Disappearance of criticality in thermal ignition for a simple reactive viscous flow

Conditions for the disappearance of criticality for reactive plane-Poiseuille flow are obtained by means of a perturbation series in the viscous heating parameter; an approximation to the Arrhenius reaction-rate term proposed in this journal by Bazley and Wake is used.

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Résumé On cherche les conditions pour la disparition de la limite critique pour l'écoulement Poiseuille de réactif entre deux plans en utilisant une série de perturbation de termes d'un paramètre que représente les effets thermiques de la viscosité; nous employons une approximation proposée dans ce journal par Bazley et Wake qui simplifie le terme d'Arrhenius dans l'équation de la balance de chaleur.

     

Thermal analytical and infrared spectroscopic investigations on polymorphic organic compounds-III

Six polymorphic compounds, having between two and five modifications, are described. Enantiotropic modifications were found for three of them: 9-fluorenylmethanol (2 modifications), polyester red A (3 modifications) and polyester red B (3 modifications). There were no indications of enantiotropy in the other three: diphenylcarbamoyl chloride (4 modifications), 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid (5 modifications) and 2-hydroxy-1-naphthalenecarbaldehyde (5 modifications).     

On Strong Spectrally Bounded LMC*-Algebras

A locally m-convex algebra E ≡ (E, (p_α); α ∈ A) is called “strong spectrally bounded” if supp_α (x) < ∞, for every x ∈ E. A locally m-convex C*-algebra of the last kind always accepts a faithful representation, say φ, with a continuous inverse, such that ‖‖φ(x)‖‖ = supp_α, for al x ∈ E. Particularly, in case E is moreover barrelled, φ is also continuous, E becoming thus a *-subalgebra of a concrete C*-algebra ??(H), H a Hilbert space.     

Commutators of fractional integral operators on Vanishing-Morrey spaces

In this note we prove a sufficient condition for commutators of fractional integral operators to belong to Vanishing Morrey spaces VL ^p,λ. In doing this we use an extension on Morrey spaces of an inequality by Fefferman and Stein concerning the sharp maximal function and the fractional maximal function and related Morrey inequalities.      

Competitive Intramolecular Aryl‐ and Alkyl‐C?H Bond Activation and Ligand Evaporation from Gaseous Bisimino Complexes [Pt(L)(CH3)((CH3)2S)]+ (L=C6H5NC(CH3)?C(CH3)NC6H5)

Mechanistic details for the formation of methane from the title compound as well as the combined elimination of (CH₃)₂S/CH₄ are derived from various mass‐spectrometric experiments including deuterium‐labeling studies and DFT calculations. For the first process, i.e., methane formation, we have identified three competing pathways in which the intact, Pt‐bonded methyl group combines with a H‐atom that originates from a phenyl substituent (ca. 7%), the dimethyl sulfide ligand (ca. 41%), and a methyl group of the diazabutadiene backbone (ca. 52%). In contrast, in the combined (CH₃)₂S/CH₄ elimination, the methane is specifically formed from the Pt‐bound CH₃ group and a H‐atom provided by one of the phenyl groups (‘cyclometalation’).     

The synthesis of (4S,5S)-(−)-isocytoxazone

(4S,5S)-(?)-Isocytoxazone, which is needed for a configurational study, was synthesized from the commercially available (1S,2S)-(+)-2-amino-1-(4-nitrophenyl)-1,3-propanediol in which the p-nitro substituent was replaced by a p-methoxyl group; the thus prepared p-methoxyphenyl amino diol was cyclized via an N-Boc derivative.     

Targeted analysis of protein citrullination using chemical modification and tandem mass spectrometry

Protein citrullination originates from enzymatic deimination of polypeptide‐bound arginine and is involved in various biological processes during health and disease. However, tools required for a detailed and targeted proteomic analysis of citrullinated proteins in situ, including their citrullination sites, are limited. A widely used technique for detection of citrullinated proteins relies on antibody staining after specific derivatization of citrulline residues by 2,3‐butanedione and antipyrine. We have recently reported on the details of this reaction. Here, we show that this chemical modification can be utilized to specifically detect and identify citrullinated peptides and their citrullination sites by liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) analysis. Using model compounds, we demonstrate that in collision‐induced dissociation (CID) a specific, modification‐derived fragment ion appears as the dominating signal at m/z 201.1 in the MS/MS spectra. When applying electron transfer dissociation (ETD), however, the chemical modification of citrulline remained intact and extensive sequence coverage allowed identification of peptides and their citrullination sites. Therefore, LC/MS/MS analysis with alternating CID and ETD has been performed, using CID for specific, signature ion‐based detection of derivatized citrullinated peptides and ETD for sequence determination. The usefulness of this targeted analysis was demonstrated by identifying citrullination sites in myelin basic protein deiminated in vitro. Combining antibody‐based enrichment of chemically modified citrulline‐containing peptides with specific mass spectrometric detection will increase the potential of such a targeted analysis of protein citrullination in the future. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Multilayer hydrous oxide growth on copper in base and its correlation with previously reported electrocatalytic data for this electrode system

A repetitive potential cycling procedure was used to produce a specific multilayer hydrous oxide film on copper in base at 60 °C. Such a deposit undergoes reduction in a quasi-reversible manner at ca. −0.1 V (RHE), i.e. at a potential that is unrelated to Pourbaix data for copper but, as demonstrated previously, is of major significance with regard to the electrocatalytic behaviour of this electrode system. In accordance with the incipient hydrous oxide/adatom mediator model of electrocatalysis, an active surface state of the metal (Cu*) is assumed to be involved both in electrocatalysis and as a primary product in the hydrous oxide reduction reaction. While the latter process occurs very rapidly at −0.1 V, it is not usually reversible as it is accompanied by subsequent rapid loss of the active state of the metal. The same general approach was used previously to explain the hydrous oxide and electrocatalytic behaviour of a range of noble metals. Received: 28 August 1999 / Accepted: 11 November 1999     

Characterization of complex networks by higher order neighborhood properties

A concept of higher order neighborhood in complex networks, introduced previously [Phys. Rev. E 73, 046101 (2006)], is systematically explored to investigate larger scale structures in complex networks. The basic idea is to consider each higher order neighborhood as a network in itself, represented by a corresponding adjacency matrix, and to settle a plenty of new parameters in order to obtain a best characterization of the whole network. Usual network indices are then used to evaluate the properties of each neighborhood. The identification of high order neighborhoods is also regarded as intermediary step towards the evaluation of global network properties, like the diameter, average shortest path between node, and network fractal dimension. Results for a large number of typical networks are presented and discussed.     

The effect of N-tetradecyl-N,N-dimethylamine oxide micelles on the kinetics of the electron transfer reaction of Ce(IV) with substituted malonic acids

The kinetics of the oxidation of malonic acid and (its substituted compounds, methyl-, ethyl-, butyl- and benzyl-malonic acid) by ceric ions has been studied at 20.0 °C in the absence and the presence of the surfactant N-tetradecyl-N,N-dimethylamine oxide (C₁₄DMAO). The addition of increasing amounts of C₁₄DMAO influences the rate of the redox process to an extent that significantly depends on the hydrophobicity of the reducing species. The reactivity data together with the estimated binding constants and the standard transfer free energies of the malonic acids from water to the micelles suggest that the malonic acid is confined to the aqueous pseudo-phase while for the other solutes the binding occurs in the palisade layer of micelles.