Substitution of coordinated chlorides in cis-α and cis-β dichloro (triethylene tetramine) cobalt(III) chloride [Co(trien)Cl2]Cl by thiocyanate in aqueous medium

Substitution of coordinated chlorides in cis-α, and cis-β dichloro (triethylene tetramine) cobalt(III) chloride by thiocyanate was studied in aqueous medium in the pH range 3.8 to 4.0 at 25–26° C. Substitution, as in aquation, took place in two steps corresponding to the two chlorides, one step being faster than the other. Mechanisms have been discussed in the paper.     

Alkali metal complexes: Complexes of alkali metals with quinaldinic acid

Complexes having the general formula ML.HL, where M = Na, K, Rb or Cs and HL = quinaldinic acid, have been obtained. The isolation of adducts in the solid state appeared to be favoured by increase in atomic radius, and hence decrease in ionisation potential of the metal. Attempts to synthesise similar adducts of picolinic acid N-oxide and quinaldinic acid N-oxide did not succeed. Complexes have been characterised by elemental analyses, thermal, IR spectral and solution studies. Our findings suggest that pK value of the ligands cannot be regarded a dominant factor in the synthesis and isolation of alkali metal complexes.     

On the geometry of nonequilibrium magneto gasdynamic flows

After formulation of the various dynamical and kinematical relations connecting the flow quantities with the geometrical parameters of the stream line trajectories, the expressions for the tangent, principal normal and binormal vectors and the curvature and torsion of the stream line have been obtained in-terms of the velocity components, the pressure, the density, the magnetic field and the relaxation variable. This is followed by expressing the equations governing the flow in the intrinsic forms. It has been shown that the non-equilibrium character of the gas decreases the total pressure gradient along the streamlines, but the total pressure remains constant along the binormals and if the stream lines are straight lines, the trajectories of the principal normals lie on the surface of the constant total pressure. Further, the expressions for vorticity components in terms of curvature of the stream line and the velocity gradients along the stream line and their principal normals and binormals have been obtained. Finally, a class of circular helical flows have been discussed.     

Equivalence of degeneracy regularizations of lattice fermions

It is shown that the recently proposed degeneracy regularization of Becher for free fermions on a lattice is completely equivalent to that of Susskind.     

Oscillatory free convection flow of a second order fluid from a vertical plate

This paper investigates the problem of free convection flow of a second order liquid in the boundary layer from a semi-infinite vertical plate in which the mean surface temperature varies as a function of the distance from the leading edge of the plate. Study of the oscillatory flow is restricted to small amplitudesε only. Several graphs have been drawn and tables have been presented to depict the effect of elasticity of the liquid and Prandtl number on the velocity and temperature distributions and Nusselt number.