STUDIES ON REACTIONS RELATING TO CARBOHYDRATES AND POLYSACCHARIDES.: PART XXVI. STRUCTURE OF ACETONE GLYCEROL

1930 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Hibbert ◽  
J. G. Morazain

The condensation of acetone with glycerol has been carried out in a neutral medium, at a low temperature, and the product shown to consist entirely of the five-membered isopropylidene-glycerol ketal. Based on this fact, the use of the substance for the determination of the structure of fats is therefore warranted. Isopropylidene-glycerol and its acetate readily hydrolyse on heating with water.No satisfactory explanation can, as yet, be offered for the non-formation of the six-membered ketal under the conditions outlined.Acetone, as previously shown by other workers, is capable of forming a six-membered cyclic ketal with glycerol-β-methyl ether, dihydroxy acetone, pentaerythritol and certain carbohydrates.

1930 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Hibbert ◽  
J. G. Morazain

Isopropylidene glycerol, prepared in neutral medium by the action of anhydrous copper sulphate as condensing agent, was methylated with silver oxide and methyl iodide; the product yielded only glycerol α-methyl ether on hydrolysis, thus proving the absence of any six-membered ketal in the condensation product of glycerol and acetone.The properties of both glycerol α- and β-methyl ethers have been carefully redetermined.A table of the isomeric acetals and ketals summarising their physico-chemical constants is given, in view of their usefulness as "type compounds" in investigations relating to fats, carbohydrates and polysaccharides.


2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
I. V. Saunina ◽  
E. N. Gribanov ◽  
E. R. Oskotskaya

The sorption of Hg (II), Cd (II), and As (III) by natural aluminosilicate is studied. It is shown that the mineral absorbs those toxicants in a rather wide pH range, quantitative extraction of analytes being achieved in a neutral or close to neutral medium (pH values range within 7.0 - 8.0; 6.3 - 7.5; 7.4 - 8.5 for Hg (II), As (III), and Cd (II), respectively). The effect of the time of phase contact on the degree of extraction of elements is shown. The sorption capacity of the mineral in optimal conditions of the medium acidity (0.06 mmol/g for mercury, 0.31 mmol/g for cadmium, and 0.52 mmol/g for arsenic) is determined. The distribution coefficients attain values of aboutnX 103-nX 104. A new combined method for determination of Hg (II), Cd (II), and As (III) in natural and waste water is developed and tested. The method consists in a preliminary group sorption concentration of the analytes by aluminosilicate, desorption of the analytes from the surface of the mineral and their subsequent atomic absorption determination. The correctness of the method is verified in analysis of spiked samples. The method is easy to use and exhibits high sensitivity, reproducibility and accuracy of analyte determination. The relative standard deviation does not exceed 0.13. Economic availability and possibility of using domestic sorption materials are the important advantages of the proposed procedure which can be used in the practice of laboratories monitoring the quality and safety of environmental objects.


2014 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. 1405-1416 ◽  
Author(s):  
U.-N. Berninger ◽  
G. Jordan ◽  
J. Schott ◽  
E. H. Oelkers

Natural hydromagnesite (Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2·4H2O) dissolution and precipitation experiments were performed in closed-system reactors as a function of temperature from 22.5 to 75ºC and at 8.6 < pH < 10.7. The equilibrium constants for the reaction Mg5(CO3)4(OH)2·4H2O + 6H+ = 5Mg2+ + 4HCO3– + 6H2O were determined by bracketing the final fluid compositions obtained from the dissolution and precipitation experiments. The resulting constants were found to be 1033.7±0.9, 1030.5±0.5 and 1026.5±0.5 at 22.5, 50 and 75ºC, respectively. Whereas dissolution rates were too fast to be determined from the experiments, precipitation rates were slower and quantified. The resulting BET surface areanormalized hydromagnesite precipitation rates increase by a factor of ~2 with pH decreasing from 10.7 to 8.6. Measured rates are approximately two orders of magnitude faster than corresponding forsterite dissolution rates, suggesting that the overall rates of the low-temperature carbonation of olivine are controlled by the relatively sluggish dissolution of the magnesium silicate mineral.


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