A review is presented of the use of fluorinated phases and fluorine-containing surfactants in chromatography. Additionally, new information is provided on the application of two nonionic perfluorosurfactants as reversed-phase mobile phase additives to enhance chromatographic performance of aromatic amines and some amines of pharmaceutical significance.
Some recent applications in organic synthesisMost undergraduate organic textbooks give only a passing reference to the unique class of compounds called quaternary ammonium salts. They are often referred to merely as the final products of exhaustive alkylation of primary amines. A student may get the erroneous impression that they are of no particular use in chemistry and that, being ionic, they are all soluble in water. Many textbooks make unqualified statements about their thermal stability.In the last ten years there has been a great upsurge of interest in the chemistry of quaternary ammonium salts. As a result, a number of interesting applications of molten quaternary ammonium salts have resulted (1-5). More recently, Starks reported that a small amount of quaternary ammonium salt added to certain two-phase organic reaction mixtures would catalyze these reactions to a remarkable extent (6). This phenomenon of phase-transfer catalysis has spurred considerable study in the United States, Europe, and Japan as evidenced by the large number of papers published in this area during the past four years.Part of the attractiveness of this area of research stems from the fact that it is within the scope and reach of most institutions where undergraduate research in chemistry is encouraged. No expensive and sophisticated instruments are required, and most of the chemicals needed are relatively inexpensive.
Quaternary Ammonium SaltsQuaternary ammonium salts are compounds of the general formula R4N+X_ where R is alkyl, aryl, or aralkyl group and X is any anion. The R groups could be identical or different.These organic salts are ionic compounds which are made from primary, secondary or tertiary amines and an appropriate alkyl halide, sulfate, or some other similar compound carrying an excellent leaving group. Synthesis from a primary amine involves treatment with an excess of alkyl halide in methanol, acetonitrile, ethyl acetate, or benzene solution in the presence of a mild base. The last alkylation step is recognized as the Menshutkin reactionMany of these salts are crystalline solids at room temperature and are stable at their melting points for short periods of time. Low-melting salts may not crystallize easily at room temperature and a few salts are liquids at laboratory temperature (6-9). Their melting points depend on molecular weight, symmetry of the cation, and the nature of the anion. Thermal stability is related to the nucleophilicity of the anion. Strongly nucleophilic anions promote reverse Menschutkin reaction. Elimination products will also be obtained if the tertiary amine formed in the reverse Menschutkin reaction is not promptly removed from the reaction mixture. Hygroscopic properties vary in poorly defined fashion.Low-molecular weight salts up to Cg-salts are highly soluble in water, but beyond that the solubility in water decreases rapidly. However, incorporation of ether linkages in one or more of the alkyl groups tends to increase the solubility in water remarkably. Quaternary ammonium salts are gener...
Immediately after this fraction, 560 mg of polyvinylferrocene (5) was eluted: mol wt (gpc) --1800; ir identical with that of an authentic sample obtained by radical polymerization of vinylferrocene.14•16Further elution with 1:3 benzene-petroleum ether afforded 150 mg of a mixture of the two isomers of triferrocenylbenzene, 1 and 2 (roughly in the same amount by nmr analysis), Continued elution with 1:1 benzene-petroleum ether afforded 1.90 g of ethyl ferrocenoate (4), which was recrystallized from ethanol-water: mp 62-63°( lit. mp 61-62°,11 63-64016); ir (KBr) 1700 cm-1 (s); mass spectrum (70 eV) m/e (assignment and rel intensity) 258 (M+, 100), 229 (M+ -C2H5, 99), 213 (M+ -C2HsO, 10), 185 (CioH9Fe+, 11), 56 (Fe+, 85); nmr (CC14) 1.32 (t, 3 ), 4.1-4.35 (m, 9 ), 4.70 (m, 2 H).Elution with pure benzene afforded 1.01 g of acetylferrocene followed by 200 mg of dimer 3.
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