Kerr constants and conformations of certain arylmethylsulfones

Conclusions The conformations of the arylmethylsulfones in solution are such that the plane of the aromatic ring is shielded by one of the SO bonds.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2693–2696, December, 1976.The authors would like to thank G. Ya. Cheryukanova for aid in this work.     

Some spectrofluorimetric applications of the cerium(IV)-cerium(III) system

Cerium(III) ions in dilute sulphuric acid medium exhibit a characteristic fluorescence which has its excitation maximum at 260 nm and its fluorescence emission maximum at 350 nm. By utilising the osmium-catalysed redox reaction between cerium(IV) and arsenic(III), microgram amounts of arsenic (7.5–37.5 μg) may be determined by spectrofluorimetric measurement of the ceriurm(III) produced. The principle may be applied to the determination of several other ions which cannot yet be determined by direct spectrofluorimetry, e.g.. Fe(II) (5.6–28 μg), oxalate (8.8–44μg). Osmium(VIII) (0.05–0.2 μg) and iodide (0.6–2.5 μg) may be determined by their catalytic action.     

Heat of formation of yttrium-bismuth alloys

In the Y—Bi system the formation heats were measured using a direct isoperibol calorimeter. The following values were found for the two known compounds: