Preferred electron-impact elimination of two CHO groups from A triapentafulvalenequinone. Formation of a triafulvalene radical cation?

The mass spectral fragmentations of 1,2-diphenyl- and 1,2-di (phenyl-d₅)-4,5-benzotriapentafulvalene-3,6-quinone indicate the preferred elimination of two CHO groups with the formation of triafulvalene radical cations.     

Microprocessor ratemeter for kinetic determinations

A simple, compact, easy-to-implement microprocessor ratemeter for kinetic determinations based on initial rate, fixed time, and variable time is presented. The hardware and software are such that the ratemeter can be used with almost any transducer or instrument to monitor reactions in a wide variety of chemical systems. The performance of the ratemeter is demonstrated by its application to the determination of phosphorus by stoppedflow spectrometry, glucose by amperometry, and alkaline phosphatase activity in control sera by visible spectrophotometry.     

1H and 13C n.m.r. study of butatriene-bis-tricarbonyliron complexes. Assignment of geometric orientation by comparative J(CCCH) values

A number of substituted butatriene-bis-tricarbonyliron complexes have been studied by ¹³C and ¹H n.m.r. spectroscopy. Long range coupling values, J(CCCH), have confirmed chemical shift results that methyl and phenyl groups assume opposite orientations at the coordinated double bonds with the methyl group preferentially trans to carbon and the phenyl group preferentially trans to iron.     

High resolution magneto-optical studies of p-InSb

High resolution photoconductivity and transmission spectra in p-InSb are obtained over a wide temperature range at magnetic fields from 9 to 100 kG using a CO₂ laser. The low temperature results are described in terms of hole transitions from the acceptor ground state to excited states associated with free light-hole Landau states.     

A better step-off algorithm for the knapsack problem

The knapsack problem, maximize Σ^m_{i = 1}c_ix_i when Σ^m_{i = 1}a_ix_i?b for integers x_i?0, can be solved by the classical step-off algorithm. The algorithm develops a series of feasible solutions with ever-increasing objective values. We make a change in the problem so that the step-off algorithm produces a series of solutions of not necessarily increasing objective values. A point is reached when no better solutions can be found and the calculation is stopped.     

Charged Representations of the Infinite Fermi and Clifford Algebras

The real and quaternionic charge conjugation operators invariant under the infinite-dimensional Clifford algebra, or compatible with the Fermi algebra, are determined. There results a maze of inequivalent irreducible charged representations, all of which are non-Fock. The representation vectors and their charges admit two interpretations besides those of spinors or states of quantum fields: as wavelets on the circle, with charge conjugations acting via ordinary complex conjugation; and as infinite-dimensional numbers, with charge conjugations acting by automorphisms.     

Formation of hexacoordinate complexes of PhCCSiF3 with 2,2'-bipyridine and with 1,10-phenanthroline through intermolecular silicon...nitrogen interactions

Bidentate intermolecular Si...N interactions were utilized to form new hypervalent complexes of trifluoro-phenylethynyl-silane with 2,2'-bipyridine and with 1,10-phenanthroline. X-ray structures obtained for these complexes display a somewhat distorted octahedral geometry about the silicon atom. Binding constants ranging from 170 to 1600 M(-1) at 25 degrees C in CDCl3 were measured for the formation of these complexes, suggesting that such hypervalent complexes of silicon could be used as new motifs in supramolecular chemistry.