125Te-NMR-spektren von organotellurhalogeniden

Tetraorganotin compounds react with tellurium tetrachloride or tellurium tetrabromide with formation of the corresponding organotellurium trihalides and diorganotellurium dihalides. ¹²⁵Te NMR spectra of the reaction mixtures are used to determine the reaction products.     

Evidence for a mechanism that involves secondary electron capture in the liquid secondary ionization mass spectrometry beam-induced dehalogenation of organic compounds

The effect of the analyte electron affinity on the liquid secondary ionization mass spectrometry beam-induced dehalogenation of simple bromoaromatic compounds in a glycerol matrix was investigated. The results show a definite trend of decreasing dehalogenation with increasing analyte electron affinity. At high analyte electron affinity (≥ 1.0 eV), no dehalogenation was observed. These results are consistent with electrochemical and pulse radiolysis studies where one electron reduction was shown to be responsible for dehalogenation. A chloroaromatic compound with high electron affinity, 4-(4-chloro-benzoyl)pyridine, exhibited reduction by hydrogen addition but not dehalogenation. The radiation chemistry of alcohols was used to elaborate a scheme of the reactive species generated in the glycerol matrix by kiloelectronvolt particle bombardment. The possible role of those species in reduction processes such as dehalogenation was evaluated. The observation that dehalogenation decreases with analyte electron affinity is mechanistically consistent with the proposition that secondary electron production is an intrinsic part of the bombardment process.     

Photoelectron resonance capture ionization mass spectrometry: a soft ionization source for mass spectrometry of particle-phase organic compounds

Photoelectron resonance capture ionization (PERCI) is a soft and sensitive ionization method, based on the attachment of low-energy (<1 eV) photoelectrons to organic analyte molecules. PERCI has been developed in our laboratory for the real-time analysis of organic particles by mass spectrometry, and is employed here to monitor the heterogeneous reaction of ozone with oleic acid. Simplified identification of the reaction products is possible as a result of the soft nature of PERCI, giving predominantly the [M--H](-) ions. The major particle-phase products are identified as: 1-nonanal, nonanoic acid, 9-oxononanoic acid, and azelaic acid, consistent with proposed mechanisms. New insight into this well-studied heterogeneous reaction is gained as additional minor particle-phase products, consistent with the Criegee mechanism, are readily detected.     

A 1Π ← χ1Σ+ resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization of jet-cooled CO

We report the observation of two-photon resonance enhancement in the four-photon tunable dye laser-induced multiphoton ionization spectrum of CO. The observed structure is readily assigned to the rotational bands of the A ¹Π ← χ¹Σ⁺ (3,0) transition of CO.     

Reactions of (η5-C5H5)2Tir compounds with organic cyanides

The syntheses and properties of the titanium(III) complexes Cp₂Tir · R′CN (R = C₆H₅, o-, m-, p-CH₃C₆H₄, CH₂C₆H₅, C₆F₅, Cl; R′ = CH₃, t-C₄H₉, C₆H₅, o-CH₃C₆H₄, 2,6-(CH₃)₂C₆H₃) are described. In the complexes the nitrogen atom of the cyanide ligands is coordinated to the metal. The thermal stabilities of the complexes depend markedly on R and R′; on heating they undergo a novel reaction in which two cyanide ligands are coupled by formation of a CC bond, while the metal is oxidized to titanium(IV).     

195Pt NMR of organoplatinum compounds

The ¹⁹⁵Pt chemical shifts of several organoplatinum compounds in solution have been determined. The δ(¹⁹⁵Pt) values of the phosphine-Pt^II and -Pt⁰ compounds lie in separate ranges, and allow the metal-diene systems to be characterized either as metallacyclopentene or as η²-bonded diene. Although the two isomers of bis(η³-allyl)Pt (VIII) formally should be regarded as Pt^II compounds their ¹⁹⁵Pt shifts clearly lie in the region for Pt⁰ compounds. The large separation between the ¹⁹⁵Pt signals and the difference in ¹⁹⁵Pt-T₁ values for the two isomers of VIII are in accord with their having different geometries around the metal.     

Detailed analysis of the L3M4,5M4,5; 1G4 Auger transition in atomic zinc: Improved Auger energy calculations

A hitherto neglected relaxation term is introduced in the calculation of Auger electron energies. The agreement between the theoretical L₃M_4,5M_4,5; ¹G₄ Auger energy in atomic zinc and the experimental value of Aksela and Aksela is excellent. Relaxation energies are determined by means of OHFS hole state calculations.     

A computer program for the prediction of 13-C-NMR chemical shifts of organic compounds

A computer program is described for the estimation of carbon-13 chemical shifts. It automatically selects and applies the additivity rules appropriate for the individual carbon atoms of the structure entered. Besides connectivity, the configuration and conformation can be entered and evaluated for some types of structure. All rule parameters (base values and increments) can be extended or modified by the user. New rules based on the corresponding linear relationships can also be added. A test against 168 807 known chemical shifts shows that the implemented rules cover roughly 97% of all cases. The standard deviation of the predicted values relative to the experimental values is 5.5 ppm.     

Quantitative Auger electron spectroscopy of PtSi and Pd2Si

Summary Quantitative AES analysis has been carried out on PtSi and Pd₂Si using dN(E)/dE spectra. The concentration ratios are determined by elemental sensitivity factors after correcting for matrix and sputter effects. In the case of matrix correction an improved correction procedure has been developed which considers effects created by different atomic densities, electron backscattering, electron attenuation and peak shapes. The concentration ratios X_metal/X_Si deduced from measurements of mechanically cleaned sample surfaces agree very well with the nominal bulk values of the silicides. Ion bombardment creates strong intensity and line shape changes of the Auger signals. Therefore, in case of sputtered silicide surfaces, both matrix and sputter effects must be corrected.     

13C NMR spectra of η3 -allylmanganesetetracarbonyl compounds; structural implications

The ¹³C NMR spectra of η³-allylmanganese tetracarbonyl complexes are consistent with an overall C_s, symmetry and involving a σ_v plane in the Mn(CO)₄ fragment. A dynamic carbonyl interchange process was looked for but the results are inconclusive, however the barrier for this process is certainly greater than 42 kJ/mol. This observation suggests an octahedral type geometry rather than a square pyramid type configuration.     

Adsorption of 125I on palladium coated silver wire

The adsorption of ¹²⁵I on palladium coated silver wires was studied in this paper. The experimental conditions, e.g., reaction volume, carrier concentration, reaction time, reaction temperature, pH of the reaction mixture, were systematically optimized to obtain quantitative adsorption of ¹²⁵I on palladium coated silver wires. The experiments were performed using potassium iodide 8–9 μg as carrier in a reaction volume of 100 μL incubated in ~50 °C water bath for ~1 h, and the pH of the reaction system was controlled at 2–2.5. The distribution of activity on palladium coated silver wire was uniform, and the source cores can be easily sealed by laser welding into titanium capsules.     

Treatment of Be+ ( 1 s? 1)2S Auger resonance with different decouplings of the dilated electron propagator

The diagonal 2ph-TDA and quasiparticle decouplings of the dilated electron propagator (based on an underlying bi-variational SCF) are utilized to calculate energy and width of the Be⁺(1_s ⁻¹)²S Auger resonance for the first time. Comparison with experimental and other theoretical results reveals that the renormalized infinite order diagonal 2ph-TDA decoupling seems to offer a less balanced approach to the treatment of resonances than the second-order decoupling. The diagonal quasiparticle approximation to the self energy is seen to offer an effective and economic alternative to the non-diagonal propagator calculations.     

19F Chemical shift tensor in fluorobenzene compounds

Fluorine-19 NMR multiple-pulse experiments have been applied to a series of meta-, para- and ortho-substituted fluorobenzene compounds in the solid state. The principal elements of the ¹⁹F chemical shift tensor (σ₁₁, σ₂₂, σ< ₃₃) were determined and the orientation of the tensor axes was inferrred from secondary information like molecular motion, related compounds and liquid crystal studies. Comparison with anisotropies obtained from molecules dissolved in liquid crystals in the nematic phase is discussed where data are available. Using the Gicrke-Flygarc approach we were able to exctract the spin-rotation interaction tensor elements C_??, C_tcy;tcy; and C_zz of ¹⁹F in sever; fluorobenzene compounds.     

Photoelectron resonance capture ionization (PERCI): A novel technique for the soft-ionization of organic compounds

Photoelectron resonance capture ionization (PERCI) is demonstrated as a sensitive ionization technique involving minimal fragmentation of organic molecules. PERCI has been used successfully to softly and efficiently ionize both strongly UV absorbing and non-absorbing molecules. Tunable low energy (<1 eV) electrons are generated by focusing a pulsed UV laser on an aluminum photocathode in the presence of gas phase analyte. Negative ions are formed through a resonance electron capture process. Mass analysis is done using a reflectron time-of-flight mass spectrometer. PERCI is demonstrated for a number of gas phase compounds and simple mixtures, including sulfur hexafluoride, nitrobenzene, nitrophenol, 2-pentanone, hexanal, heptanal, and octanal. In all cases the molecular ion (or [M - H](-)) was observed to be the dominant peak. The 1sigma limit of detection was estimated to be on the order of 10(6) molecules in the ionization region.     

15N and 17O NMR spectra of some nitrogen- and oxygen-containing polyfluoroaromatic compounds

The effect of substitution of hydrogen by fluorine on the ¹⁵N and ¹⁷O NMR chemical shifts in N-sulphinylarylamines, azoxy- benzenes, C,N-diarylnitrones and aromatic azomethines has been studied. Changes in nitrogen screening are controlled mainly by the radial factor <r^?3>_2p(N), which depends on the electron density on nitrogen, those in oxygen screening — by the two factors, the excitation energy ΔE^?1 and the radial factor <r^?3>_2p(0), which may operate in the same or opposite directions. The ¹⁵N and ¹⁷O NMR spectra of the above compounds did not show any specific effects of perfluorination.     

High-resolution Auger electron spectroscopy of phase boundaries in TiC/TiB2 materials

Summary Multi-phase hard materials free from binder metals are used to meet the requirements of high wear resistance and high temperature stability. Investigations of properties and wear behavior showed extremely high values in carbide/boride combinations, particularly a TiC/TiB₂ mixture of a 11 molar ratio. The pseudobinary phase diagram shows low intersolubilities. High-resolution Auger Electron Spectroscopy was used to examine mixed two-phase TiC/ TiB₂ hard materials and compare them to pure TiC and TiB₂. The AES analyses were carried out on cross sections and fresh fracture surfaces. At the grain boundaries in pure TiC as well as in pure TiB₂, some amounts of Fe, Cr, Co and P can be detected. These elements are already in the powders as received. In addition, an O-rich phase has been identified in hot pressed TiB₂. The same impurity elements as in the pure materials can be found at a few phase boundaries and triple points in two-phase TiC/TiB₂ with a thickness of a few monolayers. However, large areas of the fracture surface were found to carry a TiB_xC_y phase on the grains. The considerable increase in wear resistance and fracture toughness of TiC/TiB₂ compared to pure TiC and pure TiB₂ can be explained by the presence of this TiB_xC_y phase.

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Grenzflächenuntersuchungen an TiC/TiB₂-Hartstoffen mit hochauflösender Auger-Elektronenspektroskopie

     

Sorption and desorption of 125I-, 137Cs+, 85Sr2+ and 152,154Eu3+ on disturbed soils under dynamic flow and static batch conditions

Sorption of radionuclides on homogenized soils (under 2.5 mm grain size) from synthetic groundwater of 8·10⁻³M ionic strength and pH 8.5 has been studied under dynamic (flow) and static (batch) conditions. The corresponding water-soluble compounds, as carriers in the 10⁻⁶ mol/dm³ concentration, were added into the SGW prior to the experiments. Soil samples were taken from several locations around the environment of the High Level Waste Storage Facility at Nuclear Research Institute Řež plc in 5–100 cm depth. The dynamic experiments were carried out in columns made of PP+PE injection syringes of 17.8 cm length and 2.1 cm in diameter. A multi-head peristaltic pump was used for pumping the water upward through the columns at a seepage velocity of about 0.06 cm/min in average. The radioactive nuclides were added into the water stream individually in a form of a short pulse in 0.1 cm³ of demineralized water. Dynamic desorption experiments were performed with the same experimental arrangement using a mixture of 10⁻²N H₂SO₄ and 10⁻²N HNO₃ in a volume ratio of 2: 1. Retardation, distribution and hydrodynamic dispersion coefficients during transport of radionuclides were determined by the evaluation of the integral form of a simple advection-dispersion equation, used for fitting experimental data and modeling the theoretical sorption breakthrough and desorption displacement curves. The static experiments were realized in 100 cm³ plastic bottles stirring 5 g of soil samples with SGW occasionally in a soil to SGW ratio of 1: 10 (m/V). Kinetic parameters including equilibrium sorption activity, activity transfer rate constants and sorption half-times were also determined. The results of dynamic experiments were compared with static sorption experiments.     

Measurement of the radioactivity of 238U, 226Ra, 210Pb, 228Th, 232Th, 228Ra, 137Cs and 40K in tea using gamma-spectrometry

The aim of the present work was to determine the concentration of radionuclides in all kinds of tea available at the local Egyptian market. Radioactivity of the nuclides ²³⁸U, ²²⁶Ra, ²¹⁰Pb, ²²⁸Th, ²³²Th, ²²⁶Ra, ¹³⁷Cs and ⁴⁰K were measured in tea by direct γ-ray spectrometry using HPGe detector and their mean values were 16.0±5.3, 3.1±0.7, 34.3±3.4, 3.4±1.2, 3.0±0.6, 3.1±0.8, 0.9±0.2 and 623±25 Bq·kg⁻¹, respectively.     

Comprehensive parameter set for the prediction of the 13C-NMR chemical shifts of sp3-hybridized carbon atoms in organic compounds

A parameter set is described for prediction of the carbon-13 chemical shifts of sp³-hybridized carbon atoms based on a simple linear additivity relationship. It was tested against 88 692 known chemical shift values. Many of the previously reported parameters were amended and new parameters added. With this parameter set, the chemical shifts in 99.7% of the 88 692 cases can be estimated with an overall standard deviation of 5.6 ppm for the predicted values relative the the experimental ones. The additivity parameters reported here can be used per se or in connection with a recent computer program for the estimation of carbon-13 chemical shifts, which automatically selects and applies additivity rules appropriate for the individual carbon atoms of the chemical constitution entered.