Opening of the four-membered ring in perfluorinated 1-alkyl-2-phenyl- and 1-aryl-1,2-dihydrocyclobutabenzenes in the system I<Subscript>2</Subscript>-SbF<Subscript>5</Subscript>

Reactions of perfluorinated 1-phenyl-, 1-(2-ethylphenyl)-, 1-(4-ethylphenyl)-, 1-methyl-2-phenyl-, and 1-ethyl-2-phenyl-1,2-dihydrocyclobutabenzenes with iodine in antimony pentafluoride at 130°C, followed by hydroysis of the reaction mixture, resulted in the formation of perfluorinated 2-methyl-, 2-ethyl-2′-methyl-, 4-ethyl-2′-methyl-, 2-ethyl-, and 2-propylbenzophenones via opening of the four-membered ring in the initial cyclobutabenzene at the C¹–C² bond. The presence of hydrogen fluoride facilitates the process and promotes profound transformations leading to anthracene derivatives.     

Isomer conversions in perfluoro-1-ethylindane under the action of antimony pentafluoride

Perfluoro-1-ethylindane on heating with SbF₅ is isomerized to perfluoro-1,1-dimethylindane, perfluoro-,-o-trimethylstyrene, and perfluoro-1,2-dimethylindane. In the presence of SbF₅, the latter two products are converted one into the other. In addition, in SbF₅ perfluoro-1,2-dimethylindane is defluorinated to perfluoro-2,3-dimethylindene and fluorinated to perfluoro-2,3-dimethyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindene which is further fluorinated to perfluoro-1,2-dimethyl-4,5,6,7-tetrahydroindane and is converted at 200C to perfluoro-1,7-dimethylindane. The latter is also formed on heating perfluoro-,-o-trimethylstyrene with SbF₅ at 200C.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 645–652, March, 1990.     

Influence of heme periphery on the electronic structure and Mössbauer parameters of hemoglobin

For the five-coordinated complexes of ferroprotoporphynynn with imidazole, a quantum-chemical analysis of the electronic structure and Mossbauer spectral parameters has been canied out. Peripheral substituents (CH3, Cf13, C₂H₄COOH) were introduced into the porphynin macrocycle to model the real chemical structure of protopo'phynynn in the heme group of desoxyhemoglobin. The calculations have shown that near the occupation border in the complaes there are MO which are due to the -systems of the CH= CM₂ and CH₂CH₂COOH substituents. The orientalion of the vinyl fragments has a considerable effect on the populations of the Fe d-orbitals and the quadrupole splitting E_Q for the⁵B₁ and⁵B₂ terns.Institute of Biophysics, Ministry of Health, Russian Federation. Translated fromZhurnal Strukturmoi Khimii, Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 90–93, September–October, 1993.Translated by L. Smolina     

Wave ionosphere perturbations with small periods under magnetic storm conditions

The characteristics of total electron content (TEC) variations obtained using the data of middle-latitude stations for receiving GPS satellite signals were studied. An analysis showed that perturbations of diurnal TEC variations during a geomagnetic storm were determined by strengthening of harmonics with periods of 4–5 and 6–8 h. Perturbations in diurnal TEC variations were retained for several days after a geomagnetic storm. An analysis of the frequency and amplitude characteristics of perturbed variations showed that differences between variations at different latitudes could be explained by the propagation of Poincaré planetary waves in an atmospheric wave channel. The atmospheric channel was formed because of increased heating of pole regions during geomagnetic storms. A comparative analysis of observations made at different stations was used to estimate the width of the atmospheric channel and Poincaré wave frequencies and wave vector components.     

Chemical physics of the upper atmosphere

Modern concepts of the structure of the ionosphere and dynamics of its perturbations related to geomagnetic and solar activity perturbations are considered. It is shown that communication and navigation satellite systems depend substantially on the state of the ionosphere. The role played by Rydberg atoms and molecules of neutral ionospheric plasma components excited in collisions with electrons in the formation of microwave radiation of the upper atmosphere is discussed. A new physical mechanism of the delay of satellite signals cased by a cascade of reemissions from Rydberg states over the decimeter range is suggested.     

Non-Locality in Electrodynamics

We investigate the applicability of Hegerfeldts arguments on Quantum nonlocality in Quantum Electrodynamics following the work of Prigogine, Pronko, Petrosky, Ordonez and Karpov. We demonstrate the appearance of nonlocal effects at the level of quantum states. We show, however that the expectation values of some observables spread causally. Therefore the measurement of the nonlocality is questionable. We investigate an approach to classical measurement and conclude that the classical measurement cannot detect the acausal effects of the non-locality.