Application of the rotated dropping mercury electrode to the analysis of mixtures of electroactive substances

The use of poylacrylamide is recommended instead of gelatin as an ideal maximum suppressor to be employed with both the rotated dropping mercury electrode (RODE) and conventional dropping electrode (DME). It is retained at the mercury surface over the entire potential range and does not combine with heavy metals. Reproducibility of the measurement of the residual current and that of the limiting current at the RDME were studied, and it was found that accurate determinations of a single constituent (±2%) are possible at concentrations as low as 1 to 2.10^-5M. The variation of the limiting current with potential is much greater at the RDME than at the DME. This effect must be considered in the analysis of a mixture of electroactive species at the RDME. Method have been discussed for making the proper correction for a preceding wave when a limiting current of a mixture of constituents is measured. Because of its high sensitivity and good reproducibility of results, the RDME is recommended for the analysis of solutions containing one or more electroactive species at concentrations less than 10^-4M.     

Some reactions of systems containing the imidazole ring

Behavior towards sodamide is compared for 3-benzyl- and 3-methyl substituted naphth [1, 2-d] imidazole and imidazo [4, 5-f] quinoline derivatives. The following are synthesized: 2-amino derivatives of 3-benzylnaphtho- [1, 2-d] imidazole(by direct animation), and of 3-benzylimidazo [4, 5-f] quinoline (ammonolysis of a 2-chloro substituted compound).     

Synthesis and bromination of 8-methylquinoline-5-carboxylic acid

8-Methylquinoline-5-carboxylic acid was obtained by the Skraup reaction from 3-amino-p-toluic acid or by hydrolysis of 5-cyano-8-methylquinoline. The latter was synthesized by the Rosenmund-von Braun reaction from 5-bromo-8-methylquinoline, which was obtained by bromination of 8-methylquinoline in the presence of silver sulfate. Bromination in the side chain of 8-methylquinoline-5-carboxylic acid and its nitrile was studied. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 366–368, March, 1980.     

Bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodobenzene,a new oxidant in potentiometric titrations

A new oxidimetric titrant, bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodobenzene is proposed for potentiometric titrations in acetonitrile and water-acetonitrile media. The general analytical conditions for using this titrant and the results for the potentiometric titrations of various inorganic and organic reductants are described.     

Synthesis and Structure of Triphenylbismuth Bis(Fluorobenzoates)

The reaction between triphenylbismuth, hydrogen peroxide, and 3,4,5-trifluorobenzoic or pentafluorobenzoic acid (molar ratio 1 : 1 : 2, respectively) in ether gave triphenylbismuth bis(3,4,5-trifluorobenzoate) (I) and triphenylbismuth bis(pentafluorobenzoate) (II) in 74 and 89% yields, respectively. The structures of compounds I and II were established by X-ray diffraction. The Bi atoms have a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal coordination with acylate groups in the axial positions. The OBiO angles are 170.2(2)° and 171.5(2)° in I and II, respectively. The Bi–C(Ph)_eq bond lengths vary in the range of 2.187(6)–2.204(5) Å, the Bi–O(acyl) lengths are 2.256(5) Å in I, and 2.281(5) and 2.318(5) Å in II. In the crystals I and II, the Bi and carbonyl O atoms are involved in intramolecular interactions (Bi···O(=C) 2.926(5)–3.176(5) Å), which increase the equatorial CBiC angles on the side of these contacts to 136.2(3)° and 138.6(2)° in I and II, respectively.     

Levitation of atoms over a metal surface

The potential of the interaction of an alkali metal with a planar metal surface was calculated by solving a two-dimensional Schrödinger equation. The potential energy of the valence electron of the atom was derived from a model pseudopotential based on the image potential. It was demonstrated that the potential energy curve for the interaction of an alkali metal atom with the surface of a heavier alkali metal has a minimum at a certain distance from the surface, a feature that gives rise to equilibrium states of levitating atoms.     

High-resolution spectroscopy of induced chiral dimers: a study of the dimers of ethanol by Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy

We present the first recording of the high-resolution spectrum of an induced chiral dimer. Three conformers of the induced chiral dimers of ethanol have been observed using a pulsed molecular-beam Fourier transform microwave spectrometer. The rotational constants of the normal isotopomers of the three species have been determined to be (a) A=5113.826(5), B=1329.7214(4), and C=1257.5151(3) MHz, (b) A=5086.459(5), B=1316.6508(4), and C=1243.6329(4) MHz, and (c) A=4851.608(5), B=1369.7558(6), and C=1243.4184(4) MHz. The observed species have been assigned to calculated structures via Kraitchman double substitution analyses and ab initio calculations. The Kraitchman analyses and the fitted centrifugal distortion parameters suggest that the deuterium bond is significantly stronger than the hydrogen bond in the dimers of ethanol.     

Effects of structural transformations in magnetic emulsions

Structural transformations and relevant changes in the magnetic and optical properties of magnetosensitive emulsions based on magnetic fluids are experimentally studied. Peculiarities of the changes in the magnetic susceptibility of emulsions associated with the deformation of their microdroplets and the effect of phase inversion (the transformation of dispersions of magnetic droplets in nonmagnetic media into dispersions of nonmagnetic droplets in magnetic fluids) are established. Optical effects occurring in magnetic emulsions under the combined action of a shear flow and a magnetic field are studied. It is concluded that optically active composition media may be developed on the basis of magnetic fluids.     

Effect of Unpaired Electron in Thermochemical Description of the Dissociation Energy of Heteronuclear Diatomic Molecules

The dissociation energy of heteronuclear diatomic molecules with polar covalent bonds was calculated by the modified Pauling procedure taking into account the presence of an unpaired electron on one of the atoms.__________Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Khimii, Vol. 78, No. 2, 2005, pp. 341–343.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Yakovlev, Ovchinnikov, Fokeeva.     

Prediction of the phosphorus pentoxide content in the product as a function of raw material composition in phosphate beneficiation by calcination

A linear model is discussed to describe the phosphorus pentoxide content in the product of phosphate beneficiated by calcination, as a function of the impurities in the product. Relationships were found between the concentrations of the impurity variables in the raw material and in the product. These relationships were used to amend the model permitting prediction of the phosphorus pentoxide content in the product as a function of the composition of the raw material.