Influence of the nature of organic diluents on the extraction of uranium(VI) by bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfoxide from nitric acid solutions

The extraction of uranium(VI) from nitric acid solutions by bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfoxide (BESO) has been examined using sixteen inert organic diluents in order to establish the correlation between its distribution coefficient and some physico-chemical properties of the diluents. The extracted solvated species is shown to be UO₂(NO₃)₂·2BESO, irrespective of their nature. The extraction rate is lower in halogen substituted hydrocarbons as compared to the other diluents used. Among benzene derivatives, extraction is found to decrease with number of substituted methyl groups. Extraction efficiency decreases as the organic solvent is varied in the order: benzene>nitromethane>toluene> >nitrobenzene>cyclohexane>p-xylene>monochlorobenzene>dodecane>o-dichlorobenzene> >hexane>decalin>1,2-dichloroethane>1,1,1-trichloroethane>carbon tetrachloride> >tetrachloroethane>chloroform. Among the properties showing good correlations with distribution coefficient are Hansen's three-dimensional solubility parameters and Dimroth's empirical solvent polarity parameters [E _T(30) ]. Polarizability indices are most satisfactorily applicable to a wide variety of solvents.     

Reactor for prechromatographic fusion reactions

An improved design of a reactor for alkaline fusion as a preliminary to chromatographic analysis is described. The reactor allows the use of a significantly reduced sample size, minimizes leakages and facilitates the removal of the reaction products. The use of the reactor is demonstrated by the analysis of several polyester samples exhibiting increased hydrolytic stability.     

Water in carbon nanotubes: adsorption isotherms and thermodynamic properties from molecular simulation

Grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations are performed to study the adsorption of water in single-walled (6:6), (8:8), (10:10), (12:12), and (20:20) carbon nanotubes in the 248-548 K temperature range. At room temperature the resulting adsorption isotherms in (10:10) and wider single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNs) are characterized by negligible water uptake at low pressures, sudden and complete pore filling once a threshold pressure is reached, and wide adsorption/desorption hysteresis loops. The width of the hysteresis loops decreases as pore diameter narrows and it becomes negligible for water adsorption in (8:8) and (6:6) SWCNs. Results for the isosteric heat of adsorption, density profiles along the pore axis and across the pore radii, order parameter across the pore radii, and x-ray diffraction patterns are presented. Layered structures are observed when the internal diameter of the nanotubes is commensurate to the establishment of a hydrogen-bonded network. The structure of water in (8:8) and (10:10) SWCNs is ordered when the temperature is 298 and 248 K, respectively. By simulating adsorption isotherms at various temperatures, the hysteresis critical temperature, e.g., the lowest temperature at which no hysteresis can be detected, is determined for water adsorbed in (20:20), (12:12), and (10:10) SWCNs. The hysteresis critical temperature is lower than the vapor-liquid critical temperature for bulk Simple Point Charge-Extended (SPCE) water model.     

The determination of phytoplankton pigments by high-performance liquid chromatography

A simple high-performance liquid Chromatographic method is described for the determination of chlorophylls, chlorophyll degradation products, and carotenoids in phyto-plankton cultures and marine particulate matter. Pigment extraction is carried out with acetone and methanol. After evaporation of the combined extracts under reduced pressure, the pigments are separated on a Partisil-10 stationary phase with a mobile phase consisting of light petroleum (b.p. 60–80°C), acetone, dimethyl sulphoxide and diethylamine(75: 23.25:1.5: 0.25 by volume). When chlorophyll c is present, a further development is performed with a similar, but more polar, solvent mixture. Detection is carried out spectrophotometrically at 440 nm. The method has a sensitivity for the chlorophylls of ca. 80 ng, and for carotene of ca. 5 ng. The coefficient of variation of the Chromatographic stage of the procedure lies in the range 0.6–1.8%.     

Composition of lipids of the grain of opaque-2 maize

It has been established that the change in the composition of the total lipids and the fall in the fatty acid content depend on the initial maize genotype. A decrease in the amount of unsaponifiable substances in the grain of mutants is accompanied by qualitative changes in the composition regardless of the nature of the genotype.Scientific-Research Institute of Biology Dnepropetrovsk State university. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii. No. 3. pp. 360–363. May–June, 1988.     

Chemistry of heteroanalogs of isoflavones

Condensation of 2-pyridylacetonitrile with polyphenols gave the corresponding -(2-pyridyl)-acetophenones, which were converted to the pyridine analogs of natural isoflavones and to 3-pyridylchromones with methyl, trifluoromethyl, and ethoxycarbonyl groups in the 2 position. The antimicrobial activity of 3-pyridylchromones and their reaction with alkylating and acylating agents and phosphorus pentasulfide were investigated.See [1] for communication V.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 9, pp. 1180–1185, September, 1977.     

Conformational effects in 3-halotetrahydropyrans

The conformational equilibria of 3-chloro- and 3-bromotetrahydropyran were measured by NMR and IR spectroscopy using model 2-alkyl-5-halotetrahydropyrans. The 3-chloro compound was 76·2% equatorial in carbon tetrachloride and 58·5% in acetonitrile and the 3-bromo compound 85% equatorial in carbon tetrachloride. The conformational equilibrium is discussed in terms of dipole, electronic and van der Waals effects.     

Steric structure of phosphorus-contaiming heterocycles

Conclusions The steric structure of 3-halo-1-thia-3-phosphethanes with a tetracoordinated phosphorus atom was investigated by the methods of dipole moments and Kerr constants, enlisting data on quantum chemical calculations of the energies of the conformations.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 2240–2244, October, 1973.The authors would like to thank I. M. Shermergorn for providing the samples for the investigations.     

Calculation of molecular geometries by SCF perturbation theory

An SCF perturbation method for investigating the effects of an arbitrary change in nuclear configuration on the electronic structure of a molecule is reported. Illustrative calculations for CO₂ and CH₃OH are presented. It is found that, when taken to second order, the error in the calculated change in energy which results from a change in nuclear configuration is typically in the range of 0.1 to 7%.