Expanded scope in ethylene-alkyne cross-metathesis: coordinating heteroatom functionality at the propargylic position

The Grubbs 1,3-dimesityl-4,5-dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene-substituted ruthenium complex 1 catalyzed ethylene-alkyne cross-metathesis and was shown to tolerate free hydroxyl groups and coordinating functionality at the propargylic and homopropargylic positions. Hindered and enantiomerically enriched 1-substituted alkynes also react efficiently under the reported conditions.     

MEASUREMENT OF THE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF THE FLUORESCENCE QUANTUM YIELD OF ORGANIC MOLECULES IN SOLUTION

A DETAILED investigation of the temperature dependence of the fluorescence quantum yield φ_f can yield–directly or indirectly–significant information about behavior of excited states of organic molecules, such as the temperature effect on radiationless transitions and on photochemical reactivity. Variation of the temperature changes the viscosity of the solvent and, in conjunction with measurements of φ_f( T ), allows investigations of diffusion-controlled processes. For example, energy transfer and quenching processes as well as excimer or exciplex formation fall into this category. Recent review articles by Weller (1962) and Birks (1970) deal with this topic. Moreover, Huber and Mantulin (1972) have suggested that restraints placed upon geometric modifications of the excited molecule by temperature-induced changes in the solvent cage (variation of site structure) are reflected in a varying φ_f.
The purpose of this note is to describe and verify a simple procedure, accurate to about ± 5%, for measuring the relative fluorescence quantum yield as a function of temperature. A quantum yield study of 9,10-diphenylanthracene between room temperature and 77°K is employed to demonstrate the capabilities of this method. In addition, we consider an example of diffusion-controlled quenching by oxygen measured over a wide temperature range.     

Eine neue Methode zur Ermittlung der Zusammensetzung schwacher Komplexe

Zusammenfassung Die Zusammensetzung schwacher Komplexe der Form AB _n — wobei n auch ein Bruch sein kann — läßt sich mit den heute üblichen Methoden nur ungenau oder sogar überhaupt nicht ermitteln. Es wird eine neue Methode beschrieben, bei der zu einer konstanten Menge der Komponente A steigende Mengen der Komponente B hinzugesetzt werden und eine, der Menge des gebildeten Komplexes AB _n proportionale Größe beobachtet wird. Aus den Meßwerten werden bestimmte Funktionen gebildet, die in einem passend gewählten Koordinatensystem nur dann als gerade Linien erscheinen, wenn ein Parameter identisch mit dem Werte n ist.Es werden Beispiele für die Ermittlung der Zusammensetzungsverhältnisse 11, 12 und 13 gebracht.Die Methode ist nicht nur bei schwachen Komplexen, sondern auch bei stärker dissoziierten Verbindungen anwendbar. Auch die Koeffizienten einer Redoxgleichung lassen sich in speziellen Fällen auf diese Weise ermitteln.Für die Durchführung dieser Arbeit wurden dankenswerterweise Forschungsmittel aus dem ERP-Sondervermögen bereitgestellt.Dem Verbande der Chemischen Industrie und der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, die diese Arbeit unterstützt haben, danke ich bestens.     

Potentiometric Determination of Ascorbic Acid: Estimation of Its Contribution to the Total Antioxidant Capacity of Plant Materials

It was found that an iodine-modified platinum electrode gives a linear potentiometric response to 1.0 × 10^–5 to 1.0 × 10^–3 M ascorbic acid in model solutions. Ascorbic acid in some preparations was determined by potentiometry. The contribution of ascorbic acid to the total antioxidant capacity of aqueous extracts of hips, hop cones, and lemon juice was estimated.     

Entangled polymers in condensed phases

We present Monte Carlo results on a model of polymers in a condensed phase, over a range of monomer densities. We imagine cutting a cube out of the system. This cube will typically have several polymer molecules running through its interior, and starting and ending on the boundary. These subchains will be mutually entangled and we present a way to assess the extent of entanglement complexity as a function of the monomer density and the number of subchains in the cube. The model is a set of k self-avoiding and mutually avoiding walks, properly embedded in the cube.     

Analysis of ion binding on humic substances and the determination of intrinsic affinity distributions

Humic substances are characterized by a variable electric potential and by a variety of binding sites leading to chemical heterogeneity. Binding of ions to these substances is influenced by both factors. A methodology based on acid—base titrations at several salt levels is presented that allows for the assessment of an appropriate electrostatic double-layer model and the intrinsic proton affinity distribution. The double-layer model is used for the conversion of pH to pH_S for each data point, where H_S is the proton concentration in the diffuse layer near the binding site. It is shown that with an appropriate double-layer model the proton binding curves at different salt levels converge into one “master curve” when plotted as a function of pH_S. The intrinsic proton affinity distribution can then be derived from the “master curve” using the LOGA method. A rigorous analysis of metal binding to humic substances is complex and in practice is not feasible. Under two different (simplifying) assumptions, namely fully coupled and uncoupled binding, it is shown how intrinsic metal ion affinity distributions can be obtained. Model calculations show that apparent metal ion affinity distributions do not resemble the intrinsic metal ion affinity distribution.     

Organolithium and organosodium compounds of n-substituted 2-alkylbenzimidazoles

Organolithium and organosodium compounds of 1,2-dimethyl-, 1-methyl-2-ethyl-, 1-methyl-2-propyl-, and 1-phenyl-2-methylbenzimidazole, containing the metal in the alkyl group at position C(₂), were obtained by metallation. It was found that metallation can be complicated by the addition of the metalling reagent at the C=N bond of the heterocycle. It was shown that the obtained organometallic compounds can be used for the synthesis of various derivatives of benzimidazole.The calculation was performed with the standard bond lengths. A planar model was used for the carbanion.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 8, pp. 1073–1077, August, 1986.     

Isolation of nonprotamine proteins from the nuclei of the gonad cells of the Russian sturgeonAcipenser güldenstadti

Eight nonprotamine proteins have extracted from the nuclei of the cells of the gonads of the Russian sturgeon with 0.35 M sodium chloride solution followed by fractionation of carboxymethyl-Sephadex G-25 and desalting on Bio-Gel P-2, and their amino acid compositions have been determined.     

Determination of potential-energy surface of molecules in an applied field on the basis of virial relations

The quantum-mechanical virial theorem (in diagonal and nondiagonal forms) for molecules in an external, weak, uniform electric field is used for obtaining the analytical expression of the potentialenergy surface in the Hartree–Fock–Roothaan one-determinantal approximation. The polarizability tensor components of the H₂O molecule are computed on this basis. The dependence of basing the atomic orbitals upon the intensity of the applied field lead to good coincidence of results with the data of near Hartree–Fock calculations.