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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131369403321

Autore

Buncel E.

Titolo

Solvent effects in chemistry / / Erwin Buncel, Robert A. Stairs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5231-1055-4

1-119-04429-4

1-119-04430-8

1-119-04419-7

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (528 p.)

Disciplina

541/.34

Soggetti

Solvation

Chemical reactions

Solvents

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical refererences and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; TABLE OF CONTENTS; TITLE PAGE; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; 1 PHYSICOCHEMICAL FOUNDATIONS; 1.1 GENERALITIES; 1.2 CLASSIFICATION OF SOLVENTS; 1.3 SOLVENTS IN THE WORKPLACE AND THE ENVIRONMENT; 1.4 SOME ESSENTIAL THERMODYNAMICS AND KINETICS: TENDENCY AND RATE; 1.5 EQUILIBRIUM CONSIDERATIONS; 1.6 THERMODYNAMIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; 1.7 KINETIC CONSIDERATIONS: COLLISION THEORY; 1.8 TRANSITION-STATE THEORY; 1.9 REACTIONS IN SOLUTION; 1.10 DIFFUSION-CONTROLLED REACTIONS; 1.11 REACTION IN SOLUTION AND THE TRANSITION-STATE THEORY; PROBLEMS; 2 UNREACTIVE SOLVENTS

2.1 INTERMOLECULAR POTENTIALS 2.2 ACTIVITY AND EQUILIBRIUM IN NONELECTROLYTE SOLUTIONS; 2.3 KINETIC SOLVENT EFFECTS; 2.4 SOLVENT POLARITY; 2.5 ELECTROSTATIC FORCES; 2.6 ELECTROLYTES IN SOLUTION; 2.7 SOLVATION; 2.8 SINGLE ION SOLVATION; 2.9 IONIC ASSOCIATION; 2.10 SOLVENT MIXTURES; 2.11 SALT EFFECTS; PROBLEMS; 3 REACTIVE SOLVENTS; 3.1 SPECIFIC SOLUTE/SOLVENT INTERACTIONS; 3.2 HYDROGEN BONDING; 3.3 ACIDS AND BASES IN



SOLVENTS; 3.4 BRØNSTED-LOWRY ACIDS AND BASES; 3.5 ACIDITY FUNCTIONS; 3.6 ACIDS AND BASES IN KINETICS; 3.7 LEWIS ACIDS AND BASES; 3.8 HARD AND SOFT ACIDS AND BASES (HSAB)

3.9 SCALES OF HARDNESS OR SOFTNESS 3.10 ACIDS AND BASES IN REACTIVE APROTIC SOLVENTS; 3.11 EXTREMES OF ACIDITY AND BASICITY; 3.12 OXIDATION AND REDUCTION; 3.13 ACIDITY/REDOX DIAGRAMS; 3.14 UNIFICATION OF ACID-BASE AND REDOX CONCEPTS; PROBLEMS; 4 CHEMOMETRICS: SOLVENT EFFECTS AND STATISTICS; 4.1 LINEAR FREE ENERGY RELATIONSHIPS; 4.2 CORRELATIONS BETWEEN EMPIRICAL PARAMETERS AND OTHER MEASURABLE SOLVENT PROPERTIES; 4.3 REPRESENTATION OF CORRELATION DATA ON THE HEMISPHERE; 4.4 SOME PARTICULAR CASES; 4.5 ACIDITY AND BASICITY PARAMETERS; 4.6 BASE SOFTNESS PARAMETERS; 4.7 CONCLUSION

5 THEORIES OF SOLVENT EFFECTS 5.1 INTRODUCTION: MODELING; 5.2 QUANTUM-MECHANICAL METHODS; 5.3 STATISTICAL-MECHANICAL METHODS; 5.4 INTEGRAL EQUATION THEORIES; 5.5 SOLVATION CALCULATIONS; 5.6 SOME RESULTS; PROBLEMS; 6 DIPOLAR APROTIC SOLVENTS; 6.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.2 ACIDITIES IN DMSO AND THE H-SCALE IN DMSO-H2O MIXTURES; 6.3 USE OF THERMODYNAMIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; 6.4 CLASSIFICATION OF RATE PROFILE-MEDIUM EFFECT REACTION TYPES; 6.5 BIMOLECULAR NUCLEOPHILIC SUBSTITUTION; 6.6 PROTON TRANSFER; 6.7 D2-HO EXCHANGE; PROBLEMS; 7 EXAMPLES OF OTHER SOLVENT CLASSES; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2 ACIDIC SOLVENTS

7.3 BASIC SOLVENTS 7.4 CHIRAL SOLVENTS; 8 NEW SOLVENTS AND GREEN CHEMISTRY; 8.1 NEOTERIC SOLVENTS; 8.2 SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS; 8.3 IONIC LIQUIDS; 8.4 LOW-TRANSITION-TEMPERATURE MIXTURES; 8.5 BIO-BASED SOLVENTS; 8.6 FLUOROUS SOLVENTS; 8.7 SWITCHABLE SOLVENTS; 8.8 GREEN SOLVENT CHEMISTRY; 9 CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS; 9.1 CHOOSING A SOLVENT; 9.2 ENVOI; APPENDIX; ANSWERS; CHAPTER 1; CHAPTER 2; CHAPTER 3; CHAPTER 6; REFERENCES; INDEX; END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces the concepts, theory and experimental knowledge concerning solvent effects on the rate and equilibrium of chemical reactions of all kinds. It begins with basic thermodynamics and kinetics, building on this foundation to demonstrate how a more detailed understanding of these effects may be used to aid in determination of reaction mechanisms, and to aid in planning syntheses. Consideration is given to theoretical calculations (quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, etc.), to statistical methods (chemometrics), and to modern day concerns such as ""green"" chemistry, where ut



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781009703321

Autore

Zingaro Linde

Titolo

Speaking out : storytelling for social change / / Linde Zingaro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-41993-9

1-315-41992-0

1-59874-739-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series

Disciplina

808.5/43

808.543

Soggetti

Storytelling

Social change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2009 by Left Coast Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Disclosure Consequences; CHAPTER 2 Ideology, Terminology, and Method; CHAPTER 3 Conversations in Which Silence Is Not Consent; CHAPTER 4 Vignettes: Professional Confessions; CHAPTER 5 Voicing and Silence: Speaking for Others by Speaking about Ourselves; CHAPTER 6 Preparation for Speaking Out: Polishing the Story; CHAPTER 7 Pedagogical Confessions: Narrating Empowerment for Knowledge Production; CHAPTER 8 Testimony: Performing the Polished Story; CHAPTER 9 Conclusions/Closing: The Portrait of a Practice; Notes; References; Index

About The Author

Sommario/riassunto

Many professionals in health, education, and community service roles are caught in a particular bind of identity-they live in a complex social borderland of credibility and professional authority while experiencing or having experienced the same discrimination, violence or trauma that they are committed to conquering. For some, the disclosure of their own stories of marginalization has become a tool for advocacy, for telling a larger truth; for others, self-disclosure is a more personal action, intended to assist isolated others in developing trust and connection. Linde Zingaro, a lifelon