Ab initio calculations employing the STO-3G basis set are used to obtain the relative energies of the benzene valence isomers and some selected monosubstituted derivatives. We find that 3,3'-bicyclopropenyl, the least stable of the five (CH)6 examined, is slightly more stable in the anti conformation than the gauche (Φ = 45°) conformation in agreement with experiment. Substituents are calculated to produce significant changes in the relative energies of the benzene valence isomers. The ground-state isomerization of 1-Dewar benzeneearbinyl cation to benzyl cation is more exothermic than the aromatization of Dewar benzene, but is, in contrast to the latter, symmetry-allowed. 相似文献
Detection of single molecules, particles, and rapid redox events is a challenge of electrochemical investigations and requires either an amplification strategy or significant averaging for the electrochemical current to exceed the noise level. We consider the minimum number of electrons required to reach the limit of quantification in these electrochemical measurements. A survey of the literature indicates that the state-of-the-art limit in current detection for different types of measurements (e.g. voltammetry, single-molecule redox cycling, ion channel recordings of single molecules, metal nanoparticle collision, and phase nucleation) is independent of the nature of the measurement and increases linearly with reciprocal response time, Δt?1, over ~5 orders of magnitude (from ~10 to ~106 s?1). We demonstrate that the practical limit of quantification requires cumulative measurement of ~2100 electrons during Δt and is determined by statistics of counting electrons, that is, the shot noise in the current. 相似文献
The Thermal Behaviour of Caesiumchloroferrates(III) and Caesiumehloroferrate(III) Hydrates. II. The Rehydration of Decomposition Products of Cs3[FeCl6] — A Raman Spectroscopic Study under Definite Atmosphere of Water Vapour Cs3[FeCl6] formed by dehydration of Cs3[FeCl6] · H2O at about 160°C does not change at normal atmosphere within 3 till 4 hours. Rehydration under the vapour pressure of the eliminated water yields the monohydrate in nearly the same time. In the same manner rehydration of the solid mixture of Cs[FeCl4] and 2 CsCl formed by thermal decomposition of the metastable Cs3[FeCl6] (280°C) produces the intermediates Cs3[Fe2Cl9] and Cs2[Fe(H2O)Cl5] in mixtures with CsCl and, finally, Cs3[FeCl6] · H2O. The formation of Cs3[Fe2Cl9] from Cs[FeCl4] and CsCl is accelerated by water. The reaction cycle has been studied using Raman and IR spectroscopy. The results will be discussed with respect to thermoanalytical data. 相似文献
As(III) displays a wide range of effects in cellular chemistry. Surprisingly, the structural consequences of arsenic binding to peptides and proteins are poorly understood. This study utilizes model alpha-helical peptides containing two cysteine (Cys) residues in various sequential arrangements and spatial locations to study the structural effects of arsenic binding. With i, and i + 1, i + 2, or i + 3 arrangements, CD spectroscopy shows that As(III) coordination causes helical destabilization when Cys residues are located at central or C-terminal regions of the helix. Interestingly, arsenic binding to i, i + 3 positions results in the elimination of helical structure and the formation of a relatively stable alternate fold. In contrast, helical stabilization is observed for peptides containing i, i + 4 Cys residues, with corresponding pseudo pairwise interaction energies (Delta G(pw) degrees) of -1.0 and -0.7 kcal/mol for C-terminal and central placements, respectively. Binding affinities and association rate constants show that As(III) binding is comparatively insensitive to the location of the Cys residues within these moderately stable helices. These data demonstrate that As(III) binding can be a significant modulator of helical secondary structure. 相似文献
Generating high surface area mesoporous transition metal boride is interesting because the incorporation of boron atoms generates lattice distortions that lead to the formation of amorphous metal boride with unique properties in catalysis. Here we report the first synthesis of mesoporous cobalt boron amorphous alloy colloidal particles using a soft template-directed assembly approach. Dual reducing agents are used to precisely control the chemical reduction process of mesoporous cobalt boron nanospheres. The Earth-abundance of cobalt boride combined with the high surface area and mesoporous nanoarchitecture enables solar-energy efficient photothermal conversion of CO2 into CO compared to non-porous cobalt boron alloys and commercial cobalt catalysts.Generating high surface area mesoporous transition metal boride is challenging but interesting because incorporation of boron atoms can generate lattice distortion to form amorphous metal boride which has unique properties in catalysis.相似文献
Arsenic Iodochlorides The immediate formation of the ternaric halides in equilibrium is observed if AsCl3 and AsI3 are mixed in an inert solvent (CCl4, CS2). By photometric measurements at 381 nm the concentration of AsI3 should be determined in the mixture while c was determined by gaschromatography. A new absorption band at 345 nm is assigned to arsenic iodochlorides. As from the calculated equilibrium constants follows the preferred formation of AsICl2, the new absorption band at 345 nm is assigned to this compound. 相似文献
For any prime,p, we construct a Cayley graph on the group,G, of affine linear transformations ofℤ/pℤ of degree 2(p−1) and second eigenvalue
with the following special property: the adjacency matrix of the graph is supported on the “blocks” associated to the trivial
representation and the irreducible representation of sizep−1. SinceG is of orderp(p−1), the correspondingt-uniform Cayley hypergraph has essentially optimal second eigenvalue for this degree and size of the graph (see [2] for definitions).
En route we give, for any integerk>1, a simple Cayley graph onpk nodes of degreep of second eigenvalue
.
The author wishes to acknowledge the National Science Foundation for supporting this research in part under Grant CCR-8858788,
and the Office of Naval Research under Grant N00014-87-K-0467. 相似文献
We investigate the statistics of the numberN(R, S) of lattice pointsnZ2, in an annular domain (R, w)=(R+w)A\RA, whereR, w>0. HereA is a fixed convex set with smooth boundary andw is chosen so that the area of (R, w) isS. The statistics comes fromR being taken as random (with a smooth density) in some interval [c1T,c2,T],c2>c1>0. We find that in the limitT the variance and distribution of N=N(R; S)–S depend strongly on howS grows withT. There is a saturation regimeS/T, asT, in which the fluctuations in N coming from the two boundaries of are independent. Then there is a scaling regime,S/Tz, 0<z<, in which the distribution depends onz in an almost periodic way going to a Gaussian asz0. The variance in this limit approachesz for genericA, but can be larger for degenerate cases. The former behavior is what one would expect from the Poisson limit of a distribution for annuli of finite area. 相似文献
Despite their seeming simplicity, substituted guanidines have not particularly caught the attention of the thermochemical community. The current paper compares the enthalpy of formation of solid substituted guanidines with correspondingly substituted benzenes, also as solids. 相似文献