The Effects of Cosolvents on the Complexation of α-Cyclodextrin with Alkylated Substances. Calorimetric Studies at 25 °C

The formation of complexes of -cyclodextrin with 1,2-alkanediols, ,-alkanediols and some cycloalkanols has been studied calorimetrically at 25 °C in water, in 7 mol kg^-1 aqueous urea and in 3 mol kg^-1 aqueous glucose. When a complex is formed, calorimetry enables the calculation of both the enthalpy and the association constant, from which the free energy and the entropy of the process can be obtained. The forces involved in the association process are discussed in the light of the signs and values of the thermodynamic parameters obtained. The effect of the variation of the aqueous medium on the hydration of the interacting substances and the consequent changes in the association parameters have been investigated. As respect to water, complexes are less stable in urea and more stable in glucose. The analysis of the data shows that this is the result of a different enthalpy-entropy balance in the two solvent media. Deaquation of the interacting substances plays a major role in determining the stability of the inclusion complexes.     

Chiral recognition in aqueous solutions: On the role of urea in hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions of unsubstituted α-amino acids

Calorimetric and nuclear relaxation time measurements were carried out at 25°C on concentrated aqueous solutions of urea containing the L and D forms of the following -aminoacids: alanine, -aminobutyric acid, norvaline, and norleucine. Glycine was also studied under the same experimental conditions. The enthalpic interaction coefficients were rationalized according to the preferential configuration model. The trends of the homochiral coefficients at increasing concentration of urea underline an interaction mechanism not different from that occurring in water. Chiral recognition is the quantity more affected by the nature of the solvent. Among the amino acids studied, only norleucine presents this effect, which vanishes at the highest concentrations of urea because the attenuated electrostatic interactions cannot impose preferential configurations.     

Synthesis of Mesoporous Silica Materials via Nonsurfactant Templated Sol-Gel Route by Using Mixture of Organic Compounds as Template

Mesoporous silica materials have been successfully prepared by employing a mixture of -cyclodextrin and urea as a template in a HCl-catalyzed sol-gel process, followed by extraction with water. The obtained materials are characterized by nitrogen adsorption-desorption measurements, powder X-ray diffraction patterns and transmission electron microscopy. The changes of the pore parameters depend on both the weight ratio of -cyclodextrin and urea and the template content in the final silica composite. The effects of the mixture as template (or pore-forming agent) on the physicochemical properties of the two synthesized systems, with different weight ratio and same template content, as well as varied template content and fixed weight ratio, were investigated in this paper. The results show that the hydrogen bonding interactions between -cyclodextrin and urea molecules or urea aggregates, the urea-holding -cyclodextrin molecules themselves as well as inorganic species are the driving force in the formation of mesoporous silica materials.     

Kinetic Deuterium Isotopic Effects in the Thermal Decomposition of β-Cyclodextrin hydrates

The apparent kinetic parameters of the thermal decomposition of the -cyclodextrin–heavy water complex were obtained from dynamic TG analysis. Various calculation methods were used and the results compared with those of the ordinary water complex. The processes of decomposition occur as zero order reactions with an activation energy of 65.7 and 69.7 kJ/mole respectively, calculated for one mole of water and heavy water. The parameters were used to estimate the kinetic deuterium isotopic effect.     

Solvent effects on the complexation of 1-alkanols by parent and modified cyclodextrins. Calorimetric studies at 298 K

The formation of complexes of parent and alkylated cyclodextrins (CDs) with 1-heptanol and 1-octanol has been studied calorimetrically at 298 K in water and in concentrated aqueous solutions of urea. The forces involved in the association process are discussed in the light of the signs and values of the thermodynamic parameters obtained: association enthalpy, binding constant, Gibbs free energy, and entropy. It was inferred that: (i) in water, the formation of complexes for parent and substituted α-cyclodextrins (αCDs) is determined by enthalpy. For parent and substituted β-cyclodextrins (βCDs), instead, hydrophobic interactions are the prevailing forces determining complexation, as indicated by the small and negative or positive enthalpies and by the high and positive entropies. (ii) In urea, hydrophilic interactions are attenuated. The formation of complexes with alkylated CDs does not occur. (iii) The analysis of the thermodynamic properties confirms that inclusion is a process dominated by hydration phenomena. Modifications experienced by the solvent water in the hydration shells of the interacting substances upon association determine the formation of the complexes.     

Monolayer behaviors of poly(hexamethylene adipamide) at the air/water interface

Monolayer films on the neutral water substrate were obtained by spreadingN-trifluoroacetic anhydride (NTF)-modified nylon 66 or nylon 612 in chloroform solutions. Alternatively, monolayer films were obtained by spreading from nylon 66 solutions in the 31 mixture of benzene (B) and phenol (P). The temperatures studied are 10.3°, 14.7°C, and 19.4°C. The isothermss of surface pressure (), and surface moment () against surface area per residue (A) were determined. The -A isotherms of the NTF-modified nylon 66/chloroform and the nylon 66/BP were found to be an expanded type, while that of NTF-modified nylon 612/chloroform was of a condensed type. The NTF-modified nylon 66/chloroform solutions could yield well-spread films even higher concentrations than nylon 66/BP solutions. In the -A isotherms at 10.3° and 14.7°C, the surface moments are constant at 143 mD/residue for NTF-modified nylon 66/chloroform, and 340 mD/residue for nylon 66/BP until the surface area reaches where the -A isotherms show a transition point. After the transition point, the surface moments for both systems drop steadily. However, the surface moment at 19.4°C shows a maximum at the transition point. Possible configuration of the nylon 66 residue in monolayer is discussed.     

Inclusion of dynamic σ-π polarization in π-electronab initio calculations

Summary A method is presented, whereby dynamic - polarization, i.e. the correlation effect expressed by simultaneous (-*, -*) excitations, can be approximately included in a multi-reference configuration interaction (MRCI) or multi-configurational self-consistent field (MC-SCF) calculation, without need to explicitly correlate the sigma orbitals. The method, which we call the capacitance matrix method, is based on the use of conventional one-electron integrals, from which a polarization potential (SPP) contribution is computed and added to the one- and two-electron Hamiltonian. In the present form, the method requires one parameter for each type of atom, and one for each type of bond. These parameters were adjusted to reproduce the dynamic - polarization energy, computed by restricted multi-reference CI calculations, of a number of states of different hydrocarbons, and the agreement was within a few percent. Using the same parameters in CAS (Complete Active Space) SCF calculations of various states of benzene gives excitation energies, when SPP is included, which is comparable to those obtained by much more elaborate MRCI calculations.     

Sol-Gel Synthesis of Transparent Alumina Gel and Pure Gamma Alumina by Urea Hydrolysis of Aluminum Nitrate

-Alumina was synthesized by a sol-gel method with the aluminum ion hydrolysis control performed by urea. The initial saturated Al³⁺/urea solution presented urea coordinated with the aluminum ion, as shown in the ¹³C NMR and ²⁷Al NMR spectra and longitudinal relaxation times, T ₁, from the latter. The substitution of water molecules in the Al³⁺ coordination shell by urea controlled the hydrolysis process and provided an extensive nucleation during the initial steps of the aluminum hydroxide formation due to urea thermolysis at 90°C. The resulting sol, composed of Al(OH)₃ nanoparticles, coalesced and became a transparent gel permeated by a solution of urea and the polycation ion [Al₁₃O₄(OH)₂₄(H₂O)₁₂]⁷⁺. The freshly prepared gel was transformed, under heating at 300°C, directly to -alumina, characterized by FTIR, ²⁷Al-MAS-NMR and S_BET techniques, without - or -phases, as a consequence of the high degree of homogeneity of the -alumina precursor.     

Conductivities of 1∶1 salts in 2-cyanopyridine

Electrolytic conductivities of eight simple 11 electrolytes have been measured in dilute solutions of 2-cyanopyridine (2CNP) at 30°. Infinite dilution mobilities and association constants were calculated using the Fuoss-Hsia equation. With the exception of LiCF₃SO₃ all salts show very little association, consistent with the very high dielectric constant of 2CNP. The weak association which does occur is attributed to weak ion-solvent interactions. No evidence was found for triple ion formation. Conductivities of concentrated solutions of LiAsF₆ in 2CNP increase slowly with concentration reaching a maximum at a concentration of around 0.65 mol-dm^–3. These conductances are slightly lower than those in propylene carbonate which has a lower dielectric constant and a higher viscosity. Conductivities of concentrated LiAsF₆ solutions in 2CNP mixtures with acetonitrile vary monotonically, consistent with solution viscosities, and show no sign of the maximum commonly observed in mixed organic solvents.     

Chiroptical properties of cyclic α-diketones

The chiroptical properties of dissymmetric cyclopentanedione, 3-methylcyclopentane-1,2-dione, and glyoxal structures are examined on a theoretical model in which the electronic wave functions are obtained from semiempirical all-valence-shell molecular orbital calculations. Excited state wave functions are constructed in the virtual orbital-configuration interaction approximation. The rotatory strengths, dipole strengths, oscillator strengths, and dissymmetry factors of the lower energy singletsinglet transitions in eleven cyclopentanedione and ten glyoxal structures are calculated and reported. The signs and relative magnitudes of the rotatory strengths associated with the two lowest energy singlet transitions are found to be extraordinarily sensitive to ring substituents and ring conformational parameters as well as to inherent chirality within the -dicarbonyl moiety of the cyclopentanedione structures. Vicinal effects play a significant role in determining the signs and magnitudes of the electronic rotatory strengths. For a given configurational isomer of an inherently dissymmetric -dicarbonyl group (i.e., P or M), the signs of the electronic rotatory strength of the lowest energy transition in glyoxal and in cyclopentanedione are opposite. This result suggests that cisoid glyoxal structures may not be useful models for the chiroptical properties of cyclic -diketone systems with cisoid dicarbonyl moieties.This work was supported in part by a grant from the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, and a computing grant from the University of Virginia Computer Science Center.