Preparation of vinylphenols from 2- and 4-hydroxybenzaldehydes

A straightforward, high-yielding procedure has been developed for the manufacture of substituted vinylphenols from 2- and 4-hydroxybenzaldehydes utilising classical Knoevenagel condensation reaction conditions.     

Controlled radical polymerization of styrene mediated by the C‐phenyl‐N‐tert‐butylnitrone/AIBN pair: Kinetics and electron spin resonance analysis

Kinetics of the free radical polymerization of styrene at 110 °C has been investigated in the presence of C‐phenyl‐N‐tert‐butylnitrone (PBN) and 2,2′‐azobis(isobutyronitrile) (AIBN) after prereaction in toluene at 85 °C. The effect of the prereaction time and the PBN/AIBN molar ratio on the in situ formation of nitroxides and alkoxyamines (at 85 °C), and ultimately on the control of the styrene polymerization at 110 °C, has been investigated. As a rule, the styrene radical polymerization is controlled, and the mechanism is one of the classical nitroxide‐mediated polymerization. Only one type of nitroxide (low‐molecular‐mass nitroxide) is formed whatever the prereaction conditions at 85 °C, and the equilibrium constant (K) between active and dormant species is 8.7 × 10^?10 mol L^?1 at 110 °C. At this temperature, the dissociation rate constant (k_d) is 3.7 × 10^?3 s^?1, the recombination rate constant (k_c) is 4.3 × 10⁶ L mol^?1 s^?1, whereas the activation energy (E_a,diss.), for the dissociation of the alkoxyamine at the chain‐end is ～125 kJ mol^?1. Importantly, the propagation rate at 110 °C, which does not change significantly with the prereaction time and the PBN/AIBN molar ratio at 85 °C, is higher than that for the thermal polymerization at 110 °C. This propagation rate directly depends on the equilibrium constant K and on the alkoxyamine and nitroxide concentrations, as well. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 45: 1219–1235, 2007     

Three steps in the anode reaction of the polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. Effect of CO

We studied the influence of CO poisoning of the anode in the polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The anode impedance was found by first feeding neat hydrogen gas and next hydrogen with CO into one of the electrodes, keeping neat hydrogen gas on the other electrode as a reference. The electrodes were E-TEK Elat gas-diffusion electrodes with 0.5 mg Pt/cm², and the membrane was Nafion^® 117. The CO concentration was 103 ppm, and the total pressures were 1, 2.5 and 4 bar. Operating temperatures were kept constant, 30.0 °C or 50.0 ± 0.1 °C. Bias voltages of 0 and 0.05 V were used. Three steps were revealed in the reaction mechanism, the slow adsorption/diffusion step, the charge transfer step and the proton hydration step, confirming earlier results. Carbon monoxide affects the charge transfer step by blocking active sites and by affecting the surface polarisation. We further conclude that CO adsorbs to the porous carbon matrix, and reduces significantly the rate of surface diffusion of hydrogen to the surface.     

飞秒激光烧蚀石英玻璃的实验与理论研究

实验研究了800nm飞秒激光作用下石英玻璃的破坏机理和烧蚀规律，给出了破坏阈值与脉冲宽度的关系.发展了雪崩击穿模型，计算了材料的烧蚀阈值与脉冲宽度的依赖关系，烧蚀深度、烧蚀体积与脉冲能量的依赖关系，研究了导带电子的扩散对材料中激光能量的沉积、分布，以及材料的破坏阈值和烧蚀规律的影响. 关键词： 飞秒激光脉冲 破坏机理 石英玻璃 电子扩散     

Actional Mechanism of Trifluoroacetic Acid for the Separation of Biopolymers by Reversed-phase Liquid Chromatography

The present paper covers the actional mechanism of trifluoroacetic acid for the separation of biopolymers investigated by using the parameters of stoichiometric displacement model for retention(SDM-R) in reversed-phase liquid chromatography. It was found that the trifluoroacetic acid(TFA) may participate in, or stimulate the association among displacing agent molecules in mobile phase, and decrease the affinity of both the associate molecules of the displacing agent and the TFA-protein ion-pairing. The former dominates over the separation selectivity of biopolymers as the concentration of TFA is lower than a given value, and the two contrary functions partly offset to each other and the latter dominates as its concentration is greater than the given value.     

QUANTITATIVE EXPLANATION ON STRUCTURE-CARCINOGENIC ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP OF AROMATIC AMINES BY DI-REGION THEORY

Di-region theory, the theory for the mechanism of carcinogenesis, has been extendedsuccessfully on the quantitative Structure-carcinogenic activity relationship (QSCAR) of 63aromatic amines. A quantitative equation for the QSCAR of aromatic amines has been estab-lished by the mechanism conception of the specialized di- functional alkylation between thenitrenium ion of the amino group and the epoxide of the aromatic ring. The agreementbetween calculation and experiment comes up to 98%. Thus, it can now express the puzzlingvariation of the carcinogenicity of aromatic amines, as a comprehensible structure-chemicalreactivity relationship.     

The probable conformation of substrates recognized by dipeptidyl-peptidase IV and some aspects of the catalytic mechanism derived from theoretical investigations

Summary By theoretical conformational investigations of substrates and nonsubstrates of the enzyme dipeptidyl-peptidase IV (DP IV) as well as dipeptide-esters using the ECEPP83 method we determined the structure of peptides recognized and cleaved by the enzyme. From a comparison of all possible structures for the substrates with conformations not possible in nonsubstrates we concluded that a single conformation explains substrate specificities of DP IV. This conformation is characterized by the following dihedral angles: {ie159-1}, {ie159-2}, {ie159-3}, {ie159-4}, and {ie159-5}. The conclusions were supported by comparisons of molecular electrostatic potentials calculated with the molecular graphics program HAMOG.     

Coercivity mechanism in nanophase (Nd–Pr)–Fe–B melt spun alloys

The nucleation mechanism to predict coercivity values in melt-spun exchange-coupled (Nd_1−xPr_x)_yFe_94−yB₆ alloys for various Nd:Pr ratios x, and Fe:RE ratios y, was tested using the dependence of the anisotropy constant K₁ on Pr content x for the minimum nucleation field H_N^min in the modified Brown's equation. Very good agreement was found between experimental data and theoretical values, confirming the predominance of the nucleation of reverse domains over the wall pinning process in the coercivity mechanism of melt spun REFeB alloys.     

过渡金属氢化物和聚集双键化合物反应的研究Ⅲ.用ESR方法考察二茂锆氢化物与RNCS的反应机理

本文用ESR方法考察了Cp₂ZrH) Cl与RNCSR=C₆H₅,c-C₆H₁₁,n-C₄H₉)的反应的过程,结果表明,在这类反应过程中,Zr-H键发生均裂,中心金属锆经过+4-→+3-→+4的价态变化,反应通过自由基机理进行.