Substoichiometric determination of traces of palladium by neutron-activation analysis

A highly selective, rapid one-step radiochemical separation procedure for palladium has been developed. It is based on the solvent extraction of palladium diethyldithiocarbamate from a 5M hydrochloric acid solution with a substoichiometric amount of copper diethyldithiocarbamate in chloroform. The separation has been applied to the determination of traces of palladium by neutron-activation analysis, in platinum, the rocks W-1 and PCC-1 and a biological material (kale). Amounts of palladium down to 10(-8) g have been determined.     

Proton-coupled electron transfer of flavodoxin immobilized on nanostructured tin dioxide electrodes: thermodynamics versus kinetics control of protein redox function

In this paper, we report a spectroelectrochemical investigation of proton-coupled electron transfer in flavodoxin D. vulgaris Hildenborough (Fld). Poly-L-lysine is used to promote the binding of Fld to the nanocrystalline, mesoporous SnO(2) electrodes. Two reversible redox couples of the immobilized Fld are observed electrochemically and are assigned by spectroelectrochemistry to the quinone/semiquinone and semiquinone/hydroquinone couples of the protein's flavin mononucleotide (FMN) redox cofactor. Comparison with control data for free FMN indicates no contamination of the Fld data by dissociated FMN. The quinone/semiquinone and semiquinone/hydroquinone midpoint potentials (E(q/sq) and E(sq/hq)) at pH 7 were determined to be -340 and -585 mV vs Ag/AgCl, in good agreement with the literature. E(q/sq) exhibited a pH dependence of 51 mV/pH. The kinetics of these redox couples were studied using cyclic voltammetry, cyclic voltabsorptometry, and chronoabsorptometry. The semiquinone/quinone reoxidation is found to exhibit slow, potential-independent but pH-sensitive kinetics with a reoxidation rate constant varying from 1.56 s(-)(1) at pH 10 to 0.0074 s(-)(1) at pH 5. The slow kinetics are discussed in terms of a simple kinetics model and are assigned to the reoxidation process being rate limited by semiquinone deprotonation. It is proposed that this slow deprotonation step has the physiological benefit of preventing the undesirable loss of reducing equivalents which results from semiquinone oxidation to quinone.     

Comparison of (π− d→nn withdσ(π+ d→pp) to test charge symmetry in the Δ-region

First results on ^– d are reported. The measurements were made using 8 specially designed neutron counters, which were carefully calibratedin situ. The differential cross sections atT =142, 180, 217, and 254 MeV were obtained at four angles between 0° and 90°, they are compared to ⁺ d pp data measured at the same energies and angles with the same setup. At every beam energy, the shape of the angular distributions of ^– d nn and ⁺ d pp is the same to ±2%. The absolute cross sections differ by 1 to 10%. The error in this comparison is ±4% implying a small violation of charge symmetry.Dedicated to Prof. I. laus on the occasion of his 60th birthdayDeceased     

Physical complexity of variable length symbolic sequences

A measure called physical complexity is established and calculated for a population of sequences, based on statistical physics, automata theory, and information theory. It is a measure of the quantity of information in an organism’s genome. It is based on Shannon’s entropy, measuring the information in a population evolved in its environment, by using entropy to estimate the randomness in the genome. It is calculated from the difference between the maximal entropy of the population and the actual entropy of the population when in its environment, estimated by counting the number of fixed loci in the sequences of a population. Up until now, physical complexity has only been formulated for populations of sequences with the same length. Here, we investigate an extension to support variable length populations. We then build upon this to construct a measure for the efficiency of information storage, which we later use in understanding clustering within populations. Finally, we investigate our extended physical complexity through simulations, showing it to be consistent with the original.     

Studies in qualitative inorganic analysis. Part XLI

Summary The solubility of mercury(II) sulphide in the various reagents used to separate the copper-tin group has been quantitatively investigated. Our results show that with all reagents the solubility of mercury(II) sulphide is largest when tin(IV) and molybdenum(VI) are present and that the use of hydrogen peroxide with potassium hydroxide ensures that at least 95% of the mercury appears in the copper group.

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Zusammenfassung Die Löslichkeit von Queoksilber(II)-sulfid in den verschiedenen, zur Trennung der Kupfer-Zinn-Gruppe verwendeten Reagenzien wurde quantitativ überprüft. Diese Löslichkeit ist dann in allen Reagenzien am größten, wenn Zinn(IV) und Molybdän(VI) zugegen sind. Die Anwendung von Wasserstoffperoxid und Kalilauge gibt die Gewähr, daß mindestens 95% des Quecksilbers in der Kupfergruppe zu finden sind.

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Part XL: Mikrochim. Acta [Wien] 1970, 83.     

Photoproduction of the omega meson on the proton at large momentum transfer

The differential cross section, dsigma/dt, for omega meson exclusive photoproduction on the proton above the resonance region (2.6相似文献