Field desorption mass spectrometry of 1-methylpyridinium salts

Quaternary pyridinium salts were investigated by field desorption, field ionization and electron impact mass spectrometry. Thermal decomposition of the salts under field desorption conditions was found to give very abundant volatile products, identified as the dihydro analogues and the ‘methides’ of the cations. The formation of the volatile compounds, especially those with molecular weights corresponding to those of the (cation ?1), (cation +1) and (cation +13) was studied in detail by deuterium and ¹³C labelling experiments.     

Reaktionen von 2- und 3-phenylsubstituierten Alkylakyliden-iminium-Ionen in der Gasphase. 5. Mitteilung über stossinduzierte Fragmentierungen von felddesorbierten Kationen

Reactions of 2- and 3-Phenyl Substituted Alkylalkylidene Iminium Ions in the Gas Phase The collision-induced fragmentations of 2- and 3-phenyl substituted alkylalkylidene iminium ions are reported. Besides the homolytic cleavage of the azaallyl bond a nucleophilic attack of the unsubstituted phenyl group at the iminium function is observed in the gas phase, yielding carbonium ions such as cyclopropanspirobenzenium ( 3 ), indanylium ( 10 ) and indenylium ions ( 11 ).     

Konstitution und absolute Konfiguration der Rhoeadin-Alkaloide (+)-Alpinigenin und (+)-cis-Alpinigenin

The constitution and absolute configuration of the rhoeadine alkaloids (+)-alpinigenine and (+)-cis-alpinigenine. The fundamental structure of the hemi-acetal phenylbenzazepine alkaloid (+)-alpinigenine ( 1 ), isolated from Papaver bracteatum LINDL ., was derived essentially from ¹H-NMR.- and mass-spectra of 1 and its derivatives 7, 10 and 14 (cf. Scheme 2). The positioning of the four methoxy groups in the two aromatic rings could be deduced from the ¹H-NMR.-spectra of the N-oxides 14 and 15 in which, as a result of favourable sterical and conformational behaviour, an interaction exists between the N-oxide oxygen atom and one of the two ortho protons in ring C. The B/D-trans-fused 1 undergoes isomerization in 1N HCl to cis-alpinigenine ( 16 ). A stereochemical correlation between bases in the trans-and cis-series was enabled via an Emde degradation of the corresponding methylacetal-methyliodides 21 resp. 19 leading to the enantiomeric isochroman derivatives 22 resp. 23 which are achiral at C (2) (Scheme 4). The configuration at C (14) in the hemi-acetals (eg. 1 and 16 ) and the methyl ethers (eg. 7 and 8 ) is discussed in detail (cf. Scheme 7). (+)-Alpinigenine ( 1 ) has the (1S, 2R, 14R) configuration and (+)-cis-alpinigenine ( 16 ), in chloroform or acetone solution, the (1R, 2R, 14R) configuration.     

Stereochemistry of Polynuclear Cadmium(II)thioglycolates: Crystal Structure of [ICd8(SCH2CH2OH)12]3+ · 3I− · H2O

Crystals of the title compound are triclinic, a = 27.87 Å, b = 10.77 Å, c = 12.94 Å, α 73.1°, β 116.1°, γ 120.0°, space group P1 . The structure consists of octanuclear ions: Eight Cd(II) ions are found at the corners of a distorted cube, the center of the cube is occupied by an iodide, the twelve thioglycolate sulfur atoms bridge the twelve edges of the cube thereby forming a distorted icosahedron. Cadmium ions are either five or seven coordinate. The phase problem for this structure was solved using a combination of very high and very low E-values.     

Polymeric Catalysts

The present-day position in the field of polymeric catalysts is outlined. The following selected groups of polymeric catalysts are discussed: synthetic hydrolases, immobilized enzymes, phase-transfer catalysts, nucleophilically active bases, polymers with conjugated π-systems, photosensitizers, polymers as carriers for catalytically active metals or ions, and immobilized homogeneous catalysts. Polymeric catalysts have the following valuable properties: insoluble polymeric catalysts are readily separable from reaction solutions and can often be re-used without loss of activity; a hydrophobic matrix protects the organometallic active center from deactivation by oxygen and water; by fixation of finely divided metals on an ion exchanger, multistage reactions may be effected successively in one reactor. Polymeric carriers may influence the catalytic properties; for example, in the case of immobilized enzymes on polyionic carriers the pH of the activity maximum may be shifted.     

Die umsetzung von azlactonen mit CH-aciden verbindungen. 2. Mitteil

Alkyl cyanoacetate, malonate, acetoacetate and methylsulfonyl acetic acid ethyl ester are acylated by alkylidenazlactones. The acyl compounds easily form alkylideneteramic acids by condensations. The acylcyanoacetates 2 isomerize into aminopyrrolinones 3 via acid catalysis.     

Untersuchungen zur Analyse von Sulfobernsteins?urehalbestern

Zusammenfassung Anhand von 3 verschiedenen Typen von Sulfobernsteinsäurehalbestern wurde nach Möglichkeiten zur Identifizierung und quantitativen Bestimmung dieser Tenside gesucht. Mit Hilfe von Löslichkeitsversuchen, Ionenaustauscher-Trennungen und IR-spektroskopischen Untersuchungen der aufgetrennten Handelsprodukte konnte eindeutig nachgewiesen werden, daß die Sulfobernsteinsäurehalbester des Handels im allgemeinen beträchtliche Mengen an Nebenprodukten enthalten, die eine quantitative Analyse außerordentlich erschweren. Die bei Tensidanalysen gebräuchlichen quantitativen Bestimmungsmethoden wurden auf ihre Anwendbarkeit bei Sulfobernsteinsäurehalbestern untersucht.

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Investigations concerning the analysis of sulphosuccinic acid monoesters

By means of three different types of sulphosuccinic acid monoesters possibilities were searched to identify and to determine these detergents quantitatively. With aid of solvent tests, ion-exchange separations and infrared-spectroscopic analyses of the separated commercial composites it could be made quite sure that the commercially available sulphosuccinic acid monoesters generally contain considerable amounts of by-products, which render a quantitative analysis most difficult. The methods of quantitative determination, used in the analysis of detergents, were examined for their applicability to sulphosuccinic acid monoesters.

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Für ihre unermüdliche Mithilfe bei der Ausführung der experimentellen Arbeiten danke ich Frau Johanna Bachmann, Frau Marianne Grosse und Fräulein Erika Walldorf herzlich.     

Structural integration of tellurium oxide into mixed-network-former glasses: connectivity distribution in the system NaPO(3)-TeO(2).

Sodium phosphate tellurite glasses in the system (NaPO(3))(x)(TeO(2))(1-) (x) were prepared and structurally characterized by thermal analysis, vibrational spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and a variety of complementary solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques. Unlike the situation in other mixed-network-former glasses, the interaction between the two network formers tellurium oxide and phosphorus oxide produces no new structural units, and no sharing of the network modifier Na(2)O takes place. The glass structure can be regarded as a network of interlinked metaphosphate-type P(2) tetrahedral and TeO(4/2) antiprismatic units. The combined interpretation of the O 1s XPS data and the (31)P solid-state NMR spectra presents clear quantitative evidence for a nonstatistical connectivity distribution. Rather, the formation of homoatomic P--O--P and Te--O--Te linkages is favored over mixed P--O--Te connectivities. As a consequence of this chemical segregation effect, the spatial sodium distribution is not random, as also indicated by a detailed analysis of (31)P/(23)Na rotational echo double-resonance (REDOR) experiments.     

Amperometric determination of hydrogen peroxide in pickling baths for copper and copper alloys by flow injection analysis

The hydrogen peroxide is oxidized at + 1.5 V vs. SCE at a glassy carbon electrode of the wall-jet type. The samples are diluted about 100 times in a dispersion coil before entering the amperometric detector. The calibration curve is linear from 10^?4 to 1 M H₂O₂, when 5-μl samples are used. With 50-μl samples the detection limit decreases to 10^?6 M H₂O₂. Neither metal ions (Cu²⁺, Zn²⁺, Ni²⁺, Al³⁺) up to 0.5 M nor changes in the sulfuric acid concentration of the samples between 0.1 and 1 M interfere with the hydrogen peroxide determination. About 75 samples can be analyzed per hour.