Generation and reactions of substituted phenide anions in an electrospray triple quadrupole mass spectrometer

Substituted benzoic acid anions undergo decarboxylation in the medium-pressure region of an electrospray ion source yielding in most cases the correspondingly substituted phenide anions in high yield. The location of the anionic center is specified by the position of the carboxylic group. The only exceptions are compounds with substituents containing acidic hydrogen atoms, like OH and NH(2) groups. For such compounds, either an intra- or an intermolecular (mediated by the molecules of methanol or water) proton transfer from the more acidic position to the benzene ring is observed. The generated anions can be selected using the first quadrupole for studying their ion-molecule chemistry in the second quadrupole of a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. Their reactions with CO(2), O(2), CH(3)COCH(3) and CCl(4) may serve as typical examples. The general applicability of this method for the generation of phenide anions has been confirmed on three different mass spectrometers. Experiments performed using carboxylic acids other then benzoic acid and its derivatives show that this method is not limited to phenide anions and can be used for the generation of a much wider range of carbanions in the gas phase.     

Synthesis of Open-Chain 2,3-Disubstituted 4-nitroketones by Diastereoselective Michael-addition of (E)-Enamines to (E)-Nitroolefins. A topological rule for C,C-bond forming processes between prochiral centres. Preliminary communication

The Michael-additions of aliphatic, alicyclic, and arylsubstituted nitroolefins and enamines lead to γ-nitroketones 3 in good chemical and excellent (> 90%) diastereomeric yields (see Table 1). The known threo-configuration of one type of adducts 3 (entries 8, 10, and 11 of Table 1) can be arrived at by assuming the approach 8 of the Michael-acceptor and -donor; the reaction follows a topological rule, which is formulated and which is applicable to such diverse reactions as the diene synthesis, cyclopropanations, carbonyl olefinations and methylenations, aldol- and nitroaldol-type additions, as well as additions of lithium, boron, and chromium derivatives to aldehydes (see 9 , 10 , 11 , and Table 2).     

Properties and analytical application of chlorpromazine picrate

In neutral medium, picric acid (PA) reacts with chlorpromazine (CPM) hydrochloride with the formation of an orange compound, sparingly soluble in water, of molar ratio PA:CPM = 1:1. The compound is thermally stable up to a temperature of about 200 degrees C. The m.p. (178 degrees C) can be used for identification of picric acid as well as of chlorpromazine hydrochloride. Chlorpromazine picrate is extracted quantitatively with benzene, and the extract can be used for colorimetric determination of chlorpromazine hydrochloride. Beer's law is obeyed in the CPM concentration range 10-60 mug/ml.     

High-Temperature Adsorption of n-Octane, Benzene, and Chloroform onto Silica Gel Surface

A model for the steady laminar flow of an incompressible fluid through a deformable gel-coated channel with slowly varying tapered shape is presented. Previous work has shown that the flow rate through such a channel is less than that which would be expected from the Hagen-Poiseuille equation (1973, J. Lahav, N. Eliezer, and A. Silberberg, Biorheology 10, 595; 1979, P. Krindel and A. Silberberg, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 71, 39). Krindel and Silberberg also observed the onset of turbulent flow at lower rates than would normally be expected; they attributed these phenomena to a turbulent boundary layer near the channel walls. Our analysis shows that the rate reduction is in fact due to kinetic energy effects related to the converging flowlines. A model to describe this rate reduction is presented and is shown to agree well with experimental results, successfully predicting the observed flow rate reduction over Reynolds numbers ranging from 1 to 1000. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.     

Discrete mechanics and its application to the solution of the n-body problem

A theory of discrete mechanics is developed based on the results of D. Greenspan. Discrete dynamical equations in an inertial frame, in a coordinate system related to some material point, and in a rotating frame are given and the consistency, stability, and convergence of the methods are studied and some numerical examples presented.     

Isotope exchange between U/III/ and U/IV/ in the HCl-TBP extraction system

The measurement of the isotope-exchange reaction between U/IV/ in the organic phase and U/III/ in the aqueous phase in the extraction systems: 7-8M HCl—5–40% TBP /aromatic diluent or CCL₄/ were made. The high rate of exchange with the rate constant >10²M^–1min^–1 was observed.     

Application of Discrete Wavelet Transform in the Analysis of Nonlinear Chemical System

Oscillations of species concentration are phenomena accompanying several types of electrochemical and purely chemical processes. Importance of analyzing of such processes results from both scientific and practical reasons. In the paper the authors deal with investigation of time dependent spectra of various stages of Belousov-Zhabotinsky type chemical oscillations. As the analytical tool the discrete wavelet transform is proposed.     

Note on vertex degrees of planar graphs

In this note the second moment of the vertex degree sequence of planar graphs is considered. We prove that

• 1 If G is an outerplanar graph of order n ? 3 then

• 2 If G is a planar graph of order n ? 4 then

where d₁,…,d_n is the vertex degree sequence of G. We exhibit all graphs for which these upper bounds are attained.     

Application of the ellipsoid method in an interactive procedure for multicriteria linear programming

The research reported in this paper is concerned with an application of the ellipsoid algorithm in the interactive multicriteria linear programming step method (STEM) byBenayoun et al. [1971]. Due to this application we eliminate some drawbacks of the original version of STEM and, moreover, we avoid extra computations connected with sensitivity analysis in every iteration. Specifically, we use the ellipsoid algorithm to minimize the Euclidean norm in the criterion space instead of the Chebyshev norm, which ensures that every solution submitted to the decision maker is efficient. As follows from a computational experiment, in comparison with the application of the simplex method, the proposed modification of STEM shows a smaller increase of the computational effort when the number of criteria increases. However, the absolute computation time becomes worse for problems of larger size.

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Zusammenfassung In dieser Arbeit wird über eine Anwendungsmöglichkeit der Khachiyan-Shor-Algorithmus (Ellipsoid-Algorithmus) im Rahmen des STEM-Verfahrens zur interaktiven Lösung linearer Vektoroptimierungsmodelle berichtet. Auf diese Weise können einige spezifische Nachteile des STEM-Verfahrens in seiner Originalversion vermieden werden. Durch die Verwendung der Euklidischen Norm anstelle der beim STEM-Verfahren üblichen Tschebyscheff-Norm wird garantiert, daß dem Entscheidungsträger nur effiziente Lösungen vorgeschlagen werden. Die numerischen Erfahrungen zeigen, daß der Lösungsaufwand der hier vorgeschlagenen Modifikation des STEM-Verfahrens mit steigender Anzahl von Zielfunktionen weniger stark zunimmt als bei der üblichen Version. Dies gilt jedoch nicht hinsichtlich der allgemeinen Problemgröße.

     

Uniqueness and the global Markov property for Euclidean fields: The case of general exponential interaction

The uniqueness and the global Markov property for the regular Gibbs measure corresponding to the interaction $$U_\Lambda (\varphi ): = \lambda \int\limits_\Lambda {d_2 x\int {d\varrho (\alpha ):e^{\alpha \varphi } :_0 (x)} } $$ [forλ>0,d?(α) a probability measure with support in \(( - 2\sqrt {\pi ,} 2\sqrt \pi )\) ] is proved.