A high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of 2-naphthylamine in urine using fluorescence detection was developed. The method validation analysis showed the method to be in analytical control, i.e. the distribution of the difference between the observed and true values of the method evaluation samples did not deviate significantly from the normal distribution. The recovery of the method was 85%. The entire run time of chromatography was 10 min using isocratic elution (acetonitrile-water, 35:65), and the retention time for 2-naphthylamine was 5.8 min. The relative short time of analysis in combination with the low limit of detection (0.272 nmol/l) makes the method potentially applicable for surveillance of occupational and environmental exposure to 2-nitronaphthalene. The developed method is presently used for measurement of 2-naphthylamine in urine samples from workers employed at factories, characterized by a low airborne exposure level of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, i.e. in general less than 25 micrograms/m3. The urine samples of exposed workers (n = 95) showed a 2-naphthylamine range of up to 9.4 nmol/l, whereas unexposed control individuals (n = 114) showed a range of up to 0.87 nmol/l. 相似文献
The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) either to generate multicarbon (C2+) or single carbon (C1) value-added products provides an effective and promising approach to mitigate the high CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and promote energy storage. However, cost-effectiveness of catalytic materials limits practical application of this technology in the short term. Herein, we summarize and discuss recent and advanced works on cost-effective oxide-derived copper catalysts for the generation of C2+ products (hydrocarbons and alcohols) and transition metal–nitrogen–doped carbon electrocatalytic materials for C1 compounds production from CO2RR. We think they represent suitable electrocatalyst candidates for scaling up electrochemical CO2 conversion. This short review may provide inspiration for the future design and development of innovative active, cost-effective, selective and stable electrocatalysts with improved properties for either the production of C2+ (alcohols, hydrocarbons) or carbon monoxide from CO2RR. 相似文献
We study the electronic level density in spherical clusters. Due to the granularity of the ionic background the surface is irregular at the microscopical level. We show that this affects the shell structure and that the level statistics display from the bottom to the top of the spectrum a transition from a poissonian behaviour to one consistent with the predictions of random matrices theory. 相似文献
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry - The IAEA has developed a liquid scintillator-based system for the non-destructive assay of 235U in fresh fuel assemblies. The fast neutron... 相似文献
Microchimica Acta - The authors present a fast and sensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) method for the determination of Mycobacterium smegmatis. It is based on the formation of... 相似文献
Molecular functions depend on conformations and motions of the corresponding molecular species. An air–water interface is a suitable asymmetric field for the control of molecular conformations and motions under a small applied force. In this work, double‐paddled binuclear PtII complexes containing pyrazole rings linked by alkyl spacers were synthesized and their orientations and emission properties dynamically manipulated at the air–water interface. The complexes emerge from water with concurrent variation of interface orientation of the planes of the PtII complexes from perpendicular to parallel during mechanical compression suggesting a unique ‘submarine emission‘. Phosphorescence of the complexes is quenched at the air–water interface prior to monolayer formation with intensities subsequently rapidly increasing during monolayer compression. These results indicate that asymmetric reactions and motions might be controlled by applying mechanical force at the air–water interface. 相似文献
Iron N‐heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes have received a great deal of attention recently because of their growing potential as light sensitizers or photocatalysts. We present a sub‐ps X‐ray spectroscopy study of an FeIINHC complex that identifies and quantifies the states involved in the deactivation cascade after light absorption. Excited molecules relax back to the ground state along two pathways: After population of a hot 3MLCT state, from the initially excited 1MLCT state, 30 % of the molecules undergo ultrafast (150 fs) relaxation to the 3MC state, in competition with vibrational relaxation and cooling to the relaxed 3MLCT state. The relaxed 3MLCT state then decays much more slowly (7.6 ps) to the 3MC state. The 3MC state is rapidly (2.2 ps) deactivated to the ground state. The 5MC state is not involved in the deactivation pathway. The ultrafast partial deactivation of the 3MLCT state constitutes a loss channel from the point of view of photochemical efficiency and highlights the necessity to screen transition‐metal complexes for similar ultrafast decays to optimize photochemical performance. 相似文献
A sensitive cluster : The labile rhodathiaborane [(PPh3)2(H)‐nido‐RhSB9H9(NC5H5)] combines the redox and coordinative flexibility of the {(PPh3)2(H)Rh} fragment with the capability of the 11‐vertex rhodathiaborane cluster to undergo oxidative nido‐to‐closo transformations induced by coordination of alkynes to the metal centre, which leads to hydrogenation of the triple bond, dehydrogenation of the cluster and oxidative addition of sp C? H bonds.
Systemic change : A system of transformations between helical structures was observed to be governed by interactions mediated by the electronic effects of substituents, entropic effects, the conformational preferences of organic building blocks, and the coordinative preferences of the metal ion. All of these effects were important, but all must be considered together to allow the prediction of the product observed (see scheme).