New cohort of optically active nanostructure poly(amideimide)s: Production and properties

Novel aromatic-aliphatic poly(amide-imide)s containing chiral units in the main chain and hydroxyl benzamide units in the side chain have been obtained from the step-growth polymerization of 3,5-diamino-N-(4-hydroxyphenyl) benzamide(2) with different chiral diacid chlorides(1a-1e).Theoretical calculations were done by means of computational chemistry methods to narrate the stable conformation and orientation of each diacid chloride monomers under reaction conditions.These polymers were characterized by conventional techniques.The resulting polymers show good thermal stability.Other physical properties of polymers including crystallinity,inherent viscosity and morphological characteristics were also studied.     

Thermodynamic study of complex formation between Kryptofix-5 and Sn2+ in several individual and binary non-aqueous solvents using a conductometric method

The complex formation between 1,13-bis(8-quinolyl)-1,4,7,10,13-pentaoxatridecane (Kryptofix-5) and Sn²⁺ ions was studied in pure acetonitrile (AN), dimethylformamide (DMF), 1,4-dioxane (DOX), and methanol (MeOH) and in acetonitrile-1,4-dioxane (AN-DOX), acetonitrile-dichloromethane (AN-DCM), acetonitrile-methanol (AN-MeOH), and acetonitrile-dimethylformamide (AN-DMF) binary mixed solvent solutions at different temperatures using conductometric method. 1: 1 [ML] complex is formed between the metal cation and ligand in most solvent systems but in the cases of AN-MeOH (MeOH = 90 mol %) binary mixture and in pure MeOH a 2: 1 [M₂L] complex was observed, that is the stoichiometry of complexes may be changed by the nature of the medium. The stability order of the (Kryptofix-5·Sn)²⁺ complex in the studied binary mixed solvent solutions at 25°C was found to be AN-DOX > AN-DCM > AN-MeOH > AN-DMF and in the case of pure solvents at 25°C the sequence was the following: AN > DMF > DOX. A non-linear behavior was observed for changes of logK _f of (Kryptofix-5·Sn)²⁺ complex versus the composition of the binary mixed solvents, which was explained in terms of solvent-solvent intractions and also by the preferential solvation of the f species involved in the complexation reaction. The values of standard enthalpy changes (ΔH _c ^○ ) for complexation reactions were obtained from the slope of the Van’t Hoff plots and the changes in standard entropy (ΔS _c ^○ ) were calculated from the relationship ΔG _{c, 298.15} ^○ = ΔH _c ^○ ? 298.15ΔS _c ^○ . The results show that in most cases, the (Kryptofix-5·Sn)²⁺ complex is both enthalpy and entropy stabilized.     

Hollow-Fiber-Based LPME as a Reliable Sampling Method for Gas-Chromatographic Determination of Pharmacokinetic Parameters of Valproic Acid in Rat Plasma

A sensitive and simple method based on two-phase liquid-phase microextraction in porous hollow fiber followed by gas chromatography-flame ionization detection was developed for quantification and pharmacokinetic study of valproic acid (VPA, an antiepileptic drug) in rat plasma after oral administration of pure sodium valproate (25 mg kg⁻¹). Some parameters such as type of organic solvent, pH of sample solution, stirring speed, salt addition, extraction time, and volume of sample that affected extraction efficiency of VPA were optimized. Under optimized microextraction conditions, VPA was extracted with 10 μL 1-octanol from 0.5 mL rat plasma previously diluted with 4.5 mL acidified and salinated water (pH 2) using 1-octanoic acid as internal standard. The limit of detection was 17 ng mL⁻¹ with linear response over the concentration range of 50–10,000 ng mL⁻¹ with correlation coefficient higher than 0.998. The developed method was successfully applied to determination of pharmacokinetic parameters such as t _max (peak time in concentration–time profile), C _max (peak concentration in concentration–time profile), t _1/2 (elimination half-life), AUC_0–t (area under the curve for concentration versus time), clearance, and apparent distribution volume in rats following oral administration of VPA.

     

Solvent extraction of thorium from nitric acid solutions using di-N-butyl sulfoxide (DBSO) in xylene

The extraction of thorium(IV) from nitric acid solutions by di-n-butyl sulfoxide (DBSO) in xylene has been investigated as a function of acid, extractant and the metal concentration. The effect of contact time and diverse ions on the extraction has been examined. Phosphate, fluoride, oxalate and perchlorate reduce the extraction to some extent. The extraction of other metal ions, especially impurities associated with thorium in ores, has been measured under optimised conditions selected for thorium extraction. Na(I), K(I), Ca(II), Sr(II), Mn(II), Fe(II), Ni(II), Zn(II), Pb(II), Al(III), Ti(IV) and Hf(IV) are not extracted. Among the stripping solutions employed for back-extraction, deionized water is found to be the best and more than 99% thorium can be back-extracted in three stages. The extracted species is supposed to be Th(NO₃)₄·2DBSO. The extraction is found to be almost independent of the thorium concentration in the range between 4.3·10^–4–4.3·10^–2M and inversely dependent upon the temperature. The values of thermodynamic functions H, G and S for extraction equilibrium have been evaluated to be –19.6±2.9 kJ·mole^–1, –18.1±2.0 kJ·mole^–1 and –5.0±2.9 J·mole^–1·K^–1, respectively.     

Hollow-Fiber-Based LPME as a Reliable Sampling Method for Gas-Chromatographic Determination of Pharmacokinetic Parameters of Valproic Acid in Rat Plasma

A sensitive and simple method based on two-phase liquid-phase microextraction in porous hollow fiber followed by gas chromatography-flame ionization detection was developed for quantification and pharmacokinetic study of valproic acid (VPA, an antiepileptic drug) in rat plasma after oral administration of pure sodium valproate (25 mg kg^?1). Some parameters such as type of organic solvent, pH of sample solution, stirring speed, salt addition, extraction time, and volume of sample that affected extraction efficiency of VPA were optimized. Under optimized microextraction conditions, VPA was extracted with 10 μL 1-octanol from 0.5 mL rat plasma previously diluted with 4.5 mL acidified and salinated water (pH 2) using 1-octanoic acid as internal standard. The limit of detection was 17 ng mL^?1 with linear response over the concentration range of 50–10,000 ng mL^?1 with correlation coefficient higher than 0.998. The developed method was successfully applied to determination of pharmacokinetic parameters such as t _max (peak time in concentration–time profile), C _max (peak concentration in concentration–time profile), t _1/2 (elimination half-life), AUC_0–t (area under the curve for concentration versus time), clearance, and apparent distribution volume in rats following oral administration of VPA.     

Best proximity point theorems for single- and set-valued non-self mappings

We study the existence of best proximity points for single-valued non-self mappings. Also, we prove a best proximity point theorem for set-valued non-self mappings in metric spaces with an appropriate geometric property. Examples are given to support the usability of our results.     

Graph norms and Sidorenko’s conjecture

Let H and G be two finite graphs. Define h _H (G) to be the number of homomorphisms from H to G. The function h _H (·) extends in a natural way to a function from the set of symmetric matrices to ℝ such that for A _G , the adjacency matrix of a graph G, we have h _H (A _G ) = h _H (G). Let m be the number of edges of H. It is easy to see that when H is the cycle of length 2n, then h _H (·)^1/m is the 2n-th Schatten-von Neumann norm. We investigate a question of Lovász that asks for a characterization of graphs H for which the function h _H (·)^1/m is a norm.