 × 10^–2dm³mol^–1 s^–1 at 25°C with H = 78.3kJmol^–1 and H _inf298 ^sup = -15 J K^–1 mol ^–1. The chlorohydroxo complex probably has the trans VI configuration with the chloride ligand on the same side of the equatorial plane as the four chiral sec-NH groups. The visible spectra of a variety of complexes trans-[Cr(L)XY] ⁿ⁺ (X = Y = Cl, OH, OH₂; X = Cl, Y = OH) have been determined.     

Structure-property relationships for carbochain fluoropolymers

Polyvinyl fluoride (PVF), polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and polychlorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE) were studied by differential calorimetry at normal pressure in the temperature interval 130–555 K, and by pressure dilatometry in the temperature interval 303–545 K and in the pressure range 14–70 MPa. Pressure derivatives of the melting temperature,dT _m/dP, were used to calculate the true melting entropy S _m from the Clausius-Clapeyron equation, while equilibrium values of the melt specific volume were treated according to the Simha-Somcynsky cell theory. Comparison of the experimental data for PVF, PVDF and PCTFE with pertinent published data for polyethylene (PE) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) showed that a steady decrease of S _m and of the conformational contribution to S _m reflects the increase of the equilibrium chain stiffness as the hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chain (PE) are substituted with bulkier fluorine and/or chlorine atoms (PCTFE, PTFE), while a concomitant drop of the pressure reducing parameter from the cell model and an increase of melt compressibility and the derivative,dT _m/dP, should be attributed to the increase of the free volume fraction of the melt in the series, PE to PTFE.     

Enthalpy-entropy compensation in ionic micelle formation

The enthalpy-entropy compensation in ionic surfactant micellization process over a large temperature range is examined. The surfactants SDS and C₁₆TAB are investigated experimentally, and the enthalpy and entropy changes are evaluated based on phase separation or mass action models together with the other three surfactant systems. The relationship between compensation temperature and the reference temperatures is discussed.Notations C _p heat capacity change, J/mol-K - CMC critical micelle concentration,M - CMC₀ critical micelle concentration atT=T ₀,M - G Gibbs free energy change, kJ/mol - H enthalpy chang, kJ/mol - h _c enthalpy change for transfer of a methylene group to water, kJ/mol - R gas constant, 8.314 J/mol-K - S entropy change, J/mol-K - S _c entropy change for transfer of a methylene group to water, J/mol-K - S ^* entropy change atT=T ^*, J/mol-K - T temperature,K - T _c compensation temperature, K - T _H temperature at which H=0, K - T ₀ temperature at the minimum point, K - T ^* 112°C Greek Letters degree of dissociation