Microwave Assisted Deprotection of N,N-Dimethylhydrazones in Water Using Palladium Chloride–Tin Chloride as Catalyst

Summary.  N,N-Dimethylhydrazones of ketones and aldehydes undergo facile cleavage to the corresponding carbonyl compounds upon exposure to microwaves in water containing a catalytic amount of PdCl₂–SnCl₂ in high yields. Corresponding authors. E-mail: rahman@umz.ac.ir Received December 27, 2001. Accepted (revised) February 6, 2002     

Microwave-Assisted Aminomethylation of Electron-Rich Compounds Under Solvent-Free Condition

Electron-rich aromatic compounds react with formaldehyde and a secondary amine under solvent-free condition, in the presence of acidic alumina in a commercial microwave oven or at room temperature to produce aminomethylated products in good to excellent yields.     

Kinetic Study of Radical Polymerization v. Determination of Reactivity Ratio in Copolymerization of Acrylonitrile and Itaconic Acid by 1H‐NMR

Many reports exist in the literature about the application of ¹H and ¹³C‐NMR techniques to analyze the copolymer structure and composition and also determination of reactivity ratios. In this work, on‐line ¹H‐NMR spectroscopy has been applied to identify reactivity ratios of itaconic acid and acrylonitrile in the solution phase (DMSO as the solvent) and in the presence of AIBN as the radical initiator. All the peaks corresponding to the existing protons were assigned quietly. Therefore, the kinetics of the copolymerization reaction was investigated by studying the variation of integral of two characteristic peaks regarding each monomer. The obtained data were used to find the reactivity ratios of acrylonitrile and itaconic acid by linear least‐squares methods such as Finemann‐Ross, inverted Finemann‐Ross, Mayo‐Lewis, Kelen‐Tudos, extended Kelen‐Tudos and Mao‐Huglin. In addition, a non‐linear least‐square method (Tidwell‐ Mortimer) was used at low conversions. Extended Kelen‐ Tudos and Mao‐Huglin were applied to determine reactivity ratio values at high conversions as well.     

One‐Step Synthesis of Aromatic Terminal Alkynes from Their Corresponding Ketones under Microwave Irradiation

One‐step microwave‐assisted synthesis of phenylacetylenes 2a–j from the corresponding ketones 1a–j in the presence of a new reagent, PCl₅–pyridine, is described. The reaction is carried out under a simple operational and experimental procedure, avoiding the use of the complicated and harsh multistep reaction.     

Four‐Component Cyclocondensation of Aminodiazines,Glyoxal, Formaldehyde,and Methanol to Imidazolidines

Four‐component reaction of aminodiazines (2‐aminopyrimidine and 2‐aminopyrazine), glyoxal, formaldehyde, and methanol yields trans‐4,5‐dimetoxy‐1,3‐bis(2‐pyrimidinyl)imidazolidine (5a) and trans‐4,5‐dimetoxy‐1,3‐bis(2‐pyrazinyl)imidazolidine (5b), respectively. Changing methanol to acetonitrile leads to the formation of the corresponding 1,3‐bis(2‐pyrimidinyl) and‐1,3‐bis(2‐pyrazinyl)‐ derivatives of trans‐4,5‐dihydroxyimidazolidine (6). Details of the proposed mechanism are discussed.     

Analysis of xylene in aqueous media using needle‐trap microextraction with a carbon nanotube sorbent

This paper describes a new extraction technique with needles and a sorbent based on carbon nanotubes to analyze trace amounts of three isomers of xylenes in aqueous samples. In this research, results have been compared with one commercial sorbent. The synthesized sorbent was prepared using sol–gel technology and was packed into 20 gauge needles, and the same size needle was used for packing the commercial sorbent. In the extraction process, a purge and trap sampling methodology is developed, so purging and trapping cycles were performed by a sampling pump. Optimized conditions for standard xylene samples have been obtained, and eight urine samples from workers that were exposed to xylene in the workplace were collected and analyzed. Experimental parameters such as limits of detection and quantification were investigated, and these two parameters were <1 μg/L.     

Molecular dynamics simulation of ferronanofluid behavior in a nanochannel in the presence of constant and time-dependent magnetic fields

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - For the first time, double phosphates(V) Zn3Cr4(PO4)6 and Mg3Cr4(PO4)6 were synthesized by non-waste solid-state reaction, performed in the temperature...     

Tamely Ramified Towers and Discriminant Bounds for Number Fields

The root discriminant of a number field of degree n is the nth root of the absolute value of its discriminant. Let R _2m be the minimal root discriminant for totally complex number fields of degree 2m, and put ₀ = lim inf _m R _2m . One knows that ₀ 4e 22.3, and, assuming the Generalized Riemann Hypothesis, ₀ 8e 44.7. It is of great interest to know if the latter bound is sharp. In 1978, Martinet constructed an infinite unramified tower of totally complex number fields with small constant root discriminant, demonstrating that ₀ < 92.4. For over twenty years, this estimate has not been improved. We introduce two new ideas for bounding asymptotically minimal root discriminants, namely, (1) we allow tame ramification in the tower, and (2) we allow the fields at the bottom of the tower to have large Galois closure. These new ideas allow us to obtain the better estimate ₀ < 83.9.