Präparatives und Analytisches über einige Methylierungsprodukte der Thiosalizylsäure

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Qualitative and quantitative solid-phase microextraction gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric determination of the low-molecular-mass compounds released from poly(vinyl chloride)/polycaprolactone-polycarbonate during ageing

A solid-phase microextraction (SPME) method was developed to quantitatively determine the amount of 6-hydroxyhexanoic acid in aqueous solutions. The SPME method in combination with GC-MS was then applied to identify and quantify the low-molecular-mass compounds migrating from a new poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) material, PVC/polycaprolactone-polycarbonate (PCL-PC) during ageing in water. It was shown that only a small amount of 6-hydroxyhexanoic acid, the final hydrolysis product of PCL-PC, migrated from the blend during ageing at 37 and 70 degrees C. If, however, the temperature was raised to 100 degrees C rapid hydrolysis of PCL-PC resulted. In addition to 6-hydroxyhexanoic acid, 6-hydroxyhexanoic acid dimer, caprolactone, different carboxylic acids, acetophenone and phenol were identified. SPME-GC-MS was also applied to monitor the low-molecular-mass compounds migrating from the PVC/PCL-PC blend during thermo-oxidation.     

Phenylpropanoid glycosides from Rhodiola rosea

Rhodiola rosea L. (Golden Root) has been used for a long time as an adaptogen in Chinese traditional medicine and is reported to have many pharmacological properties. Along its known secondary metabolites tyrosol (1), salidroside (rhodioloside) (2), rosin (3), rosarin (4), rosavin (5), sachaliside 1 (6) and 4-methoxy-cinnamyl-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (7), four compounds were isolated from aqueous methanol extract of the plant and identified as cinnamyl-(6'-O-beta-xylopyranosyl)-O-beta-glucopyranoside (8), 4-methoxy-cinnamyl-(6'-O-alpha-arabinopyranosyl)-O-beta-glucopyranoside (9), picein (10) and benzyl-O-beta-glucopyranoside (11) by UV, MS and NMR methods. Compounds 8 and 9 are new natural compounds whereas compounds 10 and 11 were isolated first time from R. rosea. Also the compounds 6 and 7 are isolated earlier only from the callus cultures of the plant but not from the differentiated plant.     

Semi-rotating cryogenic modulator for comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography

A laboratory-made cryogenic modulator for comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GCxGC) was constructed and evaluated. Analytes were trapped with carbon dioxide and desorbed with heated GC oven air. The GCxGC system included a non-polar first-dimension column and a semi-polar second-dimension column connected to a flame ionisation detector. A laboratory-written Matlab-based program was used for the data analysis. Peak widths at half height for n-alkanes, obtained with use of new modulator, were at narrowest 60 ms.     

Heterogenization of racemic ethylenebis(1-indenyl)zirconium dichloride on trimethylaluminum vapor modified silica surface

Heterogeneous metallocene catalysts were prepared by adsorbing rac-Et(Ind)₂ZrCl₂ on a modified silica surface in solution. The modification of silica was conducted in gas phase with atomic layer chemical vapor deposition (ALCVD) technique, where the silica, preheated at either 350 or 600°C, was allowed to react with vaporized trimethylaluminum (TMA) at 250°C. Modified carriers and heterogeneous catalysts were characterized with FTIR, ¹H MAS (magic-angle spinning) NMR, ¹³C, and ²⁹Si CP (cross-polarization) MAS NMR spectroscopies and elemental analyses. In the reaction of TMA with silica, a saturated surface was formed consisting of different (---O)_4−nSi(CH₃)_n (n=1, 2 or 3) and ---AlCH₃ groups. The ratio of ---SiMe to ---AlMe groups was approximately 1.5 in the TMA/SiO₂ carriers. When the metallocene was adsorbed onto the carrier it seemed to react with the surface ---AlCH₃ groups and possibly ---ZrCH₃ groups were formed. Heterogeneous catalysts were tested in the polymerization of ethylene and propylene in the presence of methylalumoxane (MAO). And they produced similar polymer as the homogeneous rac-Et(Ind)₂ZrCl₂ catalyst, but with lower activity. A catalyst with the best activity was achieved from silica that was preheated at 600°C. Moreover, leaching of catalyst was examined whereupon a part of zirconium was observed to desorb from the carrier.     

BiOBr/Ni2P/g-C3N4体系中用Ni2P电子桥加速S型体系光生载流子分离

水污染对人类健康和生态环境造成了严重的危害,引起了人们广泛关注.半导体光催化技术被认为是一种去除废水中有机污染物的有效方法.近年来,石墨相氮化碳(g-C₃N₄)作为一种无金属的光催化剂,具有合适的带隙能(Eg≈2.7eV)、良好的化学稳定性、较好的热稳定性、无毒以及强的还原电位(ECB≈-1.3eV)等特点,表现出较好的光催化活性.但由于g-C3N4光生载流子复合快和量子效率低,限制了其实际应用.因此,研究者们开发了各种有效的方法来克服上述缺点,如调控形貌、掺杂离子、沉积贵金属和构建异质结等.其中,构建梯型(S型)异质结已被证实是提高复合材料光催化活性的一种有效策略.S型异质结的形成不仅有效地加速光生电子和空穴的分离和迁移,而且还增强了光生载流子的氧化还原能力.除了电子结构外,异质结的界面电阻直接影响着光生载流子的分离效率,从而决定光催化活性强弱.据报道,具有高导电性的"电子传递介质"或"电子桥"可有效地降低载流子迁移过程中的界面阻力.过渡金属磷化物具有优良的导电性、低廉的价格和无毒的特性,完全满足电子桥的要求,成为电子桥的最佳候选材料之一.结合S型异质结和电子桥的优势,本文采用沉积-沉淀法制备了一种新型的S型BiOBr/Ni₂P/g-C3N4异质结.在可见光(λ≥400 nm)下,该催化剂对甲基橙和罗丹明B的降解活性明显优越于BiOBr/g-C₃N₄.这主要归因于电子桥Ni₂P和S型异质结的协同效应.密度泛函理论计算表明,电子从BiOBr通过电子桥Ni₂P转移到g-C₃N₄.在可见光照射下以及界面内建电场的驱动下,带边缘弯曲和库仑相互作用协同促进了复合物中相对无用的电子和空穴的重组,从而保留了较强氧化还原能力的电子和空穴.活性氧捕获实验、电子顺磁共振光谱和电流-电压曲线结果进一步证明,光催化剂中的电荷迁移方式遵循S型异质结的迁移机制.综上,本文不仅为S型光催化剂的设计提供了有效策略,也为界面载流子的快速分离和迁移提供了切实可行的途径.     

Micromechanical analysis of kinematic hardening in natural clay

This paper presents a micromechanical analysis of the macroscopic behaviour of natural clay. A microstructural stress–strain model for clayey material has been developed which considers clay as a collection of clusters. The deformation of a representative volume of the material is generated by mobilizing and compressing all the clusters along their contact planes. Numerical simulations of multistage drained triaxial stress paths on Otaniemi clay have been performed and compared the numerical results to the experimental ones in order to validate the modelling approach. Then, the numerical results obtained at the microscopic level were analysed in order to explain the induced anisotropy observed in the clay behaviour at the macroscopic level. The evolution of the state variables at each contact plane during loading can explain the changes in shape and position in the stress space of the yield surface at the macroscopic level, as well as the rotation of the axes of anisotropy of the material.     

Two‐photon microfabrication of poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate and a novel biodegradable photopolymer—comparison of processability for biomedical applications

Two‐photon polymerization (2PP) is a versatile microfabrication tool for biomedical applications as it provides unparalleled resolution for accurate three‐dimensional (3D) replication of biological microstructures. To widen the selection of biomaterials suitable for 2PP, this paper presents the processing of a methacrylated poly(ε‐caprolactone)‐based oligomer (PCL‐o) and a poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGda) hydrogel into microstructures. PCL‐o is a novel biodegradable photopolymer that has not been previously processed with 2PP, and the fabrication of both polymers with an Nd:YAG laser is reported here for the first time. The overall 2PP processability and achievable resolution were studied by polymerizing arbitrary microstructures on glass substrates. The samples were characterized with scanning electron microscopy. Additionally, the effect of photoinitiator concentration on the resolution was investigated. Also, a preliminary cell attachment test was performed with UV cured films in order to investigate the impact of the used material–initiator combination on cell viability and migration. As a result, laser‐induced polymerization of both PCL‐o and PEGda was successfully demonstrated, and the Nd:YAG laser was proven adequate for the 2PP processing of the novel biodegradable photoresist. Resolution in the order of 1 µm was achieved with PCL‐o. With the easy processing of both PEGda and PCL‐o, these materials have great potential for different biomedical applications. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

MODELLING STRAIN-RATE-DEPENDENCY OF NATURAL SOFT CLAYS COMBINED WITH ANISOTROPY AND DESTRUCTURATION

The paper aims to investigate modelling the strain-rate-dependency of natural soft clays combined with anisotropy and destructuration using an elasto-viscoplastic model.The model is based on Perzyna’s overstress theory and the elastoplastic model S-CLAY1S.Tests at constant strain-rate and creep tests under both one-dimensional and triaxial conditions on several clays are simulated.Simulations highlight the loading scenarios in which it is necessary to account for anisotropy and/or destructuration in order to get accurate predictions.Comparisons between the predicted and measured results demonstrate that the proposed model can successfully reproduce the time-dependent behaviour of natural soft clays under different loading conditions.     

Integrating the original face images and “symmetrical faces” to perform face recognition

Using the original and ‘symmetrical face’ training samples to perform representation based face recognition was first proposed in [1]. It simultaneously used the original and ‘symmetrical face’ training samples to perform a two-step classification and achieved an outstanding classification result. However, in [1] the “symmetrical face” is devised only for one method. In this paper, we do some improvements on the basis of [1] and combine this “symmetrical faces” transformation with several representation based methods. We exploit all original training samples, left “symmetrical face” training samples and right “symmetrical face” training samples for classification and use the score fusion for ultimate face recognition. The symmetry of the face is first used to generate new samples, which is different from original face image but can really reflect some possible appearance of the face. It effectively overcomes the problem of non-sufficient training samples. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can be used to improve a number of traditional representation based methods including those that are not presented in the paper.