Triterpenoids,Steroids, and Other Constituents of the Roots of Codonopsis pilosula

Chemistry of Natural Compounds -     

黑龙江中药党参中微量元素分析

用发射光谱、吸收光谱和电位法，对党参中微量元素进行定性定量分析，并通过数理统计方法对实验数据作Ｆ、ｒ、Ｑ检验及变异系数、可信度的计算、方法得当。对中药配伍提供了参考。     

Triterpenoids,Steroids, and Other Constituents from the Roots of Codonopsis pilosula var. modesta

Chemistry of Natural Compounds - One new tirucallane-type triterpenoid, codopitirol A (1), has been isolated from the roots of Codonopsis pilosula var. modesta (Nannf.) L. D. Shen, together with...     

The kinetics of tobacco pyrolysis

When tobacco is pyrolysed under non-isothermal flow conditions in an inert atmosphere, variation of the inert gas or its space velocity has only a minor effect on the profiles of formation rate versus temperature for seven product gases. Thus, mass transfer processes between the tobacco surface and the gas phase are very rapid, and the products are formed at an overall rate which is determined entirely by that of the chemical reactions.The effect of radical chain inhibitors (nitrogen oxides) on the pyrolysis is complex because of the resultant oxidation. Nevertheless, no evidence was found for the occurrence of radical chain reactions in the gas phase. A small proportion (less than 10%) of all the gases monitored are formed by homogeneous decomposition of volatile and semi-volatile intermediate products, in the furnace used.At temperatures above about 600°C the reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide by the carbonaceous tobacco residue becomes increasingly important. However, when tobacco is pyrolysed in an inert atmosphere, only a small amount of carbon dioxide is produced above 600°C and consequently its reduction to carbon monoxide contributes only a small proportion to the total carbon monoxide formed above that temperature. The rate of the tobacco/carbon dioxide reaction is controlled by chemical kinetic rather than mass transfer effects. Carbon monoxide reacts with tobacco to a small extent.When the tobacco is pyrolysed in an atmosphere containing oxygen (9–21% v/v), some oxidation occurs at 200°C. At 250°C the combustion rate is controlled jointly by both kinetic and mass transfer processes, but mass transfer of oxygen in the gas phase becomes increasingly important as the temperature is increased, and it is dominant above 400°C. About 8% of the total carbon monoxide formed by combustion is lost by its further oxidation.The results imply that inside the combustion coal of a burning cigarette the actual reactions occurring are of secondary importance, the rate of supply of oxygen being the dominant factor in determining the combustion rate and heat generation. In contrast, in the region immediately behind the coal, where a large proportion of the products which enter mainstream smoke are formed by thermal decomposition of tobacco constituents, the chemistry of the tobacco substrate is critical, since the decomposition kinetics are controlled by chemical rather than mass transfer effects. tobacco substrate is critical. In addition, the heat release or absorption due to the pyrolytic reactions occurring behind the coal will depend on the chemical composition of the substrate. Thus, together with the differing thermal properties of the tobacco, the temperature gradient behind the coal should depend on the nature of the tobacco.     

Model-free kinetics analysis of ZSM-5 catalyzed pyrolysis of waste LDPE

Both thermal and catalytic decomposition of waste LDPE sample is studied to understand the effect of catalyst (ZSM-5) on the decomposition behaviour. The nonlinear Vyazovkin model-free technique is applied to evaluate the quantitative information on variation of E_α with α for waste LDPE sample under both catalytic and noncatalytic nonisothermal conditions. The literature reported data on such variation under noncatalytic condition and effects of different catalysts on the LDPE sample are compared with the results of the present study.Results show that the optimum catalyst composition is around 20 wt.%, where the reduction in maximum decomposition temperature is around 70 °C. Presence of ZSM-5 shows similar reduction in maximum decomposition temperature as reported for Al-MCM-41 and MCM-41. Similar trend to literature reported data is observed for variation of E_α with α for LDPE under nonisothermal noncatalytic condition. ZSM-5 catalyzed decomposition of the LDPE sample in the present study indicates that E_α is strong and increasing function of α and consists of four steps. Cracking of large polymer fragments on the external surface of the catalyst, oligomerization, cyclization, and hydrogen transfer reactions inside the catalyst pores might be the possible reaction mechanisms involved during catalytic decomposition.     

玉米秸热解动力学研究

生物质能具有低硫和二氧化碳零排放的特点,其在能源结构中的地位越来越重要。作为一种高效生物质能转化途径,热化学转化可获得气、液和固态多种能源产物。其中,热解是热化学转化中最为基本的过程,是气化、液化及燃烧过程的初始和伴生反应,对热解的分析有助于热化学转化过程控制及高效转化工艺的开发。热解动力学是表征热解过程中反应过程参数对原料转化率影响的重要手段,通过动力学分析可深入了解反应过程和机理,预测反应速率及难易程度,为生物质热化学转化工艺的研究开发提供重要的基础数据。国外对纤维素热解动力学已进行了一些研究,但生物质作为纤维素、半纤维素、木质素等的复杂聚合物,其热解行为与单纯纤维素差别较大。因此本文的热解研究集中在玉米秸这种常见的软质秸秆类生物质原料。     

竹材非等温热解动力学

利用热重分析技术对竹材在高纯N2条件下,从室温至1273K进行了非等温热解分析,研究了升温速率(5、10、20和40K/min)对热解过程的影响,探讨了其热解机理。研究表明,竹材非等温热解过程主要分为失水干燥、快速热解和缓慢分解三个阶段组成,其中第二阶段是整个过程的主要阶段,析出大量挥发分造成明显失重。升温速率对热解过程有显著影响,随着升温速率的增加,最大热解速度增大,对应的峰值温度升高,热滞后现象加重,热解各阶段向高温侧移动。热解机理满足一维扩散Parabolic法则,反应机理函数为g(α)=α2。不同升温速率下活化能为75.32-82.99kJ.mol-1,指前因子为1.17×105-1.12×106min-1。     

High-temperature gasification kinetics of biomass pyrolysis

The rate of gas formation from wood pyrolysis has been experimentally measured at temperatures from 300°C to 1000°C. The formation rate of specific product gases has been measured rather than the rate of solid weight loss. Even for very fine particles, the rate becomes heat transfer limited a: high temperatures. The product gases also approach thermodynamic equilibrium rapidly at high temperatures. The results are corrected using the experimental residence time distribution.     

Modeling pyrolysis kinetics of plastic mixtures

Modeling pyrolysis behavior of waste plastic mixtures is of importance for design and operation of reactors which convert these waste plastics into valuable chemicals. However, because of limited understanding of their degradation behavior even for single component plastic wastes, modeling degradation kinetics of plastic mixtures is a challenging task.In this work, we report modeling of binary and ternary mixture degradation kinetics of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), low density polyethylene (LDPE) and polypropylene (PP). A simple mixing rule approach was used with one cross-kinetic degradation parameter per each binary. Ternary kinetics were completely predictive and showed good agreement with the experimental data.     

Gas-phase pyrolysis mechanism and kinetics of 3-t-butoxyquadricyclane

The gas-phase pyrolysis of 3-t-butoxyquadricyclane [1] was investigated over the temperature range 511–542 K at one atm in helium. The initial pyrolysis step is the isomerization of 3-t-butoxyquadricyclane to 7-t-butoxynorbornadiene (Ea = 38.49 ± 0.85 kcal/mole, log A = 15.44 ± 0.35). 7-t-butoxynorbornadiene exhibits a single unimolecular reaction pathway which produces a mixture of t-butoxycycloheptatrienes (Ea = 38.44 ± 0.63 kcal/mole, log A = 15.05 ± 0.26). This two-step mechanism affords fewer reactions than unsubstituted quadricyclane in the gas phase and could be useful for its reduced sooting potential. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Isothermal and non-isothermal pyrolysis kinetics of Kapton polyimide

The kinetics involved in the thermal decomposition of Kapton^® polyimide 100HN under nitrogen atmosphere were studied by applying various fitting techniques to the isothermal and non-isothermal gravimetric data. The correlation of the reaction mechanism fitting, the analytical model fitting and the isoconversional method to these data was examined in relation to the kinetic parameters and the kinetic predictions. The mechanisms for solid-state reactions fit the isothermal data very well but result in highly uncertain values for the kinetic parameters when applied to the non-isothermal data. Isoconversional methods show that the apparent activation energy depends on the extent of conversion but do not provide information for the reaction order and the pre-exponential factor. Three single heating-rate analytical models by Coats-Redfern, MacCallum-Tanner and van Krevelen were analysed using the non-isothermal data. A multi-heating rate model is proposed and its validity is compared to the single-heating rate models on the basis of kinetic predictions.     

Gas-phase pyrolysis mechanism and kinetics of 3-chloroquadricyclane

The gas-phase pyrolysis of 3-chloroquadricyclane [1] was investigated over the temperature range 513–550 K at one atm in helium. The initial pyrolysis step is the isomerization of 3-chloroquadricyclane to 7-chloronorbornadiene (E_a=39.63±1.40 kcal/mole, log A=15.18±0.58). 7-chloronorbornadiene rearranges (623–660 K) to exclusively produce benzyl chloride (E_a=48.05±1.10 kcal/mole, log A=15.82±0.38). This two step mechanism affords fewer reactions than the unsubstituted quadricyclane system in the gas phase. The production of a benzene derivative from the chlorinated norbornadiene is a reaction pathway contained in the unsubstituted norbornadiene and other 7-substituted pyrolysis mechanisms. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Codonopiloneolignanin A,a polycyclic neolignan with a new carbon skeleton from the roots of Codonopsis pilosula

A neolignan codonopiloneolignanin A(1) with a novel 2,9:2',9:7,7'-tricyclo-8,'-neolignane skeleton was isolated from an aqueous extract of the Codonopsis pilosula roots. Its structure including the absolute configuration was elucidated by extensive spectroscopic analysis, including 2D NMR and electronic circular dichroism calculation. The proposed biosynthetic pathway of compound 1 is also discussed.     

Study on pyrolysis kinetics of walnut shell

Slow pyrolysis of walnut shell which is a cheap and abundantly available solid waste was carried out using thermogravimetric analysis. The effects of raw material heating rate on the pyrolysis properties and kinetic parameters were investigated. A two-step consecutive reaction model were used to simulate the pyrolysis process. The kinetic parameters were established by using the pattern search method. Comparison between experimental data and the model prediction indicated that the two-step consecutive reaction model can better describe the slow pyrolysis of walnut shell as the formation of an intermediate during the pyrolysis process was taken into account.     

Vacuum and oxidative pyrolysis of poly-p-xylylene. II. Chromatographic analysis and kinetics of reaction products

Reaction products of vacuum and oxidative degradation of poly-p-xylylene have been quantitatively determined by chromatographic analysis as function of time, temperature and oxygen pressure. Respective Arrhenius parameters were also ascertained for some of the reaction products and for the sums of all products. The energies of activation for the sums agree quite satisfactorily with the energies of activation obtained previously by uninterrupted experiments in quartz-spoon reaction vessels. The results found here can be described in terms of mechanisms previously postulated on the basis of the total loss in weight (or volatile production) data. Scission of “weak” links (due to abnormal structures) takes place followed by formation of various products. The whole process is governed by the initial chain scission reaction; however, the energies of activation for each of the products do not need to be identical with that of the chain scission reaction. Each product is formed by a reaction which has its own characteristic number average kinetic chain lengths; the latter have their specific energy of activation values. Oxidative degradation produces the same organic compounds as vacuum degradation and in addition CO, CO₂, and H₂O. Oxidized intermediate compounds are apparently fairly rapidly decarboxylated and decarbonylated. Oxidative chain scission is appreciably faster than that in vacuum. Almost simultaneous “weak” link and “normal” chain scission are taking place initiating the formation of a number of products.     

The pyrolysis of dimethyl sulfide,kinetics and mechanism

The kinetics of the gas phase pyrolysis of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) was studied in a static system at 681–723 K by monitoring total pressure-time behavior. Analysis showed the pressure increase to follow DMS loss. The reaction follows two concurrent paths: with a slow, minor, secondary reaction: In a seasoned reactor the reaction follows a 3/2 order rate law with rate coefficient given by with θ = 2.303 RT in kcal/mol. A free radical mechanism is proposed to account for the data and a theoretical rate coefficient is derived from independent data: which agrees well with the experimental one over the range studied. The reaction is initiated by Me₂S → Me + MeS? and propagated by metathetical radical attack on Me₂S. C₂H₄ is formed by an isomerization reaction which may in part be due to a hot radical: Thermochemical data are listed, many from estimations, for both molecular and radical species of interest in the present system.     

The kinetics and thermochemistry of S2F10 pyrolysis

Data on the kinetics of S₂F₁₀ pyrolysis, which gives SF₄ + SF₆, have been reinterpreted to give a value for the equilibrium constant of S₂F₁₀ ? SF₄ + SF₆. This, together with statistical estimates of the entropy and heat capacity of S₂F₁₀, can be used to give for this reaction values of ΔH = 19.7 ± 1.0 kcal/mole and ΔS = 47.6 ± 2 gibbs/mole. ΔH(S₂F₁₀) = –494 kcal/mole. A compatible mechanism is shown to be S₂F₁₀ ? 2SF₅ (fast); 2SF₅ ? SF₆ + SF₄ (slow) with step 2 rate-determining. The overall, best first order rate constant is proposed as k_meas = 10^{17.42–43.0/θ} sec^?1 = K₁k₂, where θ = 2.303RT in kcal/mole. Independent measurements of δH and S° for the SF₅ radical, permits the evaluation of the equilibrium constant K₁ = 10^{8.92–(27.1 ± 6)/θ} l./mole-sec and yields k₂ = 10^{8.50–15.9/θ} l./mole-sec. The observed homogeneous catalysis by NO and CHCl ? CHCl can be explained in terms of a direct abstraction of F from S₂F₁₀ : C + S₂F₁₀ → CF + S₂F₉, followed by S₂F₉ → SF₅ + SF₄ and SF₅ + CF ? SF₆ + C (C ? NO or C₂H₂Cl₂).     

Investigation of pyrolysis kinetics of carboxymethyl hydroxypropyl sesbania gum

The thermal pyrolysis of carboxymethyl hydroxypropyl sesbania gum and hydroxypropyl sesbania gum in air and nitrogen atmospheres were studied in order to establish the thermal stability of carboxymethyl hydroxypropyl sesbania gum. The results indicate that the stability of carboxymethyl hydroxypropyl sesbania gum against pyrolysis is higher than that of hydroxypropyl sesbania gum. The main state of carboxymethyl hydroxypropyl sesbania gum and hydroxypropyl sesbania gum can be assigned as random noncrystalline.We express our thanks to Dr. Yaxiong Xie for his help in this work.