In situ photoproduction of dichlorodibenzo-p-dioxin from non-ionic triclosan isolated in solid argon

The infrared spectrum of triclosan [or 5-chloro-2-(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)phenol] isolated in a low temperature (～15 K) argon matrix has been recorded and assigned with help of DFT claculations undertaken with the B3LYP functional and the 6-311++G(d,p) basis set. The obtained spectrum doubtlessly exhibits the characteristic vibrational signature of the neutral (phenol) form of the compound, which exists in two different conformations (forms I and II) in the matrix, in a I: II population ratio of ca. 0.75. Upon broadband UV irradiation of the matrix-isolated triclosan with unfiltered light provided by a xenon arc lamp, formation of 2,8-dichlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,8-DCDD) was observed, together with HCl. The reaction seems to occur through initial photoproduction of the triclosan phenol radical derivative, and involve in the initial step participation of dissociative (πσ¹) excited states along the OH stretching coordinate, as observed previously for other phenol derivatives. The photochemically detached hydrogen atom derived from triclosan may then react with the closest located chlorine atom in the triclosan molecule to yield HCl and a biradical species, which can subsequently undergo a ring-closure reaction by intramolecular recombination, leading to the observed 2,8-DCDD.     

Compact Electron Gun for High-Voltage Electron Cooling Systems

Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters - One way to increase the efficiency of electron cooling is to increase the electron density in the beam reference frame. As a rule, with an increase in the...     

s-Representations for involutions¶on affine Kac–Moody algebras are polar

Let denote the eigenspace decomposition of a twisted affine Kac–Moody algebra with respect to an involution , where is a twisted loop algebra, is the center and d is the scaling element of . We endow with the standard bilinear symmetrical form.Then with and carries a Lorentzian signature. Let denote the group that corresponds to , then the adjoint representation of on can be restricted to and this submanifold is isometrical to the Hilbert space E _ε, where is the decomposition of the twisted loop algebra with respect to the induced involutionρ₀.We thus obtain an affine representation on E _ε and we show that this representation is polar, i. e., there exists a submanifold that intersects all orbits, and intersects them orthogonally. Received: 16 February 2000 RID=" ID="Supported by a DFG grant.     

SEM-EDS and XPS Studies of the High Temperature Oxidation Behaviour of Inconel 718

 The oxidation in air under isothermal conditions of Inconel 718 has been investigated at 900 °C. We have studied the firsts stages of the high temperature oxidation mechanism. The oxidised samples were examined using a number of surface analytical techniques including XPS and SEM-EDS. The results have shown that minor alloying elements strongly influence the oxidation behaviour of the alloy: Previous studies had shown that the rate of the external oxide scale growth and the intergranular oxide penetration during oxidation of Inconel 718 at 900 °C in air are lower than those of Inconel X or Incoloy 800. We suggest that the formation of a quasi continuous scale of the intermetallic phase Ni₃Nb at the oxide-alloy interface could have an important contribution to the good oxidation resistance of Inconel 718.     

Study of Thin Films of High Temperature Superconductors Based on YBaCuO by EPMA

 An analytical model of an effective atomic number, Z _eff, for simultaneous calculation of composition and thickness of films on substrates that allows for backscattering processes is presented. Comparison of dependencies of ϕ(ρz) parameters for film elements on electron beam energy, on atomic numbers of a film and a substrate and on film thickness was done. The errors inherent in EPMA have been determined by comparing experimental data obtained on YBa₂Cu₃O_7−x bulk crystals with model calculations. Possibility of EPMA as an effective technique for investigation of spatially inhomogeneous objects was demonstrated by studying the correlation between composition and local superconducting properties (values of critical temperature and critical current) of these films.     

Independent Directed Triangles in a Directed Graph

If D is a directed graph of order n≥3 with , then D contains independent directed triangles. Moreover, the condition on the minimum degree is sharp in general. Revised: April 19, 1999     

The Stability of Magnetic VorticesRID="*"ID="*"Research on this paper was supported by NSERC under grant N7901

We study the linearized stability of n-vortex (n∈ℤ) solutions of the magnetic Ginzburg–Landau (or Abelian Higgs) equations. We prove that the fundamental vortices (n = ± 1) are stable for all values of the coupling constant, λ, and we prove that the higher-degree vortices (|n|≥ 2) are stable for λ < 1, and unstable for λ > 1. This resolves a long-standing conjecture (see, eg, [JT]). Received: 16 November 1998 / Accepted: 3 January 2000 RID="*" ID="*"Research on this paper was supported by NSERC under grant N7901 RID="**" ID="**"Present address: Courant Institute, 251 Mercer St., New York, NY 10012, USA.&para;E-mail: gustaf&commat;cims.nyu.edu     

$$L^p$$-Fourier asymptotics,Hardy-type inequality and fractal measures

Suppose \(\mu \) is an \(\alpha \)-dimensional fractal measure for some \(0<\alpha <n\). Inspired by the results proved by Strichartz (J Funct Anal 89:154–187, 1990), we discuss the \(L^p\)-asymptotics of the Fourier transform of \(fd\mu \) by estimating bounds of

$$\begin{aligned} \underset{L\rightarrow \infty }{\liminf }\ \frac{1}{L^k} \int _{|\xi |\le L}\ |\widehat{fd\mu }(\xi )|^pd\xi , \end{aligned}$$

for \(f\in L^p(d\mu )\) and \(2<p<2n/\alpha \). In a different direction, we prove a Hardy type inequality, that is,

$$\begin{aligned} \int \frac{|f(x)|^p}{(\mu (E_x))^{2-p}}d\mu (x)\le C\ \underset{L\rightarrow \infty }{\liminf }\frac{1}{L^{n-\alpha }} \int _{B_L(0)}|\widehat{fd\mu }(\xi )|^pd\xi \end{aligned}$$

where \(1\le p\le 2\) and \(E_x=E\cap (-\infty ,x_1]\times (-\infty ,x_2]\ldots (-\infty ,x_n]\) for \(x=(x_1,\ldots x_n)\in {\mathbb R}^n\) generalizing the one dimensional results by Hudson and Leckband (J Funct Anal 108:133–160, 1992).

     

Photochemistry and vibrational spectra of matrix-isolated 5-ethoxy-1-phenyl-1H-tetrazole

A combined matrix isolation FT-IR and theoretical DFT(B3LYP)/6-311++G(d,p) study of the molecular structure and photochemistry of 5-ethoxy-1-phenyl-1H-tetrazole (5EPT) was performed. A new method of synthesis of the compound is described. Calculations show three minima, very close in energy and separated by low-energy barriers (less than 4 kJ mol-1), in the ground-state potential energy profile of the molecule. The method of matrix isolation enabled the reduction of the number of populated conformational states in the experiment at low temperature due to the effect known as conformational cooling. As a result, the spectrum of the as-deposited matrix of 5EPT closely matches that of the most stable conformer predicted theoretically, pointing to the existence of only this conformer in the low-temperature matrixes. In this structure, the dihedral angle between the two rings, phenyl and tetrazole, is ca. 30 degrees, whereas the ethyl group stays nearly in the plane of the tetrazole ring and is as far as possible from the phenyl group. In situ UV irradiation (lambda > 235 nm) of the matrix-isolated 5EPT induced unimolecular decomposition, which led mainly to production of ethylcyanate and phenylazide, this later compound further reacting to yield, as final product, 1-aza-1,2,4,6-cycloheptatetraene. Anti-aromatic 3-ethoxy-1-phenyl-1H-diazirene was also observed experimentally as minor photoproduct, resulting from direct extrusion of molecular nitrogen from 5EPT. This species has not been described before and is now characterized by infrared spectroscopy for the first time.