- Kinetics of thermal conversions of monoterpenic compounds in supercritical lower alcohols
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The most important information concerning thermal conversions of vegetable terpenes (α-pinene, β-pinene, turpentine, and cis-verbenol) in supercritical lower alcohols is systematized. The kinetics of selected reactions is reported and is compared with the kinetics of the same reactions in the gas and liquid phases. Thermodynamic calculations of the phase states and kinetic parameters are presented for a number of multicomponent multiphase systems containing terpenes and lower alcohols. The effect of the supercritical solvent pressure on the rate and selectivity of the selected reactions is reported.
- Anikeev,Ermakova,Chibiryaev,Kozhevnikov
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p. 162 - 193
(2010/09/04)
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- The influence of water on the isomerization of α-pinene in a supercritical aqueous-alcoholic solvent
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The influence of water as a cosolvent and catalyst of the isomerization of α-pinene in a supercritical aqueous-alcoholic (ethanol) solvent was studied experimentally. At T = 657 K and p = 230 atm, an increase in the concentration of water in the reaction mixture was found to increase the rate of the reaction and its selectivity with respect to the desired product, limonene. Water exhibited the properties of an acid catalyst because of its ionization. Mathematical experimental data processing was performed to evaluate and separate the contributions of the radical and ionic paths to the total rate of the reactions that occurred during the thermal isomerization of α-pinene.
- Ermakova,Chibiryaev,Mikenin,Sal'nikova,Anikeev
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- Comprehensive kinetic and mechanistic considerations for the gas-phase behaviour of pinane-type compounds
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The thermal behaviour of selected pinane-type compounds, α-pinene (1), β-pinene (2), pinane (3) and nopinone (4), has been investigated. The conversion of the bicyclic starting materials to their acyclic and monocyclic isomers as well as the consecutive reactions of the acyclic main isomerisation products are discussed. The conversion of 1-4 in a reaction network is presented and the experimental evidence for the formation of pyrolysis products by a biradical pathway is discussed. In addition to these results a kinetic model describing the isomerisation of the bicyclic compounds to their acyclic and monocyclic isomers is presented. A good correlation between kinetic simulations and experimental data is revealed. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2007.
- Stolle, Achim,Ondruschka, Bernd,Bonrath, Werner
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p. 2310 - 2317
(2008/02/08)
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- Thermolysis of α-pinene in supercritical lower alcohols
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Thermal isomerization of α-pinene in supercritical solvents, viz., ethanol, methanol, and propan-1-ol, was carried out, and differences in the rate and selectivity of the process were revealed. In supercritical ethanol the reaction rate increases sharply and the selectivity remains unchanged with an increase in the temperature (from 290 to 390°C) or pressure (from 90 to 270 atm). The main reaction products are limonene, isomeric alloocimenes, and pyronenes. The selectivity for limonene in propan-1-ol is higher than in other alcohols when the conversion of α-pinene not higher than 50%. In supercritical ethanol (430°C, 120 atm, 140 s) limonene is more stable than α-pinene (conversion 8%).
- Chibiryaev,Anikeev,Yermakova,Mikenin,Kozhevnikov,Sal'nikova
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p. 987 - 992
(2008/02/01)
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- The kinetics, stereochemistry, and deuterium isotope effects in the α-pinene pyrolysis. Evidence for incursion of multiple conformations of a diradical
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Pyrolysis of optically active α-pinene gave 95% racemic limonene (dipentene), alloocimine, racemic α-pinene, α-pyronene. Activation parameters are reported. Pyrolysis of (S) syn-6-trideuteriomethyl α-pinene at 256.7°C for 2400s gave dipentene with twice as much deuterium as hydrogen transfer with kH/kD=1.49 and alloocimine with a Z and E trideuteriomethyl ratio of ca. 5 with kH/kD=0.89. The isotope effect on loss of starting material was 1.16. Separation of the enantiomers of α-pinene from 3600s pyrolyses at 256.7°C followed by NMR analysis revealed that the ratio of the R-syn to R-anti to S-anti isomers is 4.6:3.7:1 at roughly two half-lives. Kinetic analysis reveals that the previously proposed mechanism for all conversions involving slow interconversion of two diradicals with Cs symmetry is not consistent with the distribution of the ??-pinene isomers, particularly the formation of more suprafacial-retention product (R-anti) than bond-rotated isomer (S-anti). Inclusion of another Cs species (ignoring the deuteriums) that would be intermediate between the originally proposed Cs species, appears more consistent with the observations.
- Gajewski, Joseph J,Kuchuk, Ilya,Hawkins, Christopher,Stine, Robert
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p. 6943 - 6950
(2007/10/03)
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