Thermodynamic quantities for the interaction of SO 4 2− with H+ and Na+ in aqueous solution from 150 to 320°C

The aqueous reactions,

Dicholorbenzyl alkyl ether homologs as retention index markers and internal standards for the analysis of environmental samples using capillary gas chromatography

A homologous series of 2,4-dichlorobenzyl alkyl ethers (DCBEs) have been synthesized and purified for use as retention index calibrants and internal standards. They are stable, sensitive to ECD and FID and ideal for GC-MS, with base peaks at m/z 159/161. The retention index calibration against the n-alkanes for a linear temperature program (LTP) series is given and recommendations made for the most suitable members of the DCBE series for use as internal standards in organochlorine (OC) residue analysis.     

Rapid clean-up of fat extracts for organophosphorus pesticide residue determination using C18 solid-phase extraction cartridges

Commercial solid-phase extraction (SPE) cartridges with C₁₈ bonded silica packings effectively cleaned up acetonitrile extracts of 3-g samples of fats and oils for determination of organophosphorus pesticide residues by gas chromatography with flame photometric detection. Cartridges from three different sources were tested and found to differ in lipid capacity and inertness (free silanol activity). Consequently, the amount of packing (i.e., number of cartridges) and/or the choice of eluent used were adjusted for each brand of cartridge to achieve optimum clean-up and analyte recovery. Seven pesticides with a wide range of polarity (acephate, azodrin, chlorpyrifos, diazinon, malathion, methamidophos and methyl parathion) were separated from coextracted lipids by elution with either acetonitrile or methanol, depending on the brand of cartridge used. Cartridges were regenerated by purging lipids with dichloromethane and were reused numerous times without apparent loss of effectiveness. Recoveries from vegetable oils and butterfat fortified with the seven compounds at levels of 0.05–0.87 μg g^?1 ranged from 80 to 103%. Practical limits of determination range from 0.01 to 0.08 μg g^?1, depending on analyte response.     

Biological applications of amide and amino acid containing synthetic macrocycles

ABSTRACT

Amino acid derived macrocycles with elaborate well-defined stereochemistry are a unique class of compounds that have been isolated from natural sources. Macrocycles like cyclosporine, octreotide, and valinomycin have been used in multiple applications, like drugs or ion sensors. Chemists have long been fascinated by the unique molecular recognition capabilities of these macrocycles and tried to design synthetic analogs with similar functions. This article is focused on reviewing current research on amide and amino acid containing macrocycles that have been developed in research laboratories for biological recognition, specifically for anion sensing, ion transport, carbohydrate sensing, and peptide sensing.     

The New Test Method for High Velocity Water Jet Impact

Paper presents a simple method of generating a high-speed short water jet (droplet) by over-compression of the water layer sandwiched between bars with high acoustic impedance. The proposed method allows the creation of short high-speed water jets (droplets) with extremely simple and inexpensive equipment. Theoretically, jets with speeds higher than 1500?m/sec can be generated by this method.     

Structural and energetic properties of RMX3-NH3 complexes

We have explored the structural and energetic properties of a series of RMX₃-NH₃ (M=Si, Ge; X=F, Cl; R=CH₃, C₆H₅) complexes using density functional theory and low-temperature infrared spectroscopy. In the minimum-energy structures, the NH₃ binds axially to the metal, opposite a halogen, while the organic group resides in an equatorial site. Remarkably, the primary mode of interaction in several of these systems seems to be hydrogen bonding (C-H--N) rather than a tetrel (N→M) interaction. This is particularly clear for the RMCl₃-NH₃ complexes, and analyses of the charge distributions of the acid fragment corroborate this assessment. We also identified a set of metastable geometries in which the ammonia binds opposite the organic substituent in an axial orientation. Acid fragment charge analyses also provide a clear rationale as to why these configurations are less stable than the minimum-energy structures. Matrix-isolation infrared spectra provide clear evidence for the occurrence of the minimum-energy form of CH₃SiCl₃–NH₃, but analogous results for CH₃GeCl₃–NH₃ are less conclusive. Computational scans of the M-N distance potentials for CH₃SiCl₃–NH₃ and CH₃GeCl₃–NH₃, both in the gas phase and bulk dielectric media, reveal a great deal of anharmonicity and a propensity for condensed-phase structural change.     

The flat model structure on

Given a cotorsion pair in an abelian category with enough objects and enough objects, we define two cotorsion pairs in the category of unbounded chain complexes. We see that these two cotorsion pairs are related in a nice way when is hereditary. We then show that both of these induced cotorsion pairs are complete when is the ``flat' cotorsion pair of -modules. This proves the flat cover conjecture for (possibly unbounded) chain complexes and also gives us a new ``flat' model category structure on . In the last section we use the theory of model categories to show that we can define using a flat resolution of and a cotorsion coresolution of .

     

An example in the theory of -operators

-operators are a generalization in the context of well-boundedness of normal operators on Hilbert space. It was shown by Doust and Walden that compact -operators have a representation as a conditionally convergent sum reminiscent of the spectral representations for compact normal operators. In this representation, the eigenvalues must be taken in a particular order to ensure convergence of the sum. Here we show that one cannot replace the ordering given by Doust and Walden by the more natural one suggested in their paper.