Die Bestimmung von Derivaten der Kohlensäure über eine saure Verseifung

Zusammenfassung Durch Hydrolyse in siedender, hochkonzentrierter Phosphorsäure läßt sich anscheinend aus allen Kohlensäurederivaten quantitativ Kohlendioxid abspalten. Dieses wird nach Reinigung und Trocknung gravimetrisch bestimmt. Folgende Verbindungen wurden analysiert: lineare und cyklische Harnstoffe, Thioharnstoffe, Urethane, Carbamate, Kohlensäureester, Phenylisocyanat, Melamin, Guanidin, Cyanursäure und Dicyandiamid. Die Anwendung verschiedener Phosphorsäurekonzentrationen erlaubt auch selektive Bestimmungen.

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The determination of derivatives of carbonic acid via an acidic hydrolysis

Summary Hydrolysis in boiling highly concentrated phosphoric acid seemingly results in the quantitative splitting off of carbon dioxide from all derivatives of carbonic acid. The latter is determined gravimetrically after purification and drying. The following compounds were analyzed: linear and cyclic ureas, thioureas, urethanes, carbamates, esters of carbonic acid, phenylisocyanate, melamine, guanidine, cyanuric acid, dicyandiamide. The use of various concentrations of phosphoric acid permits selective determinations.

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Herrn Prof. Dr.B. Timm zum 60. Geburtstag gewidmet.     

Massenspektrometrische untersuchungen zur elementaranalyse organischer verbindungen—III: Verbrennungsvorgänge im leeren rohr

A measuring system is described which permits study of all stages of combustion processes as functions of carrier gas, temperature, residence time and tube filling. The organic sample is fed at constant speed into a stream of carrier gas. The mixture reaches the combustion chamber within a few milliseconds via a transfer capillary. With the help of a viscous inlet system, a sample of the resulting reaction products is taken and fed into a mass spectrometer. Reaction time and temperature can be adjusted within wide ranges or varied continuously. A plot of the extent of reaction of the various combustion products against temperature at a chosen reaction time yields an oxidation-thermogram which gives a clear picture of the combustion process. It is evident from thermograms of selected compounds that the samples decompose in the presence of oxygen at appreciably lower temperatures than in inert gas. The primary step of the decomposition is “oxidative pyrolysis” which often leads to other products than “inert pyrolysis”. The intermediate products found are partly structurally specific and, especially with nitrogen-containing samples, are numerous and long-lived (for example, carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, cyanogen, hydrocyanic acid, cyanic acid and methyl cyanate). The notorious “difficult combustibility” is largely due to the fact that carbon monoxide, cyanic and hydrocyanic acids undergo complete combustion only at very high temperature. The combustion properties of the “empty tube” can be improved noticeably by a filling of quartz wool and markedly by partly filling with platinum wool.     

Conformationally Controlled Odor Perception in ‘Steroid-type’ Scent Molecules

A series of compounds possessing a ‘Steroid-type’ scent and related to 4-(4′-t-butylcyclohexyl)-4-methyl-2-pentanones ( 1 and 2 ) has been synthesized. The odor of these compounds has been found to be dependent on their conformation; only when the molecule can assume a steroid-like shape there is an interaction with the odor chemoreceptor.     

High-performance liquid chromatographic determination of cocaine and benzoylecgonine by direct injection of human blood plasma sample into an alkyl-diol-silica (ADS) precolumn

A column-switching high-performance liquid chromatographic method with UV detection for the determination of cocaine (COC) and benzoylecgonine (BZE) in human blood plasma samples is described. The method uses an alkyl-diol-silica ADS-C18 extraction precolumn. A 50- micro L plasma sample was introduced to the ADS precolumn in order to separate the analytes from proteins and endogenous compounds. The fraction containing COC and BZE was back-flushed and transferred to an Alltech mixed-mode C(18)/cation-exchange analytical column for final separation. The validation of the method revealed quantitative recoveries from 95.0 to 99.0% for COC at three different concentrations (0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 micro g mL(-1)), and from 96.0 to 99.0% for BZE at the same concentration levels with coefficients of variation <4.00% (n=5). The detection limit (signal to noise ratio (S/N)>3) was 0.03 micro g mL(-1) for all the compounds with an injection volume of 50 micro L. However, it was possible to enhance the sensitivity further by injecting larger plasma volumes, up to 200 micro L, at the same optimal conditions. The overlap of sample preparation, analysis and reconditioning of the extraction column, increase the overall sample throughput to 5 samples h(-1). The developed method has been applied to human blood plasma samples from subjects suspected of cocaine abuse.     

Atomabsorptions-Flammenphotometrie im Einstrahlverfahren mit Kompensation der von Flamme und Hintergrundstrahler verursachten Schwankungen

Zusammenfassung Es wird gezeigt, daß auch im Einstrahlverfahren sogar extrem starke Schwankungen der Betriebsparameter der Flamme (Brenngas- und Preßluftdruck, Probendurchsatz) aus dem Meßergebnis weitgehend eliminiert werden können, wenn hinreichend oft Zwischeneichungen vorgenommen werden. Auf die gleiche Weise kann man selbstverständlich auch zeitliche Änderungen der Emission des Hintergrundstrahlers ausschalten. Für die Voruntersuchungen wurde ein aus handelsüblichen Bauteilen zusammengestelltes Gerät benutzt, welches mehr als 15 Zwischeneichungen pro Minute zuläßt. Dabei zeigte sich unter anderem, daß eine Änderung des Probendurchsatzes um den Faktor 10 (innerhalb 1 min) eine Änderung des Extinktionswertes der Probe um den Faktor 4 (also 400%) zur Folge hat. Dagegen beträgt in dieser Meßreihe die größte beobachtete Abweichung einer Einzelmessung des Extinktionsverhältnisses Analysenlösung/Eichlösung vom Mittelwert nur 22%. Abschließend wird ein in der Entwicklung befindliches und weitgehend automatisiertes Gerät vorgeschlagen, welches wesentlich bessere Ergebnisse erwarten läßt.

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Summary It is shown that even for atomic-absorption analyses with a single-beam instrument, the values measured will be essentially independent on large fluctuations in the operating conditions of the flame (gas pressures and sample flow rate), if the standard measurement made after every sample measurement is repeated often enough. Naturally, with the same technique the variation of emission from the discharge lamp will also not affect the analytical results. For the first experiments an instrument composed of commercially available components was used. It allowed the sample solution and standard solution to be alternately aspirated more than 15 times per minute. It was observed that the extinction value for the sample solution changed by a factor of 4 (that is 400%) when the sample flow rate changed by a factor of 10 (within a minute). On the other hand, in this series of measurements the gratest deviation observed between a single value for the ratio of sample solution extinction/standard solution extinction and the average value amounted to only 22%. Finally, an essentially automatic instrument being developed is proposed. With this instrument considerably better results can be expected.

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Herrn Prof. Dr. R. Herrmann möchte ich auch an dieser Stelle meinen Dank aussprechen für sein reges Interesse am Fortgang der Arbeit und für die kritische Durchsicht des Manuskriptes. Fräulein B. Gutsche danke ich für die Mitarbeit bei der Durchführung und Auswertung der Messungen.     

Influence of reduction conditions on H2 adsorption in high-surface Rh/CeO2 catalysts as deduced by volumetry, calorimetry, and 1H NMR techniques

1H NMR spectra corresponding to H2 adsorption on high-surface Rh/CeO2 catalysts (S(BET) approximately 55 m2/g) are formed by two lines, attributed to hydrogen adsorbed on ceria (resonance line A) and rhodium-metal particles (upfield-shifted line B). The evolution of 1H NMR spectra as a function of temperature, time, and type of reduction (static or dynamic) allows the study of the progressive establishment of the strong metal-support interaction (SMSI) in Rh/CeO2 catalysts. As the reduction progresses, the mean adsorption heat and the amount of hydrogen adsorbed on the metal, deduced from volumetry, NMR, and calorimetry techniques, decrease considerably. As a consequence of the decrease in metal activity, the amount of hydrogen transferred to the support CeO2 is also reduced (spill-over processes). Outgassing of samples at 773 K eliminates hydrogen species retained at the metal-support surface, and oxidation treatments at 473 and 673 K eliminate the electronic effect and physical blocking of metal particles. The oxidation at 673 K recuperates the total adsorption capacity of metal particles. On the basis of these treatments, the contribution of different processes to the SMSI effect is analyzed. Electronic perturbation of rhodium particles is higher when reductions are performed in dynamic conditions; however, the importance of physical blocking of metal particles increases in static reductions. High reducibility of ceria strengthens electronic effects in Rh/CeO2 compared to those observed in Rh/TiO2 catalysts.     

Electron transfer in proteins: nonorthogonal projections onto donor-acceptor subspace of the Hilbert space

We develop nonorthogonal projectors, called L?wdin projectors, to construct an effective donor-acceptor system composed of localized donor (D) and acceptor (A) states of a long-distance electron transfer problem. When these states have a nonvanishing overlap with the bridge states these projectors are non-Hermitian and there are various possible effective two-level systems that can be built. We show how these can be constructed directly from the Schr?dinger or Dyson equation projected onto the D-A subspace of the Hilbert space and explore these equations to determine the connection between Hamiltonian and Green function partitioning. We illustrate the use of these effective two-level systems in estimating the electron transfer rate in the context of a simple electron transfer model.     

Direct versus resonances mediated F+OH collisions on a new 3A" potential energy surface

A theoretical study of the F(2P) + OH(2Pi) --> HF(1Sigma+) + O(3P) reactive collisions is carried out on a new global potential energy surface (PES) of the ground 3A" adiabatic electronic state. The ab initio calculations are based on multireference configuration interaction calculations, using the aug-cc-pVTZ extended basis sets of Dunning et al. A functional representation of the PES shows no nominal barrier to reaction, contrary to previous results by others. Wave packet and quasiclassical trajectory calculations have been performed for this PES to study the F + OH(v = 0,j) reactive collision. The comparison was performed at fixed and constant values of the total angular momentum from 0 to 110 and relative translational energy up to 0.8 eV. The reaction presents a dynamical barrier, essentially due to the zero-point energy for the bending vibration near the saddle point. This determines two different reaction mechanisms. At energies higher than approximately 0.125 eV the reaction is direct, while below that value it is indirect and mediated by heavy-light-heavy resonances. Such resonances, also found in the simulations of the photodetachment spectrum of the triatomic anion, manifest themselves in the quasiclassical simulations, too, where they are associated to periodic orbits.