Interaction of 80 MeV12C with88Sr; Neutron transfer,inelastic scattering and spin alignment of the 2+ State of12C

Level structure of¹⁰²Cd has been studied via both¹⁰²In decay and nuclear reactions. Using⁹²Mo+¹⁴N at 86 MeV, the nucleus¹⁰²In was identified and its decay (T _1/2=24 ±4s) studied with the aid of on-line mass separation techniques. Levels of¹⁰²Cd were also populated with⁹²Mo+¹²C at 50 MeV and¹⁰²Pd+³He at 35 MeV reactions and investigated by means of standard in-beam techniques. A level scheme including states up to 4.5 MeV excitation energy is proposed and then discussed in the frame of available calculations.     

Specification of Molecular Chirality

The topological analysis of chiral molecular models has provided the framework of a general system for the specification of their chirality. The application, made in and before 1956, of this system to organic-chemical configurations is generally retained, but is redefined with respect to certain types of structure, largely in the light of experience gained since 1956 in the Beilstein Institute and elsewhere. The system is now extended to deal, on the one hand, with organic-chemical conformations, and, on the other, with inorganic-chemical configurations to ligancy six. Matters arising in connexion with the transference of chiral specifications from model to name are considered, notably that of the symbiosis in nomenclature of expressions of the general system and of systems of confined scope. For corrigendum see DOI: 10.1002/anie.196605111     

Hole mobility anisotropy and crystal structure of β-9,10 dichloroanthracene

Hole drift mobilities have been measured in β-9,10 dichloroanthracene by the transient photoconductivity method. Mobilities were found to be isotropic in the ac plane, 0.6 cm²/V sec, and 0.18 cm²/V sec normal to this plane, b¹, at room temperature. At lower temperatures the mobilities were thermally activated, with an activation energy of ～0.25eV. The crystal structure of β-9,10 dichloroanthracene has been determined; it is triclinic. $\text{a = 8.582}\text{A}\text{?}$, $\text{b = 16.825}\text{A}\text{?}$, $\text{c = 3.869}\text{A}\text{?}$, $\text{α = 97.90}\text{,}\text{?}\text{β = 97.90°, γ = 75.99°}$. The influence of the crystal structures of the α- and β- forms on the intermolecular electronic overlap and hence carrier mobilities are discussed.     

Kinetics of the oxidation of quercetin by 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (dpph•)

In methanol/water, dpph(?) bleaching (519 nm) by quercetin, QH(2), exhibits biphasic kinetics. The dpph(?) reacts completely with the quercetin anion within 100 ms. Subsequent slower bleaching involves solvent and QH(2) addition to quinoid products. The fast reaction is first-order in dpph(?) but only ca. 0.38 order in [QH(2)]. This extraordinary nonintegral order is attributed to reversible formation of π-stacked {QH(-)/dpph(?)} complexes in which electron transfer to products, {QH(?)/dpph(-)}, is slow (k(ET) ≈ 10(5) s(-1)).     

A meta effect in nonphotochemical processes: the homolytic chemistry of m-methoxyphenol

The m-methoxy group is normally electron-withdrawing (EW), sigma(m) = +0.12, sigma(m+) = +0.05. The strong EW activity of a phenoxyl radical's O* atom causes the m-methoxy group to become electron-donating (ED), sigma(m)(+) = -0.14. In valence bond terms, this can be ascribed to the nonclassical resonance structures 1c-e. Although it has long been known that m-methoxy is ED in photoexcited states, it has now been found to be ED for homolytic O-H bond breaking in ground-state 3-methoxyphenol.     

Isomerization of triphenylmethoxyl and 1,1-diphenylethoxyl radicals. Revised assignment of the electron-spin resonance spectra of purported intermediates formed during the ceric ammonium nitrate mediated photooxidation of aryl carbinols

Grossi and Strazzari have reported (J. Org. Chem. 2000, 65, 2748-2754) that the ceric ammonium nitrate modulated photooxidation of triphenylmethanol and 1,1-diphenylethanol yielded ESR spectra of the putative spiro-cyclohexadienyl intermediates in the O-neophyl rearrangements of the corresponding alkoxyl radicals, Ph2(R)CO* (R = Ph, CH3), to the phenoxymethyl radicals, Ph(R)C*OPh. Both ESR spectra are reassigned to the phenoxyl radical, C6H5O*, and the probable mechanism by which phenoxyl is formed in these systems is presented.