High-power source of coherent picosecond light pulses tunable from 0.41 to 12.9 μm

We report a high-power source of coherent picosecond light pulses based on optical parametric generation and amplification in LiB₃O₅ and AgGaS₂ crystals. The spectral range of this continuously tunable source covers the visible, near-infrared and medium-infrared spectrum from 0.41 to 12.9 m. An optical parametric generator and amplifier, consisting of two type-I phase-matched LiB₃O₅ crystals and a diffraction grating, is pumped by the third harmonic of a picosecond Nd:YAG laser and provides spectrally narrow, high-power pulses from 0.41 to 2.4 m. Energy conversion efficiencies up to 16 percent are achieved. The pulse duration is about 14 ps, the bandwidth between 10 and 30 cm^–1. The tuning range is extended to 12.9 m by mixing the infrared output between 1.16 and 2.13 m with the fundamental of the Nd:YAG laser in type-I-phase-matched AgGaS₂ crystals. Up to 25 percent of the pulse energy at 1.064 m is converted into parametric infrared pulses. Bandwidths between 3 and 8 cm^–1 and a pulse duration of approximately 19 ps are measured for these pulses. We also observe a retracing behaviour in the tuning curve of AgGaS₂ not reported before.     

Die Kopplungskonstante 1JPP von Diphosphat-Anionen mit P?P-Gerüst

One-Bond P? P Coupling Constant of Diphosphate Anions The coupling constant ¹J_PP of diphosphate anions depends upon the electronegativities of the substituents at phosphorus. The simple linear relationship which has been established also holds for other P? P compounds involving tetra-coordinate phosphorus, with the exception of compounds with bulky substituents.     

Synthesis of 3-(N-R)carbamoyl-5-(pyrid-4′-yl)pyridine-2(1H)-thiones and their derivatives

The condensation of salts of amidinium vinylogs with N-R-thiocarbamoylacetamides gave 3-(N-R)carbamoyl-5-(pyrid-4-yl)pyridine-2(1H)-thiones, which undergo oxidative cyclization in concentrated sulfuric acid with the formation of 3-oxo-5-(pyrid-4-yl)isothiazolo[5,4-b]pyridines. The oxidation and alkylation of the compounds referred to were investigated.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 75–79, January, 1992.     

Using molecular dynamics simulations to identify the key factors responsible for chiral recognition by an amino acid-based molecular micelle

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were used to investigate the binding of six chiral compounds to the amino acid-based molecular micelle (MM) poly-(sodium undecyl-(L)-leucine-leucine) or poly(SULL). The MM investigated is used as a chiral selector in capillary electrophoresis. The project goal was to characterize the chiral recognition mechanism in these separations and to move toward predictive models to identify the best amino acid-based MM for a given separation. Poly(SULL) was found to contain six binding sites into which chiral compounds could insert. Four sites had similar sizes, shapes, and electrostatic properties. Enantiomers of alprenolol, propranolol, 1,1′-bi-2-naphthyl-2,2′-diyl hydrogen phosphate, 1,1′-bi-2-naphthol, chlorthalidone, or lorazepam were separately docked into each binding pocket and MD simulations with the resulting intermolecular complexes were performed. Solvent-accessible surface area calculations showed the compounds preferentially associated with binding sites where they penetrated into the MM core and shielded their non-polar atoms from solvent. Furthermore, with five of the six compounds the enantiomer with the most favorable free energy of MM association also experienced the most favorable intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions with the MM. This result suggests that stereoselective intermolecular hydrogen bonds play an important role in chiral discrimination in separations using amino acid-based MMs.GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT     

Chromatographic detection of scandium

Scandium was readily detected by paper chromatography using methyl acetate as the solvent and quinalizarin for the developer. The reddish-violet color formed with scandium resembled the colers obtained with thorium, titanium, zirconium and the rare earths, but the difference in R_F values gave definite separation of these elements. Positive chromatographs were obtained by using 0.01 ml of solution 0.005M respect to scandium.     

Eine einfache Methode zur Bestimmung von Spurenmengen Kobalt (II)-ionen auf katalytischer Grundlage

Zusammenfassung Es wird eine Methode beschrieben, nach der, gegebenenfalls unter Zuhilfenahme von Testlösungen, Spurenmengen von Co²⁺ in einem Konzentrationsbereich von 10 mg bis zu 0,001 mg herab in 1 ml sich recht genau auf Grund der Katalyse der H₂O₂-Indigocarminreaktion in Gegenwart von Calciumcarbonat als Träger bestimmen lassen. Da das Volumen der Versuchslösung stets 60 ml beträgt (siehe oben), beläuft sich die kleinste noch bestimmbare Co²⁺-Konzentration auf 10^–6 g Co²⁺ in 60 ml was einer Verdünnung von 16·10⁷ entspricht. In bezug auf diese Empfindlichkeit steht die Methode den colorimetrischen bzw. spektrophotometrischen^1,6 und auch den komplexchemischen⁷ Verfahren nicht nach. Sie bietet aber im Vergleich mit diesen insofern gewisse Vorteile, als man die störenden Fremdionen meist nicht zu entfernen braucht, was auf eine beträchtliche Zeitersparnis hinauskommt. Schließlich ist die katalytische Methode, für die mit entsprechenden Abänderungen auch eine Temperatur von 30° C genügen würde, in ihrer Handhabung und Ausführung sehr einfach und bedarf, abgesehen vom Thermostaten, keiner kostspieligen Apparatur.     

V2O5/TiO2 Catalytic Xerogels Raman and EPR Studies

Raman spectroscopy and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) studies were performed on a series of V₂O₅/TiO₂ catalysts prepared by a modified sol-gel method in order to identify the vanadium species. Two species of surface vanadium were identified by Raman measurements, monomeric vanadyls and polymeric vanadates. Monomeric vanadyls are characterized by a narrow Raman band at 1030 cm^–1 and polymeric vanadates by two broad bands in the region from 900 to 960 cm^–1 and 770 to 850 cm^–1. The Raman spectra do not exhibit characteristic peaks of crystalline V₂O₅. These results are in agreement with those of X-ray Diffractometry (XRD) and Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) previously reported (C.B. Rodella et al., J. Sol-Gel Sci. Techn., submitted). At least three families of V⁴⁺ ions were identified by EPR investigations. The analysis of the EPR spectra suggests that isolated V⁴⁺ ions are located in sites with octahedral symmetry substituting for Ti⁴⁺ ions in the rutile structure. Magnetically interacting V⁴⁺ ions are also present as pairs or clusters giving rise to a broad and structureless EPR line. At higher concentration of V₂O₅, a partial oxidation of V⁴⁺ to V⁵⁺ is apparent from the EPR results.     

Beiträge zur Chemie des Phosphors. 167 [1, 2]. Konstitutions- und Konfigurationsisomere von Pentaphosphan(7), P5H7

Contributions to the Chemistry of Phosphorus. 167. Constitutional and Configurational Isomers of Pentaphosphane(7), P₅H₇ Phosphane mixtures containing 10—15 P-% of pentaphosphane(7), P₅H₇, are obtained by thermolysis of diphosphane, P₂H₄, or as residue from distillation of crude diphosphane [3]. According to the complete analysis of the ³¹P{¹H}-NMR spectrum on the basis of selective population transfer experiments, P₅H₇ exists as a mixture of three diastereomers of n-P₅H₇ — 1a (erythro, erythro), 1b (erythro, threo), 1c (threo, threo) — and of the constitutional isomer 2-phosphinotetraphosphane 2 (iso-P₅H₇, largest relative isomeric abundance). The correlation between the diastereomers and the observed spin systems results from the preferred gauche orientation of neighboring free electron pairs, the dependence of ¹J(PP) on dihedral angles, and the ³J(PP) long range couplings. From the ³¹P-NMR data of the phosphane molecules P_nH_n+2 with n = 1—5 general relationships for the δ(³¹P) values and the ¹J(PP) coupling constants of chain-type phosphorus hydrides as a function of their structural parameters are derived.