Thermoanalytical investigations of some industrial wastes produced in steel works

The experiments involves three types of industrial wastes produced by iron works, which create serious hazards to the natural environment: (1) paint-shop sludge, (2) oil-polluted diatomite, and (3) oil-polluted scale. The choice of an appropriate and safe storage method should be based on extensive physicochemical examination.DTA, in combination with other data, allows characterization of the combustible properties of wastes. Thermoanalytical measurements were carried out in a dynamic air atmosphere. Enthalpy values were calculated from peak areas of DTA curves. Thermoanalytical data were compared with calorimetric results obtained with an oxygen bomb.

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Zusammenfassung Drei Arten industrieller Abtälle eines Stahlwerks, die schwere Umweltbelastungen darstellen, wurden untersucht: (1) Lackiererei-Schlamm, (2) ölhaltiger Diatomit, (3) ölhaltiger Kesselstein. Geeignete sichere Deponien setzen ausführliche physikalisch-chemische Untersuchungen voraus. DTA in Kombination mit anderen Untersuchungen erlaubt die Charakterisierung der Verbrennungseigenschaften der Abfälle. Die thermoanalytischen Untersuchungen erfolgten im Luftstrom, die Verbrennungswärmen wurden aus den DTA-peak-Flächen berechnet. Die Ergebnisse werden mit denen kalorimetrischer Messungen in einer Sauerstoffbombe verglichen.

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Experimental and theoretical evidence of basic site preference in polyfunctional superbasic amidinazine: N(1),N(1)-dimethyl-N(2)-beta-(2-pyridylethyl)formamidine

The gas-phase basicity (GB) of the flexible polyfunctional N(1),N(1)-dimethyl-N(2)-beta-(2-pyridylethyl)formamidine (1) containing two potential basic sites (the ring N-aza and the chain N-imino) is obtained from proton-transfer equilibrium constant measurements, using Fourier-transform ion-cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. Comparison of the experimental GB obtained for 1 with those reported for model amidines and azines indicates that the chain N-imino in the amidine group is the favored site of protonation. Semiempirical (AM1) and ab initio calculations (HF, MP2, and DFT), performed for 1 and its protonated forms, confirm this interpretation. These results are in contrast to those found previously for N(1),N(1)-dimethyl-N(2)-azinylformamidines (containing the amidine function directly linked to the azinyl ring), in which the ring N-aza is the most basic site in the gas phase. The separation of the two potential basic sites in 1 by the ethylene chain interrupts the resonance conjugation between the two functions and changes their relative basicities and, thus, the preferable site of protonation. It also increases the chelation effect against the proton and the gas-phase basicity of 1 in such a magnitude that consequently 1 may be classified as a superbase (GB = 241.1 kcal mol(-)(1)). A transition state corresponding to the internal transfer of the proton (ITP) between the ring N-aza and the chain N-imino in 1 is investigated at the DFT(B3LYP)/6-31G level. The energy barrier calculated for the ITP between the two basic sites is small and vanishes when zero-point vibrational terms and thermal corrections are applied to obtain the enthalpy or Gibbs energy of activation for the proton transfer. Additional calculations at the DFT(MPW1K)/6-31G level confirm this behavior. This indicates that the quantum-chemical ITP in 1 has a single-well character. The proton is located on the N-imino site, and the H-bond is formed with the N-aza site.     

Potentiometric discrimination of neutral forms of nitrophenol isomers by liquid membrane electrodes incorporated with corroles

The results of studies on the use of corrole derivatives as a host ligand in the PVC liquid membrane electrodes and their ability for the potentiometric high-throughput discrimination of nitrophenol guests have been presented. The significance of parameters which govern the mechanism of generation of potentiometric signals such as the attachment of substituents in the corrole structure, acidity and lipophilicity of the guests, and pH of the aqueous solutions has been discussed in details. Supramolecular recognition processes between corroles and para-nitrophenol molecules have been confirmed by independent NMR measurements.     

Simple generation of cationic aluminum alkyls and alkoxides based on the pendant arm tridentate schiff base

The prepared in situ methyl(chloro)aluminum complex (2) from Me2AlCl and the pendant arm tridentate Schiff base (H-SchNMe2) was used to generate the methylaluminum cationic species [(SchNMe2)AlMe]+ in further reaction with 1 equiv of AlCl3 or NaBPh4 as the chloride abstracting reagents. The exposure of the resulting methylaluminum cationic species to an excess of dry dioxygen at 0 degrees C afforded the alkoxyaluminum cationic species, [(SchNMe2)AlOMe]+ or [(SchNMe2)AlOPh]+. The alkoxylaluminum cations proved to be a very efficient catalyst in the polymerization of epsilon-caprolactone.     

Directionality and borderline distance of secondary bonding on the fifth coordinate site in aluminium alkoxides

A survey of the Cambridge Structural Database for alkylaluminium alkoxides has been used to determine the borderline distances and angular distributions of secondary interactions on the fifth coordinate site, and map out the minimum-energy pathways in associative reactions.