Syntheses of azo dyes containing 4,5-diphenylimidazole and their evaluation as analytical reagents

Eight azo dyes containing the 4,5-diphenylimidazole group have been synthesized, and their potential for determinations of metals has been studied spectrophotometrically. Of these reagents, the pyridylazo and quinolylazo derivatives are suitable as chromogenic reagents, the best being 2-(quinolylazo)-4,5-diphenylimidazole (QAI), which reacts with several metal ions. The copper and mercury complexes of QAI show molar absorptivities of the order of 80 000 l mol^?1 cm^?1.     

Local normality in Quantum Statistical Mechanics

It is shown that K.M.S.-states are locally normal on a great number ofC*-algebras that may be of interest in Quantum Statistical Mechanics. The lattice structure and the Choquet-simplex structure of various sets of states are investigated. In this respect special attention is payed to the interplay of the K.M.S.-automorphism group with other automorphism groups under whose action K.M.S.-states are possibly invariant. A seemingly weaker notion thanG-abelianness of the algebra of observables, namelyG-abelianness, is introduced and investigated. Finally a necessary and sufficient condition (on aC*-algebra with a sequential separable factor funnel) for decomposition of a locally normal state into locally normal states is given.     

The depth of molecular recognition: voltage-sensitive blockage of synthetic multifunctional pores with refined architecture

Voltage-sensitive blockage by ADP, ATP and phytate (IP6) demonstrates that active-site contraction toward the middle of newly synthesized rigid-rod beta-barrels provides a general strategy to rationally create and modulate the voltage sensitivity (and to increase the efficiency) of molecular recognition by synthetic multifunctional pores.     

Electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometric determination of ng g-1 levels of cadmium in bone after dithizone extractions

After removal of lipid and acid digestion of bone samples, cadmium is separated from the matrix by two extractions with dithizone in carbon tetrachloride. The first extraction at pH 3–3.5 removes cadmium from the matrix; the second extraction, at pH 8.5 in the presence of 2-hydroxyethylethylenediaminetriacetic acid, is needed to prevent suppression of the cadmium signal by zinc. Cadmium is finally measured in the back-extract into 0.24 M hydrochloric acid. Less than 10 ng g^-1 cadmium in fresh bone can be determined within a relative standard deviation of 10%.     

Torsional bands of hydroxylamine

Infrared absorption spectrum of NH₂OH has been observed in its gaseous state, and the fine structures of the bands at 386 and 751 cm^?1 assignable, respectively, to the fundamental and overtone of the torsional vibration of this molecule have been examined. Band center frequencies for the n = 1 ← 0, 2 ← 1, 3 ← 2, 2 ← 0, and 3 ← 1 transitions (where n is the vibrational quantum number of the torsional oscillation) have been determined to be 386.2, 365.1, 346.3, 751.2, and 711.3 cm^?1, respectively. On the basis of these data, a discussion is given on the internal-rotation potential function.     

Some unusual reactions of dimers of F-propene with thiols

Reactions of $\text{F}$-2- and -4-methly-2-pentenes with thiols were found to involve an oxidation-reduction system. 1,4-Elimination of sulfenyl fluorides from thio-substituted perfluoroolefins to form 1,3-dienes and disulfides is suggested as the reaction pathway.     

Enantio- and diastereoselective hydrogenation via dynamic kinetic resolution by a cationic iridium complex in the synthesis of beta-hydroxy-alpha-amino acid esters

Anti-selective asymmetric hydrogenation of alpha-amino-beta-keto esters via dynamic kinetic resolution under low hydrogen pressure has been achieved by an easily-handled cationic iridium complex with tetrakis[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]borate (BARF) as a counterion.     

Raman Scattering Tensors in Biological Molecules and Their Assemblies

INTRODUCTION

The tensor associated with a Raman band plays an important role in determining the band intensity and its structural significance. Each Raman tensor interrelates two electric vectors, that of the exciting radiation (i.e. laser photon) and that of the Raman scattered radiation (i.e. the inelastically scattered photon which results from the exchange of a vibrational quantum between the exciting photon and the molecule). The Raman tensor is obtained formally as the first derivative of the molecular polarizability tensor, the derivative being taken with respect to the vibrational normal coordinate. In other words, the Raman tensor associated with a vibrational Raman band is an indicator of how the polarizability of the molecule oscillates with the molecular normal mode of vibration.     

Erratum to: “Quantum dissipative dynamics using the Doebner–Goldin equation” [Phys. Lett. A 376 (2012) 3033]

A few misprints appearing in the Letter [Phys. Lett. A 376 (2012) 3033] are corrected.