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Thermal initiation involves initiating a reaction in the presence of heat, usually at very high temperatures. Heating a reaction can result in radical initiation of the substrate(s). [ 6 ] In the presence of heat, a monomer can self-initiate and react with other monomers or pairs of monomers.
In case of thermal initiation, the N-chloroamines give better yields for pyrrolidines because N-bromoamines are less stable thermally than the corresponding N-chloroamines. [18] In contrast, when the initiation is carried out by irradiation, the N-bromoamines give higher yield for pyrrolidines. [11] [failed verification]
Chemical reactions involving thermal runaway are also called thermal explosions in chemical engineering, or runaway reactions in organic chemistry.It is a process by which an exothermic reaction goes out of control: the reaction rate increases due to an increase in temperature, causing a further increase in temperature and hence a further rapid increase in the reaction rate.
Protein folding problem: Is it possible to predict the secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure of a polypeptide sequence based solely on the sequence and environmental information? Inverse protein-folding problem: Is it possible to design a polypeptide sequence which will adopt a given structure under certain environmental conditions?
For chain-growth polymerization, the overall activation energy is = +, where i, p and t refer respectively to initiation, propagation and termination steps. The propagation step normally has a very small activation energy, so that the overall value is negative if the activation energy for termination is larger than that for initiation.
In the simplest example oxygen can be used as it exists naturally in its triplet state (i.e. it is a diradical). This is referred to as air inhibition and is a diffusion-controlled reaction with rates typically in the order of 10 7 –10 9 mol −1 s −1 , [ 3 ] the resulting peroxy radicals (ROO•) are less reactive towards polymerisation.
When they collide with the large, slower-moving particles of the tobacco smoke they push the latter away from the rod. The force that has pushed the smoke particles away from the rod is an example of a thermophoretic force, as the mean free path of air at ambient conditions is 68 nm [2] and the characteristic length scales are between 100 ...
recombination of two radicals, corresponding in this example to initiation in reverse. As can be explained using the steady-state approximation, the thermal reaction has an initial rate of fractional order (3/2), and a complete rate equation with a two-term denominator (mixed-order kinetics). [4] [5]