Circular dichroism of 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene derivatives reveals both the absolute configuration and conformation: a novel approach to Mislow's helicity rule

The absolute configuration and the conformation of 9,10-trans-disubstituted 9,10-dihydrophenanthrenes, known chiral metabolites of phenanthrene-9,10-oxide, have been determined by circular dichroism. The absolute configuration assignment is based on the sign of the long-wavelength Cotton effect (A-band), which is conformation invariant and originates from benzylic chirality. This provides a new interpretation of the Mislow biphenyl-helicity rule for the case of the 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene chromophore. The sign of the B-band Cotton effect reflects the conformation of the biphenyl chromophore in 9,10-dihydrophenanthrenes. It is shown that the origin of chiroptical properties of 9,10-dihydrophenanthrenes is closely related to those of 5,6-trans-disubstituted 1,3-cyclohexadienes.     

Comparison of low-order multireference many-body perturbation theories

Tests have been made to benchmark and assess the relative accuracies of low-order multireference perturbation theories as compared to coupled cluster (CC) and full configuration interaction (FCI) methods. Test calculations include the ground and some excited states of the Be, H(2), BeH(2), CH(2), and SiH(2) systems. Comparisons with FCI and CC calculations show that in most cases the effective valence shell Hamiltonian (H(v)) method is more accurate than other low-order multireference perturbation theories, although none of the perturbative methods is as accurate as the CC approximations. We also briefly discuss some of the basic differences among the multireference perturbation theories considered in this work.     

Ergodic properties of Markov maps inR d

Summary For domainsIR ^d (bounded or not) the notion of a Markov map fromI into itself is developed. It is shown that under a condition of Rényi type and the assumption that the map is Markov, any probability density tends inL ¹-norm to a unique invariant measure under the action of the Perron-Frobenius operatorP . The smoothness and ergodic properties of that invariant measure are studied. The paper generalizes results of Lasota and Yorke from dimension one to higher dimension.     

The influence of reverse energy transport on emission anisotropy in two-component viscous solutions

The effect of nonradiative reverse energy transport (NRET) in two donor-acceptor systems was studied experimentally. It was found that the NRET occurring in system I; rhodamine 6G (donor) and rhodamine B (acceptor), considerably lowers the emission anisotropy at medium and high concentrations. These results qualitatively confirm the predictions of the approximate theoretical approach of L. Kulak and C. Bojarski (see the preceding paper). In system II; rhodamine 6G (donor) and Nile Blue (acceptor), for which the NRET process does not occur, a good agreement with no-back-transport theory was obtained.     

Invariant measures ofC 2-diffeomorphisms of Markov type inR d

A class of uniformly expanding, piecewiseC ²-diffeomorphisms from domainsIR ^d (bounded or not) into themselves is considered. It is shown that the number of the extreme points of Fix (P )={gG:Pg=g} whereP is the Frobenius-Perron operator associated with andG={gL ¹: g0 g=1}, can be determined in an effective way. Moreover, it is shown that the sequence {P ^j g} is convergent inL ¹ for anygG, and in the topology of uniform convergence for anygG(1). The limit is a linear projectionR inL ¹ (defined by (3.1)) which mapsG onto Fix (P ) (see Th. 3.1).Dedicated to professor A. Lasota on the occasion of his 60th birthday     

The classification of differential structures on quantum 2-spheres

Exterior algebras of differential forms on quantum 2-spheresS _qc ² ,q[–1, 1]/{0},c[0, ] (c=0 forq=±1), are classified. In the definition of exterior algebras we assume the invariance w.r.t. the action of the quantumSU(2) group and dimensionality conditions (which imply that we deal with two-dimensional manifolds). The exterior algebras exist only forc=0 and are unique in that case. The corresponding generalized directional derivatives are provided.     

Non-smoothness of event horizons of Robinson-Trautman black holes

It is shown that generic small data Robinson-Trautman space-times cannot beC ¹²³ extended beyond the r=2m Schwarzschild-like event horizon. This implies that an observer living in such a space-time can determine by local measurements whether or not he has crossed the event-horizon of the black-hole.     

Suppression of deleterious effects of free silanols in liquid chromatography by imidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquids

Silica-based stationary phases are commonly used in liquid chromatography, but their surface acidity causes known problems, especially when separating basic compounds. Deleterious effects of free silanols are not fully removed by standard prevention procedures consisting in adding alkylamines or other amino quenchers to the eluents. We found that ionic liquids of the imidazolium tetrafluoroborate class, added to mobile phases at concentrations of 0.5-1.5% (v/v), blocked silanols and provided excellent thin-layer chromatographic separations of strongly basic drugs which were otherwise not eluted, even with neat acetonitrile as the mobile phase. The silanol suppressing potency of imidazolium tetrafluoroborates was demonstrated to markedly exceed that of the standard mobile phase additives, like triethylamine, dimethyloctylamine and ammonia. The proposed new mobile phase additives were also demonstrated to provide reliable lipophilicity parameters of base drug analytes as determined by gradient mode of high-performance liquid chromatography. By applying the readily available and environmentally friendly imidazolium tetrafluoroborate ionic liquids, simple and efficient means of improvement of liquid chromatographic analysis of organic bases were elaborated.     

Thermal properties of poly-N-vinylcarbazole derivatives

Thermal studies were carried out on some products of chemical modification of poly-N-vinylcarbazole (PNVC). The effect of a substituent introduced into the carbazole ring on the thermal stability of the polymers was investigated. The kinetic parameters of the thermal degradation process were computed.

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Zusammenfassung An chemisch modifizierten Produkten von Poly-N-Vinylkarbazol (PNVC) wurden thermische Untersuchungen durchgeführt, sowie der Effekt eines in den Karbazolring eingeführten Substituenten auf die thermische Stabilität des Polymers untersucht. Weiterhin wurden die kinetischen Parameter des Zersetzungsprozesses errechnet.

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