Mikrostruktur und Schmelzpunkt von stereoregulären Polymeren. Eine vorläufige experimentelle Beziehung für isotaktisches Polypropylen

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p-sd Shell gap reduction in neutron-rich systems and cross-shell excitations in 20 O

Excited states in 20O were populated in the reaction 10Be(14C,alpha) at Florida State University (FSU). Charged particles were detected with a particle telescope consisting of 4 annularly segmented Si surface barrier detectors and gamma radiation was detected with the FSU gamma detector array. Five new states were observed below 6 MeV from the alpha-gamma and alpha-gamma-gamma coincidence data. Shell model calculations suggest that most of the newly observed states are core-excited 1p-1h excitations across the N=Z=8 shell gap. Comparisons between experimental data and calculations for the neutron-rich O and F isotopes imply a steady reduction of the p-sd shell gap as neutrons are added.     

Data mining by total ranking methods: a case study on optimisation of the "pulp and bleaching" process in the paper industry

Total order ranking methods are multicriteria decision making techniques used for the ranking of various alternatives on the basis of more than one criterion. The criteria, which are the standards by which the elements of the system are judged are not always in agreement, they can be conflicting, motivating the need to find an overall optimum that can deviate from the optima of one or more of the single criteria. Total order ranking methods are based on an aggregation of the criteria in a scalar function, i.e. an order or ranking index, which allow to sort elements according to its numerical value. Several evaluation methods which define a ranking parameter generating a total order ranking have been proposed in the literature. Four total order ranking methods are here described: Desirability functions, Utility functions, Dominance functions and Absolute Reference method. These methods have been compared to each other by applying them to a decision making problem in the paper industry. Various bleaching processes have been analysed and compared on the basis of multiple criteria, the aim being to find out best bleaching process among the ones proposed in the last years as alternative to chlorine bleaching process which is of high environmental impact due to the potential for chlorinated dioxin production.     

Characterization of crystalline and amorphous content in pharmaceutical solids by dielectric thermal analysis

Morphological and thermodynamic transitions in drugs as well as their amorphous and crystalline content in the solid state have been distinguished by thermal analytical techniques, which include dielectric analysis (DEA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and macro-photomicrography. These techniques were used successfully to establish a structure versus property relationship with the United States Pharmacopeia standard set of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) drugs. A distinguishing method is the DSC determination of the amorphous and crystalline content which is based on the fusion properties of the specific drug and its recrystallization. The DSC technique to determine the crystalline and amorphous content is based on a series of heat and cool cycles to evaluate the drugs ability to recrystallize. To enhance the amorphous portion, the API is heated above its melting temperature and cooled with liquid nitrogen to ?120 °C (153 K). Alternatively a sample is program heated and cooled by DSC at a rate of 10 °C min^?1. DEA measures the crystalline solid and amorphous liquid API electrical ionic conductivity. The DEA ionic conductivity is repeatable and differentiates the solid crystalline drug with a low conductivity level (10^?2 pS cm^?1) and a high conductivity level associated with the amorphous liquid (10⁶ pS cm^?1). The DSC sets the analytical transition temperature range from melting to recrystallization. However, analysis of the DEA ionic conductivity cycle establishes the quantitative amorphous and crystalline content in the solid state at frequencies of 0.10–1.00 Hz and to greater than 30 °C below the melting transition as the peak melting temperature. This describes the “activation energy method.” An Arrhenius plot, log ionic conductivity versus reciprocal temperature (K^?1), of the pre-melt DEA transition yields frequency dependent activation energy (E _a, J mol^?1) for the complex charging in the solid state. The amorphous content is inversely proportional to the E _a where the E _a for the crystalline form is higher and lower for the amorphous form with a standard deviation of ±2%. There was a good agreement between the DSC crystalline melting, recrystallization, and the solid state DEA conductivity method with relevant microscopic evaluation. An alternate technique to determine amorphous and crystalline content has been established for the drugs of interest based on an obvious amorphous and crystalline state identified by macro-photomicrography and compared to the conductivity variations. This second “empirical method” correlates well with the “activation energy” method.     

Non-neighbour effects on hyperfine coupling constants in alternant hydrocarbon radicals

An improvement of the McConnell formula for the correlation of hydrogen coupling constants in alternant hydrocarbon ions is derived.The new formula is analogous to the one recently proposed by Colpa and Bolton and is obtained without introducing any charge effect but only considering, in the first order perturbation expansion, terms arising from hydrogen next nearest neighbour carbon p orbitals.

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Zusammenfassung Die McConnell-Formel für die Wasserstoff-Kopplungskonstante in alternierenden Kohlenwasserstoffionen wird verbessert. Die neue Formel ist ein Analogen der kürzlich von Colpa und Bolton vorgeschlagenen, wird aber ohne Einführung von Ladungseffekten erhalten. Sie ergibt sich vielmehr durch Hinzunahme der Glieder, die die der CH-Bindung benachbarten Kohlenstoff-p-Eigenfunktionen in erster Näherung berücksichtigen.

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Résumé La formule de McConnell pour les constantes de couplage hyperfin protonique dans les ions des hydrocarbures alternants est améliorée.La nouvelle formule est analogue à une autre proposée récemment par Colpa et Bolton; on l'obtient, sans introduire des effets de charge, seulement par inclusion des termes perturbateurs de premier ordre, dérivant des orbitales p des carbones adjacent à la liaison C-H considérée.

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We thank the Italian National Research Council (Chemistry Commitee, Research Group IV) for financial support. One of us (P.L.N.) is grateful to Sicedison S.p.A. for a grant.