Construction of small data base for liquid chromatography

Summary Construction of small data base in the area of liquid chromaography for inorganic compounds is described. A 16-bit microcomputer is used and several types of conversational retrieval systems are demonstrated.     

Solution polymerization of trioxane catalyzed by stannic chloride

The polymerization of trioxane catalyzed by stannic chloride (SnCl₄) in ethylene dichloride was studied and compared with the results obtained with boron trifluoride etherate, BF₃·O(C₂H₅)₂, as catalyst. Under the same conditions, the polymerization rate was larger with SnCl₄ than with BF₃·O(C₂H₅)₂, while at a fixed polymer yield the molecular weight of the polymer obtained by SnCl₄ was lower than with the BF₃·O(C₂H₅)₂ catalyzed reaction. The overall activation energy of trioxane polymerization with SnCl₄ was 11.0 ± 0.8 kcal/mole. The kinetic orders of catalyst and monomer were determined to be close to 2 and 4, respectively. A certain amount of tetraoxane was also produced in an early stage of the polymerization with SnCl₄ similar to BF₃·O(C₂H₅)₂-catalyzed reaction. However, the maximum amount of tetraoxane produced at 30°C was larger with SnCl₄ than with BF₃·O(C₂H₅)₂. In addition, a ten-membered ring compound (pentoxane) was isolated in the solution polymerization of trioxane catalyzed by both SnCl₄ and BF₃·O(C₂H₅)₂. The confirmation of pentoxane formation is strong evidence for the back-biting reaction mechanism.     

Differential cross sections of proton Compton scattering in the energy range between 450 and 950 MeV

The differential cross sections of the proton Compton scattering around the second resonance have been measured at a c.m. angle of 90° for incident photon energies between 450 MeV and 950 MeV in steps of 50 MeV, and at an angle of 60° for energies between 600 MeV and 800 MeV. The results show that the peak of the 2nd resonance agrees with that of the pion photoproduction process. We also calculated the proton Compton scattering based on unitarity and fixed-t dispersion relations. The calculation describes well the data of the cross section and the recoil proton polarization.     

The effect of molecular weight heterogeneity on the second virial coefficient of linear polymers in good solvents

The effect of molecular weight heterogeneity on the second virial coefficient A₂ in good solvents is studied for binary mixtures of monodisperse poly(α-methylstyrenes). It is concluded that A₂ for polymer mixtures passes through a maximum with variation of the mixing ration. From comparison with the data, it is concluded that no available theory quantitatively explains both the molecular weight dependence of A₂ of monodisperse polymer and the variation of A₂ of mixtures with the mixing ratio. The interpenetration function for two polymer coils with different molecular weights is discussed on the assumption that the thermodynamic interaction between two polymer coils in good solvents can be approximated by a hard-sphere model.     

A character recognition system using a Φ-spatial filter

The results of experiments on character recognition, using a combination of Φ-spatial and band-pass filters, are reported. The experiments were made with fifteen classes of typewritten characters, with twenty-four classes of typewritten characters and with ten classes of handwritten characters.