Medium effects on fluorescence quantum yields and lifetimes for coumarin laser dyes

Fluorescence quantum yields and lifetimes of coumarin dyes are sharply reduced in polar solvents if amine substituent groups are free to rotate. The polar solvent effect is interpreted in terms of relaxation of excited dye from an initial planar conformation to a twisted zwitterionic state.     

The formation of a series of barium tungsten bronzes

The phases occurring in samples of gross composition Ba_xWO₃ (0.01 < x < 0.33) heated at temperatures between 1073 and 1373°K have been determined using X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy. At all temperatures a tetragonal tungsten bronze phase with a narrow homogeneity range of x = 0.20?0.21 was observed to form. In addition, at temperatures up to 1273°K, a series of orthorhombic intergrowth bronzes forms within a restricted composition range around x = 0.04. The latter phases are unstable at higher temperatures and were not found in preparations made at 1323°K. Similarly a new type of bronze phase forms at x = 0.14?0.16 at temperatures up to 1323°K, but not at 1373°K. The structure of this phase is unknown. Aspects of the crystal chemistry of the barium bronzes and the relationships to other bronze phases are discussed.     

Microwave spectrum of N2D4, 14N quadrupole coupling constants,and the barrier to inversion of the amino group

The microwave spectrum of N₂D₄ has been observed and analyzed. Based on five low-J rotational transitions the effective rotational constants are: A = 74712.9 ± 1.9 MHz, B = 18500.42 ± 0.46 MHz, and C = 18439.91 ± 0.46 MHz. The quadrupole coupling constants of the ¹⁴N nuclei are X_aa = 4.23 ± 0.04 MHz, X_bb = 1.98 ± 0.05 MHz, and X_cc = ?2.25 ± 0.05 MHz. Using the observed ground state inversion splittings for N₂D₄ and N₂H₄ the barrier to inversion of a single amino group is computed to be 5.00 kcal mol^?1.     

Sensitive Adsorption Stripping Voltammetric Determination of Reserpine by a Glassy Carbon Electrode Modified with Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Adsorption stripping voltammetry, a very sensitive electroanalytical method, was employed to determine reserpine, a kind of anti-hypertensive drug. In 0.1M phosphate buffer with a pH of 6.0, reserpine was accumulated at a multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWNT)-modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) surface under the condition of open-circuit. In the following anodic sweep from 0.20 to 1.00V, reserpine, adsorbed at the MWNT-modified GCE surface, was oxidized and yielded a sensitive oxidation peak at 0.64V. Due to its unique structure and extraordinary properties, MWNT shows a ten times higher accumulation efficiency toward reserpine, compared with a bare GCE. Hence, the amount of reserpine at the MWNT-modified GCE surface increases significantly, and finally the oxidation peak current improves greatly. The experimental conditions, such as supporting electrolyte, pH value, the amount of MWNT-DHP suspension, accumulation time and scan rate, were optimized for the measurement of reserpine, and a sensitive electroanalytical method was proposed for reserpine determination. The oxidation peak current varies linearly with the concentration of reserpine over the range of 2×10^–8 to 1×10^–5M, and the detection limit is 7.5×10^–9M after 4min open-circuit accumulation. The relative standard deviation at 1×10^–6M reserpine was about 4.7% (n=7), indicating excellent reproducibility. This new method was successfully demonstrated with reserpine injections and tablets.     

Fluorescence optosensor using an artificial neural network for screening of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

This paper presents an optosensor for screening of four polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: anthracene (ANT), benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), fluoranthene (FLT), and benzo[b]fluoranthene (Bbf) using a photomultiplier device with an artificial neural network as transducer. The optosensor is based on the on-line immobilization on a non-ionic resin (Amberlite XAD-4) solid support in a continuous flow. The determination was performed in 15 mM H₂PO₄⁻/HPO₄²⁻ buffer solution at pH 7 and 25% of 1,4-dioxane. Feed forward neural networks (multiplayer perceptron) have been trained to quantify the considered Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in mixtures under optimal conditions. The optosensor proposed was also applied satisfactorily to the determination of the considered PAHs in water samples in presence of the other 12 EPA–PAHs.     

STRUCTURE CHARACTERIZATION AND CATALYTICACTIVITY TEST OF Ni(II) COMPLEXES CONTAINING2-(DIPHENYLPHOSPHINOAMINO) PYRIDINE(PAP)

IntroductionIn1962,N.V.Kutepow'SgroupfirstusedcomplexesofFe,CoandNiascatalyststocatalyzecarboXylationofethanoltopreparepropanoicacidanditsderivants.Thereactionpressurewashighandtheyieldwaslow.LateronPaulalsandhiscolleagueusedabC13andiodineascatalyst,which…     

单柱离子色谱法测定茶叶中草酸根和硫酸根的研究

本文研究单柱离子色谱分离测定茶叶中微量草酸根和硫酸根的方法。样品水浸泡，酸化液。上ＳｈｉｍＰａｒｓｋＩＣ－Ａ＿２柱分离，用２．０ｍｍｏｌ·Ｌ￣（－１）Ｈ－２Ｃ＿８Ｏ＿４／１．９ｍｍｏｌ·Ｌ￣（－１）Ｔｒｉ淋洗液洗脱，电导检测器检测，检测灵敏度为１．６Ｓ／ｃｍ，最低检出限０．０５μｇ／ｍＬ；线性范围Ｌ；相对标准偏差１．０６％；平均回收车９８．７２％９７．８８／。该法简便、快速、准确、灵敏、选择性好。     

A comparison of phototautomerism in different sites of free-base porphin (H2P) in n-alkane crystals

Selective laser-induced phototautomerism of free-base porphin in different n-alkanes (n-hexane, n-heptane, n-octane, nnonane, n-decane, n-undecane and n-dodecane) has been used to identify tautomer splittings in a number of sites in polycrystalline samples at 2 K. Pairs or lines arising from the two molecular orientations in each site can be reversibly transformed into each other. In the odd n-alkanes the occupation of different sites was not dependent on the rate at which the samples were frozen, but in the even n-alkanes metastable sites were only occupied following rapid quenching.     

Application of the Hall™ electrolytic conductivity detector for the analysis of chloroanilines and chloronitroanilines in POTW sludges

Simultaneous detection with a 700-A Hall? and an NPD detector is an effective technique for characterizing chloro-and chloronitroanilines in highly complex Publicly Owned Water Treatment Works (POTW) sludges. The utilization of a modified Varian effluent splitter and a SE-54 fused silica capillary column permitted the detection of mid-picogram quantities of the polar chloroanilines without sacrificing peak shape. The response of the Hall? detector in the halogen mode was roughly proportional to the number of chlorine atoms present, while the response of the Hall? in the nitrogen mode and the NPD was less predictably influenced by the presence of one or more nitro groups. When combined with retention time data, the ratio of the NPD response to the Hall? response has been found to substantiate the presence of chloro- and chloronitroanilines in sludge extracts.     

The solvation of Li and Na in acetonitrile from ab initio-derived many-body ion–solvent potentials

Several Li⁺- and Na⁺-acetonitrile models were derived from ab initio calculations at the counterpoise-corrected MP2/TZV++(d,p) level for distorted ion-(MeCN)_n clusters with n=1, 4 and 6. Two different many-body ion-acetonitrile models were constructed: an effective three-body potential for use with the six-site effective pair model of Böhm et al., and an effective polarizable many-body model. The polarizable acetonitrile model used in the latter model is a new empirical model which was also derived in the present paper. Mainly for comparative purposes, two ion-acetonitrile pair potentials were also constructed from the ab initio cluster calculations: one pure pair potential and one effective pair potential. Using all these potential models, MD simulations in the NPT ensemble were performed for the pure acetonitrile liquid and for Li⁺(MeCN) and Na⁺(MeCN) solutions with 1 ion in 512 solvent molecules and with a simulation time of at least 120 ps per system. Thermodynamic properties, solvation-shell structure and the self-diffusion coefficient of the ions and of the solvent molecules were calculated and compared between the different models and with experimental data, where available. The Li⁺ ion is found to be four-coordinated when the new many-body potentials are used, in contrast to the six-coordinated structure obtained for the pure pair and effective pair potentials. The coordination number of Na⁺ is close to six for all the models derived here, although the coordination number becomes slightly smaller with the many-body potentials. For both ions, the solvent molecules in the first shell point their nitrogen ends towards the cation, while in the second shell the opposite orientation is the most common.