Ion Dynamics in a Mixed‐Cation Alkoxy‐Ammonium Ionic Liquid Electrolyte for Sodium Device Applications

The ion dynamics in a novel sodium‐containing room‐temperature ionic liquid (IL) consisting of an ether‐functionalised quaternary ammonium cation and bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amide [NTf₂] anion with various concentrations of Na[NTf₂] have been characterised using differential scanning calorimetry, impedance spectroscopy, diffusometry and NMR relaxation measurements. The IL studied has been specifically designed to dissolve a relatively large concentration of Na[NTf₂] salt (over 2 mol kg^?1) as this has been shown to improve ion transport and conductivity. Consistent with other studies, the measured ionic conductivity and diffusion coefficients show that the overall ionic mobility decreases with decreasing temperature and increasing salt content. NMR relaxation measurements provide evidence for correlated dynamics between the ether‐functionalised ammonium and Na cations, possibly with the latter species acting as cross‐links between multiple ammonium cations. Finally, preliminary cyclic voltammetry experiments show that this IL can undergo stable electrochemical cycling and could therefore be potentially useful as an electrolyte in a Na‐based device.     

How can azobenzene block copolymer vesicles be dissociated and reformed by light?

The underlying mechanism of UV light-induced dissociation and visible light-induced reformation of vesicles formed by an azobenzene diblock copolymer was investigated. These processes were studied in situ by monitoring changes in optical transmittance of the vesicular solution while being exposed to UV or visible light irradiation. The results indicate that the UV-induced dissociation of the vesicles results from their thermodynamic instability due to a shift of the hydrophilic/hydrophobic balance arising from the trans-cis isomerization, while their reaggregation takes place upon visible light irradiation that shifts the hydrophilic/hydrophobic balance in the opposite direction after the reverse cis-trans isomerization. The study suggests a specific design principle for obtaining UV light-dissociable and visible light-recoverable vesicles based on azobenzene block copolymers. On one hand, the structure of azobenzene moiety used in the hydrophobic block should have a small (near zero) dipole moment in the trans form and a significantly higher dipole moment in the cis form, which ensures a significant increase in polarity of the hydrophobic block under UV light irradiation. On the other hand, the hydrophilic block should be weakly hydrophilic. The conjunction of the two conditions can make the light-induced shift of the hydrophilic/hydrophobic balance important enough to lead to the reversible change in vesicular aggregation.     

Etude par Spectrométrie de Masse d'une Série de Phényl-1 Naphtalènes Substitués et des Dihydro-1,4 Naphtols-1 Correspondants

The 70 eV electron impact mass spectra of a series of substituted 1-phenylnaphthalenes and their corresponding 1,4-dihydro-1-naphthols have been studied. Plausible fragmentation modes which account for the formation of all the major ions are proposed. An interesting hydrogen transfer reaction, leading to major fragments through the elimination of methanol, seems to proceed via an 8-membered transition state mechanism.     

Polysulfonylamine. CLXIV Kristallstrukturen von Metall‐di(methansulfonyl)amiden. Dithallium‐tris(dimesylamido‐N)argentat: Ein zweidimensionales Koordinationspolymer

Polysulfonylamines. CLXIV. Crystal Structures of Metal Di(methanesulfonyl)amides. 13. Dithallium Tris(dimesylamido‐N)argentate: A Two‐Dimensional Coordination Polymer The complex salt Tl₂[Ag{N(SO₂Me)₂}₃] (monoclinic, space group P2₁/n, Z′ = 1) was obtained by serendipity. Its layer structure displays two unprecedented characteristics, viz. one (MeSO₂)₂N^— ion that strongly deviates from the C₂‐symmetric standard conformation of this species and approximates to mirror symmetry, and a tris(dimesylamido)argentate anion featuring a trigonal‐planar AgN₃ core with Ag—N bond lengths of 225.6(6), 226.0(6), 236.3(6) pm and N—Ag—N angles in accordance with VSEPR concepts [149.8(2) vs. 102.8(2) and 107.3(2)°]. The independent thallium ions are coordinated by the complex anions to form monolayer substructures, in which Tl(1) attains an O₆ and Tl(2) an O₅ environment; the monolayers are associated into bilayers via one independent set of Tl(2)—O bonds that concomitantly raise the coordination number for Tl(2) to six. Both TlO₆ polyhedra may be viewed as extremely distorted octahedra reflecting the stereochemical activity of the 6s lone pair of electrons. The two‐dimensional Ag—N/Tl—O bonding system is reinforced by a three‐dimensional network of weak C—H···O hydrogen bonds.     

First example of latices synthesis via oligomerization of norbornene in aqueous emulsions,catalyzed by palladium chloride

Polymerization of norbornene using PdCl₂ as catalyst is generally carried out at high temperatures in the absence of solvent. Low yields of polymer with relatively undefined molecular weights are obtained under these conditions. We describe the first example of polymerization of norbornene in water dispersion or aqueous emulsions catalyzed by PdCl₂. Good yields of polymers and oligomers were obtained. Furthermore, in aqueous emulsions, novel microlatex which cannot be obtained by radical or ionic routes were synthesized, with particles sizes (10 nm.) generally only observed in microemulsion polymerizations.The stereochemistry of the polymers of low molecular weight was partially elucidated by¹³C NMR.     

Inequivalence magnetique en serie imidazolidine : Application a la determination de la configuration relative de diastereoisomeres

The magnetic inequivalence of benzylic protons in N,N′-dibenzyl 2- or 4-monosubstituted and 2,4-disubstituted imidazolidines has been used to assign cis configuration to substituents at position 2 and 4.     

Étude de la formation du complexe silicomolybdique application au dosage du silicium dans l'aluminium

The authors have examined the application of the reaction in which the yellow silicomolybdate complex is formed to the estimation of silicon.Among other things, it was established that the development of the complex is complete and rapid in the cold between pH 4.0 and pH 1.0.The rate of formation of the complex decreases rapidly above this pH but can, to a certain extent, be compensated by raising the temperature and the concentration of molybdate.The Lambert-Beer law is followed between 3650 and 5000 A only when the light is strictly monochromatic. At wave-lengths longer than 4000 A and at pH below 3, a supplementary absorption appears which is without doubt due to a chemical transformation of the molybdate in acid solution.     

Polysulfonylamine. LXXXIV [1]. Zur Isotypie in den Dimesylamid-Komplexreihen [M(H2O)4{(CH3SO2)2N}2] (MMg,Ca, Ni,Cu, Zn,Cd) und [M(py)4{(CH3SO2)2N}2] (MNi,Cu, Zn,Cd)

Polysulfonylamines. LXXXIV. Isotypic Structures in the Dimesylamide Complex Series [M(H₂O)₄{(CH₃SO₂)₂N}₂] (M?Mg, Ca, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd) and [M(py)₄{(CH₃SO₂)₂N}₂] (M?Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd) The crystal structures of the trans-octahedral complexes [M(H₂O)₄{(CH₃SO₂)₂N}₂] (M?Ca, Cd), in which the dimesylamide anion acts as a monodentate O-ligand and a tetrafunctional hydrogen bond acceptor, were determined by low-temperature X-ray diffraction. Both belong to an isotypic series (triclinic, space group P1 , Z = 1) that had previously been characterized for M?Mg, Ni, Cu and Zn (Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 1996 , 622, 1065). In this structure there exists an extended network of strong hydrogen bonds which is probably the underlying reason why the structure type surprisingly persists across the whole series. To support this explanation by indirect evidence from comparison with suitable structures devoid of strong hydrogen bonding, the analogous trans-octahedral complexes [M(py)₄{(CH₃SO₂)₂N}₂] (M?Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd) were prepared by treating M[(CH₃SO₂)₂N]₂ with pyridine, and the crystal structures of the Ni, Cu, Zn and Cd compounds were studied by low-temperature X-ray crystallography. As anticipated, the four pyridine complexes do not form an isotypic series but instead two isotypic pairs consisting of the Ni and Zn compounds (monoclinic, space group P2₁/n, Z =2) and of the Cu and Cd complexes (triclinic, space group P1, Z = 1). All molecules of the aqua and the pyridine complexes display crystallographic centrosymmetry. In the hydrates, the mean M? OH₂ and the M? O(anion) distances are 232.6 and 232.7 pm for M ? Ca, 225.5 and 230.3 pm für M ? Cd. The mean M? N and the M? O(anion) bond lengths of the pyridine species amount to 211.8 and 213.1 pm for M ? Ni, 217.0 and 218.5 pm for M ? Zn, 232.8 and 234.4 pm for M ? Cd; the corresponding values for the severely Jahn-Teller distorted Cu complex are 203.6 and 254.5 pm. In the crystals of the pyridine complexes, each methyl group is connected through a weak C? H…?O bond to a sulfonyl oxygen atom of an adjacent molecule.     

Functional Detergents Containing an Imidazole Ring and Typical Fragments of α-Nucleophiles Underlying Micellar Systems for Cleavage of Esters of Prosphorus Acids

1-Cetyl-3-(2-oximinopropyl)imidazolium, 1-cetyl-3-(2-oxaminoethyl-2-one)imidazolium, and 1-cetyl-3-(2-amino-2-oximinoethyl)imidazolium halides were synthesized.These compounds form in water solutions functional zwitter-ionic micelles as surfactants. The cleavage kinetics of 4-nitrophenyl diethyl phosphate, 4-nitrophenyl ethyl ethylphosphonate, and 4-nitrophenyl tosylate in micelles of the functional detergents and combined micelles of the functional detergents with cetyltrimethylammonium chloride are adequately described in a framework of a simple pseudophase distribution model, and the micellar systems of the detergents are typical -nucleophilic reagents. An equation was suggested for quantitative estimation of the micellar effect of the surfactants that took into account the change in the nucleophilic and basic characteristics of the -nucleophilic center of the detergent and also the influence of the reagents concentrating on transition of the reaction from the water into micelle phase. The maximum acceleration of the S N 2-reaction in the micelles of the functional zwitter-ionic detergents for the cleavage of 4-nitrophenyl diethyl phosphate and 4-nitrophenyl tosylate reached 3500 and 75 000 (oximate surfactant), 3300 and 66 000 (amidoximate surfactant ), and 4800 and 12200 (hydroxamate surfactant) times respectively. New functional detergents underlie unique supernucleophilic micellar system affording extremely high cleavage rates of organophosphorus substrates-ecotoxicants.     

Drei stereoisomere quadratisch-pyramidale [Ma3b2]-Komplexe: Untersuchungen zur Existenz und zur Struktur kristalliner Dimethylsulfoxid-Komplexe von Antimon- und Bismuttrichlorid

Three Stereoisomeric Square-Pyramidal Complexes [Ma₃b₂]: Investigations of the Existence and the Structures of Crystalline Dimethyl Sulfoxide Complexes of Antimony and Bismuth Trichlorides The formation of solid complexes MCl₃ · n DMSO (M = Sb, Bi; n = 1–4) was reinvestigated. In each system, only two of four presumptive complexes could be isolated as crystalline solids: SbCl₃ · DMSO ( 1 a ) was prepared for the first time, SbCl₃ · 2 DMSO ( 1 b ), BiCl₃ · 2 DMSO ( 2 b ) and BiCl · 3 DMSO ( 2 c ) were reproduced according to literature data. Evidence is presented as to the non-existence of BiCl₃ · 4 DMSO, contrary to previous claims in the literature. A unit cell determination showed 2 c to be structurally identical with the monomeric fac-octahedral complex BiCl₃(DMSO)₃ obtained fortuitously and described elsewhere [Z. anorg. allg. Chem. 620 (1994) 1037]. The compounds 1 a (monoclinic, space group P2₁/c), 1 b (monoclinic, space group P2₁/n) and 2 b (monoclinic, space group C2) represent examples of each of the three possible geometric isomers of a square-pyramidal complex [Ma₃b₂]. In the formally 1/1 adduct 1 a , which is in fact [Sb(1)Cl₃(DMSO)₂ · Sb(2)Cl₃], the Sb(1) atom of the complex unit displays square-pyramidal geometry with the DMSO ligands situated in the apical and one of the basal positions. These units are linked into chains by SbCl₃ molecules acting as Cl-acceptors. Sb(2) forms two chelating chloro-bridges with cis-Cl atoms of one neighbouring complex and a third chloro-bridge with the remaining Cl of the symmetry-related second neighbour. The resulting Cl₆-geometry around Sb(2) is distorted octahedral. 1 b consists of square-pyramidal molecules, in which the DMSO ligands occupy two basal cis-positions; the monomeric units are loosely linked through the apical Cl atoms to form a chain of octahedra sharing trans-vertices. The asymmetric unit of 2b is a square pyramid with trans-basal DMSO ligands. The pyramids are connected by symmetry-equivalent basal chlorine atoms into chains of octahedra sharing cis-vertices. 1a displays remarkably short Sb? O dative bonds (204.7/212.9 pm); the M? O bond distances of 1b and 2b are 223.0/234.6 and 234.5/238.7 pm, respectively.