A study of mica structure and strength properties of polymer materials based on it

The mica microstructure is studied, and its shape and particle sizes are found as dependent on coating technology. Using epoxy and organosilicon polymers, several lots of materials with different contents of mica are prepared and mechanical tests are performed. The optimal amounts of mica wherein the initial strength characteristics are preserved are found. The thicknesses of epoxy and organosilicon polymer wherein high optical decorative properties of mica are preserved are determined.     

Review of Analytical Methods for Atmospheric Oxidants Measurements

Abstract

Instrumental and manual methods currently available for the measurement of atmospheric oxidants are surveyed. Techniques used in the United States are emphasized and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Commercial systems are evaluated in terms of general operating principles rather than of specific instruments. The ability of these techniques to meet the measurement requirements defined by U.S. Federal air quality oxidant criteria are discussed. Alternative chemical techniques that may have some advantages over the neutral, buffered KI procedure are discussed. Also some attractive, alternative instrumental procedures that are ozone-specific are presented. These systems are based on chemiluminescence and ultraviolet absorption photometry. Electrochemical and colorimetric methods for total oxidant measurements are compared. Finally, some data are presented on relationships of ozone and total oxidants.     

Densities,speeds of sound,excess volumes and viscosities of binary mixtures of mtbe with tetralin and decalin at 303.15 k

Measurements of densities, speeds of sound, excess volumes and viscosities of binary mixture of methyl tert-butyl ether with tetralin and decalin are reported at 303.15?K over the entire range of composition. Excess volumes are measured using batch dilatometer technique. Sound speeds are obtained using ultrasonic interferometer. Densities are computed from excess volume data. Isentropic compressibilities are derived from density and sound speed data. Speeds of sound are evaluated on the basis of Jacobson's free length theory and Schaff's collision factor theory. The predicted values are in good agreement with the experimental results. The viscosity data are analysed on the basis of corresponding states approach. Excess volumes and deviation in isentropic compressibilities are negative and deviation in viscosities are positive over the entire composition range. The experimental results are discussed in terms of possible molecular interactions between unlike molecules.     

云南松枝梢营养成分分析

对云南松健康树和纵坑切梢小蠹蛀害树枝梢营养成分进行了分析,在健康树和蛀害树松梢中分别检测出11种氨基酸和14种氨基酸。健康树松梢中元素含量变化趋势由高到低为Ca,Mg,Al,Mn,Fe,B,Zn,Sr,Ni,蛀害树松梢中无机元素含量变化趋势由高到低为Ca,Mg,Al,Fe,Mn,B,Zn,Sr,Ni,为查找纵坑切梢小蠹蛀害的原因提供依据和数据。     

Recent Advances in Solid Acid-Base Catalysis and Future Problems

Recent advances in acid-base catalysis are summarized. Several examples of solid acid, base, and acid-base bifunctional catalysis which have brought significant progress of the field or are considered to give strong impacts to industrial application are presented. Selected commercialized processes developed by using solid acid-base catalysts are demonstrated, their significance being discussed. The future problems in this field are speculated and important fundamental research subjects are pointed out.     

钼、钨系过氧化物在Sharpless烯烃环氧化反应中的应用*

钼、钨系过氧化物是非常重要的Sharpless烯烃环氧化催化剂,有着非常广泛的工业发展前景。本文综述了钼、钨系过氧化物的种类,结构,合成方法及催化活性,分析了各种钼、钨系过氧化物的特点以及在催化环氧化领域的发展现状。同时,本文还讨论了钼、钨系过氧化物催化烯烃环氧化反应的机理。评述了在催化环氧化领域中两种主要理论——Mimoun机理与Sharpless机理的争论焦点及发展现状,以及计算化学对两种理论中间过渡态的研究进展,并且重点分析了Sharpless机理的过渡态结构。此外,本文还综述了影响钼、钨系过氧化物催化剂反应活性的各种因素以及质子所产生的副反应。最后,本文对应用于催化环氧化领域的钼、钨系过氧化物未来的研究方向提出了建议。     

The Application of NMR Spectroscopy and Chemometrics in Authentication of Spices

Spices and herbs are among the most commonly adulterated food types. This is because spices are widely used to process food. Spices not only enhance the flavor and taste of food, but they are also sources of numerous bioactive compounds that are significantly beneficial for health. The healing effects of spices are connected with their antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and carminative properties. However, regular consumption of adulterated spices may cause fatal damage to our system because adulterants in most cases are unhealthy. For that reason, the appropriate analytical methods are necessary for quality assurance and to ensure the authenticity of spices. Spectroscopic methods are gaining interest as they are fast, require little or no sample preparation, and provide rich structural information. This review provides an overview of the application of NMR spectroscopy combined with chemometric analysis to determine the quality and adulteration of spices.     

A perturbative calculation of the rovibrational energy levels of methane

The rovibrational energy levels of methane are determined from a quartic ab initio potential energy force field where the expansion coordinates are the Morse coordinates for the stretches and extension coordinates for the bends. Energies are calculated using canonical Van Vleck perturbation theory. Results are obtained for both rotation-vibration Hamiltonians expressed as functions of curvilinear and rectilinear normal coordinates. Second, fourth, and sixth order curvilinear results are compared with experimental results, and fourth order results for the rectilinear and curvilinear Hamiltonian are compared to each other. The calculated rovibrational levels are in good agreement with the experimental values for low J levels. The calculated rotational level splittings are in even better agreement with the experiment. In particular, the ground state tetrahedral splittings, which are as small as 10(-4) cm(-1), are well reproduced by our calculations at sixth order.     

Recent reviews. 55

Reviews are listed in order of appearance in the sources indicated. In multidisciplinary review journals, only those reviews which fall within the scope of this Journal are included. Sources are listed alphabetically in three categories: regularly issued review journals and series volumes, contributed volumes, and other monographs. Titles are numbered serially, and these numbers are used for reference in the index. Major English-language sources of critical reviews are covered. Encyclopedic treatises, annual surveys such as Specialist Periodical Reports, and compilations of symposia proceedings are omitted. This installment of Recent Reviews covers principally the middle part of the 1999 Literature. Previous installment: J. Org. Chem. 1999, 64, 4(21), 7679-86.     

Electrostatic correlations in polyelectrolyte solutions

The major attribute of polyelectrolyte solutions is that all chains are strongly correlated both electrostatically and topologically. Even in very dilute solutions such that the chains are not interpenetrating, the chains are still strongly correlated. These correlations are manifest in the measured scattering intensity when such solutions are subjected to light, X-ray, and neutron radiation. The behavior of scattering intensity from polyelectrolyte solutions is qualitatively different from that of solutions of uncharged polymers. Using the technique introduced by Sir Sam Edwards, and extending the earlier work by the author on the thermodynamics of polyelectrolyte solutions, extrapolation formulas are derived for the scattering intensity from polyelectrolyte solutions. The emergence of the polyelectrolyte peak and its concentration dependence are derived. The derived theory shows that there are five regimes. Published experimental data from many laboratories are also collected into a master figure and a comparison between the present theory and experiments is presented.     

Nitrenium Salts in Lewis Acid Catalysis

Molecular compounds featuring nitrogen atoms are typically regarded as Lewis bases and are extensively employed as donor ligands in coordination chemistry or as nucleophiles in organic chemistry. By contrast, electrophilic nitrogen‐containing compounds are much rarer. Nitrenium cations are a new family of nitrogen‐based Lewis acids, the reactivity of which remains largely unexplored. In this work, nitrenium ions are explored as catalysts in five organic transformations. These reactions are the first examples of Lewis acid catalysis employing nitrogen as the site of substrate activation. Moreover, these compounds are readily accessed from commercially available reagents and exhibit remarkable stability toward moisture, allowing for benchtop transformations without the need to pretreat solvents.     

Conducting polymer-silver composites

Preparations of hybrid composites composed of two conducting components, a conducting polymer and silver, are reviewed. They are produced mainly by the oxidation of aniline or pyrrole with silver ions. In another approach, polyaniline or polypyrrole are used for the reduction of silver ions to metallic silver. Other synthetic approaches are also reviewed. Products of oxidation of aniline derivatives, including phenylenediamines, are considered. Morphology of both the conducting polymers and the silver in composites displays a rich variety. Conductivity of the composites seldom exceeds 1000 S cm^?1 and seems to be controlled by percolation. Interfacial effects are also discussed. Potential applications of hybrid composites are outlined; they are likely to extend especially to conducting inks, printed electronics, noble-metal recovery, antimicrobial materials, catalysts, and sensors.     

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Reviews are listed in order of appearance in the sources indicated. In multidisciplinary review journals, only those reviews which fall within the scope of this Journal are included. Sources are listed alphabetically in three categories: regularly issued review journals and series volumes, contributed volumes, and other monographs. Titles are numbered serially, and these numbers are used for reference in the index. Major English-language sources of critical reviews are covered. Encyclopedic treatises, annual surveys such as Specialist Periodical Reports, and compilations of symposia proceedings are omitted. This installment of Recent Reviews covers principally the latter part of the 1999 literature. Previous installment: J. Org. Chem. 2000, 65(1), 267-74.     

Number 85

Reviews are listed in order of appearance in the sources indicated. In multidisciplinary review journals, only those reviews which fall within the scope of this Journal are included. Sources are listed alphabetically in three categories: regularly issued review journals and series volumes, contributed volumes, and other monographs. Titles are numbered serially, and these numbers are used for reference in the index. Major English-language sources of critical reviews are covered. Encyclopedic treatises, annual surveys such as Specialist Periodical Reports, and compilations of symposia proceedings are omitted. This installment of Recent Reviews covers principally the early part of the 2007 literature. Previous installment: J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72 (7), 2699-706.     

JOC Recent Reviews, Number 81

Reviews are listed in order of appearance in the sources indicated. In multidisciplinary review journals, only those reviews which fall within the scope of this Journal are included. Sources are listed alphabetically in three categories: regularly issued review journals and series volumes, contributed volumes, and other monographs. Titles are numbered serially, and these numbers are used for reference in the index. Major English-language sources of critical reviews are covered. Encyclopedic treatises, annual surveys such as Specialist Periodical Reports, and compilations of symposia proceedings are omitted. This installment of Recent Reviews covers principally the early part of the 2006 literature. Previous installment: J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71(7), 2926-34.     

Cyclization in reversible and irreversible step-growth polymerizations

Several aspects of cyclization reactions in step-growth polymerizations are considered. The Jacobson–Stockmayer ring-chain equilibrium theory provides the basis for understanding these systems, but there are circumstances where some modifications to the theory are needed. In particular, for ring expansion polymerizations, i.e. those for which there is never a significant fraction of open chains, the statistics are a bit different from those appropriate for ring-chain equilibrium. Also, if the reactions are irreversible the occurrence of rings is significantly different from the reversible case. Rings are more prevalent in irreversible reactions. The implications of these observations for the processing of polymers are briefly considered.     

Solid-phase microextraction in the analysis of food taints and off-flavors

Selected food taints and off flavors, for which solid phase microextraction (SPME) has been used as a method for volatiles isolation, are the subject of review. Compounds responsible for musty and earthy odor off-flavors and taints in foods are discussed. This group contains haloanisoles, geosmin, and methylisoborneol. Chlorophenols are discussed as precursors of chloroanisoles and compounds impairing the flavor of food. Also described are volatile phenolic compounds responsible for medicinal off flavors, mainly ethyl phenols and vinyl phenols. Sulfur compounds that contribute to off-flavor are also discussed. Finally, a group of volatile compounds being the products of lipid oxidation are summarized. A short review of the formation, occurrence, and information on odor properties of all of these groups of compounds is given. Examples of SPME use for the analysis of compounds belonging to all described groups are shown. Elaboration of method parameters, fiber selection, experimental conditions, and quantitation of compounds are subjects of interest. Also, applications of SPME as a method for introduction of volatiles in mechanical olfaction technologies are shortly outlined.     

Antibiotics Produced by Bacillus Bacteria

Data for antibiotics produced byBacillusbacteria and structural formulas of the antibiotics gramicidin, tyrocidine, bacitracin, mycobacillin, surfactin, bacilysin, and subtilin are presented. Various biosynthetic mechanisms and chemical properties are discussed. The lantibiotics, which are produced by certainBacillusspecies and have unique structural features different from those of other antibiotics, are analyzed. Structural formulas of unusual amino acid residues in lantibiotics are presented and their mechanisms of biological action are examined     

Inorganic electrides

Inorganic electrides are a novel kind of ionic compounds in which the anions are electrons confined in a complex array of cavities or channels and the cations are nanoscale arrays of alkali metal ions that provide charge balance. In electrides the donated electron behaves like a low-density correlated electron gas, whereby the dimensionality of the electron gas and its electronic and magnetic properties are determined by the topology of the cavities in the host matrix. Unlike traditional electrides, in which alkali cations are encapsulated within an organic cage, inorganic electrides are thermally stable. The current inorganic electrides based on alkali metal loaded zeolites can be designed as useful reduced-dimensionality materials. Inorganic electrides are powerful reducing agents, and they are able to reduce small aromatic molecules to the radical anions within the channels of the zeolite.