What Do We Know About Nuclear Fission?

Nuclear fission, although a physical phenomenon, is also of interest to the chemist. It was discovered by chemists, and chemists have made a material contribution to our present knowledge in this field. A comprehensive theory of nuclear fission has not, as yet, been developed, despite the volume of experimental data that has amassed in the 35 years since its discovery. In the past few years discoveries have been made which cannot be explained with conventional theoretical models of nuclear fission. The most important discovery was that of shape isomerism, a novel type of nuclear isomerism. It would appear that an accurate calculation of fission barriers is a prerequsite for precise explanation of many experimental findings. Recent results in this connection and an outline of the present state of our knowledge of nuclear fission constitute the main theme of this paper.     

Five Decades Ago: From the “Transuranics” to Nuclear Fission

The discovery of nuclear fission is one of the most outstanding episodes in the history of chemistry: It starts in the spring of 1934 when Enrico Fermi and his group irradiate uranium with neutrons and seem to succeed in going beyond uranium, the then heaviest known element, reaching the first transuranic element; it continues with Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann who believe to have found additional transuranic elements; with Irène Curie and Paul Savitch who observe an activity which somehow does not fit into that scheme; again with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann who first identify this activity as radium but then on the 17th of December 1938 after rigorous chemical tests realize that the activity is instead barium, thus discovering the fission of the uranium atom into two lighter nuclei; and with Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch who explain nuclear fission on the basis of an already known nuclear model; Otto Robert Frisch finally performs a physical experiment on the 13th of January 1939 which corroborates the fission of uranium. This discovery of nuclear fission is not only an event of historic dimensions, it is also an excellent example of how science evolves, not by successive logical steps but rather through strange detours.     

Open‐Shell‐Character‐Based Molecular Design Principles: Applications to Nonlinear Optics and Singlet Fission

Open‐shell character, e. g., diradical character, is a quantum chemically well‐defined quantity in ground‐state molecular systems, which is not an observable but can quantify the degree of effective bond weakness in the chemical sense or electron correlation strength in the physical sense. Because this quantity also correlates to specific excited states, physicochemical properties concerned with those states are expected to strongly correlate to the open‐shell character. This feature enables us to open a new path to revealing the mechanism of these properties as well as to realizing new design principles for efficient functional molecular systems. This account explains the open‐shell‐character‐based molecular design principles and introduces their applications to the rational design of highly efficient nonlinear optical and singlet fission molecular systems.     

三元金属二硫化物纳米管的制备

1992年和 1 993年 ,Tenne等[1,2 ] 先后报道了具有类富勒烯和纳米管状结构的 WS2 和无机类富勒烯 Mo S2 .此后 ,无机类富勒烯化合物的制备与合成成为国内外学者的关注热点之一 .但采用化学方法制备纳米金属二硫化物时 ,多面体或洋葱状结构的 Mo S2 或 WS2 晶体的形成概率小 (这与碳的情况相似 ,也许通过扩展反应区内的温度梯度可以增加形成上述两种结构的可能性 [3] ) .另外 ,采用气固相反应制备洋葱状 WS2 的过程中 ,当每批次的量超过 1 5g时 ,无机类富勒烯 (IF)纳米颗粒的质量降低 ;同时 ,若滤筛中粉末厚度过大 ,相当大的凝聚团块开…     

Intramolecular Singlet Fission in Oligoacene Heterodimers

We investigate singlet fission (SF) in heterodimers comprising a pentacene unit covalently bonded to another acene as we systematically vary the singlet and triplet pair energies. We find that these energies control the SF process, where dimers undergo SF provided that the resulting triplet pair energy is similar or lower in energy than the singlet state. In these systems the singlet energy is determined by the lower‐energy chromophore, and the rate of SF is found to be relatively independent of the driving force. However, triplet pair recombination in these heterodimers follows the energy gap law. The ability to tune the energies of these materials provides a key strategy to study and design new SF materials—an important process for third‐generation photovoltaics.     

三元——假二元系的过量体积

提出测量三元——假二元系(1-x)[(1-y)A+yC]+z[(1-y)B+yC]的过量热力学函数的方法, 测量了在298.15 K下两种假二元系: A=环己烷, B=苯, C=甲苯, 甲基环己烷的过量体积V~E, 用van der Waals单流体模型对实验结果进行了讨论。     

Mechanochemical Synthesis of Ternary Potassium Transition Metal Chlorides

Ternary halide systems KM^IICl₃ (M^II = Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) have been prepared by mechanochemical synthesis. Furthermore, TiCl₂ was converted to Ti₇Cl₁₆ by mechanochemical treatment. For most samples, the X‐ray powder diffraction patterns could either be assigned to isotypic structures or were found in accordance with reference data. The monochloride systems of Ti, Co and Zn were extended to their double chloride stoichiometry K₂M^IICl₄.     

Surface Tension of Ternary Liquid Mixtures

Abstract

Surface tension has been measured by the differential capillary rise method for three ternary mixtures containing alkanes (hexane + cyclohexane+benzene, pentane + hexane + benzene and cyclohexane + heptane + toluene at 298.15\pm 0.1°K). The sign and magnitude of the excess surface tension and excess volume depend ultimately upon the chain length of the component of the mixtures. The results of the surface tension were compared with theoretical values obtained from Flory theory, Sanchez method, Brock-Bird relation and volume fraction statistics. There is reasonable agreement between theory and experiment.     

胆汁酸盐-胆红素-钙离子三元复合物的构象性质

根据九种胆汁酸盐-胆红素-钙离子三元体系的UV和CD实验所见, 提出一种所形成的三元复合物的构象模型。利用PPP-SCF-CI-DV量子化学程序拟合有关的UV和CD谱, 研究三元复合物的构象性质。得到两类六种与光谱学实验符合的胆红素分子的最佳构象。利用它们可以解释九种胆汁酸盐-胆红素-钙离子三元复合物表现在园二色谱中的手性性质。     

Singlet Fission in Carbene‐Derived Diradicaloids

Herein, we present a new class of singlet fission (SF) materials based on diradicaloids of carbene scaffolds, namely cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbenes (CAACs). Our modular approach allows the tuning of two key SF criteria: the steric factor and the diradical character. In turn, we modified the energy landscapes of excited states in a systematic manner to accommodate the needs for SF. We report the first example of intermolecular SF in solution by dimer self‐assembly at cryogenic temperatures.     

氮气-苯浮选光度法测定痕量锰

提出了根据 Mn( )氧化 I-生成 I2 ,I2 与 I-反应生成 I-3 配阴离子 ,I-3 配阴离子与孔雀绿阳离子发生离子缔合反应 ,用苯和 N2 将此缔合物浮选 ,以光度法测定此缔合物间接测量锰新方法。表观摩尔吸光系数为(ε=5.0 4× 1 0 5 L· mol-1· cm-1) ,测定 5.0μg/2 0 0 m L的锰 ( n=6 ) RSD为 1 .8%。已用于水中锰的测定。     

三元配合物体系光度法测定微量铜

提出了Cu(Ⅰ)-SCN^--RhB-聚乙烯醇三元配合物体系吸光光度法测定微量铜的方法。方法灵敏度高，选择性好，操作简便，结果准确。     

Thermodynamic Control of Intramolecular Singlet Fission and Exciton Transport in Linear Tetracene Oligomers

We newly synthesized a series of homo- and hetero-tetracene (Tc) oligomers to propose a molecular design strategy for the efficient exciton transport in linear oligomers by promoting correlated triplet pair (TT) dissociation and controlling sequential exciton trapping process of individual doubled triplet excitons (T+T) by intramolecular singlet fission. First, entropic gain effects on the number of Tc units are examined by comparing Tc-homo-oligomers [(Tc)_n: n=2, 4, 6]. Then, a comparison of (Tc)_n and Tc-hetero-oligomer [TcF₃-(Tc)₄-TcF₃] reveals the vibronic coupling effect for entropic gain. Observed entropic effects on the T+T formation indicated that the exciton migration is rationalized by number of possible TT states increased both by increasing the number of Tc units and by the vibronic levels at the terminal TcF₃ units. Finally, we successfully observed high-yield exciton trapping process (trapped triplet yield: Φ_TrT=176 %).     

含无规共聚物三元共混体系SMMA-PMMA-SAN相行为

含无规共聚物共混体系的相容性研究正在成为近年来的研究热点 ,因为相容的驱动力来自共聚物分子内不同单体链段间的排斥性相互作用 [1～ 3] .目前研究这类体系还主要采用过份简化的 F- H平均场理论 ,用旨在克服平均场理论缺陷的 Flory状态方程 ( EOS)理论仅局限于研究二元共聚物共混体系[4～ 8] .与三元共混体系相比 ,用 EOS理论预测含两个无规共聚物三元体系相行为尚需确定共聚物 -共聚物间的二元参数 sj/si,Xij和 Qij.若用 Ax B1- x和 Cy D1- y分别代表共聚物 1和 2 ,则 A,B,C,D代表相应共聚物中的单体单元 ,x,y分别是 1和 2的共…     

混料回归法测定三元络合物组成比方法的研究

本文提出了一种新的测定多元络合物组成的方法——混料回归法。与其它测定多无络合物组成的方法比较,可减少实验次数,且不需绘图。用本文方法测定Cu-phen-CAS三元络合物的组成比,其结果与连续变化法及文献结果一致。经验证,该法应用简便,结果准确。     

Assembly and Photophysics of Ternary Luminescent Lanthanide Molecular Complex Systems

In this paper, according to the molecular fragment principle, a series of eight ternary luminescent lanthanide complex systems were assembled, and whose compositions were determined with elemental analysis and infrared spectrum: Ln(MA)₃(L)·H₂O, where Ln = Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy; HMA = α‐methylacrylic acid; L = 1,10‐phenanthroline (phen), 2,2′‐bipyridine (bipy). The photophysical properties of these functional molecular systems were studied with ultraviolet‐visible absorption spectrum, and fluorescence excitation and emission spectrum. It was found that the heterocylic compounds (phen and bipy) act as the main energy donor and luminescence sensitizer for their suitable energy match and effective energy transfer to the emission energy level of Ln³⁺ ions. MMA ligand was only used as the terminal structural ligand to influence the luminescence. Especially terbium complex systems show the strongest luminescence for the optimum energy match and transfer between phen (bipy) and Tb³⁺ ion.     

三元络合物微分阳极溶出伏安法测定亚硝酸根

基于NOi_2~-可以与Pb~(2+)和SCN~-形成稳定的三元络合物,NO_2~-的存在会抑制Pb~(2+)的还原富集,使铅的微分溶出峰电流i_p~′减小,根据其减小值△i_p~′,可以间接测定NO_2~-。工作电极为玻碳电极,预电解电位为—0.75V(vs. SCE),铅的溶出峰电位为—0.5V(vs. SCE)。本文对测定条件,干扰及其消除方法进行了研究。测定下限为2×10~(-11) mol/L,大量硝酸根不干扰。     

Large Optical Nonlinearity Induced by Singlet Fission in Pentacene Films

By creating two triplet excitons from one photo‐excited singlet exciton, singlet fission in organic semiconductors has drawn tremendous attention for its potential applications in boosting the efficiency of solar conversion. Here, we show that this carrier‐multiplication effect can also be used to dramatically improve the nonlinear optical response in organic materials. We have observed large optical nonlinearity with a magnitude of χ⁽³⁾ up to 10^?9 esu in pentacene films, which is further shown to be a result of singlet fission by monitoring the temporal dynamics. The potential application of such efficient nonlinear optical response has been demonstrated with a singlet‐fission‐induced polarization rotation.     

Uncatalyzed Reductive Fission of Azoarenes to Aminoarene(s) by Hydrazine Hydrate

Abstract

Various azoarenes with hydrazine hydrate in refluxing ethanol undergo reductive fission to give easily isolable aminoarene(s) without use of any specialized catalyst. The reaction is fast and cost effective, and yields are excellent (85–95%). Substituents such as ?OH, ?OCH₃, ?COOH, ?Cl, and ?Br are unaffected. The method affords an elegant route to the preparation of aminoarenes.