Sub-zero temperature behavior of water in non-ionic microemulsions

Sub-zero temperature DSC measurements were conducted to evaluate the behavior of water in non-ionic microemulsions. Two surfactant systems were studied. The first, based on ethoxylated fatty alcohol, octaethylene glycol monon-dodecylether [hereafter referred to as C₁₂(EO)₈] and also containing water, pentanol and dodecane at a fixed weight ratio of 1:1. The second system, based on oligomeric ethoxylated siloxanes, water and dodecanol as oil phase. In both systems it was found that in up to 30 wt.% of the total water content, all water molecules solubilize in the amphiphilic phase and are bound to the ethylene oxide (hereafter referred to as EO) head-groups. No free water exists in the surfactant aggregates’ core. Up to three molecules of water are bound to each EO group. In the first system, the behavior changes significantly upon adding more water. The added pentanol allows further swelling and the water penetrates into the amphiphile structures and forms a reservoir of free water. Structures are deformed and grow from elongated channels (up to 15–20 wt.% water), via illdefined (one-dimensional growth) local lamellar structures (up to ca. 60 wt.% water) to spherical normal, O/W micelles (at ≥85 wt.% water). In contrast, the oligomeric systems, due to geometrical restrictions of the amphiphiles and the nature of their curvature that prevents inversion, cannot further solubilize water in the surfactant aggregates’ core, causing phase separation to occur. Part of the results presented in this paper were included in S. E.’s doctoral thesis in Applied Chemistry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.     

The Purification and Rapid Identification of Heavy Metal-binding Peptides of Water Hyacinth

This paper studies the rapid identification of heavy metal-binding peptides (phytochelatin) by taking Water Hyacinth as a model plant. Plants were cultured in water containing 2 μg/ml Cd2+ for 13 days. The Sephadex G-50 chromatography of root extract under low salt concentration (0. 01 mol/L PBS) gave a Cd-binding peak with MW of 10 ,000 determined by SEC HPLC. After oxidation with performic acid, its SEC HPLC molecular weight decreased to below 1300 and the reverse phase HPLC showed one peptide peak, whose amino acid composition is the same as that of the sample never undertaking oxidation, and (Glu/Gln):Cys:Gly=2:2:1. According to the general structure of phytochelatin (γ-Glu-Cys)n-Gly, n is 2 in this case. The protocol including the sequential steps of Sephadex G-50 chromatography→performic acid oxidation→reverse phase HPLC→amino acid analysis is a rapid and effective method to identify the existence of phytochelatin and determine its values of n.     

近临界水中苄叉乙酰苯的合成研究

以近临界水作为反应介质,在无外加催化剂的条件下,苯甲醛与苯乙酮可顺利反应生成苄叉乙酰苯。在最佳条件下,苄叉乙酰苯的收率可达31.4%。该方法避免了常规合成方法中有机溶剂的使用以及NaOH催化剂的加入,产物后处理简单,是一种绿色合成新过程。     

高碘酸法测定水中锰的改进

介绍了一种室温下测定水中锰的方法，经检验，其显色反应可在短时间内完成，且色泽稳定，精密度和准确度均能达到分析要求。     

Novel flow injection-fluorometric method for the determination of trace silicate and its application to ultrapurified water analysis

A highly sensitive fluorescence quenching method for the determination of silicate based on the formation of an ion associate between molybdosilicate and Rhodamine B (RB) in nitric acid medium was developed. A flow injection system coupled with a fluorescence detector was used for the measurement of fluorescence intensity at 560 and 580 nm as excitation and emission wavelengths, respectively. The calibration graph for Si showed a linear range of 0.1–5 ng cm⁻³ with correlation coefficient of 0.9999, and the detection limit of 0.06 ng cm⁻³. The proposed method was successfully applied to the determination of silicate in ultrapurified water with satisfactory results.     

表面活性剂增敏阴极溶出伏安法测定痕量的碘

本介绍在ＫＮＯ３－ＶＣ－ＥＤＴＡ－Ｔｒｉｔｏｎ Ｘ－１００混合底液中，用悬汞电极２．５次微分阴极溶出伏安法测定痕量碘的方法及其最佳条件。引入表面活性剂Ｔｒｉｔｏｎ Ｘ－１００可显提高灵敏度，Ｉ＾－的检测下限达０．１ｎｇ·ｍＬ＾－１（电积１８０ｓ）；引入ＶＣ可提高Ｉ＾－的稳定性（抗氧化性）；ＥＤＴＡ和ＶＣ有效率地提高了方法的抗干扰能力。用于饮水中痕量碘的分析，其相对标准偏差为３．３％（ｎ＝７），     

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.     

An unusual new reaction of α-olefins with magnesiumn-alkyl derivatives catalyzed by Cp2ZrCl2

The reaction of organomagnesium compounds (OMC) containing alkyl radicals of normal structure with -olefins, resulting in the formation of alkenylorganomagnesium compounds and accompanied by hydride transfer was discovered and systematically investigated. A scheme providing for the formation of zirconacyclopentane complexes was proposed for the mechanism of the reaction.Institute of Organic Chemistry, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 450054 Ufa. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1187–1196, May, 1992.     

Temperature Development of Homo- and Hetero-Clustering in Saturated Vapors

Computational findings of temperature increase of clustering degree in saturated vapors are analyzed. A thermodynamic proof is presented and a simple criterion derived. Illustrations are based on saturated steam, magnesium and carbon vapor. The results are applicable to synthesis of fullerenes, metallofullerenes, and heterofullerenes, chemical vapor deposition technique, or atmospheric chemistry.