The electric quadrupole interaction of 111Cd in ZrZn2 and Zn in the samples prepared at 8 GPa

The perturbed angular correlation (PAC) measurements with the ¹¹¹In-¹¹¹Cd nuclear probe embedded into the lattice of the cubic (C15) Laves compound ZrZn₂ showed that ¹¹¹Cd nuclei experienced an axially symmetric electric quadrupole interaction with a frequency ν _Q  = 132.4 MHz at room temperature. The samples were synthesized and doped with the probe at a pressure 8 GPa. The temperature dependence of ν _Q was shown to be linear: ν _Q (T) = 147(1 − 0.033 T) MHz. Since the value of ν _Q is very close to that known for ¹¹¹Cd in the lattice of Zn, we have checked if it could be assigned to residual Zn metal in the sample. For the Zn sample melted and doped with ¹¹¹In at 8 GPa we have obtained ν _Q  = 117.3 MHz at 300 K and 127 MHz at 80 K – both values considerably lower than that for ¹¹¹In doped Zn samples prepared at an ambient pressure. These data, and the fact that ν _Q (T) in Zn is known to follow the T ^3/2 law, allow to attribute the ν _Q value quoted above to ¹¹¹Cd nuclei at the substitutional sites with tetrahedral symmetry in the Zn sublattice of ZrZn₂.     

Erratum to: Antitumor activity of carboplatin in the composition of a copolymer of lactic and glycolic acids

Russian Chemical Bulletin - To the article “Antitumor activity of carboplatin in the composition of a copolymer of lactic and glycolic acids,” by E. D. Nikolskaya, O. A. Zhunina, N. G....     

Reaction of Nitrogen(I) Oxide with Nitrogen-fixing Systems on the Basis of Lithium,Chlorotrimethylsilane, and Transition Metal Compounds

Reaction of nitrogen(I) oxide with nitrogen-fixing systems Li/Me₃SiCl/MCl _n (MCl _4n = CrCl₃, CoCl₂, Cp₂TiCl₂, FeCl₃, CuCl₂). In these systems nitrogen(I) oxide, molecular nitrogen, and air nitrogen undergo reductive silylation to tris(trimethylsilyl)amine. The efficiency of the process was estimated by the molar ratio of the tris(trimethylsilyl)amine formed to metal chloride MCl _n n. The reaction of N₂O with the nitrogen-fixing systems including CoCl₂ and Cp₂TiCl₂ is not exhausted by the reduction of the former to molecular nitrogen and its subsequent fixation by transition metal complexes.     

Reaction of Nitrous Oxide with Cyclopentadienyl Complexes of Cobalt,Rhodium, and Titanium

The reaction of nitrous oxide with some cyclopentadienyl compounds of cobalt, rhodium, and titanium was studied. The corresponding furans were obtained in low to moderate yields.     

Catalytic Oxidation of Triphenylphosphine with Nitrogen(I) Oxide in the Presence of Tetrakis(tert-butyl)phthalocyanine Complexes

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Ab initio study of molecular structure and internal rotation in methyldicyanophosphine and methyldiisocyanophosphine. The Raman spectrum of methyldicyanophosphine and its interpretation with the use of scaling ofab initio force fields

The equilibrium geometric parameters and structures of transition states of internal rotation for the molecules of methyldicyanophospine MeP(CN)₂ and its isocyano analog MeP(NC)₂ were calculated by the RHF and MP2 methods with the 6–31G^* and 6–31G^** basis sets. At the MP2 level, the total energy of cyanide is −35 kcal mol⁻¹ lower than that of isocyanide and the barriers to internal rotation of methyl group for MeP(CN)₂ and MeP(NC)₂ are 2.2 and 2.7 kcal mol⁻¹, respectively. For both molecules, the one-dimensionalab initio potential functions of internal rotation approximated by a truncated Fourier series were used to determine the frequencies of torsional transitions by solving direct vibrational problems for a non-rigid model. The Raman spectrum of crystalline MeP(CN)₂ was recorded in the range 3500–50 cm⁻¹. The vibrational spectra of this compound were interpreted by scalingab initio force fields calculated by the RHF and MP2 method. The vibrational spectrum of methyldiisocyanophosphine was predicted with the use of the obtained scale factors. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 1703–1714, September, 1998.     

Synthesis and structure of 7-alkoxyalkyl-3-thia-7-zabicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-9-ones and several of their derivatives

New 7-alkoxyalkyl-3-thia-7-azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-9-ones were synthesized by the double Mannich cyclization of tetrahydrothiopyran-4-one with suitable alkoxyalkylamines and paraformaldehyde in acetous methanol. Wolff-Kishner decarbonylation of these bicyclic ketones gave 7-alkoxyalkyl-3-thia-7-azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonanes. The reduction of 7-alkoxyalkyl-3-thia-7-azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-9-ones by alkali metal hydride complexes leads to a mixture of two stereoisomeric secondary alcohols, which are epimers at C₍₉₎. Active analgesic, antiarrhythmic, and antibacterial compounds were found among these products. __________ Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 585–592, April, 2006.     

Bromination and oxidation of 2-oxaadamantane

A marked decrease in reactivity has been shown for oxaadamantane towards bromination and oxidation when compared with adamantane. The mono- and dihydroxy and acetoxy substituents in the products occupied positions in the molecule remote from the oxa bridge.M. V. Lomonosov State University, Moscow 119899. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedineii, No, 5, pp. 608–612, May, 1994. Original article submitted April 26, 1994.     

The TDPAC study of the hyperfine interactions at Cd nuclei in RAl3 compounds synthesized under high pressure

The time-differential perturbed angular correlations technique (TDPAC) has been employed for measuring the parameters of hyperfine interactions in earlier known RAl₃ compounds, synthesized at high pressure (8 GPa) and high temperature, where R = La, Ce, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Yb and Lu. The ¹¹¹Cd(¹¹¹In) radioactive atom was used as a probe nucleus. The X-ray method has revealed that with the increase in the atomic number of a rare-earth element R, the obtained RAl₃ high-pressure phases crystallize, respectively, into orthorhombic, hexagonal and cubic structures. It has been found that in the compounds containing R=La, Ce, Sm and Gd, a deviation from earlier known structural types and the formation of new ones is observed, which is associated with the change of the stoichiometric composition of the said compounds. The results of the PAC measurements have confirmed the deviation from the predetermined stoichiometric composition 1R:3Al for the compounds LaAl₃, CeAl₃, SmAl₃ and GdAl₃ and have verified the RAl₃ stoichiometric structure for the other high-pressure phases obtained in this work.