Effect of simple solutes on the long range dipolar correlations in liquid water.

Intermolecular correlations in liquid water at ambient conditions have generally been characterized through short range density fluctuations described through the atomic pair distribution functions. Recent numerical and experimental results have suggested that such a description of order or structure in liquid water is incomplete and there exist considerably longer ranged orientational correlations in water that can be studied through dipolar correlations. In this study, using large scale classical, atomistic molecular dynamics simulations using TIP4P-Ew and TIP3P models of water, we show that salts such as sodium chloride (NaCl), potassium chloride (KCl), caesium chloride (CsCl), and magnesium chloride (MgCl2) have a long range effect on the dipolar correlations, which cannot be explained by the notion of structure making and breaking by dissolved ions.

Long-distance correlations in molecular orientations of liquid water and shape-dependent hydrophobic force.

Liquid water, at ambient conditions, has short-range density correlations which are well known in literature. Surprisingly, large scale molecular-dynamics simulations reveal an unusually long-distance correlation in "longitudinal" part of dipole-dipole orientational correlations. It is nonvanishing even at 75 A and falls off exponentially with a correlation length of about 24 A beyond solvation region.

Improved procedures for the generation of diborane from sodium borohydride and boron trifluoride.

Improved procedures for the generation of diborane by the reaction of NaBH4 in triglyme or tetraglyme with the BF3 adducts of di-n-butyl ether, tert-butyl methyl ether, monoglyme, dioxane, and tetrahydropyran were developed. In these systems, generation of diborane requires 2-4 h at 25 degrees C (faster reactions take place at 50 degrees C). The byproduct NaBF4 precipitates from the reaction mixture at 25 degrees C as the reaction proceeds.

Hydroboration. 97. Synthesis of new exceptional chloroborane--Lewis base adducts for hydroboration. Dioxane--monochloroborane as a superior reagent for the selective hydroboration of terminal alkenes.

Several less volatile oxygen-containing Lewis bases, such as tert-butyl methyl ether, dioxane, anisole, ethyl acetate, beta-chloroethyl ether, and monoglyme, were examined as prospective mono- and dichloroborane carriers. Dioxane, ethyl acetate, and beta-chloroethyl ether form relatively stable boron trichloride adducts, but the boron trichloride adduct of monoglyme is not very stable and must be used immediately. On the other hand, tert-butyl methyl ether and anisole fail to form stable boron trichloride adducts and the corresponding ether-cleaved products are obtained.

Molecular addition compounds. 17. Borane and chloroborane adducts with organic sulfides for hydroboration.

The following sulfides have been examined as borane carriers in comparison with dimethyl sulfide and 1,4-oxathiane: tert-butyl methyl sulfide, isoamyl methyl sulfide, ethyl isoamyl sulfide, tert-butyl isoamyl sulfide, diisoamyl sulfide, tetrahydrothiophene, tetrahydro-thiopyran, thioanisole, 3-ethylthiotetrahydrofuran, bis(3-tetrahydrofuryl) sulfide, and bis(2-methoxyethyl) sulfide. Their complexing ability toward borane increases in the following order: thioanisole < ether-sulfides < dialkyl sulfides < dimethyl sulfide. Borane adducts of the sulfides are liquids above 0 degrees C.