Zum mechanismus des strahlenchemischen abbaus von polytetrafluorethylen

The present work studies the changes in polymer structure and the mechanism of the decomposition of polytetrafluoroethylene resin (PTFE) exposed to high energy radiation (electron beam). Spectroscopic and kinetic observations are used to interpret the degradation process. For the first time the decomposition of PTFE has been carried out on a preparative scale and new results obtained by analysing the degradation products. The radiation-induced degradation of PTFE is accompanied by thermal degradation under certain irradiation conditions. This is due to an increase in temperature of the polymer caused by retardation of highly accelerated electrons (heat accumulation effect).The kinetics are discussed in terms of the reactions and recombination of radicals produced by high-energy radiation both in the polymer melt and the polymer surface. These are related to the overall rate of decomposition.The primary radicals formed by decomposition of PTFE in an inert atmosphere (N₂, Ar) react to produce perfluorinated alkanes and alkenes. In the presence of reactive gases the decomposition fragments originated will react rapidly; e.g. if oxygen is present in the reactive area the radicals form perflourinated peroxyl and oxyl radicals which finally stabilize themselves by CC-scission to perfluorocarbon acid fluorides and carbonyldifluorides.     

Eine neue Methode zur Bestimmung des spezifischen Kaliumpermanganatverbrauches von Humins?uren

Zusammenfassung Es wird eine indirekte Methode zur Bestimmung des spezifischen Kaliumpermanganatverbrauches von Huminsäuren beschrieben. Die Huminsäuren werden mit einer 0,01 m Blei(II)-nitratlösung gefällt und der gebildete Pb-Huminsäure-Niederschlag ausgewogen. Aus dem PbGehalt und dem Kaliumpermanganatverbrauch des Pb-HuminsäureKomplexes ergibt sich der Kaliumpermanganatverbrauch pro Milligramm Huminsäure. Im Gegensatz zu Eisen(III)-chlorid verändert Blei(II)nitrat die Oxydierbarkeit der Huminsäuren nicht, so daß indirekt und direkt bestimmter spezifischer Kaliumpermanganatverbrauch übereinstimmen.Es wurden die spezifischen Kaliumpermanganatverbrauchswerte von zwei Huminsäuren bekannter Oxydierbarkeit (Fluka-Humussäure und Moorwasser-Huminsäure) und von Huminsäuren aus 3 natürlichen Wässern bestimmt. Die Fehlerbereiche der Mittelwerte betragen bei den Modellsubstanzen (je 15 Analysenwerte) ±4% (Huminsäure Fluka) bzw. ±3% (Moorwasser-Huminsäure) und bei den praktischen Analysen ±4% ±11% bzw. ±7% des jeweiligen Mittelwertes.

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Summary An indirect method for the determination of the specific permanganate consumption of humic acids is described. The humic acids are precipitated by 0,01 M lead(II)nitrate and the precipitate of lead-humic acid is weighed. The permanganate consumption per mg humic acid results from the lead-content and the permanganate consumption of the lead-humic acid complex. As opposed to ferric chloride lead(II) nitrate does not change the oxidizability of humic acids; hence, indirectly and directly determined permanganate consumption equal each other. — The values of the specific permanganate consumption of two humic acids of known oxidizability and of three samples of humic acids isolated from natural water-sources are determined. The limit of error of the mean values is between ±3% and ±11%.

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Wir danken Frl. Roswitha Raspe und Frau Helga Boje für fleißige technische Mitarbeit.     

Penetration and Crosslinking of Macromolecules

One of the topical problems of macromolecular chemistry is the question of the extent to which macromolecules in solution or in the amorphous solid state can engage in mutual interpenetration. The present article is concerned primarily with recent investigations on cross-linking copolymerization and with inter-and intramolecular reactions of polymers as a contribution to the study of molecular shape.     

Simple spectrophotometric determination of Fe in oxalate and HCl soil extracts

We describe a spectrophotometric method to determine the sum of Fe(II) plus Fe(III) in HCl and oxalate extracts. The principle of the method is to reduce Fe(III) by ascorbate in near-neutral solution and to sequester the Fe(II) formed as a tri-ferrozine complex, which is then determined photometrically at 562 nm. Because the complex is stable, the reaction is irreversible and complete. Fe(III) in HCl solution reacted very rapidly, whereas oxalate decelerated the overall reaction so that pseudo first-order kinetics with respect to Fe(III) was detected. However, when extractions were conducted at the recommended soil:solution ratio, the absorption reached 98% of its final value within a few minutes. To test the method, four soils differing considerably in texture and carbonate, organic matter, and Fe(III)(hydr)oxide contents were extracted with oxalate in the dark for amorphous (Fe(o)), and with boiling oxalate for total Fe(III)(hydr)oxide (Fe(bo)). This newly developed spectrophotometric method showed excellent correspondence with the conventional atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) method. The method presented here can therefore be used as an alternative method to determine the Fe content of oxalate and hydrochloric acid extracts if AAS is not available. Oxalate extracts low in Fe content, which cannot be diluted, are easier to determine by the photometric method than by AAS.     

Zur Dünnschicht-Chromatographie von zinnorganischen Verbindungen

With the aid of thinlayer chromatography mixtures of tetraorganotin compounds containing no polar groups can be separated and identified if they differ in the number of phenyl groups per molecule or in the nature of their aliphatic residues (alkyl or allyl). For analytical purposes mixtures of 80% hexane and 20% benzene by volume are suitable as mobile phase. For preparative purposes (requiring multiple development) pure hexane or hexane containing 10 to 20% benzene by volume are best suited as mobile phase, where the amount of hexane depends on the problem of separation at hand. The R_f values of the mobile phases vary linearly with the number of the phenyl groups x and decrease with increasing x. The straight lines connecting the R_f values cross at x=4 (tetraphenyltin). Dithizone and silver nitrate are suitable spray reagents for organotin compounds. By spraying the plates with dithizone tetra-, tri-, and di-organotin compounds can be immediately distinguished on the basis of the ensuing colourations. With silver nitrate allyltin compounds and polystannanes can be distinguished from alkyltin compounds; tetra-phenyltin is not coloured by this reagent.     

Serial potentiometric and conductometric detection in fast non-suppressed ion chromatography applied to the analysis of filter collected airborne particulates

Non-suppressed ion chromatography (NSIC) has been optimized to permit the determination of chloride, nitrate and sulfate in the low mg/l concentration range within 3 min. Using conductometric detection the extraneous (positive) injection peak was found to adversely affect the early eluting chloride signal when samples with high amounts of total cations are analyzed. The serial arrangement of a downstream potentiometric detector with a chloride ion selective electrode, which does not respond to other alterations of the composition of the eluent than the change in chloride concentrations, is shown to be suitable for interference-free, sensitive and reliable chloride evaluation. Application of the proposed system to the determination of chloride in extracts of filter collected airborne particulates revealed (for those samples that could be evaluated by both detection methods) high precision and no systematic deviations between conductometric and potentiometric detection.Dedicated to Professor Dr. Peter Brätter on the occasion of his 60th birthday     

Use of chelating resins and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for simultaneous determination of trace and major elements in small volumes of saline water samples

For some saline environments (e.g. deeply percolating groundwater, interstitial water in marine sediments, water sample collected after several steps of fractionation) the volume of water sample available is limited. A technique is presented which enables simultaneous determination of major and trace elements after preconcentration of only 60 mL sample on chelating resins. Chelex-100 and Chelamine were used for the preconcentration of trace elements (Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn, Sc) and rare earth elements (La, Ce, Nd, Yb) from saline water before their measurement by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Retention of the major elements (Na, Ca, Mg) by the Chelamine resin was lower than by Chelex; this enabled their direct measurement in the solution after passage through the resin column. For trace metal recoveries both resins yield the same mass balance. Only Chelex resin enabled the quantitative recovery of rare earth elements. The major elements, trace metals and rare earth elements cannot be measured after passage through one resin only. The protocol proposes the initial use of Chelamine for measurement of trace and major elements and then passage the same sample through the Chelex resin for determination of the rare earth elements. The detection limit ranged from 1 to 12 pg mL(-1). At concentrations of 1 ng mL(-1) of trace metals and REE spiked in coastal water the precision for 10 replicates was in the range of 0.3-3.4% (RSD). The accuracy of the method was demonstrated by analyzing two standard reference waters, SLRS-3 and CASS-3.