Calculation of Kinetic Parameters for Crystallization Processes

In this work, kinetic data of crystallization processes have been determined by measurement of the intensities of reflection of X-ray diffraction spectra and modeled using the Avrami-Eroféev and Jander expressions. We have created a simple Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that allows students to calculate the kinetic data. Students will be able to calculate the kinetic parameters of any crystallization process, for example, hydrothermal crystallization of catalytic materials like zeolites. The possibility of using the spreadsheet with different models or expressions and discriminating among them is also validated by comparing the model results with experimental data (differential thermal analyses, DTA) from papers available in the recent literature.     

TWO WATER-SOLUBLE FLUORESCENCE PROBES FOR CHEMIEXCITATION STUDIES: SODIUM 9,10-DIBROMO- AND 9, 10-DIPHENYLANTHRACENE-2-SULFONATE. SYNTHESIS, PROPERTIES AND APPLICATION TO TRIPLET ACETONE AND TETRAMETHYLDIOXETANE

The syntheses of sodium 9,10-dibromo- and 9,10-diphenylanthracene-2-sulfonate (DBAS and DPAS, respectively) are described and their photophysical properties determined. These two probes were used in aqueous solution studies of the kinetic parameters of tetramethyldioxetane thermolysis, which were found to be the same as in organic solvents. The yields of triplet and singlet acetone generated by the decomposition of this dioxetane in water are also comparable to the literature values in organic medium. The lifetime of triplet acetone in water was determined to be 13 ± 2 u.s by a method based on the measurement of the fluorescence decay of DBAS excited via energy transfer from triplet acetone, by the time-correlated single-photon counting technique. Sorbate ion quenches triplet acetone from tetramethyldioxetane with a rate constant smaller but close to the diffusion-controlled limit.     

Complexes self‐associate by hydrogen bonding and metallophilic attraction: Theoretical study

Hydrogen bonding and metallophilic attractions are studied in the model systems: [(AuNH₃Cl)₂], [(AuNH(CH₃)₂Cl)₂], [{Au₂(μ‐SH)(PH₂O)(PH₂OH)}₂], [(CuNH₃Cl)₂], and [{Cu(NH₃)Cl}₄] at the Hartree–Fock (HF) and second‐order Møller–Plesset (MP2) levels. The two interactions are found to be comparable and prevailing in the final structure. It is determined that the aurophilic contact has a same magnitude that the hydrogen bonding, and is stronger than the cuprophilic interaction. The presence of hydrogen bond directs the growth of the crystal. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2006     

Addition of carbon nucleophiles to cyclic N-acyliminium and oxocarbenium ions under solvent-free conditions

The InCl₃-catalyzed addition of carbon nucleophiles to cyclic N-acyliminium and oxocarbenium ions under solvent-free conditions at room temperature is described. The corresponding α-substituted heterocycles were obtained in moderate to excellent yields.     

On the computation of molecular electronic affinities

Using a multireferent MBPT method (CIPSI) the electronic affinity (EA) of F, CN and HCC is computed. Results show how UMP2 gives unbalanced truncation of the MP series, while ROMP2 has the correct (balanced) behaviour. The good agreement with the experimental EA found for some compounds is accidental and associated to an error compensation. The good agreement with the experimental data found for the ROMP2 and CIPSI EAs is analysed.This paper was presented at the International Conference on The Impact of Supercomputers on Chemistry, held at the University of London, London, UK, 13–16 April 1987     

Determination of copper in medicinal plants used as dietary supplements by atomic absorption spectrometry with direct flame solid analysis

An alternative device for the direct solid analysis (DSA) for copper determination by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) is proposed. Copper was directly determined in commercial medicinal plants used as dietary supplements. The determination of copper in solid samples by DSA–FAAS was made by using a conventional air–acetylene flame. Between 0.05 and 1.5 mg of each test, sample was weighed directly into a small polyethylene vial connected to the device used for solid introduction into the flame. Test samples were introduced into the flame as a dry aerosol using a T-quartz cell set between the burner and the optical path. The T-quartz cell has a slit in the superior part by which the solid aerosol passes to the flame. A transient signal, evaluated as integrated absorbance, is produced and it is totally integrated in 2 s. Background signals always presented absorbance values less than 0.1. It was found a characteristic mass of 0.8 ng Cu and absolute limit of detection of 1.2 ng (3 s), or 1.2 μg g⁻¹ if a sample mass of 1 mg was used. Optimized conditions for air flow rate, flame stoichiometry, and so on were established as well. No excessive grinding of the samples was needed and samples with particle of size less than 80 μm were used throughout. No statistical difference between the results from the proposed system and those obtained by sample digestion and determination by conventional FAAS was observed. With the proposed procedure, more than 50 test samples can be analyzed in 1 h and it can be easily adapted to conventional spectrometers for FAAS.     

Study of the catalytic behavior of montmorillonite/iron(III) and Mn(III) cationic porphyrins

Two samples of montmorillonite (one of Brazilian origin, BNC1 clay, and the other STX-1, supplied by the Clay Mineral Society Repository (University of Missouri, USA) were allowed to react with biomimetic metalloporphyrins of Fe(III) and Mn(III) in cationic form. The compounds were characterized by several techniques, showing that the metalloporphyrins molecules were adsorbed at the surface of the clay platelet crystals. The catalytic activities of the intercalated complexes for the oxidation of alkane were dependent upon the concentration of the porphyrin immobilized in the clay and factors such as the metal ion species in the porphyrins, choice of solvent, and concentration of the iodosylbenzene oxidant. Good selectivity to cyclohexanol instead of cyclohexanone was observed for the catalytic oxidation of cyclohexane by iodosylbenzene.     

Solute-solute-solvent interactions in dilute aqueous solutions of aliphatic diols. Excess enthalpies and gibbs free energies

The heats of dilution and the osmotic coefficients for some aliphatic diols (1,3-propanediol; 1,2-butanediol; 1,3-butanediol; 1,4-butanediol; 2,3-butanediol; 1,5-pentanediol; 1,6-hexanediol) in water at 25°C are reported. The experimental free energy and enthalpy pairwise interaction coefficients were evaluated and are discussed in terms of the hydrophobic-hydrophilic properties of the solutes. The effect of the mutual position of the polar hydrophilic groups in the molecule on the experimental interaction coefficients transposed to the McMillan-Mayer (MM) state is emphasized. The Sawage-Wood additivity of groups (SWAG) approach has been used and critically discussed.Paper presented at J.C.A.T. '86-Ferrara 27–30 Ottobre 1986.     

Substituent effects in eight-electron electrocyclic reactions

The main features of transition structures associated with eight-electron electrocyclic reactions have been studied with Density Functional Theory. It is found that conrotatory electrocyclization reaction of (3Z,5Z)-octa-1,3,5,7-tetraenes takes place via M?bius aromatic transition structures of helical conformation. The reaction is completely periselective. In general, transition structures having outward substituents are preferred with respect to the inward transition structures, irrespective of the pi-donor or pi-acceptor character of the substituent. In contrast with four-electron thermal conrotatory electrocyclic reactions, there is no satisfactory correlation between the difference in energy of activation between inward and outward substituents and the Taft resonance sigma(R) parameter.     

Conformational mobility of thianthrene-5-oxide

[reaction: see text] Data on the apparent dipole moment of thianthrene-5-oxide (1) and (1)H NMR spectra in different solvents support the conformational mobility of 1, which flaps between two limit boat conformations with the sulfinyl group in pseudoequatorial and pseudoaxial positions, respectively. The conformational equilibrium of 1 occurs too fast for the (1)H NMR (500 MHz) time-scale even at -130 degrees C, and the equilibrium constant has not been determined. The apparent dipole moments of 1 in n-hexane and 1,4-dioxane and the (1)H NMR spectra of 1 and the model compounds cis- and trans-thianthrene-5,10-dioxides (2) and thianthrene (5) in different solvents and at various temperatures confirm that the relative position of the conformational equilibrium of 1 is solvent-dependent, and more polar solvents favor the conformation with the sulfoxide group in the pseudoaxial position (1(')(ax)). Variable-temperature (1)H NMR spectra have established the interconversion barrier of trans-2 and confirmed that the conformational equilibrium of cis-2 is strongly displaced toward the conformation with both sulfinyl groups in the pseudoequatorial position. The (1)H NMR data support the transannular interaction of the functional groups in 1 and trans-2.