Fluorescence of SO2 in a magnetic field in cooled ultrasound molecular beams

Reported to the All-Union Conference on Luminescence, devoted to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Academician S. I. Vavilov (26–28 March, 1991, Moscow).     

Structure of a Platinum–Alumina Catalyst Prepared from the Carbonyl Cluster H2[Pt3(CO)6]5

The state of a platinum carbonyl cluster in an initial aqueous acetone solution and its transformations on the surface of aluminum oxide in the course of catalyst preparation were studied by EXAFS spectroscopy. It was found that water enters the polynuclear framework of the dissolved cluster (the Pt–O distance is 2.55 Å, where O is the oxygen atom of water). Structural changes in the supported cluster in the course of catalyst preparation exhibited a strong interaction of platinum with alumina (the Pt–O distance is 1.92–1.95 Å), beginning at the step of H₂[Pt₃(CO)₆]₅ adsorption. This interaction was retained upon the subsequent high-temperature treatments of the catalyst. The structures of samples prepared from platinum carbonyl and chloroplatinic acid were significantly different. In the former case, a surface prototype was formed from the initial cluster; in the latter case, the sample consisted of platinum metal clusters of a considerable size.     

Changes in the zirconium local surrounding on ligand substitution in solutions

EXAFS and SAXS methods have been used to examine zirconium hydroxide and oxychloride aqueous solutions in the presence of sulfuric acid in a wide range of concentrations, as well as a zirconium sulfate aqueous solution. The structure of the complexes and their transformation regularities were determined. Structures of the given complexes and structures of zirconium hydroxide and zirconium oxychloride and hydroxide complexes in aqueous solutions were compared. Complexes in zirconium hydroxide and oxychloride aqueous solutions have identical structures in the presence of sulfuric acid. When the concentration ratio of sulfuric acid and the initial compound is low (20–30), the complex is an open trimer with zirconium atoms bonded by sulfate groups. Bridge sulfate groups form Zr-O-S-O-Zr bonds. Apart from the bridge sulfate groups, there are three terminal sulfate groups and three terminal hydroxyl groups for each zirconium atom. When the concentration of sulfuric acid is increased (up to a ratio of 40–100), closed trimers are observed in the solution.     

Non-archimedean shift operators

We introduce and study non-Archimedean analogs of the operators of unilateral shift and backward shift playing crucial roles in the classical theory of nonselfadjoint operators. In particular, we find various functional models of these operators having both common and different features compared to their classical counterparts.     

Strongly Nonlinear Differential Equations with Carlitz Derivatives over a Function Field

In earlier papers, the author studied some classes of equations with Carlitz derivatives for -linear functions, which are the natural function-field counterparts of linear ordinary differential equations. Here we consider equations containing self-compositions u ∘ u ... ∘ u of an unknown function. As an algebraic background, imbeddings of the composition ring of -linear holomorphic functions into skew fields are considered. __________ Published in Ukrains'kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp. 669–678, May, 2005.     

Formation of Ru–M/Sibunit Catalysts for Ammonia Synthesis

The effects of the nature of ruthenium and alkaline promoter precursor compounds and support properties on the activity of Ru–(Cs, K)/Sibunit catalysts in the reaction of ammonia synthesis were studied. The formation of active centers in the catalysts was studied with the use of EXAFS, XPS, and electron micro-scopy. It was found that ruthenium and a portion of cesium occurred in metallic states in the reduced catalysts. The most active catalysts containing 4 wt % ruthenium at the atomic ratios [K] : [Ru] = 4.5 and [Cs] : [Ru] = 2.5 were obtained with the use of the [Ru(dipy)₃](OH)₂ complex.