The Effect of Hydrolysis Conditions on the Structure and Growth of Silicate Polymers

1984 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. D. Keefer

ABSTRACTSmall angle scattering experiments have demonstrated that the structure of the silicate species produced by the hydrolysis of silicon alkoxides in non-aqueous solvents ranges from extended, weakly cross-linked polymers to highly condensed, colloidal particles. In contrast, inorganic, aqueous silicate solutions yield primarily colloidal particles because the silicate species have a number of different silanol sites available and the preferred condensation reaction is that of weakly condensed species with highly cross-linked branch sites, such as those on an amorphous silica surface. It is proposed that in the alkoxide systems, however, the hydrolysis reaction may control the number and type of silanol sites available for condensation. In acid catalyzed reactions, the rate of hydrolysis of a silicate tetrahedron tends to decrease as alkoxide groups are removed. This favors the production of silanol sites on the end of chains, thus generating linear polymers. In base catalyzed reactions, it is argued that each subsequent hydrolysis of a tetrahedron should proceed more rapidly than the previous one, producing numerous branch points which are the preferred sites for condensation.

1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 845-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloslav Šorm ◽  
Miloslav Procházka ◽  
Jaroslav Kálal

The course of hydrolysis of an ester, 4-acetoxy-3-nitrobenzoic acid catalyzed with poly(1-methyl-3-allylimidazolium bromide) (IIa), poly[l-methyl-3-(2-propinyl)imidazolium chloride] (IIb) and poly[l-methyl-3-(2-methacryloyloxyethyl)imidazolium bromide] (IIc) in a 28.5% aqueous ethanol was investigated as a function of pH and compared with low-molecular weight models, viz., l-methyl-3-alkylimidazolium bromides (the alkyl group being methyl, propyl, and hexyl, resp). Polymers IIb, IIc possessed a higher activity at pH above 9, while the models were more active at a lower pH with a maximum at pH 7.67. The catalytic activity at the higher pH is attributed to an attack by the OH- group, while at the lower pH it is assigned to a direct attack of water on the substrate. The rate of hydrolysis of 4-acetoxy-3-nitrobenzoic acid is proportional to the catalyst concentration [IIc] and proceeds as a first-order reaction. The hydrolysis depends on the composition of the solvent and was highest at 28.5% (vol.) of ethanol in water. The hydrolysis of a neutral ester, 4-nitrophenyl acetate, was not accelerated by IIc.


1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Burt ◽  
Y. Chiang ◽  
A. J. Kresge ◽  
S. Szilagyi

The acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of the nine-membered ring cyclic vinyl ether, oxacyclonon-2,8-diene, occurs with a normal isotope effect, [Formula: see text], which indicates that this reaction proceeds by the conventional vinyl ether hydrolysis mechanism involving rate-determining proton transfer to carbon. The specific rate of this reaction, [Formula: see text], may then be used to show that there is no significant ring-size effect on the rate of hydrolysis of a vinyl ether group in a nine-membered ring. The previously noted unusually great reactivity of the vinyl ether group in 9-methoxyoxacyclonon-2-ene, for which an unorthodox reaction mechanism has been claimed, must therefore be due to some other cause.


1952 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Eastham ◽  
G. A. Latremouille

The rates of reaction of halide ions with ethylene oxide in neutral aqueous solution and the rate of hydrolysis of ethylene oxide in acid solution have been measured and the activation energies determined. From these data and from the ratio of glycol to chlorohydrin formed when ethylene oxide reacts with excess aqueous hydrogen halide, the rates of the acid-catalyzed addition of halide ions to ethylene oxide at 25 °C. have been estimated.


1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 1456-1472 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Timell

First-order rate coefficients and energies and entropies of activation have been determined for the acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of a number of methyl D-glycopyranosides and disaccharides. The relation between the logarithm of the rate coefficients and values for Hammett's acidity function was linear, although different for different acids. All compounds had entropies of activation indicating a unimolecular reaction mechanism. Glucosides of tertiary alcohols were hydrolyzed very rapidly, triethylmethyl β-D-glucopyranoside, for example, 30,000 times taster than the corresponding methyl compound.Increase in size of the aglycone caused a slight increase in the rate of hydrolysis of β-D-glucopyranosides, steric hindrance thus being of no significance. Electron-attracting substituents in the aglycone had little or no influence on the rate of hydrolysis, obviously because they would tend to lower the equilibrium concentration of the conjugate acid, while facilitating the subsequent heterolysis, the two opposing effects more or less cancelling out. These results were discussed in connection with recent studies on the acid hydrolysis of various phenyl glycopyranosides and with reference to the postulated occurrence of an activating inductive effect in oligo- and poly-saccharides containing carboxyl or other electronegative groups at C-5. It was concluded that there is little evidence for the existence of any such effect and that, for example, pseudoaldobiouronic acids should be hydrolyzed at the same rate as corresponding neutral disaccharides.


Polymers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuta Nabae ◽  
Masa-aki Kakimoto

Aromatic polymers such as poly(ether sulfone), poly(ether ketone), and polyimide have been widely used in industry due to their thermal, mechanical, and chemical stabilities. Although their application to catalysis has been limited, the introduction of a hyperbranched architecture to such aromatic polymers is effective in developing catalytic materials that combine the advantages of homogenous and heterogeneous catalysts. This review article overviews the recent progress on the design and synthesis of hyperbranched aromatic polymers. Several acid catalyzed reactions and the aerobic oxidation of alcohols have been demonstrated using hyperbranched aromatic polymers as catalysts. The advantage of hyperbranched polymers against linear polymers is also discussed.


1956 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 969-981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Crowther ◽  
A. E. R. Westman

The rates of hydrolysis of sodium tetrametaphosphate and tetraphosphate (in the presence of tetrametaphosphate) have been measured at 65.5 °C. over the pH range 2.5 to 13.3. Tetrametaphosphate anions hydrolyze to tetraphosphate which in turn hydrolyzes to triphosphate and orthophosphate and not to pyrophosphate. Thus the terminal oxygen bridges in the tetraphosphate and not the central one are attacked preferentially. The reactions were first order and acid catalyzed. The tetrametaphosphate hydrolysis was also base catalyzed with a minimum rate in solutions of pH approximately 7.5. The rate of hydrolysis of tetraphosphate was greater than triphosphate at the hydrogen ion concentrations studied. Hydrolysis of a sodium phosphate glass indicated that preferential attack on terminal oxygen bridges takes place also with higher polymers. However, trimetaphosphate is formed at the same time.


2002 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
Y Chiang ◽  
A J Kresge ◽  
Q Meng

Rates of acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of 3-diazobenzofuran-2-one, measured in concentrated aqueous perchloric acid and hydrochloric acid solutions, were found to correlate well with the Cox–Yates Xo excess acidity function, giving kH+ = 1.66 × 10–4 M–1 s–1, m‡ = 0.86 and kH+ /kD+ = 2.04. The normal direction (kH/kD > 1) of this isotope effect indicates that hydrolysis occurs by rate-determining protonation of the substrate on its diazo-carbon atom. It was found previously that the next higher homolog of the present substrate, 4-diazoisochroman-3-one, also undergoes hydrolysis by this reaction mechanism but with a rate constant 15 times greater than that for the present substrate; this difference in reactivity can be understood in terms of the various resonance forms that contribute to the structures of these substrates. The product of the present hydrolysis reaction is 3-hydroxybenzofuran-2-one, which itself quickly undergoes subsequent acid-catalyzed hydrolysis to 2-hydroxymandelic acid. The acidity dependence of this subsequent hydrolysis is much shallower than that of the diazo compound precursor, and rates of reaction correlate as well with [H+] as with Xo. This is due in part to incursion of a nonproductive protonation on the hydroxy group of 3-hydroxy benzo furan-2-one that impedes hydrolysis and produces saturation of acid catalysis. Rates of hydrolysis of the hydroxy compound were also measured in dilute HClO4 and NaOH solutions as well as in CH3CO2H, H2PO4–, (CH2OH)3CNH3+, and NH4+ buffers, and the rate profile constructed from these data showed the presence of uncatalyzed and hydroxide ion-catalyzed reactions. This hydroxide-ion catalysis became saturated at [NaOH] [Formula: see text] 0.05 M, implying occurrence of yet another nonproductive substrate ionization. Key words: diazo compound hydrolysis, lactone hydrolysis, Cox–Yates excess acidity, acid catalysis, alcohol protonation.


2000 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 436-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oswald S Tee ◽  
Samer MI Hussein ◽  
Isabelle E Turner ◽  
Ogaritte J Yazbeck

Acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of acetophenone dimethyl acetal (ADMA) and trimethyl orthobenzoate (TMOB) is retarded by cyclodextrins (CDs): α-CD, β-CD, hb-β-CD = "hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin", and γ-CD. The observed first order rate constants (kobs) vary with [CD] in the manner expected for 1:1 binding between the substrates and the CDs. Similar behaviour was found recently for the hydrolysis of benzaldehyde dimethyl acetal (BDMA). With β-CD and hp-β-CD, the binding of all three substrates (BDMA, ADMA, TMOB) is strong and the CD-bound forms have very little reactivity. By contrast, substrate binding by α-CD is much weaker, and the CD-bound forms have appreciable, though reduced, reactivity. Substrate binding by γ-CD is also relatively weak, but the bound substrates have very low reactivities. The hydrolysis reactions of ADMA, TMOB, and BDMA have been evaluated as kinetic probes of the binding of guests to CD hosts. For α-CD, β-CD, and hp-β-CD, the addition of guests reduces the amount of free CD and thereby alleviates retardation of the hydrolysis by the CD. The resultant increases in hydrolysis rates can be analyzed to provide estimates of CD-guest dissociation constants, KG. For aliphatic alcohols and ketones binding to β-CD and hp-β-CD, all three probe reactions provide values of KG that agree well with each other and with literature values determined by other methods. The approach does not work well with α-CD because of its much weaker binding of the kinetic probes and their less pronounced dependence of kobs on [α-CD]. In the case of γ;-CD, the approach cannot be used because added guests cause a further lowering in the rate of hydrolysis, suggesting the formation of an unreactive ternary (substrate·CD·guest) complex.Key words: acetal, hydrolysis, cyclodextrin, host-guest, binding.


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