Determination of selenium in small volumes of blood plasma and serum by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry

A graphite-furnace atomic absorption spectrometric method is described for the determination of selenium in blood plasma and serum. Samples are diluted (1 + 9) with a solution containing nickel and nitric acid and measured by a standard additions method. Repeatability for a serum sample containing 87 μg Se l^-1 was 4.4%. The mean recovery of selenium(IV) from a human protein solution was 97.5%. The method was further tested in an interlaboratory comparison study. The standard additions procedure requires a sample volume of 200 μl and a total time of about 7.5 min. A secondary calibration graph can be used, however, resulting in increased throughput up to 13 samples per hour, and a decrease in the sample volume needed to 100 μl.     

Conformational study of 1,4-thiazinan-3-one

The proton NMR spectra of several 1,4-thiazinan-3-ones were analyzed using LAOCOON. The geminal and vicinal coupling constants indicate that the ring conformation of this heterocycle is a half-chair similar to δ-valerolactam. Molecular mechanics calculations show that the energy of the boat is only slightly higher than that of the half-chair. The conformational equilibria of methyl-substituted compounds were calculated by the coupling constant method. These energies are compared to those obtained by molecular mechanics.     

Generalization of the B *‐algebra (C0(X),∥ ∥∞)

We give a generalization of the Stone–Weierstrass property for subalgebras of C (X), with X a completely regular Hausdorff space. In particular, we study in this paper some subalgebras of C₀(X), with X a locally compact Hausdorff space, provided with weighted norm topology. By using the Stone–Weierstrass property, we then describe the ideal structure of these algebras. (© 2009 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Ionisation and appearance potentials in structure analysis. A review

The suitability of mass spectrometric IP and AP measurements for different structural determinations has been critically considered and the pertinent literature reviewed.     

Some difficulties with abstract and concrete syntax

Abstract syntax is a useful mechanism in defining the semantics of programming languages as it relieves the semantic definition from text handling and syntactic analysis and shows clearly the semantically essential parts of program texts. Abstract syntax is usually required to have a high quality semantic content and so a straightforward forming of abstract syntax from a concrete one may lead to many errors. This paper introduces three error-prone constructs: parentheses that have an uncommon meaning, ambiguous concrete syntax, and empty lists. The first two errors originate in problems with concrete syntax while the last one is due to a weakness of some formalisms for abstract syntax.     

The decomposition of 1-phenyl-3-chloro-nortricyclene and 1-phenylnortricyclene on reduction in 1,2-dimethoxyethane. The EPR spectra of the radical ions

Radical anions of 1-phenyl-3-chloronortricyclene and 1-phenylnortricyclene were produced by reduction with potassium in 1,2-dimethoxyethane under a high vacuum. The initially formed radical anion of 1-phenyl-3-chloronortricyclene was very unstable, and decomposed finally to the anions of naphthalene and biphenyl. The only product of the reduction of 1-phenylnortricyclene was the biphenyl anion. The EPR spectra of the reaction mixtures were measured at temperatures from —80°C to room temperature.