A Switch in the Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Gas-Adsorption Character of Prussian Blue Analogues: An Affinity Control for Smart Gas Sorption

Porous coordination polymers are molecule-based materials presenting a high degree of tunability, which offer many advantages for targeted applications over conventional inorganic materials. This work demonstrates that the hydrophilic/hydrophobic character of Prussian blue analogues having a lipophilic feature may be tuned to optimize the gas adsorption properties. The role of the coordinatively unsaturated metal sites is emphasized through a combination of theoretical and experimental study of water, ethanol, and n-hexane adsorption.     

Phenylene dendrimers and novel hyperbranched polyphenylenes as light emissive materials for blue OLEDs

New materials based on low-generation polyphenylene dendrimers with the light emission in the blue spectrum range were synthesized and examined for an efficient organic light emitting diodes (OLED) application. It has been shown that the ratio of p-phenylene groups with high fluorescence parameters to 1,3,5-triphenylbenzene groups with low fluorescent parameters may be the possible reason for the experimental variations of relative quantum yield of photoluminescence in the compounds explored. The quantum yield value is increased with a number of dendrimer generations up to 50–70%. The role of bromine atoms as the luminescence quenchers have been demonstrated, which is important for synthesis route choice.     

Ⅰ类超晶格势阱中能级分布及电子跃迁规律研究

在研究大量实验曲线的基础上,指出势阱所有能级均有一定的宽度,电子或空穴在各能级中出现的概率符合正态分布,从理论上分析了I类超晶格和双势垒单势阱的发光光谱与吸收光谱·解释了GaAs/Ga1-xAlxAs多量子阱和超晶格吸收光谱吸收边及量子阱变窄时各吸收峰的“蓝移现象”及GaAs/Ga1-xAlxAs双势垒单量子阱样品的电流—电压特性曲线及电导—电压特性曲线的特征和出现的“负阻效应”·     

亚甲基蓝褪色光度法测定肝素

用紫外-可见光谱法研究肝素(Hep)对亚甲基蓝(MB)的褪色反应,在pH3.0的BrittonRobinson缓冲溶液中,肝素与亚甲基蓝形成离子缔合物时,染料发生明显的褪色,体系吸光度的降低与肝素钠浓度成正比.建立了一种简单、灵敏、选择性高的肝素测定方法.本法在0-4.0μg/mL范围内呈现良好的线性关系(r=0.9978),回收率范围为98.8%-101.9%.用于肝素钠注射液的分析,结果令人满意.     

钙黄绿素蓝荧光法测定食品中的微量锌（Ⅱ）

本文研究了在ＣＴＭＡＢ存在下，用钙黄绿素蓝荧光法测定食品中的微量锌（Ⅱ）的实验条件。在本实验条件下，Ｚｎ（Ⅱ）与钙黄绿素蓝生成１：１的配合物使钙黄绿素蓝的荧光增强，最大激发波长和最大发射波长分别为３５３ｎｍ和４４０ｎｍ。     

Preconcentration and separation of iron, zinc, cadmium and mercury, from waste water using Nile blue a grafted polyurethane foam

The present work describes a novel method for the incorporation of Nile blue A into polyurethane foam matrix. This foam material was found to be very suitable for the extraction of metal ions from aqueous solutions. The characterization of Nile blue A grafted foam and the effect of halide concentration, pH, shaking time, extraction isotherm and capacity have been investigated. This foam material was found to be suitable for the separation and preconcentration of iron (III), zinc (II), cadmium (II) and mercury (II) from waste water. The extraction was accomplished in (15-20) minutes. Iron was separated from acid medium (2-4 M HCl), zinc from (3-5 M HCl), cadmium from (4-6 M HCl) as thiocyanate complexes and mercury was separated from (1-2 M HCl) as chloride.     

Spectrophotometric estimation of ketotifen fumarate in pharmaceutical formulations

Four simple and sensitive spectrophotometric methods (A–D) for the determination of Ketotifen fumarate in bulk samples and pharmaceutical formulations are described. They are based on the formation of coloured species by the coupling of the diazotised sulphanilamide with the drug (method A, _max 520 nm) or by oxidizing it with excessN-bromo-succinimide and determining the consumed NBS with decrease in colour intensity of celestine blue (method B: _max 540 nm) or by the reduction of Folin-Ciocalteau reagent (method C: _max 720 nm) or by the formation of a chloroform-soluble, coloured ionassociation complex between the drug and Azocarmine G at pH 1.5 (method D: _max 540 nm). Regression analysis of Beer-Lambert plots showed good correlations in the concentration ranges 1–10, 2–12, 4–28 and 2.5–25 g/ml for methods A–D, respectively. The validity of the proposed methods was tested by analysing pharmaceutical formulations containing KTF: the relative standard deviations were within ±1.0%. Recoveries were 98.9–100.2%.     

Characterization and properties of the copper(II/I) complexes of macrocyclic hexathiaether ligand [21]aneS6

The copper(II/I) complexes of hexathiaether macrocyclic ligand, 1,4,8,11,15,18-hexathiacyclohenicosane ([21]aneS₆), were synthesized, and characterized by electrochemical and spectroscopic techniques. Cyclic voltammetric studies indicate that Cu([21]aneS₆)^2+/+ forms a reversible one-electron redox couple. The electrochemical potential obtained for Cu([21]aneS₆)^2+/+ (E^f = 0.89 V, against SHE) was found to be the highest potential reported to date for a Cu^2+/+ macrocyclic system in aqueous solution. By employing the Nernst equation, we can infer that the practical upper limit for formal potential of Cu(II/I)L systems maybe close to this high value. Stability constant data obtained for these complexes indicate that Cu([21]aneS₆)⁺is 12 orders of magnitude greater in stability than that of Cu([21]aneS₆)²⁺ indicating the favorable nature of this large macrocyclic ligand towards formation of Cu(I) complexes over Cu(II) complexes. Crystal structure of Cu([21]aneS₆)⁺ ( Fig. 2) shows that four sulfurs adjacent to one another are coordinated to Cu⁺ ion in this complex. Bond angles and distances calculated for the crystal indicate that it is a distorted tetrahedron, a geometry commonly encountered by Cu(I) complexes. This is the first report of synthesis and characterization of a metal coordinated [21]aneS₆ complex.     

Forensic classification of ballpoint pen inks using high performance liquid chromatography and infrared spectroscopy with principal components analysis and linear discriminant analysis

Several varieties of blue ballpoint pen inks were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and infrared spectroscopy (IR). The chromatographic data extracted at four wavelengths (254, 279, 370 and 400 nm) was analyzed individually and at a combination of these wavelengths by the soft independent modeling of class analogies (SIMCA) technique using principal components analysis (PCA) to estimate the separation between the pen samples. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) measured the probability with which an observation could be assigned to a pen class. The best resolution was obtained by HPLC using data from all four wavelengths together, differentiating 96.4% pen pairs successfully using PCA and 97.9% pen samples by LDA. PCA separated 60.7% of the pen pairs and LDA provided a correct classification of 62.5% of the pens analyzed by IR. The results of this study indicate that HPLC coupled with chemometrics provided a better discrimination of ballpoint pen inks compared to IR. The need to develop a suitable IR method for analysing blue ballpoint pen inks has been emphasized and it is hoped that the development of such a method would indeed provide a valuable tool for the non-destructive analysis of blue ballpoint pen ink samples for forensic purposes.     

普鲁士蓝薄膜的电积法制备及其化学组成

在金属和石墨基底电极上用恒电位沉积法制备出普鲁士蓝(PB)薄膜,研究了影响膜生长的多种因素;观察到PB膜的电化学活性。用红外光谱及电子能谱对膜的化学组成作了分析,结果表明,最初制备的膜为不溶性PB:Fe_4[Fe(CN)_6]_3,在含K~+的电解质溶液中经电化学反应后膜部分转变为可溶性PB:KFeFe(CN)_6,由此确定了PB膜的电化学反应式。