An Intuitive Electric-field Contribution Decomposition Model for Chemical Processes and Its Applications on Diels-Alder Reactions

External electric field(EEF) has shown its advantages in tuning chemical reaction as an efficient and feasible-to-control tool. In this paper, we explored the mechanisms of three EEF-regulated Diels-Alder reactions including two traditional-DA reactions to form two C-C single bonds and a hetero-DA reaction to form both a C-C and a C-O bond, respectively, and introduced an EEF contribution decomposition(ECD) model to understand how the EEF coupled with the intrinsic nuclear and electronic redistributions so as to affect chemical reaction. The ECD model, by decomposing the overall EEF effects into geometry re-equilibrium and static induction parts, can give a clear and quantitative picture of a physical quantity change upon EEF, as demonstrated on relative energies, activation barriers, charge distribution and dipole moments. The ECD analyses will shed light on the effective tuning of chemical reactions by the electric field.     

人参属中药腐解化感作用研究进展

人参、西洋参和三七为人参属近缘物种,形态和化学成分相似,均具有连作障碍的特性。人参属中药连作后,土壤环境逐渐变得不适宜其生长,植株长势变弱易患病,导致生长发育受到抑制,出现严重的根腐病、须根脱落,甚至植株死亡现象。而造成人参属连作障碍的主要原因之一是化感物质的自毒作用,人参残体降解物作为人参化感物质主要来源之一,会导致种子发芽率下降,种苗死亡率升高、根腐病等病害加重,最终造成连作障碍。在人参属中药连作过程中,通过化感物质与土壤交流,也会直接或间接影响土壤理化性质的变化。对人参属中药腐解化感作用的研究进展以及腐解对土壤成分的影响进行综述,以期为人参属中药腐解化感作用及土壤利用的相关研究提供借鉴。     

催化裂解-金汞齐富集-冷原子吸收光谱仪测定土壤样品中总汞含量

为建立采用催化裂解-金汞齐富集-冷原子吸收光谱仪即直接测汞仪测定土壤样品中汞含量的方法,本研究配制汞总量为0~2 ng、0~15 ng和25~1023 ng的三种不同汞浓度系列的标准工作曲线,选取9个土壤样品,3种国家土壤有证标准物质,同一样品分别进行6组平行测定,并抽取3个土壤样品进行3种不同浓度加标回收试验,以对其方法精密度和准确度进行论证。 结果显示：仪器信号值与Hg总量之间均呈良好的线性关系。根据仪器多次测定空白数据结果,按照称样量0.1 g计算,方法最小检出量为0.09 ng/g;平行测定结果相对标准偏差均小于10%,土壤标准物质测定值与标准物质标准参考值均相符,不同浓度的加标回收率范围为78.4%～92.7%。结果表明催化裂解-金汞齐富集-冷原子吸收光谱仪,可用于批量土壤样品中汞含量的快速测定分析,方法的精密度和准确度可满足测定分析要求,且实验过程中无需前处理消煮,操作方便、快速高效。     

Synthesis of Nitrogen Doped Multilayered Graphene Flakes: Selective Non‐enzymatic Electrochemical Determination of Dopamine and Uric Acid in presence of Ascorbic Acid.

Nitrogen doped multilayered graphene (NDMLG) is synthesized by annealing the black fluffy mass obtained by decomposing the complex prepared from Zn(OAc)₂, diethanolamine and triethanolamine. The NDMLG has been characterized by HRTEM, FESEM, XRD, XPS, Raman spectroscopy, BET which indicate formation of nitrogen doped multilayer graphene flakes with high surface area. NDMLG shows better electrochemical oxidation property towards Dopamine, Uric acid and Ascorbic acid. The linear response ranges for determination of DA, UA and AA are 0.5–150 µM, 3–60 µM and 80–2000 µM respectively and the detection limits (S/N=3) are 15 nM, 15 nM, 580 nM, respectively in the mixture.     

Analysis of volatile organic compounds released from the decay of surrogate human models simulating victims of collapsed buildings by thermal desorption–comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography–time of flight mass spectrometry

Field experiments were devised to mimic the entrapment conditions under the rubble of collapsed buildings aiming to investigate the evolution of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during the early dead body decomposition stage. Three pig carcasses were placed inside concrete tunnels of a search and rescue (SAR) operational field terrain for simulating the entrapment environment after a building collapse. The experimental campaign employed both laboratory and on-site analytical methods running in parallel. The current work focuses only on the results of the laboratory method using thermal desorption coupled to comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TD-GC × GC-TOF MS). The flow-modulated TD-GC × GC-TOF MS provided enhanced separation of the VOC profile and served as a reference method for the evaluation of the on-site analytical methods in the current experimental campaign. Bespoke software was used to deconvolve the VOC profile to extract as much information as possible into peak lists. In total, 288 unique VOCs were identified (i.e., not found in blank samples). The majority were aliphatics (172), aromatics (25) and nitrogen compounds (19), followed by ketones (17), esters (13), alcohols (12), aldehydes (11), sulfur (9), miscellaneous (8) and acid compounds (2). The TD-GC × GC-TOF MS proved to be a sensitive and powerful system for resolving the chemical puzzle of above-ground “scent of death”.     

Generalized Fourth-Order Decompositions of Imaginary Time Path Integral: Implications of the Harmonic Oscillator

The imaginary time path integral formalism offers a powerful numerical tool for simulating thermodynamic properties of realistic systems. We show that, when second-order and fourth-order decompositions are employed, they share a remarkable unified analytic form for the partition function of the harmonic oscillator. We are then able to obtain the expression of the thermodynamic property and the leading error terms as well. In order to obtain reasonably optimal values of the free parameters in the generalized symmetric fourth-order decomposition scheme, we eliminate the leading error terms to achieve the accuracy of desired order for the thermodynamic property of the harmonic system. Such a strategy leads to an efficient fourth-order decomposition that produces third-order accurate thermodynamic properties for general systems.     

Thermal characteristics of dihydroxylammonium 5,5′-bistetrazole-1,1′-diolate in contact with nitrocellulose/nitroglycerine under continuous heat flow

Dihydroxylammonium 5,5′-bistetrazole-1,1′-diolate (TKX-50) and nitrocellulose/nitroglycerine (NC/NG) possess good energy properties, which were widely used in propellants, explosives and pyrotechnics. They are easy to contact with each other during their application and storage. However, their thermal characteristics under continuous heat flow have not been reported yet. Therefore, it is of great practical significance to study the thermal properties of TKX-50/NC/NG (mixture of TKX-50 and NC/NG). In this paper, the thermal characteristics and pressure behaviors of TKX-50/NC/NG, TKX-50 and NC/NG were characterized by high pressure differential scanning calorimetry (HPDSC) and adiabatic scanning calorimetry (ASC). The results showed that TKX-50 and NC/NG can promote each other to decompose under continuous heat flow, especially the thermal decomposition which affected by gases generation and heat feedback was more violent in the confined space. The decomposition peak temperature of TKX-50/NC/NG shifted to low temperature when the heat loss was ignored and the removal of decomposition gas was suppressed. The possible decomposition mechanism of TKX-50/NC/NG was speculated. It was considered that the intermediate products of TKX-50 and NC/NG decomposition under thermal stimulation would react with each other, which promoted TKX-50/NC/NG decomposition in one step at lower temperature. Thus, TKX-50 has high reactivity and high potential risk after contact with NC/NG under continuous heat flow. TKX-50 is not suitable for application with NC/NG. This study provides a reference for the structural design of nitrogen rich explosives and further broadens the researchers’ understanding of the application of TKX-50.     

基于连续小波变换下的土壤有害元素砷含量估测

与传统检测方法相比,利用高光谱技术进行土壤有害元素砷含量的估算,具有快速、准确,成本低的特点,可对干旱区绿洲土壤有害元素砷污染进行动态监测。基于新疆渭干河-库车河三角洲绿洲耕层土壤样品的采集,获取土壤光谱数据和有害元素砷含量。通过bior1.3,db4,gaus4和mexh这4种小波基函数对土壤原始光谱反射率进行连续小波变换,并将变换后光谱数据与有害元素砷进行相关分析,以筛选出的敏感小波系数为自变量,采用偏最小二乘回归、支持向量机回归、BP神经网络和随机森林回归方法对有害元素砷含量进行高光谱反演。研究结果显示：（1）4种小波基函数在3~8尺度的光谱分解效果明显优于其他尺度,特别是4~6尺度的连续小波变换有效提升了光谱反射率与土壤有害元素砷之间的相关性,通过显著性检验的小波系数数量有了明显增多（p<0.01）,在可见光的400~700 nm以及近红外的1 100~1 700和2 200~2 400 nm附近具有较强的相关性;（2）通过比较4种小波基函数对光谱数据中有效信息的辨识能力,认为小波基函数bior1.3和mexh要优于db4和gaus4,其中bior1.3的光谱分解效果最好,gaus4相对最弱;通过bior1.3第5尺度的光谱变换,与土壤有害元素砷显著相关的波段数量最多,为507个（p<0.01）;（3）比较4种建模方法的反演结果发现,SVMR,BPNN和RFR模型相较于PLSR模型具有更强的估测能力,模型的估测精度更高。综合分析各模型的稳定性及估测精度后,认为bior1.3-25-RFR模型可作为研究区土壤有害元素砷的最佳估测模型。该模型的训练集和验证集的R2分别为0.893和0.639,RMSE为1.075和1.651 mg·kg-1,RPD分别为2.89和1.64,表明模型估测效果较好,稳定性较强。采用合适的小波基函数进行连续小波变换可减少土壤高光谱数据中的白噪声,挖掘出土壤光谱数据中的有效信息,对土壤有害元素砷含量的准确估测提供有力的技术保障。     

Gallai’s path decomposition conjecture for triangle-free planar graphs

A path decomposition of a graph $G$ is a collection of edge-disjoint paths of $G$ that covers the edge set of $G$. Gallai (1968) conjectured that every connected graph on $n$ vertices admits a path decomposition of cardinality at most $?(n+1)∕2?$. Gallai’s Conjecture has been verified for many classes of graphs. In particular, Lovász (1968) verified this conjecture for graphs with at most one vertex with even degree, and Pyber (1996) verified it for graphs in which every cycle contains a vertex with odd degree. Recently, Bonamy and Perrett (2016) verified Gallai’s Conjecture for graphs with maximum degree at most 5, and Botler et al. (2017) verified it for graphs with treewidth at most 3. In this paper, we verify Gallai’s Conjecture for triangle-free planar graphs.     

Ion-exchange resin decomposition in supercritical water

Abstract

Using supercritical water oxidation, the cation exchange resin was decomposed fast and completely to water, carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. While the resin decomposition yield increased with the reaction time and the amount of hydrogen peroxide added as oxidizing agent, it was constant in the resin concentration from 0.14 to 1.9 dry resin weight percent to water. More than 99% of the cation exchange resin was decomposed with hydrogen peroxide added in the amount of 7 times the stoichiometric value at 673 K and 30MPa for 30 minutes of the reaction time. The cation exchange resin is decomposed through two main reaction pathways. One has a rate controlling intermediate such as acetic acid whose decomposition rate was very slow, and the other does not have stable intermediates. The decomposition of the acetic acid is a significant factor for the complete decomposition of the resin, although it does not dominate the whole resin decomposition. A simple kinetic model that estimates the resin decomposition yield was developed.