Speciation of silica in high-purity water

A 1-l water sample was concentrated to 20ml by freezing and analyzed for soluble, colloidal and insoluble silica by the spectrophotometric heteropoly blue method and by inductively coupled plasma/atomic emission spectrometry. High-purity water obtained from a vitreous-silica sub-boiling distillation still contained a few micrograms of insoluble silica per liter.     

Catalysis by heteropolyacid—VII. catalytic oxidation of cyclohexanol by dodecamolybdate

In the oxidation of cyclohexanol to cyclohexanone and the further oxidation to adipic acid, a dodecamolybdo-heteropolyanion (HPA) functions catalytically in the presence of aqueous hydrogen peroxide, whereas the HPA without hydrogen peroxide reacts only stoichiometrically. Air- or oxygen-passing through the refluxing system of cyclohexanone and the HPA in the presence of active charcoal, without hydrogen peroxide, has also promoted the oxidation catalytically. Since both hydrogen peroxide and aeration in the presence of active charcoal convert the reduced-form (blue) of the HPA produced by the oxidation of substrate to the oxidized-form (yellow), they play a role as a promoter or a reoxidizing reagent for the oxidation by the HPA. The reoxidizing effect of the aqueous hydrogen peroxide is much the more effective.     

TheA n /(1) face models

Presented here is the construction of solvable two-dimensional lattice models associated with the affine Lie algebraA _n ^/(1) and an arbitrary pair of Young diagrams. The models comprise two kinds of fluctuation variables; one lives on the sites and takes on dominant integral weights of a fixed level, the other lives on edges and assumes the weights of the representations ofsl(n+1, C) specified by Young diagrams. The Boltzmann weights are elliptic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation. Some conjectures on the one point functions are put forth.     

Structural stability index of heteropoly- and isopolyanions—IV. Application to site-vacant Keggin polyanions,mixed-type Keggin polyanions,some molybdo- and tungsto-vanadates and Jeannin-type polyanion

The theory of structural stability, being based on the number of closed loops per MO₆ octahedral unit in the polyanion-cage, has been applied to a variety of heteropoly- and isopoly-compounds with previously unreported structures. The discussion includes the prediction of the structure of lacunary Keggin heteropoly-compound, Cs₇Na₂[PW₁₀O₃₇]·8H₂O, recently obtained by Knoth and Harlow, the reinvestigation of mixed-type Keggin polyanions, [SiW₉Co₃(H₂O)₃O₃₇]^10? and [SiW₁₁CoO₃₉]^6?, recently prepared by Pope's group, the interpretation of chemical behaviours of some molybdo- and tungsto-vanadates, the structural stabilities of Jeannin-type [As₂W₂₁O₆₉(H₂O)]^6? polyanion and its related compounds, and some remarks on Weakley-type [X(W₅O₁₈)₂]^n? polyanions and Flynn-Stucky-type [X(Nb₆O₁₉)₂]^n? complexes belonging to the hybrid-complex of polyanion.     

An acidic layered clay is combined with a basic layered clay for one-pot sequential reactions

A Ti4+-exchanged montmorillonite (Ti4+-mont) and a hydrotalcite (HT) are strong solid Br?nsted acid and base, and these two clay catalysts could be used in a single reactor without neutralization of active sites. Because the Ti4+-mont have active acid site in the narrow interlayers, the base sites of large HT particles show no interaction with the acid sites. A variety of acid and base reactions, such as esterification, acetalization, deacetalization, aldol reaction, Michael reaction, and epoxidation, proceeded using both the Ti4+-mont and the HT in a single reactor.