Azo initiators for the preparation of hydroxyl-terminated polybutadienes

Azo compounds such as di(4-hydroxybutyl)-2,2′-azobisisobutyrate, di(3-hydroxybutyl)-2,2′-azobisisobutyrate, di(2-hydroxypropyl)-2,2′-azobisisobutyrate, and di(2-hydroxyethyl)-2,2′-azobisisobutyrate were prepared and used as initiators for the preparation of hydroxyl-terminated polybutadienes (HTPBs) of molecular weight (M?_n) ranging from 2000 to 7500 and functionality between 1.90 and 3.0. The polymers were prepared by free-radical solution polymerization in dioxane and toluene. The polymers obtained were characterized for their molecular weight, hydroxyl number, functionality, and instrinsic viscosity.     

Etude par RPE de l'Ion NO2−2 dans une apatite nitrée

A calcium phosphate apatite which contains some different nitrogen oxides is studied by the ESR technique. NO^2?₂ ions are evidenced and characterized. They stay in the apatite channels with their OO direction along the channel axis. ESR experiments at different temperatures show that these ions rotate around this axis when the temperature becomes higher than that of liquid nitrogen.     

Stereochemie von Metallocenen, 40. Mitt.

Starting from optically active methylferrocene-- and--carboxylic acids (1 a and1 b) of known absolute configuration and enantiomeric purity about 15 chiral ferrocenes (of each isomeric series— and ) were obtained by suitable ligand transformations. Thereby (almost) all possible chiral combinations of the ligands CH₃, COOH (COO^–), COOCH₃, CN and NH₂ (NH₃ ⁺) were accessible which are necessary for a potential test of approximations of chirality functions for compounds with basic symmetry C_5v. The chiroptical properties of these disubstituted ferrocenes are recorded.Preliminary tests using a shortened Ansatz revealed large discrepancies between calculated () and found [M]_D-values. Possible reasons for this failure are discussed.

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61. Mitt. über Ferrocenderivate

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39. Mitt.:A. Meyer, H. Neudeck undK. Schlögl, Chem. Ber.110, 1403 (1977).

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60. Mitt.:V. Rapi, K. Schlögl undB. Steinitz, J. Organometal. Chem.94, 87 (1975).     

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Hydrocarbomethoxylation of 1-hexene with formic acid and methanol under conditions of phosphoric acid catalysis

Conclusions When the hydrocarbomethoxylation of 1-hexene with formic acid is run at atmospheric pressure and temperatures close to room temperature, in the presence of conc. H₃PO₄, an increase in the relative amount of the latter, as well as an increase in the reaction temperature in the investigated range, both favor an increase in the yields of the methyl esters of the C₇ acids, in particular, those containing two methyl groups on the quaternary carbon atom in the -position. An increase in the relative amount of formic acid also favors an increase in the amounts of these esters in the obtained mixtures of esters.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1116–1118, May, 1971.