External magnetic field effect on viscometer efflux times or calf thymus DNA in 0.0172 M KCI solution during the thermal denaturation process

Experiments show that during the thermal DNA denaturation process an applied magnetic field of 10 kG increases the shear viscosity (measured efflux time) of calf thymus DNA in 0.0172 M KCI solution over the viscosity of the same solution at the ambient earth field (or “no” field) condition. There is also observed an increase (although slight, about 0.1°C) in the thermal denaturation temperature of the process.     

Janus-type isopropyl groups revealed by 1H-NMR spectra of alkylpyridines with lanthanide shift reagents (LSR)

Two Isomeric pyridines were designed and prepared : 2-isopropyl-4,5,6-trimethyl-(3) and 2-isopropyl-3,4,6-trimethyl-pyridine (7); the latter, with a buttressed isopropyl, leads to much lower induced shifts by Eu(dpm)₃ and Pr(dpm)₃ than the former, owing to the conformation in which the Janus-type iPr group how to the LSR a t-butyl-like face.     

Unique description of chemical structures based on hierarchically ordered extended connectivities (HOC procedures). III. Topological,chemical, and stereochemical coding of molecular structure

A topological code is devised on the basis of the unique topological representation of the molecule described in the preceding two parts of this series.¹ By adding to the topological code additional chemical information on atoms and/or bonds, as well as stereochemical information, a chemical and respectively stereochemical code (SHOC) are also constructed. The advantages of the new linear codes are that they are convention-free codes, preserving the symmetry of molecular graph, and easily implemented either manually or by means of computer programs. By concentrating all topological, chemical, and stereochemical information, our code (SHOC) is more compact and more general than the codes based on several separate lists.     

Partitioning of <Emphasis Type="Italic">π</Emphasis> -electrons in rings of polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons: Part 6. Comparison with other methods for estimating the local aromaticity of rings in polycyclic benzenoids

By adopting the convention that shared double bonds in polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons contribute with one -electron and unshared ones with two -electrons, a partition of -electrons in each ring (-electron content, EC) can be obtained by averaging over all Kekulé structures, which are assumed to have equal weights. This affords a simple measure of local aromaticity that is comparable with other such local aromaticity indices in polycyclic benzenoids.     

Graph-theoretical analysis of the bonding topology in polyhedral organic cations

It is shown that in several cases where planar delocalisation in organic cations would result in the formation of an anti-aromatic system, polyhedral delocalisation is the form of bonding actually preferred. This explains, for instance, why organic cations in such cases adopt cage-like structures. A full graph-theoretical analysis, similar to one previously published¹² for polyhedral boranes, carboranes and metal clusters, indicates that the nido structure for (CH)₅⁺ may readily be accounted for. Moreover, in the case of the dication (CH)₆²⁺ the fact that its energy minimum also corresponds to a nido structure is explained. In fact, no closo- or arachno-type structures appear to be possible for organic cations. A number of structural predictions concerning these species are given in the conclusion.     

Gear effect—10 : Conformational aspects of the positive or negative buttressing effects of methyl groups: polymethylpyridines

The effect of the shape of a methyl group on reactivity, which cannot be accounted for by considering a methyl group as a spherical substituent with the appropriate van der Waals radius, was considered in kinetics of alkylalion of substituted pyridines and barriers to rotation and ground state conformations of an isopropyl group attached to a planar framework. The perturbation of a methyl group by an o-methyl group is accounted for by a unique conformational explanation which involves the polyhedral shape of the methyl group.     

Homogenization heat treatment and segregation analysis of equiaxed CMSX-4 superalloy for gas turbine components

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Two new zinc(II) coordination compounds have been synthesized by the reaction of diazine-ring containing Schiff bases di(2-pyridyl) ketone...     

New Route of Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Carbon-Supported Nickel Phosphide (C/Ni2P) Nanocomposite

Abstract

A novel, fast, and easy method for synthesizing a carbon-supported Ni₂P nanocomposite (C/Ni₂P) is described. The process involves a reaction between a nickel salt, phosphoric acid, and a carbon source by utilizing microwave irradiation. The carbon source for the nanocomposite is from renewable supplies, namely, tannin and lignin. The method has successfully synthesized Ni₂P nanoparticles dispersed in a carbon matrix with a particle size ranging from 20 to 50 nm in diameter. During the microwave process, tannin and lignin provided a reducing environment in the microwave irradiation process. The synthesized products are characterized by several characterization methods. The method showed that phosphoric acid, which is a nontoxic compound, could be used as an alternative P source for synthesizing Ni₂P. The method is fast, easy, and an economical process to synthesize the carbon-coated Ni₂P nanocomposite.     

Markov processes conditioned on their location at large exponential times

Suppose that ${\left(X_t\right)}_{t\ge 0}$ is a one-dimensional Brownian motion with negative drift $?\mu$. It is possible to make sense of conditioning this process to be in the state 0 at an independent exponential random time and if we kill the conditioned process at the exponential time the resulting process is Markov. If we let the rate parameter of the random time go to 0, then the limit of the killed Markov process evolves like $X$ conditioned to hit 0, after which time it behaves as $X$ killed at the last time $X$ visits 0. Equivalently, the limit process has the dynamics of the killed “bang–bang” Brownian motion that evolves like Brownian motion with positive drift $+\mu$ when it is negative, like Brownian motion with negative drift $?\mu$ when it is positive, and is killed according to the local time spent at 0.An extension of this result holds in great generality for a Borel right process conditioned to be in some state $a$ at an exponential random time, at which time it is killed. Our proofs involve understanding the Campbell measures associated with local times, the use of excursion theory, and the development of a suitable analogue of the “bang–bang” construction for a general Markov process.As examples, we consider the special case when the transient Borel right process is a one-dimensional diffusion. Characterizing the limiting conditioned and killed process via its infinitesimal generator leads to an investigation of the $h$-transforms of transient one-dimensional diffusion processes that goes beyond what is known and is of independent interest.