Full text
| |
| Author(s): |
Chang Yihwa
Total Authors: 1
|
| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Conjunto das Químicas (IQ e FCF) (CQ/DBDCQ) |
| Defense date: | 2004-09-10 |
| Examining board members: |
Frank Herbert Quina;
Josef Wilhelm Baader;
Omar A. El Seoud;
Watson Loh;
Miguel Guillermo Neumann
|
| Advisor: | Frank Herbert Quina |
| Abstract | |
This work reports a study of the effect of the addition of acetonitrile on chemical reactivity in micellar solutions of the anionic detergent sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and the cationic detergent hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and in supramolecular aggregates of the bile salt sodium cholate (NaCh). The systems employed in the study of chemical reactivity in the presence of acetonitrile were: (a) photoreactivity of the excited triplet state of N-butyl-3-nitrophenyl ether in SDS; (b) the acid catalyzed of 2-(p-octoxy-nitrophenyl)-1,3-dioxolane in the ground state in SDS; (c) incorporation of the coion N-dodecyl-4-cyanopyridine in CTAB; (d) protonation/deprotonation of the weak acid of the 4-methyl-7-hydroxyflavilium ion in the ground and excited state in SDS; and (e) quenching of the excited state of 1-ethylnaphthalene and 1-(1-naphthyl)-ethanol in NaCh. The modifications of the structure of the micellar aggregate and of the properties of the bulk aqueous phase induced by acetonitrile result in a faster rate of exit of organic molecules and ions from the aggregate into the aqueous phase. The changes that occur in the micelle and in the partitioning of solutes tend to diminish the catalytic effect of micelles on chemical reactivity. Bile salt aggregates possess two distinct sites for solubilization of solutes and the minimum concentration of bile salt necessary for the formation of these two sites depends on the concentration of acetonitrile. At acetonitrile concentrations above 10 %, only aggregates with the primary solubilization site are formed and, above 30 %, the aggregates are completely disrupted. At low acetonitrile concentrations (below 10 %), the dynamics of dissociation of solutes from the secondary site of bile salt aggregates changes very little, while the rate of exit of solutes from the primary site increases in the presence of acetonitrile. Thus, acetonitrile can be employed to accelerate the rate of exit of species such as reactive intermediates, facilitating the application of bile salt aggregates as two-reaction-site microreactors. (AU) | |