NMR波谱学中的高温近似的有效性及其相关问题

高温近似(HTA)是NMR波谱学和MRI技术中久经考虑且应用最广的一个近似. 最近几年有一大批引人注目的文章断言对高场下的浓溶液，如水的质子COSY谱，该近似会 失效. 与声称的HTA失效同样令人惊讶的是其副产品之一，即认为在低粘度液体如水里，存 在分子间的多量子相干(MQC). 根据理论分析及实验结果，本文将对液体中HTA和分子间MQC 作一仔细考查. 结论是：(1)室温下，常规NMR样品如水，不是一个宏观量子系统；(2)室温下，HTA仍然是NMR里最值得信赖的近似；(3)质子COSY谱(如水)中所观察到的多重自旋回波( MSE)峰并不意味存在分子间的量子力学自旋相互作用.     

Study of intermolecular interactions in binary mixtures of 2′-chloro-4-methoxy-3-nitro benzil in various solvents and at different concentrations by the measurement of acoustic properties

Density (ρ), ultrasonic velocity (u), adiabatic compressibility (β), apparent molar volume (Ø), acoustic impedance (Z), intermolecular free length (L_f), relative association (RA) of binary mixtures of 2′-chloro-4-methoxy-3-nitro benzil (abbreviated as 2CBe) in ethanol, acetonitrile, chloroform, dioxane and benzene were measured at different concentrations at 298 K. Several useful parameters such as excess density, excess ultrasonic velocity, excess adiabatic compressibility, excess apparent molar volume, excess acoustic impedance and excess intermolecular free length have been calculated. These parameters are used to explain the nature of intermolecular interactions taking place in the binary mixture. The above study is useful in understanding the solute – solvent interactions occurring in different concentrations at room temperature.     

Ultrasonic and IR study of intermolecular association through hydrogen bonding in ternary liquid mixtures

Complex formation in ternary liquid mixtures of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) with phenol and o-cresol in carbontetrachloride has been studied by measuring ultrasonic velocity at 2 MHz, in the concentration range of 0.019-0.162 (in mole fraction of DMSO) at varying temperatures of 20, 30 and 40 degrees C. Using measured values of ultrasonic velocity, other parameters such as adiabatic compressibility, intermolecular free length, molar sound velocity, molar compressibility, specific acoustic impedance and molar volume have been evaluated. These parameters have been utilized to study the solute-solute interactions in these systems. The ultrasonic velocity shows a maxima and adiabatic compressibility a corresponding minima as a function of concentration for these mixtures. The results indicate the occurrence of complex formation between unlike molecules through intermolecular hydrogen bonding between oxygen atom of DMSO molecule and hydrogen atom of phenol and o-cresol molecules. The excess values of adiabatic compressibility and intermolecular free length have also been evaluated. The variation of both these parameters with concentration also indicates the possibility of the complex formation in these systems. Further, to investigate the presence of O-HO bond complexes and the strength of molecular association with concentrations, the infrared spectra of both the systems, DMSO-phenol and DMSO-o-cresol, have been recorded for various concentrations at room temperature (20 degrees C). The results obtained using infrared spectroscopy for both the systems also support the occurrence of complex formation through intermolecular hydrogen bonding in these ternary liquid mixtures.     

氨基酸的太赫兹光谱温度相关性研究

采用可调温太赫兹时域光谱(TDS-THz)系统,测量了脂肪族L-天冬酰胺、L-半胱氨酸、L-丙氨酸和芳香族L-酪氨酸四种氨基酸在低温下的温度特性,实验中,分别在降温和升温过程中选取了以下温度节点：常温,250,200,150,100,70,40,10以及4.5 K等,观察样品对太赫兹吸收光谱的异同;结合傅里叶变换红外光谱仪(FTIR)对室温下上述四种氨基酸在低频段(0.5～2 THz)范围内的吸收峰进行了验证,同时采用拉曼光谱仪测试了高频段(3～6 THz)范围内的这四种氨基酸在常温下的拉曼强度,以此来验证了实验的准确性。结果表明：脂肪族和芳香族氨基酸太赫兹光谱对温度变化的响应存在差异,随着温度降低,两类氨基酸的吸收峰位置均发生蓝移现象, 同时部分氨基酸出现新的吸收峰,但是吸收峰线宽的变化略有不同。最后,采用量子化学Gaussian 09软件包,分别选取一种脂肪族氨基酸和一种芳香族氨基酸,通过密度泛函理论对其单分子和晶胞结构进行了计算,对比测试结果可以得出两种氨基酸的振动模式是由分子间作用力形成的。     

Muonium radicals in benzene-styrene mixtures

Muonium radicals were observed through theirSR precession frequencies in high transverse magnetic fields in pure benzene, pure styrene and their mixtures, all as liquids at room temperature. In benzene-styrene mixtures, the radicals obtained in each pure liquid are both present, so no slow (10^–9–10^–5 s) intermolecular exchange occurs; but strong selectivity was found with the formation of the radical from styrene being about eight-times more probable than the radical from benzene.     

Molecular conformation and liquid structure of 2-propanol through neutron diffraction

The neutron diffraction data analysis of deuterated liquid 2-propanol at room temperature to define its molecular conformation is presented. 2-Propanol being a large molecule with twelve atomic sites, the conformation analysis is tricky and an improved method of data analysis is given. The intermolecular structural correlations, i.e., hydrogen-bonded liquid structure, can be modelled accurately to extract the nature of the average hydrogen-bonded molecular association in liquid state at room temperature. Like other alcohols these are mostly hexamer ring chain (HRC) clusters. The cluster analysis of recent X-ray data available in the literature also support the same liquid structure.     

Molecular ordering in a bipolar nematogenic cyanobiphenyl – a computer simulation approach

The molecular ordering of 4-(6-hydroxypropyloxy)-4′-cyanobiphenyl (H3CBP), a bipolar nematogen, has been carried out at room temperature (300 K) with respect to translatory and orientational motions. The complete neglect differential overlap (CNDO/2) method has been employed to compute the net atomic charge and atomic dipole moment at each atomic center. The modified Rayleigh–Schrodinger perturbation theory with multicentered-multipole expansion method has been employed to evaluate long-range intermolecular interactions, while a 6-exp potential function has been assumed for short-range interactions. The interaction energy values obtained through these computations were used to calculate the probability of each configuration at room temperature using the Maxwell–Boltzmann formula. On the basis of stacking, in-plane, and terminal interactions energy calculations, all possible geometrical arrangements of the molecular pair have been considered. Further, an attempt has been made to develop a model for liquid crystallinity based on probability of dimer complexes.     

Temperature dependent structural changes in liquid benzene studied using neutron diffraction

We present neutron diffraction data for liquid benzene measured as a function of temperature from 10°C to 70°C. Isotopic substitution and Empirical Potential Structure Refinement were used to obtain a complete spatial and orientational understanding of nearest neighbour correlations. We find an increased prevalence of nearest neighbour molecules where the angle between the aromatic planes is perpendicular, and at an angle of around 60°, when the temperature is reduced. There is no significant change in prevalence parallel stacked arrangements of nearest neighbour molecules as a function of temperature. The structure of the increased local order is consistent with structural motifs observed in benzene dimers and clusters from quantum chemistry calculations in the literature.     

Hydrogen bonding in liquid water: An ab initio QM/MM MD simulation study

Pattern and dynamics of hydrogen bonds in liquid water were investigated by a quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical molecular dynamics (QM/MM MD) simulation at Hartree–Fock (HF) level of theory. A large subregion of the whole system comprising two complete coordination shells was treated quantum mechanically in order to include all polarization and charge transfer effects and to obtain accurate data about structure and dynamics of the intermolecular bonds. The results of this investigation are in agreement with recent experimental findings and suggest that in liquid water every molecule forms in average 2.8, but almost as a rule less than four intermolecular hydrogen bonds.     

Spectral properties of several fluorene derivatives with potential as two-photon fluorescent dyes

Investigations of the absorption, steady-state fluorescence, excitation and excitation anisotropy properties of several fluorene derivatives, (7-benzothiazol-2-yl-9,9-didecylfluoren-2-yl)-diphenylamine, 9,9-didecyl-2,7-bis-(N,N-diphenylamino)fluorene and {4-[2-(7-diphenylamino-9,9-diethylfluoren-2-yl)vinyl]phenyl}phosphoric acid diethyl ester, in liquid solutions have been conducted. Spectral characteristics of these compounds, including fluorescence quantum yields, were measured in acetonitrile, methylene chloride, tetrahydrofuran and hexane at room temperature. Excitation anisotropy spectra provided a means to determine the nature of the short wavelength absorption bands as an electronic transition into a higher excited singlet state. It was found that excitation spectra in the short wavelength region do not correspond to the absorption bands that are correlated with the wavelength dependence of the fluorescence quantum yields. Major reasons of such spectral behavior are discussed.     

Room temperature supramolecular columnar liquid crystals formed by hydrogen bonding of isoquinoline derivatives

We report new self-assembled discotic liquid crystals exhibiting columnar mesophases at room temperature, which are constructed by intermolecular hydrogen bonding between the core of 1,3,5-trihydroxybenzene or 1,3,5-cyclohexanetricarboxylic acid and the peripheral molecules of isoquinoline derivatives. The mesomorphic properties of supramolecular liquid crystals were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry, polarized optical microscopy, and X-ray diffraction studies. The self-assembled liquid crystals exhibited rectangular columnar phases (Col_ro) with an ordered stacking structure of the mesogens in a column at room temperature, regardless of the type of the core molecule, due probably to the close-packed aromatic rings around a core molecule and the angular structure in three arms of the discotic mesogen. These room temperature columnar phases are rare examples for the discotic liquid crystals, and our findings in the present study provide a new way to prepare low melting columnar liquid crystalline materials for molecular electronics.     

Absorption of terahertz radiation in Ge/Si(001) heterostructures with quantum dots

The terahertz spectra of the dynamic conductivity and radiation absorption coefficient in germanium-silicon heterostructures with arrays of Ge hut clusters (quantum dots) have been measured for the first time in the frequency range of 0.3–1.2 THz at room temperature. It has been found that the effective dynamic conductivity and effective radiation absorption coefficient in the heterostructure due to the presence of germanium quantum dots in it are much larger than the respective quantities of both the bulk Ge single crystal and Ge/Si(001) without arrays of quantum dots. The possible microscopic mechanisms of the detected increase in the absorption in arrays of quantum dots have been discussed.     

Application of terahertz spectroscopy and molecular modeling in isomers investigation: Glucose and fructose

Terahertz spectra of glucose and fructose have been measured by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) at room temperature. Because they have the same molecular formula, the differences of the THz spectra can be attributed to their molecular structures and the arrangement of molecules in unit cell. In this paper, gaseous-state theory has been employed to simulate the isolated molecule of these two isomers. The results indicate that experimental THz spectral features (0.5 – 4.0 THz) of glucose and fructose arise from the mixture of intramolecular and intermolecular modes, involving hydrogen bonds and covalent bonds, and with the intermolecular modes dominating.     

Molecular conformation and structural correlations of liquid D-1-propanol through neutron diffraction

An analysis of neutron diffraction data of liquid deuterated 1-propanol at room temperature to extract its molecular conformation is presented. Being a big molecule with twelve atomic sites, the analysis is tricky and needs careful consideration. The resulting molecular parameters are compared with electron diffraction (gas phase), X-ray diffraction (liquid phase) and MD simulation results. Information about the hydrogen-bonded intermolecular structure in liquid is extracted and nature of the probable molecular association suggested.      

A scanning superconducting quantum interference device microscope for room temperature samples

We have constructed a scanning low-T_c superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscope, in which the SQUID is mounted on the lower end of a copper rod and cooled to liquid helium temperature. There is a 65μm thick sapphire window under the SQUID. The sample at room temperature underneath the window can be scanned to produce magnetic images. The microscope has a spatial resolution of 100－150μm and a magnetic field sensitivity of 3－60pT/$\sqrt{Hz}$ in a magnetically unshielded environment. We have used this scanning SQUID microscope to measure various room temperature samples.     

AlyGa1-yAs/AlxGa1-xAs量子阱激光器材料的光致荧光谱

测量了Al_yGa_1-yAs/Al_xGa_1-xAs量子阱激光材料的光致荧光谱.发现在室温连续激光器材料的光致荧光谱中有两个峰,而不能激射的材料中则只有一个很宽的峰.将高能峰归属于准费密能级电子的跃迁. 关键词：     

压强对二元溶液相变、费米共振的影响——二元溶液与纯液体压强效应比较

分别测量了CCl4和C6H6二元溶液和纯液体在不同压强下(0～11GPa)的拉曼光谱。结果表明二元溶液的压强效应明显不同于纯液体的压强效应:2种液体混合,由于体密度增加,分子间距离减小,分子间相互作用能增加,拉曼光谱线频移(兰移)速度增大,二元溶液频移速度大于纯液体的频移速度;谱线劈裂(相变)提前和固有频差Δ0随压强增加而加大;苯的ν1+ν6～ν8、四氯化碳的ν1+ν4～ν3费米共振消失压强减小;不同压缩系数的分子频移速度不同,密度较小的CCl4分子,化学键长,力常数小,压缩系数大,容易压缩。密度大的C6H6分子,化学键短,力常数大,压缩系数小,不易压缩。CCl4分子大多拉曼频移速度大于C6H6分子相近频率的频移速度。并对高压下分子谱线归属、认证有参考价值,对不同环境下的高压效应、分子间相互作用、溶剂效应等研究提供了方法和思路。     

Ordering of p‐n‐alkylbenzoic acids (nBAC) having four,five, and six alkyl chain carbon atoms – a computational analysis

A computational analysis of ordering in p‐n‐alkylbenzoic acids, having 4 (4BAC), 5 (5BAC), and 6 (6BAC) alkyl chain carbon atoms, has been carried out based on quantum mechanics and intermolecular forces. The evaluation of atomic charge and dipole moment at each atomic centre has been carried out through an all‐valance electron (CNDO/2) method. The modified Rayleigh‐Schrodinger perturbation theory along with multicentered‐multipole expansion method has been employed to evaluate long‐range intermolecular interactions while a ‘6‐exp’ potential function has been assumed for short‐range interactions. The total interaction energy values obtained through these computations were used to calculate the probability of each configuration at room temperature, nematic‐isotropic transition temperature and above transition temperature using the Maxwell‐Boltzmann formula. A comparative picture of molecular parameters like total energy, binding energy and total dipole moment has been given. A model has been developed to describe the nematogenicity of these acids in terms of their relative order with molecular parameter introduced in this article.     

VUV excitation of luminescence in pure and Tl+ doped KI

Excitation spectra of pure and Tl⁺ doped KI have been measured at room temperature (RT) and liquid nitrogen temperature (LNT) between 13 and 30 eV. Energy transfer between the host lattice ions and the Tl⁺ impurities, and intrinsic recombinaton of electron-hole pairs, have been studied at different temperatures and excitation energies. Energy transfer has been observed only at RT while at LNT the intrinsic recombination, V_k centers-electrons, is the dominant process.     

Enhancement of sonoluminescence emission from a multibubble cavitation zone

Investigations have been performed on various methods of increasing cavitation activity measured by the intensity of sonoluminescence. It is shown that the effect of the combined action of (a) pulsed modulation of an acoustic field, (b) liquid degassing and cooling and (c) increasing the static pressure considerably exceeds the sum of the effects achieved by each of these methods individually. A more than 250-fold increase of the sonoluminescence intensity has been attained compared with continuous irradiation under normal conditions (room temperature, atmospheric pressure, gas-saturated liquid). An interpretation of the results obtained is proposed.