Arsenic-containing hydrocarbons: natural compounds in oil from the fish capelin, Mallotus villosus

Arsenic-containing hydrocarbons have been identified for the first time as natural components of fish oil.     

(99)Tc and re incorporated into metal oxide polyoxometalates: oxidation state stability elucidated by electrochemistry and theory

The radioactive element technetium-99 ((99)Tc, half-life = 2.1 × 10(5) years, β(-) of 253 keV), is a major byproduct of (235)U fission in the nuclear fuel cycle. (99)Tc is also found in radioactive waste tanks and in the environment at National Lab sites and fuel reprocessing centers. Separation and storage of the long-lived (99)Tc in an appropriate and stable waste-form is an important issue that needs to be addressed. Considering metal oxide solid-state materials as potential storage matrixes for Tc, we are examining the redox speciation of Tc on the molecular level using polyoxometalates (POMs) as models. In this study we investigate the electrochemistry of Tc complexes of the monovacant Wells-Dawson isomers, α(1)-P(2)W(17)O(61)(10-) (α1) and α(2)-P(2)W(17)O(61)(10-) (α2) to identify features of metal oxide materials that can stabilize the immobile Tc(IV) oxidation state accessed from the synthesized Tc(V)O species and to interrogate other possible oxidation states available to Tc within these materials. The experimental results are consistent with density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Electrochemistry of K(7-n)H(n)[Tc(V)O(α(1)-P(2)W(17)O(61))] (Tc(V)O-α1), K(7-n)H(n)[Tc(V)O(α(2)-P(2)W(17)O(61))] (Tc(V)O-α2) and their rhenium analogues as a function of pH show that the Tc-containing derivatives are always more readily reduced than their Re analogues. Both Tc and Re are reduced more readily in the lacunary α1 site as compared to the α2 site. The DFT calculations elucidate that the highest oxidation state attainable for Re is VII while, under the same electrochemistry conditions, the highest oxidation state for Tc is VI. The M(V)→ M(IV) reduction processes for Tc(V)O-α1 are not pH dependent or only slightly pH dependent suggesting that protonation does not accompany reduction of this species unlike the M(V)O-α2 (M = (99)Tc, Re) and Re(V)O-α1 where M(V/IV) reduction process must occur hand in hand with protonation of the terminal M═O to make the π*(M═O) orbitals accessible to the addition of electrons. This result is consistent with previous extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) and X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) data that reveal that the Tc(V) is "pulled" into the -α1 framework and that may facilitate the reduction of Tc(V)O-α1 and stabilize lower Tc oxidation states. This study highlights the inequivalency of the two sites, and their impact on the chemical properties of the Tc substituted in these positions.     

Measurements of excess molar enthalpy and excess molar heat capacity of (1-heptanol or 1-octanol)+(diethylamine or <Emphasis Type="Italic">s</Emphasis>-butylamine) mixtures at 298.15 K and 0.1 MPa

Experimental data of excess molar enthalpy (H _m^E) and excess molar heat capacity (C _pm^E) of binary mixtures containing (1-heptanol or 1-octanol)+(diethylamine or s-butylamine) have been determined as a function of composition at 298.15 K and at 0.1 MPa using a modified 1455 Parr solution calorimeter. The excess molar enthalpy data are negative and show parabolic format over the whole composition range; however, the excess molar heat capacity values, whose curves show a S-shape, are positive in the 0.0 to 0.7 molar fraction range and negative between the molar fraction values 0.7 to 1.0. The applicability of the ERAS-model to correlate the excess molar enthalpy data was tested. The calculated data values are in good agreement with the experimental ones. The experimental behavior of H _m^E is interpreted in terms of specific interactions between 1-alkanol and amine molecules.     

Kinetic study of decomposition for Co(II)- and Ni(II)-1,10-phenanthroline complexes intercalated in γ-zirconium phosphate

The thermal behaviour of the complexes formed in situ between the aromatic diamine 1,10-phenanthroline and the Co(II) and Ni(II) ions intercalated between the layers of γ-zirconium phosphate was studied by simultaneous TG/DSC techniques. The obtained materials show similar thermal behaviour: after a multi-step dehydration process they showed an oxidative decomposition in only one step. The kinetic study of the decomposition process was performed using both the model-free methods of Ozawa-Flynn-Wall and Kissinger. The former method provides a negligible dependence of activation energy on the degree of reaction α for both materials. Activation energies derived by the Kissinger method show a good agreement with the mean values derived by the Ozawa-Flynn-Wall method. The Arrhenius rate constants determined using also the pre-exponential factor values demonstrate that their thermal stability can be considered comparable, within the experimental uncertainty. Finally, a reliable method was applied to determine the model function from the best fit between the numerical dependence of the integral function g(α) vs. α and several theoretical model dependencies reported in literature for the most commonly used models. A Mampel first-order reaction model was selected to describe the thermal decomposition in both the materials studied.     

Arsenic Transformations in Short Marine Food Chains studied by HPLC-ICP MS

The chemical forms of arsenic in some herbivorous or mainly herbivorous marine animals and, in some cases, the algae on which they feed were determined by HPLC-ICP MS. In most cases arsenobetaine was present in the animals as well as arsenosugars consumed directly from the algae. However in the case of copepods Gladioferens imparipes fed only on the diatom Chaetoceros concavicornis which had been grown in axenic culture, arseno-betaine was absent. Arsenobetaine was also absent from the muscle of the silver drummer Kyphosus sydneyanus, although trimethyl-arsine oxide was present. This is the first reported case of the absence of arsenobetaine in a marine teleost fish and may be related to its fermentative faculty for digesting the macroalgae that it consumes. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.