New approaches to coupling flow-injection analysis and high-performance liquid chromatography

An overview of the advantages gained in coupling a flow-injection manifold to a liquid chromatograph is presented. Improvements in the analytical features arising from this association and the peculiar pre- and postcolumn arrangements are discussed, as are the promising prospects of arrangements to be developed for avoiding the preliminary steps of the analytical process.     

Thermodynamics of liquid mixtures containing n-alkanes and strongly polar components: VE and C P E of mixtures with either pyridine or piperidine

Excess molar volumes V _E and excess molar heat capacities C _P ^/E at constant pressure have been obtained, as a function of mole fraction x₁, for several binary liquid mixtures belonging either to series I: pyridine+n-alkane (C_lH_2l+2), with l=7, 10, 14, 16, or series II: piperidine+n-alkane, with l=7, 8, 10, 12, 14. The instruments used were a vibrating-tube densimeter and a Picker flow microcalorimeter, respectively. V ^E of pyridine+n-heptane shows a S-shaped composition dependence with a small negative part in the region rich in pyridine (x₁>0.90). All the other systems show positive V ^E only. The excess volumes increase with increasing chain length l of the n-alkane. The excess molar heat capacities of the mixtures belonging to series II are all negative, except for a small positive part for piperidine+n-heptane in the region rich in piperidine (x₁>0.87). The C _P ^/E at the respective minima, C _P ^/E (x_1,min ), become more negative with increasing l, and the x_1,min values range from about 0.26 (l=7) to 0.39 (l=14). Most interestingly, mixtures of series I exhibit curves of C _P ^/E against x₁ with two minima and one maximum, the so-called W-shape curves.Dedicated to Professor A. Néckel on the occasion of his 65^th birthday. Communicated in part at the XVII^èmes Journées de Calorimétrie, d'Analyse Thermique et de Thermodynamique Chimique, Ferrara, Italy, 27–30 October, 1986.     

The benzene ring as a dipolarophile: Reactions of monosubstituted benzenes with tetracyanoethylene oxide

Summary The reaction of tetracyanoethylene oxide on one hand and toluene, chlorobenzene, fluorobenzene, anisole, and nitrobenzene, on the other, has been studied. Toluene and the halogenobenzenes yield mixtures of monoadducts, anisole yieldp-methoxyphenylmalononitrile and its dimer and nitrobenzene does not react. These results are discussed with the help of a qualitative orbital model.¹H-NMR analysis of some monoadducts has been carried out.

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Der Benzolring als Dipolarophil: Reaktionen monosubstituierter Benzole mit Tetracyanoethylenoxid

Zusammenfassung Es wurden die Reaktionen von Tetracyanoethylenoxid mit Toluol, Chlorbenzol, Fluorbenzol, Anisol und Nitrobenzol untersucht. Toluol und die Halogenbenzole ergaben Mischungen von Monoaddukten, Anisol ergabp-Methoxyphenylmalononitril und sein Dimer, Nitrobenzol zeigte keine Reaktion. Diese Resultate werden mit Hilfe eines qualitativen Orbitalmodells diskutiert. Die Analyse einiger Monoaddukte erfolgte mittels¹H-NMR-Analyse.

     

Continuous automatic determination of ammonia by using an integrated separation/detection unit

An automatic continuous-flow photometric method for the determination of ammonia is proposed. It is based on the Berthelot reaction, the product of which is temporarily immobilized on a suitable support (Sephadex QAE) located in the flow-cell. The retained product is eluted after measurement by a cationic surfactant contained in the carrier solution. The method allows the determination of the analyte between 0.4 and 20.0 gmg/ml, with an RSD of 0.8%, at a sampling frequency of 13/hr. The determination limit can be reduced by a factor of ten by using a flow-cell with a two-fold longer path length, but the sampling frequency is also reduced as a result. The method was applied to the determination of this analyte in agricultural samples (plants and soils) and compared with standard methods for these types of samples.