Electrical and optical properties of melting Au/Si eutectics on Si(111)

The Au/Si system exhibits an extremely low eutectic temperature of 363°?C. Thin gold films of 200 nm thickness were deposited on Si(111) single-crystals and the electrical and optical properties of the melting mixtures were investigated. The resistivity measurements were performed in situ in a combined LEED/Auger apparatus. A highly resolving spectroscopic ellipsometer was used for the optical analysis in the wavelength range 400–900 nm. The eutectic temperature was found to be lower than for bulk Au/Si samples. The structure analysis showed that small liquid Au/Si islands embedded in the silicon surface are formed by the melting process. Various heating/ cooling cycles show a characteristic hysteresis behaviour.     

A DFT study of the ground state multiplicities of linear vs angular polyheteroacenes

Unrestricted density functional calculations in combination with the broken-symmetry approach and spin-projection methods have been employed to study a series of formally 4n pi antiaromatic linear and angular polyheteroacenes. Calculations show that the linear polyheteroacene molecules have either stable singlet zwitterionic 6-9 or singlet diradical 5 ground states because they sacrifice the aromaticity of the central arene to form two independent cyanines. The corresponding angular compounds 10-14 have robust triplet states, since they cannot create independent cyanines to escape their overall antiaromaticity. An analysis based on the SOMO-SOMO energy splittings, their spatial distributions, and the spin density populations for the triplet states is presented to clarify the factors that determine their ground state multiplicities.     

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Das Solvosystem Phosphoroxychlorid, 23. Mitt.: Photometrische Titrationen von Chloriden mit Eisen(III)-chlorid

Zusammenfassung Zahlreiche kovalente Chloride bilden mit FeCl₃ in POCl₃ Chloroniumtetrachloroferrate. HgCl₂, BCl₃, TiCl₄, SnCl₄ und PCl₅ geben ein Chloridion, ZnCl₂ und AlCl₃ zwei Chloridionen, letzteres zum Teil auch das dritte Chloridion an FeCl₃ ab. Die Donorstärke nimmt in der Reihe Et₄NClKCl1/2 ZnCl₂ 1/2 AlCl₃>TiCl₄>PCl₅1/3 AlCl₃[SbCl₆]^–HgCl₂ >BCl₃SnCl₄ ab. SbCl₅ ist in POCl₃ ein stärkerer Akzeptor als FeCl₃. Die Unterschiede gegenüber dem Lösungsmittel Phenylphosphoroxychlorid werden diskutiert.Mit 1 Abbildung22. Mitt.:M. Baaz, V. Gutmann undL. Hübner, Mh. Chem.91, 694 (1960).     

Analysis of leaves by using the laser ICP-MS with isotope dissolution method

The use of laser ablation inductively coupled mass spectrometry (laser ICP-MS), in combination with a calibration procedure involving the addition of enriched isotopes, for the determination of trace elements in birch leaves and their ashes is described. Samples are pressed into pellets without binder materials and analyzed using the ICP-MS spectrometer ELAN 5000 with the laser sampler type 320 (Perkin Elmer). The analytical results obtained by two methods are compared with the values obtained after digestion of the same samples and analysis of the resulting solutions by ICP-MS. The results are discussed in terms of precision, accuracy and limits of detections.     

Antimicrobial activity studies of the binuclear metal complexes derived from tridentate Schiff base ligands

Three novel tridentate Schiff base ligands derived fromthe 3-hydroxysalicylaldehyde (H₂L¹), 4-hydroxysalicylaldehyde (H₂L²) and 5-bromosalicylaldehyde (H₂L³) with a new amine N-(pyridyl)-2-hydroxy-3-methoxy-5-aminobenzylamine (2) have been prepared. The ligands and their metal complexes have been characterized by elemental analyses, conductivity and magnetic susceptibility measurements, i.r., electronic absorption and ¹H and ¹³C n.m.r. spectroscopy. All complexes are binuclear and, in some, the H₂O molecules are coordinated to the metal ion. Antimicrobial activities of the ligands and their complexes have been tested against to the Bacillus subtilis IMG 22 (bacteria), Micrococcus luteus LA 2971 (bacteria) Saccharamyces cerevisiae WET 136 (yeast), and Candida albicans CCM 314 (yeast). Thermal properties of all complexes have been studied by t.g. and d.t.a techniques.     

Ionization in antiproton-hydrogen collisions

Employing the semiclassical approximation we calculate within the coupled-state formalism the ionization probability in antiproton-hydrogen (p+H) collisions. In particular we investigate the adiabatic ionization at the distance of closest approach in almost central collisions. Striking differences in the electron excitation probability compared with proton-hydrogen (p+H) collisions are predicted.     

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Nuclear Techniques in the Elucidation of Chemical Structure

The paper offers three applications of nuclear methods in the research of chemical structure. First, progress in positron annihilation spectroscopy is illustrated by a positron beamline study, which obtained results that are not available through conventional experiments. The positron beam was used for the study of Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films containing 4-58 layers of arachidic acid and its salts. These measurements have shown that this emerging technique is capable of characterizing even such elusive systems. Second, the potential of Mössbauer spectroscopy to answer current challenges of solid state chemistry are shown in a study on perovskites of recent interest. ¹⁵¹Eu Mössbauer spectroscopy was used to study the effect of Pr substitution in EuBa₂Cu₃O_7-. It was shown that the introduction of Pr into the rare earth site as well as into the Ba site results in the appearance of extra electrons both in the copper oxide planes and at the 4f shell of Eu cations. The observed effects were explained by the hole filling effect of Pr. Finally, a survey is presented on the recently developed techniques for nuclear resonant scattering of synchrotron radiation, an exciting and very rapidly developing extension to conventional Mössbauer spectroscopy. An interesting new result is that nuclear inelastic scattering experiments performed on solutions of ⁵⁷Fe complexes show contribution from vibrations rather than from diffusion to the inelastic spectra.