The Use of Adiabatic Calorimetry for the Process Analysis and Safety Evaluation in Free Radical Polymerization

Adiabatic calorimetry is a technique that has been introduced as an important approach to hazard evaluation of exothermically reactive systems. In this paper the free radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) has been studied. One of the most important aspects of MMA polymerization is its exothermicity and autoaccelerating behaviour, these characteristics can generate the occurrence of a runaway reaction.In a runaway situation the reacting system is close to adiabatic behaviour because it is unable to eliminate the heat that is being generated. An even worse situation can be reproduced in the laboratory with the Phi-Tec pseudo-adiabatic calorimeter. Process design parameters that are usually calculated from thermodynamic data or using semiempirical rules, such as adiabatic temperature rise or maximum attainable pressure, can be directly determined.The existence of the ceiling temperature has been experimentally demonstrated.This revised version was published online in November 2005 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Ring-closing olefin metathesis on ruthenium carbene complexes: model DFT study of stereochemistry

Ring-closing metathesis (RCM) is the key step in a recently reported synthesis of salicylihalamide and related model compounds. Experimentally, the stereochemistry of the resulting cycloolefin (cis/trans) depends strongly on the substituents that are present in the diene substrate. To gain insight into the factors that govern the observed stereochemistry, density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been carried out for a simplified dichloro(2-propylidene)(imidazole-2-ylidene)ruthenium catalyst I, as well as for the real catalyst II with two mesityl substituents on the imidazole ring. Four model substrates are considered, which are closely related to the systems studied experimentally, and in each case, two pathways A and B are possible since the RCM reaction can be initiated by coordination of either of the two diene double bonds to the metal center. The first metathesis yields a carbene intermediate, which can then undergo a second metathesis by ring closure, metallacycle formation, and metallacycle cleavage to give the final cycloolefin complex. According to the DFT calculations, the stereochemistry is always determined in the second metathesis reaction, but the rate-determining step may be different for different catalysts, substrates, and pathways. The ancillary N-heterocyclic carbene ligand lies in the Ru-Cl-Cl plane in the simplified catalyst I, but is perpendicular to it in the real catalyst II, and this affects the relative energies of the relevant intermediates and transition states. Likewise, the introduction of methyl substituents in the diene substrates influences these relative energies appreciably. Good agreement with the experimentally observed stereochemistry is only found when using the real catalyst II and the largest model substrates in the DFT calculations.     

聚碳酸亚丙酯对聚(β-羟基丁酸酯-β-羟基戊酸酯)结晶行为的影响

用FTIR和DSC研究了PHBV及其与聚碳酸亚丙酯(PPC)熔融共混样的熔融结晶行为和等温结晶动力学.结果表明,PHBV与PPC熔融共混过程中发生了酯交换反应,两组分间存在一定的相互作用.PPC虽然能降低PHBV结晶折迭链的表面自由能,但同时也能够降低PHBV的结晶度、球晶径向生长速率、平衡熔点和结晶能力.     

OH自由基与CO反应的研究

用时间分辨-傅立叶变换红外发射光谱法研究了OH自由基与CO的反应.OH自由基由248 nm的激光光解硝酸得到.在实验中首次观测到了产物CO2的非对称伸缩振动(ν3)的激发态.对CO2发射光谱的拟合结果显示,其振动态的布居在量子数v=2时最大 ,而最高振动量子数达到v=6.由实验得到的CO2振动布居与Schatz等人用全量子化计算该反应的中间物HOCO解离动力学得到的CO2布居结果能很好地吻合.     

INTRAPARTICLE DIFFUSION EFFECTS IN FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS Ⅰ. MODELING OF DIFFUSION AND REACTION

IntroductionCatal}ticrcactionsaffcctcdb}'diffosionaIlimitationincatal}'stporcshavcbccnextensive1}dcaltx`ithinlit.rat.rcll~5I.Scvcraltcchniqucsonthcspccialcase0fFischcr-Tropschs}'nthcsis(FTS)t\crcapplicdtocxplorcthebchaviorofthiscatal}ticrcactionundercxpcrimcntalandopcrationaIconditionsI3~5l.It`"ouldbeofvaluctoindicatchcrcthatthcseinvcstigationsx"ercmainl}'bascdonthesimplcstkineticsofthcfirstordcrinH2proposedbyAndersonl6]attheearIystages.However-thesetboents,striCtlyspeaking,areinvalidfor…     

催化反应热诱导激光光偏转分析法测定尿素

报道用催化反应热诱导激光光偏转法测定痕量尿素。发现将脲酶制成一定浓度的乙醇浓液能显著地增强激光光偏转信号强度。探讨了增强作用机理以及光偏转号强度与尿素浓度的关系，并应用于尿样中尿素含量的测定，结果满意。     

Aza-Baylis-Hillman reaction of salicyl N-tosylimines with methyl vinyl ketone, ethyl vinyl ketone or phenyl vinyl ketone

Reactions of salicyl N-tosylimines with methyl vinyl ketone, ethyl vinyl ketone or phenyl vinyl ketone proceeded smoothly under mild conditions to give the corresponding chromanes or aza-Baylis-Hillman adducts in moderate to excellent yields in the presence of phosphine or nitrogen Lewis base.     

室温CO催化氧化反应动力学的研究

本文采用无梯度反应器,考察了纳米金催化剂以及其它商品化的催化CO氧化催化剂,在不同CO浓度下催化CO氧化反应的转化率和反应速率,证明在CO初始浓度从ppm到pct数量级范围内,纳米金催化剂具有最好的催化CO室温转化的能力.     

Comparison of linear-scaling semiempirical methods and combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical methods for enzymic reactions. II. An energy decomposition analysis

QM/MM methods have been developed as a computationally feasible solution to QM simulation of chemical processes, such as enzyme-catalyzed reactions, within a more approximate MM representation of the condensed-phase environment. However, there has been no independent method for checking the quality of this representation, especially for highly nonisotropic protein environments such as those surrounding enzyme active sites. Hence, the validity of QM/MM methods is largely untested. Here we use the possibility of performing all-QM calculations at the semiempirical PM3 level with a linear-scaling method (MOZYME) to assess the performance of a QM/MM method (PM3/AMBER94 force field). Using two model pathways for the hydride-ion transfer reaction of the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase studied previously (Titmuss et al., Chem Phys Lett 2000, 320, 169-176), we have analyzed the reaction energy contributions (QM, QM/MM, and MM) from the QM/MM results and compared them with analogous-region components calculated via an energy partitioning scheme implemented into MOZYME. This analysis further divided the MOZYME components into Coulomb, resonance and exchange energy terms. For the model in which the MM coordinates are kept fixed during the reaction, we find that the MOZYME and QM/MM total energy profiles agree very well, but that there are significant differences in the energy components. Most significantly there is a large change (approximately 16 kcal/mol) in the MOZYME MM component due to polarization of the MM region surrounding the active site, and which arises mostly from MM atoms close to (<10 A) the active-site QM region, which is not modelled explicitly by our QM/MM method. However, for the model where the MM coordinates are allowed to vary during the reaction, we find large differences in the MOZYME and QM/MM total energy profiles, with a discrepancy of 52 kcal/mol between the relative reaction (product-reactant) energies. This is largely due to a difference in the MM energies of 58 kcal/mol, of which we can attribute approximately 40 kcal/mol to geometry effects in the MM region and the remainder, as before, to MM region polarization. Contrary to the fixed-geometry model, there is no correlation of the MM energy changes with distance from the QM region, nor are they contributed by only a few residues. Overall, the results suggest that merely extending the size of the QM region in the QM/MM calculation is not a universal solution to the MOZYME- and QM/MM-method differences. They also suggest that attaching physical significance to MOZYME Coulomb, resonance and exchange components is problematic. Although we conclude that it would be possible to reparameterize the QM/MM force field to reproduce MOZYME energies, a better way to account for both the effects of the protein environment and known deficiencies in semiempirical methods would be to parameterize the force field based on data from DFT or ab initio QM linear-scaling calculations. Such a force field could be used efficiently in MD simulations to calculate free energies.