Studies on arylhydrazonoisoxazolinethiones. Behaviour of 4-arylhydrazono-3-phenyl-2-isoxazoline-5-thiones toward hydrazines,grignard reagents and alkylating agents

The 4-arylhydrazono-3-phenyl-2-isoxazoline-5-thiones 2 react with hydrazines to yield the 5-hydrazones 3 and 5 . The reaction of 2 with Grignard reagent resulted in addition of the reagent to the thiocarbonyl group to yield 7 . Treatment of 2 with diazomethane effected S - and N -methylation beside 1,2,3-triazole derivative 11 obtained through isomerisation. The potassium salt of 2 react with alkyl halides to yield the S-alkyl derivatives 12 .     

High-field magnetoresistance and magnetothermal e.m.f. in many-valley semiconductors with ellipsoidal energy surface

Thermomagnetic coefficients appropriate to a many-valley model of a semiconductor of the n -Germanium type are evaluated in the framework of the density matrix formalism developed earlier. These coefficients are determined for arbitrary values of the magnetic field, within the effective mass approximation. The phonon-drag contribution is not included in this work. An application is made to the four-ellipsoidal model of n-Ge under the conditions where elastic-acoustic phonon scattering is the predominant mechanism of scattering and the high-temperature limit of the phonon distribution is valid. The thermoelectric power (magneto-Seebeck effect) is found to increase with increasing values of the magnetic field except for a small region of low magnetic field values where it decreases in the longitudinal configuration only.     

Triplet quantum yield determination by photosensitized oxygenation in the presence of heavy atom additives: Rhodamine B in methanol

Relative rates of heavy-atom-enhanced photosensitized ¹O₂-reactions may be used to determine φ^o_T of sensitizers in heavy-atom-free solutions. φ^o_T = 0.12 ± 0.02 is obtained for a 5·10^?5 M methanolic solution of Rhodamine B .     

Design of feedback controllers by two-stage methods

When the eigenvalues of linear, time-invariant discrete systems are widely separated in absolute value, it is shown that the design of state or output feedback controllers can be best approached by two-stage methods. In these methods, the feedback gain matrices are computed by separately placing slow and fast eigenvalues at desired locations. Applications to the problem of independently controlling the speed and torque of petrol engine/dynamometer test rig have demonstrated the potential of the two-stage feedback design methods.     

Semiclassical analysis of α-transfer reactions

Semiclassical concepts are used to gain insight into α-transfer reactions. These reactions, interpreted as one-step direct reactions on the basis of DWBA analyses, are treated in analogy with single nucleon transfer reactions for which it is known that semiclassical methods are successful. In this case however the probability of transfer appears to be greatest at a distance of closest approach which is larger than the grazing distance by the order of the α-particle radius. This increase in the effective “grazing” distance is interpreted as a manifestation of the α-particle size at the time of transfer. Angular distributions are calculated semiclassically for the reactions ²⁰⁸Pb(¹⁶O, ¹²C)²¹²Po at 93 MeV and ⁴⁰Ca(¹²C, ⁸Be)⁴⁴Ti at 45 MeV lab energy. They are seen to give a reasonable fit to experiment. Partial wave amplitudes for transfer are also studied.     

Paper electrophoresis of growth hormone

Summary A simple method is described for the identification of bovine growth hormone crude fractions using paper electrophoresis. The mobilities of the fractions are tabulated and shown on the extinction curves. The separation of the bands was carried out at room temperature using glycine buffer at pH 10 and Elphor Horizontal apparatus.

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Zusammenfassung Die Rohfraktionen von Rinder-Wachstumshormon wurden papierelektrophoretisch untersucht (Elphor Horizontalgerät; Glycinpuffer pH 10; Zimmertemperatur). Die Versuchsergebnisse für die einzelnen Fraktionen werden tabellarisch und durch eine Abbildung dargestellt.

     

Spectrophotometric determination of some benzothiadiazine diuretics with 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane

A new spectrophotometric method for the determination of some benzothiadiazine drugs is presented, based on reaction with 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane in sodium acetate medium and measurement at 578 nm. Beer's law is obeyed in the concentration range 0.7-6.0 mug/ml for all eight drugs tested.     

Acetate- and thiol-capped monodisperse ruthenium nanoparticles: XPS, XAS, and HRTEM studies

Monodisperse ruthenium nanoparticles were prepared by reduction of RuCl3 in 1,2-propanediol. The mean particle size was controlled by appropriate choice of the reduction temperature and the acetate ion concentration. Colloidal solutions in toluene were obtained by coating the metal particles with dodecanethiol. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XANES and EXAFS for the Ru K-absorption edge) were performed on particles of two different diameters, 2 and 4 nm, and in different environments, polyol/acetate or thiol. For particles stored in polyol/acetate XPS studies revealed superficial oxidation limited to one monolayer and a surface coating containing mostly acetate ions. Analysis of the EXAFS spectra showed both oxygen and ruthenium atoms around the ruthenium atoms with a Ru-Ru coordination number N smaller than the bulk value, as expected for fine particles. In the case of 2 nm acetate-capped particles N is consistent with particles made up of a metallic core and an oxidized monolayer. For 2 nm thiol-coated particles, a Ru-S bond was evidenced by XPS and XAS. For the 4 nm particles XANES and XPS studies showed that most of the ruthenium atoms are in the zerovalent state. Nevertheless, in both cases, when capped with thiol, the Ru-Ru coordination number inferred from EXAFS is much smaller than for particles of the same size stored in polyol. This is attributed to a structural disorganization of the particles by thiol chemisorption. HRTEM studies confirm the marked dependence of the structural properties of the ruthenium particles on their chemical environment; they show the acetate-coated particles to be single crystals, whereas the thiol-coated particles appear to be polycrystalline.