Pyrolysis-gas chromatography/fourier-transform infrared spectrometry of poly(ester urethane) elastomers

Three types of industrial poly (ester urethane) elastomers were studied by Curie–point pyrolysis–gas chromatography/Fourier–Transform infrared spectrometry (Py–GC/FTIR) with a maximum pyrolysis temperature of 973 K. The samples chosen were the Urepans 600 and 641 from Bayer and Elastollan C 78 A from BASF/Elastogran. The poly(ester urethane) elastomers are composed of three units: a polyesterdiol, a short chain diol and a diisocyanate. Py–GC/FTIR allows a rapid and unambiguous identification of the polymer chains by key fragments.     

Dynamic mechanical investigations of different substituted cellulose o-silyl ethers

In contrast to many cellulose derivatives, the cellulose O-silyl ethers with bulky side groups exhibit scarcely a change in glass transition temperature by a variation of the degree of substitution (DS) or degree of polymerization (DP) or by introducing phenyl carbamate groups for the remaining hydroxyls along the main chain. However, a substitution of these hydroxyls by flexible acetate groups lowers the glass transition temperature considerably. The secondary dispersion (relaxation) behavior is strongly influenced by the various substituents and can be correlated to specific motions of the molecules. The dynamic mechanical properties are also dependent on the kind of preconditioning of the samples.     

Hindered organoboron groups in organic synthesis. 17 [1]. Synthesis of 2,4,6-triisopropylphenylborane (TripBH2)2, a useful alternative to thexylborane

2,4,6-Triisopropylphenylborane (tripylborane, TripBH₂) resembles thexylborane in having a single, bulky organic group attached to boron, but the group is aromatic rather than aliphatic. The compound has been synthesized by two alternative routes, one involving direct reduction of dimethoxytripylborane and the other involving redistribution between ditripylborane and borane. It is a solid which is considerably more stable than thexylborane.     

Formation of polymer - polymer complexes in the system poly(methacrylic acid) - hydroxyethylcellulose

An interpolymer complex was prepared by mixing aqueous solutions of poly(methacrylic acid) and hydroxyethylcellulose (molar substitution 2.5) and studied by using viscometric method. The hydrogen bonding is primarily involved in these complexations, but the hydrophobic interaction plays also an important role. The complex composition is not changing with the solvents used and is stable in the temperature range 25 °C - 65 °C.     

Hyperflock determining line sets and totally regular parallelisms of PG (3, \mathbbR){(3,\,{\mathbb{R}})}

By a totally regular parallelism of the real projective 3-space P₃:=PG(3, \mathbb R){\Pi_3:={{\rm PG}}(3, \mathbb {R})} we mean a family T of regular spreads such that each line of Π ₃ is contained in exactly one spread of T. For the investigation of totally regular parallelisms the authors mainly employ Klein’s correspondence λ of line geometry and the polarity π ₅ associated with the Klein quadric H ₅ (for details see Chaps. 1 and 3). The λ-image of a totally regular parallelism T is a hyperflock of H ₅, i.e., a family H of elliptic subquadrics of H ₅ such that each point of H ₅ is on exactly one subquadric of H. Moreover, {p₅(span  l(X))|X ? T}=:H_T{\{\pi_5({{\rm span}} \,\lambda(\mathcal {X}))\vert\mathcal {X}\in\bf{T}\}=:\mathcal {H}_{\bf{T}}} is a hyperflock determining line set, i.e., a set Z{\mathcal {Z}} of 0-secants of H ₅ such that each tangential hyperplane of H ₅ contains exactly one line of Z{\mathcal {Z}} . We say that dim(span H_T)=:d_T{{{\rm dim}}({{\rm span}}\,\mathcal {H}_{\bf{T}})=:d_{\bf{T}}} is the dimension of T and that T is a d _T - parallelism. Clifford parallelisms and 2-parallelisms coincide. The examples of non-Clifford parallelisms exhibited in Betten and Riesinger [Result Math 47:226–241, 2004; Adv Geom 8:11–32, 2008; J Geom (to appear)] are totally regular and of dimension 3. If G{\mathcal{G}} is a hyperflock determining line set, then {l^-1 (p₅(X) ?H₅) | X ? G}{\{\lambda^{-1}\,{\rm (}\pi_5(X){\,\cap H_5)\,|\, X\in\mathcal{G}\}}} is a totally regular parallelism. In the present paper the authors construct examples of topological (see Definition 1.1) 4- and 5-parallelisms via hyperflock determining line sets.