A novel method for synthesizing diorganylphosphinous acids from red phosphorus and arylalkenes

The reaction of styrene and -methylstyrene with P in aprotic polar solvents in the presence of KOH affords diorganylphosphinous acids.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 1680–1681, September, 1994.     

Structure-Activity Relationship of Insecticidal Steroids. III. Δ4,7-6-Ketosteroids

The toxicity of steroids 1-11 for colorado beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say.) larvae was studied by contact-intestinal treatment. Active insect-growth regulators were found among the studied compounds.     

Synthesis of Alkylcyclophosphanes from Red Phosphorus – molecular structure of i-Pr4P4 by gas electron diffraction

A polyphosphide of the type (NaP)_X 1 was obtained from red phosphorus and sodium in presence of small amounts of naphthalene in 1,2-dimethoxyethane as solvent. 1 reacts with alkyl halides in dependence on the kind of alkyl group with formation of different alkylcyclophosphanes. As definite compounds Me₅P₅ 2 , Et₅P₅ 3 (with not definite constitution), i-Pr₄P₄ 4 and t-Bu₄P₄ 5 could be isolated. 1 was identified by X-ray diffraction, 2 – 5 by means of their ¹H, ¹³C, ³¹P n.m.r. and mass spectra. The molecular structure of 4 was identified by electron diffraction.     

Tris(2,2''''-bipyridyl)ruthenium(Ⅱ) electrochemiluminescence (ECL) enhanced by rutin on platinum electrode

Ru(bpy)_(3~(2 )) electrochemiluminescence (ECL) was applied to determination of rutin. ECL intensity of Ru(bpy)_(3~(2 ))could be enhanced in the presence of rutin in basic solution on platinum electrode. At pH 9.9, light emission intensity was found to be linear with rutin in the range of 1-50 mmol/L.     

Das asymptotische Verhalten der Peanokerne einiger interpolatorischer Quadraturverfahren

Summary Interpolatory quadrature formulae consist in replacing by wherep _f denotes the interpolating polynomial off with respect to a certain knot setX. The remainder may in many cases be written as wherem=n resp. (n+1) forn even and odd, respectively. We determine the asymptotic behaviour of the Peano kernelP _X (t) forn for the quadrature formulae of Filippi, Polya and Clenshaw-Curtis.

     

Fields as Kolmogzrov flows

It is widely recognized that for highly unstable dynamical systems there exists a fundamental limitation on predictability and determinism. An important class of such highly unstable systems is the class of K-flow, which is further characterized by the existence of time-asymmetric objects in the form of K-partition. Our recent approach to the problem of irreversibility has shown that when the implications of the limitation on determinism arising from strong form of instability and those of the existence of K-partition are consistently taken into account, one is naturally led from the physically unrealizable deterministic evolution of phase points to an entropy-increasing stochastic Markovian evolution. Furthermore, this transition is not the result of extraneously imposed coarse graining and/or approximation schemes, but can be brought about by an invertible transformation whose existence and construction are determined by the nature of the instability of the dynamical system itself. After a brief review of this theory which also contains some relatively new remarks, we prove that classical Klein-Gordon field (both massive and massless) possess the structure of K-flow. This seems to provide the first examples of relativistic systems that are K-flows. Some of the implications of this result are briefly discussed. From a mathematical point of view, this seems to be a first step toward an ergodic theory of partial differential equations. In the process, we also provide an independant group-theoretic proof of the existence of incoming and outgoing subspaces of the scattering theory of Lax and Phillips for the wave equation.     

Characterization of SiO2-P2O5-ZrO2 Sol-Gel/NAFION™ Composite Membranes

Composite membranes were prepared by (a) infiltrating NAFION with SiO₂-P₂O₅-ZrO₂ sol, and (b) recasting a film using NAFION solution containing SiO₂-P₂O₅-ZrO₂ sol. The membranes were characterized by Differential Thermal Analysis and ac-impedance spectroscopy as a function of relative humidity. The influences of the heat treatment (80°C–150°C) and cleaning on the electrical properties were investigated. The incorporation of SiO₂-P₂O₅-ZrO₂ gels into NAFION lead to improvements in its thermal stability and proton conductivity.     

Why is space three-dimensional and how may groups be seen?

First we propose a model of visual perception essentially based on the Keldysh-Chernavsky-Sossinsky three-channel theorem, from which three-dimensionality of space follows. Second, we associate with a system of subgroups H ₁, ..., H_s of a given group G a geometric object, called a group crystal, in order to visualize G. How this notion works is illustrated via the Burnside problem.     

Absence of p,π-conjugation in the Cl2C=CHOMe molecule from data ofab initio calculations

ab initio Calculation of the Cl₂C=CHOMe molecule has been carried out with geometrical optimization in the split valence basis set in the RHF/6-31G^*//RHF/6-31G^* approximation. An analysis of the populations of the p-orbitals of the Cl atoms implies the absence of p,-conjugation between the unshared electron pairs of these atoms and the -bond. The asymmetry parameters of the electric field gradient at the³⁵Cl nuclei, calculated from the 3p-orbital populations of the Cl atoms, practically coincide with the experimental values.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2369–2372, December, 1995.The authors are grateful to G. S. Beloglazov for assistance in accomplishingab initio calculations.     

A novel vapor phase process for aromatic ketone synthesis

The vapor phase catalytic reaction between aromatic carboxylic acid and acetic acid was investigated. Many metal oxides catalyzed the reaction between 2methylbenzoic acid (OTA) and acetic acid (AA) to produce 2methylacetophenone (OMA), and weakly acidic oxides such as Th, U, Ce, and La oxide exhibited higher yield of OMA. The OMA yield depended on the catalyst support. SiO₂, Al₂O₃, TiO₂, and ZrO₂ with a surface area of less than 200 m² g^–1 appeared to be suitable as industrial catalyst supports. CeO₂ on Al₂O₃was chosen as an industrial catalyst for the synthesis of OMA because of higher productivity, longer catalyst life, and lifting of legal restrictions on catalyst handling. This catalyst system can also be applied to the syntheses of acetophenone, nitroacetophenone, and chloroacetophenone.