Gravimetric determination of osmium with 1:2:3-benzotriazole

A method for the direct gravimetric determination of osmium with 1:2:3-benzotriazole in acetic acid-sodium acetate buffer is presented. The method is accurate and reproducible, and the conditions used in the determination are not critical. The precipitate is a stoichiometric compound which is stable from room temperature up to 200°. It appears that 1:2:3-benzotriazole is probably the first organic reagent to be used successfully in the direct gravimetric determination of osmium.     

Spot test detection of phenylhydrazine and arsonic acids

If phenylhydrazine or its salts are heated with arsenic acid or with one of its organic derivatives (aliphatic or aromatic arsonic acids) phenol results. The latter can easily be detected in the gas phase by the indophenol reaction with 2:6-dichloroquinone-4-chloroimine. This has been made the basis of characteristic tests for phenylhydrazine (also phenylhydrazones and osazones) as well as for arsonic acids. When conducted within the bounds of spot test analysis, the limits of detection are microanalytical.     

Cerimetric determination of uranium Use of triphenylmethane dyes as internal indicators

The use of the triphenylmethane dyes (erioglaucine, eriogreen, and xylene cynol FF) as internal indicators in the cerimetric titration of uranium^IV has been investigated. The titration is possible in the cold with sufficient rapidity and accuracy, the indicator colour change appearing sharply at the equivalence point. The indicator reactions are rapid and reversible within a wide range of acidity, from 0.5N to 8.0N, unlike other indicators, e.g. diphenylbenzidine, -phenylanth-ranilic acid or ferroïn, which require specified conditions for their proper functioning. These indicators can also beused for titration of uranium^IV with eerie ammonium nitrate in perchloric acid medium (but not in nitric acid medium).     

Aspects of stereochemistry—I Properties and reactions of some diols

The extent of intramolecular hydrogen-bonding, as determined by infra-red spectroscopy in the hydroxyl stretching region, in certain vicinal diols of cyclohexane, cyclopentane, tetrahydropyran and tetrahydrofuran and in related compounds provides evidence for the stabilities of different conformations. In certain compounds these stabilities can be affected by hydrogen bonding from a substituent hydroxyl group to a ring oxygen. Additional evidence is provided in the case of the tetrahydropyran diols by [M]_D values. The rate of reaction of the vicinal diols of these cyclic systems with glycol splitting reagents, and their zone electrophoretic mobility in an alkaline borate buffer is influenced by the presence of a ring oxygen.     

Macrolide antibiotics—VIII The absolute configuration of certain centers in neomethymycin, erythromycin and related antibiotics

Neomethymycin (I) has been transformed into “anhydrocycloneomethynolide” (V) which could be degraded via (−)--methyllevulinic acid to (−)--methylsuccinic acid, thus establishing the absolute configuration of positions 4 and 6 in the lactonic acid (XIII). This acid is a common degradation product of methymycin, neomethymycin, pikromycin and narbomycin and there is thus available a standard of absolute configuration for these macrolide antibiotics. By a different sequence of reactions, erythromycin (XXIII) has been converted into (+)--methyllevulinic acid and (+)--methylsuccinic acid. Coupled with earlier results reported in the literature, it is now possible to assign absolute configurations to positions 10 (R) and 8 (R) of erythromycin and this applies most likely also to positions 4 (R) and 2 (S). Attention is called to the biogenetic significance of these observations.     

Synthesis of benzo-furan derivatives-I Karanj ketone, karanjin and pongapin

A new method of preparing benzo-furan derivatives using substituted allyl phenols has been worked out. Ozonolysis of the allyl derivatives and subsequent ring closure of the resulting o-hydroxy-acetaldehydes by means of o-phosphoric acid give good yields of karanj ketone, karanjin, pongapin and the corresponding 2-methyl furanochromone. As an alternative route oxidation of the allyl phenol in two stages using performing acid followed by periodic acid has been successfully employed in the synthesis of karanjin.     

Determination of bismuth by selenious acid

Summary Bismuth is shown to be precipitated quantitatively as bismuth selenite by boiling an almost neutral solution of bismuth nitrate and excess selenious acid. The excess H₂SeO₃ is determined iodometrically by standard thiosulphate or arsenious oxide solution. Alternatively, the precipitated selenite may be dried at 105–110° C and weighed as Bi₂(SeO₃)₃.Sincere thanks of the authors are due to Prof. S. S. Joshi for research facilities and to Dr. G. S. Deshmukh for keen interest in the work.     

Vanadametry

Summary We have found that sodium vanadate oxidises hydroxylamine quantitatively and rapidly to nitrous oxide, even at the room temperature, if the reaction is carried out in 5–6 N hydrochloric acid medium using copper sulphate as catalyst.One of the authors, K.Bhaskara Rao, desires to thank the Ministry of Education, Government of India, for the award of a ResearchScholarship, and the authorities of the Andhra University for providing the research facilities.See also Z. analyt. Chem.156, 180 (1957).     

用PCR技术检测生物硝化池污水中硝化细菌(Nitrobacteria)的研究

从生物硝化池污水水样中分离了硝化细菌ＤＮＡ,以其为模板,针对其１６ＳｒＲＮＡ基因及２３ＳｒＲＮＡ基因而设计合成了两对引物并分别进行了ＰＣＲ扩增,扩增产物的２％琼脂糖凝胶电泳结果显示,硝化细菌ＤＮＡ模板得到了特异性扩增．参照分子量标准（Ｍａｒｋｅｒ）的电泳结果,被扩增的ＤＮＡ条带大小分别约为４００ｂｐ和７３０ｂｐ．实验结果表明ＰＣＲ技术可用于污水中硝化细菌的快速检测