The reaction of thiourea to dicyandiamidine sulfate on silver surfaces investigated by reflection-absorption infrared spectroscopy

The reaction pathway of thiourea degradation on silver surfaces was investigated with reflection-absorption infrared spectroscopy. Adsorption of thiourea from aqueous solution produces a thin stable thiourea film that is not removed by rinsing. Aging at elevated temperature results in conversion to dicyandiamidine sulfate. The same reaction product is observed on daguerreotypes that were treated with commercial thiourea based silver cleaner.     

碳酸钾溶液中硫脲在银电极上的电化学反应的研究

采用循环伏安法（CV）、稳态极化法和X射线电子能谱法（XPS）研究了硫脲在银电极上的电化学反应，并提出了可能的电化学反应历程。     

Amperometric determination of organic isothiocyanates

An amperometric titration method is described for the determination of 1-5 mg of organic isothiocyanates, based on their quantitative reaction with n-butylamine in dimethylfonnamide to form N,N-disubstituted thioureas which are then titrated amperometrically in aqueous ammonia-ammonium nitrate buffer with silver nitrate (dropping mercury electrode at -0.56V). The end-point corresponds to a silver:thiourea ratio of 2:1, with precipitation of silver sulphide. The method is simple, accurate, widely applicable, and gives reproducible results.     

硫脲壳聚糖微量银配合物的制备及抑菌活性

由硫脲壳聚糖和微量的AgNO3反应得到硫脲壳聚糖Ag+配合物。 通过红外光谱对其结构进行了表征。 研究了壳聚糖、硫脲壳聚糖、硫脲壳聚糖-Ag+配合物及AgNO3对大肠杆菌和金黄葡萄球菌的抑菌活性,并测定了其最低抑菌浓度(MIC)和最低杀菌浓度(MBC)。 结果表明,硫脲壳聚糖-Ag+配合物的抑菌活性强于壳聚糖和硫脲壳聚糖,且其MIC和MBC均为100 mg/L（游离Ag+含量为0.032 mg/L）,低于AgNO3的MIC和MBC（均为120 mg/L）。     

Kinetic spectrophotometric determination of sulfide, using in-cuvette mixing and titration techniques with computerized data acquisition

In-cuvette mixing and titration techniques have been used for the kinetic determination of sulfide based on its inhibition effect on the oxidation of indigo carmine with hexacyanoferrate(III) in the presence of silver. The reaction was monitored spectrophotometrically by measuring the decrease in absorbance of indigo carmine at 612 nm. Both initial rate and fixed-time methods were applied to the in-cuvette technique. Using in-cuvette mixing, sulfide up to 1800 ng was determined and detection limit and relative standard deviation for the determination of 120 ng of sulfide were calculated as 23.0 ng and 1.59%, respectively. On the basis of the titration technique, the upper limit of determination was 25 μg of sulfide and detection limit and average relative standard deviation for the determination of 1 μg of sulfide were 0.025 μg and 4.95%, respectively. The effect of foreign ions on the sulfide determination was studied. The proposed methods were applied to the determination of sulfide in water. Received: 10 March 1999 / Revised: 9 June 1999 / Accepted: 12 June 1999     

尿素在银电极表面上吸附及缩合反应的SERS研究

Adsorption behavior of urea on silver electrode and the influence of thiourea on its adsorption in sulphuric acid solution were investigated by polarization curves and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Urea was found to undergo a condensation reaction on roughened silver electrode. Biuret was the condensation compound, and was adsorbed in the protonated form on the silver surface. Obvious synergistic mechanism between thiourea and protonated biuret was proposed.     

硫脲络合–火焰原子吸收光谱法测定低硅铝合金中的银含量

采用硫脲络合–火焰原子吸收光谱法测定低硅铝合金中的银元素含量。实验探讨了酸度及硫脲用量对银测定的影响及铝合金中基体元素与共存元素对银元素分析线的干扰情况。结果表明:选用9%的盐酸和3%的硝酸溶解试样最好,加入5 mL 50 g/L硫脲溶液可消除氯离子对试验结果的影响,基体铝元素和其它共存元素不干扰银的测定。根据低硅铝合金中银元素的含量范围,合成系列标准溶液,建立工作曲线,工作曲线的线性范围为0.05%~0.50%。银元素含量为0.30%的样品测定结果的相对标准偏差为0.15%(n=8),标准加入回收率为96.8%~98.5%。该方法操作简便、重现性好、测量结果准确可靠。     

Reaction with hydrazonoyl halides XXIII [1]: Synthesis and reactions of C‐coumarinoyl‐N‐arylformohydrazonoyl bromides

C‐Coumarinoyl‐N‐arylformohydrazonoyl bromides ( 3 ) were synthesized by reaction of N‐nitrosoarylacetamides with an appropriate sulfonium bromide in ethanol at room temperature. The reactions of potassium thiocyanate, potassium selenocyanate, thiourea, methyl phenylthiocarbomate, and methyl phenylhydrazinedithioate with hydrazonoyl bromide 3a were examined. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Heteroatom Chem 10: 355–362, 1999     

鱼明胶介质中AgBr/I纳米粒子的生长与感光性能

本文以鱼明胶为分散介质,采用双注法制备AgBr/I纳米粒子乳剂,控制银盐与卤溶液的注入速率(R),以TEM观测了粒子的生长,据此探讨了该乳剂中AgBr/I纳米粒子平均粒径(d)及分布(±σ)与反应条件的关系.发现在R为1.3 mmol/min^-8 mmol/min范围内,随R增大,d减小,R-d间呈良好的线性关系.除个别外,±σ值变化不明显.对于该纳米粒子乳剂采用二氧化硫脲进行化学敏化,结果表明:适当增加二氧化硫脲的加入量和延长敏化时间,均可有效提高乳剂的感光度,并有助于改善其低照度互易律失效,此外还揭示了曝光光源色温对该乳剂感光性能的影响.     

Rapid kinetic determination of silver (I), using in-cuvette mixing and computerized data acquisition

 The determination of silver(I) based on its catalytic effect on the oxidation of indigo carmine with hexacyanoferrate(III) is described. The reaction is monitored spectrophotometrically by means of a home-made rapid system with computer data acquisition. The decrease in absorbance of indigo carmine at 612 nm, pH 6 and at a fixed concentration of hexacyanoferrate(III) and indigo carmine is proportional to the concentration of Ag(I). The acquired data based on the initial rate and fixed time are processed. Up to 100.0 μg/ml of silver are determined. The limit of detection and average relative standard deviation are 0.13 μg/ml and 1.9%, respectively. The effect of foreign ions on the determination of silver is also discussed. The proposed method is applied to the determination of Ag(I) in expired photographic film. Received: 17 June 1996 / Revised: 26 July 1996 / Accepted: 2 August 1996     

Cathodic reduction of superconducting oxocuprates YBa2Cu3O7− x at high current densities

The cathodic reduction of YBa₂Cu₃O₇ in aqueous electrolytes at ambient temperature turns out to be strongly dependent upon current density with respect to the reaction mechanism. At low current density, topotactic electron/proton transfer is the dominant process, while at higher current densities, two competing reactions appear, i.e. the topotactic conversion and an irreversible reaction leading to products amorphous in terms of X-ray diffraction. Received: 21 April 1999 / Accepted: 7 June 1999     

Influence of Masking Agents on the Color Reactions of Dithizone with Pd(II), Hg(II), and Ag(I) Ions after the Sorption of Their Chloride Complexes on the Fibrous Filled Anion Exchanger AV-17

The influence of masking agents (acetate, thiosulfate, tartrate, and iodide ions; thiourea; and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)) in a dithizone solution on the complexation of Hg(II), Pd(II), and Ag(I) ions on the solid phase of the fibrous anion exchanger filled with AV-17 was studied. Mercury, palladium, and silver were adsorbed as chloride complexes. The possibility of the simultaneous group determination of the three elements and the selective determination of palladium in the presence of mercury and silver by measuring the diffuse reflection coefficient at two wavelengths (580 and 680 nm, respectively) was demonstrated. A mixture of dithizone with EDTA, acetate, iodide, or thiosulfate can be used for masking concomitant elements. The reaction of palladium with dithizone on the solid phase can be used for the test determination of palladium with the detection limit 0.01 mg/L.     

Synthesis of New Thiourea-Metal Complexes with Promising Anticancer Properties

In this work, two thiourea ligands bearing a phosphine group in one arm and in the other a phenyl group (T2) or 3,5-di-CF₃ substituted phenyl ring (T1) have been prepared and their coordination to Au and Ag has been studied. A different behavior is observed for gold complexes, a linear geometry with coordination only to the phosphorus atom or an equilibrium between the linear and three-coordinated species is present, whereas for silver complexes the coordination of the ligand as P^S chelate is found. The thiourea ligands and their complexes were explored against different cancer cell lines (HeLa, A549, and Jurkat). The thiourea ligands do not exhibit relevant cytotoxicity in the tested cell lines and the coordination of a metal triggers excellent cytotoxic values in all cases. In general, data showed that gold complexes are more cytotoxic than the silver compounds with T1, in particular the complexes [AuT1(PPh₃)]OTf, the bis(thiourea) [Au(T1)₂]OTf and the gold-thiolate species [Au(SR)T1]. In contrast, with T2 better results are obtained with silver species [AgT1(PPh₃)]OTf and the [Ag(T1)₂]OTf. The role played by the ancillary ligand bound to the metal is important since it strongly affects the cytotoxic activity, being the bis(thiourea) complex the most active species. This study demonstrates that metal complexes derived from thiourea can be biologically active and these compounds are promising leads for further development as potential anticancer agents.     

Potentiometric study of silver complexes with thiourea in acid media

Formation of silver complexes with thiourea in three different acids (perchloric, methanesulfonic, and sulfamic) was studied potentiometrically using modified Leden's method. It was established that, under conditions similar to the ones used for commercial electroplating of silver alloys, silver and thiourea form predominantly binuclear complexes Ag₂tu _n (n =?1–6). Calculated complex stability constants were similar in all cases suggesting that the acidity and the type of anion have little effect on the structure.     

Applications of enzyme-catalysed reactions in trace analysis-III Determination of silver and thiourea by their combined inhibition of invertase

Thiourea has been found to enhance the inhibition of invertase by silver ions. The effect is applied to the determination of 1–5 × 10⁻⁷ M silver and of 10⁻⁷–10⁻⁸ M thiourea. A mechanism is suggested for the enhancement.     

Ab initio study on the dynamical properties of the hydrogen abstraction reaction NH2 + OH → NH + H2O

 The geometry of the transition state of the title reaction was optimized at the unrestricted Hartree–Fock, the spin-unrestricted second-order M?ller–Plesset, and the spin-unrestricted quadratic configuration interaction with all single and double substitutions levels of theory. The changes in the geometry, the bound vibrational modes, and the potential energy along the minimum energy path are discussed. Variational transition-state theory rate constants calculated with the tunneling and curvature effect correction agree very well with the experimental values. Received: 23 April 1999 / Accepted: 9 June 1999 / Published online: 15 December 1999     

Kinetics and mechanism of the reaction between silver(III) and thiourea in aqueous alkaline media

The tetrahydroxoargentate(III) ion, Ag(OH)₄⁻, is rapidly reduced by thiourea (tu) in accordance with the three term rate law RATE = {k₁+(k₂+k₃[OH⁻])[tu]}[Ag^III] where k₁ = 1.08 s⁻¹, k₂ = 1.46 x 10³ M⁻¹ s⁻¹, and k₃ = 2.02 x 10³ M⁻² s⁻¹. The k₁ path occurs via the rate-determining aquation of Ag(OH)₄⁻ while the other two paths involve axial attack of thiourea on silver. The higher values of k₂ and k₃ compared to the ethylenediamine reaction, which obeys the same rate law, is a reflection of the greater nucleophilicity of tu.

Following the redox reaction, solutions become brown in a reaction that obeys pseudo-first-order kinetics. Similar behaviour is observed when tu is replaced by Na₂S or thio-acetamide and when Ag^I reacts with any of these sulphur containing compounds. We attribute this process to the Ag^I promoted formation of sulphide species which eventually precipitate as Ag₂S.     

Application of a hexapole collision and reaction cell in ICP-MS Part I: Instrumental aspects and operational optimization

The application of an ion-guiding buffer gas-filled hexapole collision and reaction cell in ICP-MS has been studied in order to give a preliminary performance characterization of a new instrument providing this feature for increasing the ion yield and decreasing contributions from Ar induced interfering molecular ions. As buffer gas He was used while H₂ served as reaction gas. Addition of the latter can be an effective means for reduction of typical argon induced polyatomic ions (Ar⁺, ArO⁺, Ar₂ ⁺) by orders of magnitude owing to gas phase reactions. Molecular interferences generated in the cell can be suppressed by a retarding electric field established by a dc hexapole bias potential of –2 V. Received: 10 May 1999 / Revised: 4 June 1999 / Accepted: 12 June 1999     

Generation of a methylbismuth species and its electrothermal vaporization for the determination of bismuth by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Inorganic bismuth(III) was converted to a methylbismuth species, possibly trimethylbismuth, by a thermochemical reaction with methyllithium. It instantly vaporized and was then introduced into the ICP ion source to detect the ²⁰⁹Bi signal. Utilizing an exchangeable small sample cuvette placed on the tungsten boat furnace for the reaction was very favorable from the viewpoints of easy handling, no memory effect, and maintenance of furnace conditions. In this manner, the analyte was vaporized at quite a low temperature (150 °C). The detection limit (3σ) was 0.13 pg of bismuth and the precision in relative standard deviation for 5.0 pg of bismuth was determined to be 3.8% (n = 7). Received: 6 June 1999 / Revised: 31 August 1999 / /Accepted: 23 September 1999