Capillary electrophoretic analysis of sulfur and cyanicides speciation during cyanidation of gold complex sulfidic ores

A capillary electrophoretic protocol for the separation and quantification of the most important species potentially liberated during the cyanidation of gold sulfide‐rich ores was accomplished in this study. The separation of 11 ions: S₂O₃^2–, Cu(CN)₃^2–, Fe(CN)₆^4–, Fe(CN)₆^3–, SCN^–, Au(CN)₂^–, Ag(CN)₂^–, SO₄^2–, OCN^–, SO₃^2–, and HS^– was achieved using an indirect UV detection method. The robustness of the analytical protocol was tested by analyzing ions speciation during the cyanidation of two gold sulfide‐rich ores. The 1‐h cyanidation of the two ores released up to six complexes into solution: S₂O₃^2–, Cu(CN)₃^2–, SCN^–, Fe(CN)₆^4–, OCN^–, and SO₄^2–. The mineralogy of the ore was found to influence directly the nature and the amount of the dissolved species. Conserving the cyanidation solution for 72 h after sampling resulted in 96% total sulfur recovery. These results allow us to conclude that the analytical protocol developed in this study can become very useful for the optimization of precious‐metals cyanidation plants.     

Regioselective bond cleavage in the dissociative electron transfer to benzyl thiocyanates

The electrochemical reduction of benzyl thiocyanate and p-nitrobenzyl thiocyanate was investigated in acetonitrile at an inert electrode. These two compounds reveal a change in the reductive cleavage mechanism, and more interestingly, they show a clear-cut example of a regioselective bond dissociation. Both phenomena may be understood on the basis of the dissociative ET theory and its extension to the formation/dissociation reactions of radical ions. While the effect of the standard oxidation potential of the leaving group seems to be predominant in understanding the change in the ET mechanism by changing the driving force, the regioselective cleavage is dictated by changes in the intrinsic barrier related to the nature of the substituent on the aryl moiety.     

Multi-shock structure of roll wavesStructure multi-chocs d'ondes à rouleaux

The special class of periodic travelling waves which is known as roll waves is investigated for nonhomogeneous hyperbolic equations of gas dynamics type. In this Note these equations are applied to shallow water flows in inclined open channels, but the results obtained are more general and far-reaching. The necessary conditions for the existence of a roll wave are derived. It is shown that for a nonconvex pressure term, multi-shock configurations of roll waves of finite amplitude exist. A new type of periodic travelling wave, which corresponds to the slug flow regime in two-layer flows, is found. To cite this article: A. Boudlal, V.Yu. Liapidevskii, C. R. Mecanique 332 (2004).     

Thermodynamics and molecular bases of the interaction of ampicillin and streptomycin at their binding sites of bovine serum albumin

Among the biological parameters of chemotherapeutics, serum albumin binding is a critical factor in determining drug distribution and bioavailability. In this study, the binding properties as well as the interaction of ampicillin and streptomycin at their binding sites of bovine serum albumin (BSA) were investigated. The binding constant varied from 3.2 × 10³ M^?1 at 298 K to 37.5 × 10³ M^?1 at 313 K for ampicillin, and from 10.7 × 10³ M^?1 at 298 K to 3.5 × 10³ M^?1 at 313 K for streptomycin. By increasing the temperature, from 298 to 313 K, the binding affinity decreased by about 11-fold for ampicillin. Conversely, streptomycin showed stronger binding at higher temperature, which is decreased by threefold at 298 K. Interestingly, the affinity of ampicillin with the free BSA was ~4-fold higher than the binding with BSA/streptomycin complex. In contrast, the affinity of streptomycin with the free BSA was ~6-fold lower than the binding with BSA/ampicillin complex. Mutual binding experiments indicate that ampicillin and streptomycin are sharing both of common and different binding sites on BSA. Dissection of the forces of interactions indicated that rigid-body binding was the mode of binding of ampicillin and streptomycin with BSA with minor degree of conformational changes. Both of ampicillin and streptomycin can bind with free BSA. Furthermore, the binding of ampicillin with BSA improves the binding of streptomycin, while the binding of streptomycin with BSA adversely affect the binding of ampicillin.     

Vibrational Study of Dipotassium Zinc Bis(Dihydrogendiphosphate) Dihydrate,K2ZN(H2P2O7)2·2H2O

Abstract

Infrared and Raman spectra of dipotassium zinc bis(dihydrogendiphosphate) dihydrate, K₂Zn(H₂P₂O₇)₂ .2H₂O have been collected and interpreted using factor group analysis. Noncoincidence of the Raman and infrared spectra bands confirms a centrosymmetric structure for K₂Zn(H₂P₂O₇)₂ .2H₂O previously investigated by X-ray structural study, as well as the joint appearance of ν_as POP and ν_s POP point to a bent POP configuration.     

Poor rich demarcation of Matthew effect on scale-free systems and its application

In a scale-free network,only a minority of nodes are connected very often,while the majority of nodes are connected rarely. However,what is the ratio of minority nodes to majority nodes resulting from the Matthew effect In this paper,based on a simple preferential random model,the poor-rich demarcation points are found to vary in a limited range,and form a poor-rich demarcation interval that approximates to k/m ∈ [3,4]. As a result,the (cumulative) degree distribution of a scale-free network can be divided into three intervals: the poor interval,the demarcation interval and the rich interval. The inequality of the degree distribution in each interval is measured. Finally,the Matthew effect is applied to the ABC analysis of project management.     

Regularity Properties of Perturbed Hille—Yosida Operators and Retarded Differential Equations

In this work we give sufficient conditions on the semigroup (T ₀ (t)) _t\geq0 , generated by the part of a Hille—Yosida operator in the closure of its domain, in order that certain perturbations preserve some regularity properties of (T ₀ (t)) _t\geq0 , like the norm continuity, compactness and differentiability. An application of our abstract results to retarded differential equations is given. May 22, 2000     

Copper(II) complexation with 1-methyl-2-mercaptoimidazole in 7 M HCl

The complexation of copper(II) with 1-methyl-2-mercaptoimidazole in 7 M HCl was potentiometrically studied. The compositions of complexes were determined, and their stepwise formation constants were calculated. The complexes were shown to become less stable with increasing temperature. The thermodynamic functions of complexation were estimated. The copper complexes were shown to surpass the rhenium complexes in stability.