On fencing problems

Fencing problems regard the bisection of a convex body in a way that some geometric measures are optimized. We introduce the notion of relative diameter and study bisections of centrally symmetric planar convex bodies, bisections by straight line cuts in general planar convex bodies and also bisections by hyperplane cuts for convex bodies in higher dimensions. In the planar case we obtain the best possible lower bound for the ratio between the relative diameter and the area.     

Improvement of matrix effects correction in X-ray fluorescence analysis through the optimum relation

A computer program for the optimization of relation for correction of matrix effects in Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) analysis is described Program functioning and correction efficiency is studied experimentally in the case of silicate geological samples.     

Conditioning of industrial waste in cement matrix

Results are presented of a series of experimental tests performed to determine the influence of matrix characteristics on the leaching mechanism of copper aluminium oxychloride immobilized into cement matrices. The objective of this research was to investigate the leaching mechanism of copper as a constituent of copper aluminium oxychloride (CAOX).     

Catalytic effect of nickel cyanide complex and skeletal nickel on addition of hydrogen to 6-methyl-3,5-heptadien-2-ol

Russian Chemical Bulletin -     

A Screening Method for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Determination in Water by Headspace SPME with GC-FID

A simple method for determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in water using headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) with gas chromatography-flame ionisation detector (GC-FID) was developed. In order to obtain the convenient experimental conditions for HS-SPME extraction an experimental design with two steps was accomplished. A 2^6-2 fractional factorial design and central composite design (CCD) considering three significant factors were used. Naphthalene, anthracene and fluoranthene were chosen as representatives of two, three and four aromatic rings, and the global response of three PAHs was used for the results, evaluation. The chosen extraction conditions were: 85 μm polyacrylate fibre; 50 °C temperature; 60 min time; 20 mL-dissolution volume (in 40 mL glass vial); without salt addition; and 2 min desorption time. The procedure was extended to other seven PAHs (acenaphthylene, acenaphthene, fluorene, phenanthrene, pyrene, chrysene and benzo(a)anthracene) and the analytical characteristics were checked. The limit of detection (LOD) was from 0.08 (anthracene) to 0.20 μg L^?1 (naphthalene). The precision expressed as relative standard deviation (RSD in %) using 50 μg L^?1 of each analyte ranged from 6.8 to 17 %. The method was applied to the analysis of the surface waters and leaching waters of contaminated soils from Gipuzkoa (North Spain). The PAHs were not detected in surface water samples. Most of the PAHs were found in the leachates from contaminated soils showing a maximum global value of 75.5 μg L^?1.     

Synthesis and conformational analysis of novel N(OCH3)-linked disaccharide analogues

N(OMe)-linked disaccharide analogues, isosteric to the corresponding natural disaccharides, have been synthesized by chemoselective assembly of unprotected natural monosaccharides with methyl 6-deoxy-6-methoxyamino-alpha-D-glucopyranoside in an aqueous environment. The coupling reactions were found to be chemo- and stereoselective affording beta-(1-->6) disaccharide mimics when using Glc and GlcNAc; in the case of Gal, the beta-anomer was prevalent (beta:alpha=7:1). An iterative method for the synthesis of linear N(OMe) oligosaccharide analogues was demonstrated, based on the use of an unprotected monosaccharide building block in which an oxime functionality at C-6 is converted during the synthesis into the corresponding methoxyamino group. The conformational analysis of these compounds was carried out by using NMR spectroscopy, ab initio, molecular mechanics, and molecular dynamics methods. Optimized geometries and energies of fourteen conformers for each compound have been calculated at the B3LYP/6-31G* level. Predicted conformational equilibria were compared with the results based on NMR experiments and good agreement was found. It appears that N(OMe)-linked disaccharide analogues exhibit a slightly different conformational behavior to their parent natural disaccharides.     

Partial Least-Squares Study of the Effects of Organic Modifier and Physicochemical Properties on the Retention of Some Thiazoles

JPC – Journal of Planar Chromatography – Modern TLC - Reversed-phase (RP) HPTLC with aqueous ammonia-organic modifier (acetonitrile, dioxane, acetone) mobile phases has been used to...     

Study of the Retention Behavior of Newly Synthesized s-Triazine Derivatives in RP TLC Systems,and the Lipophilicity of the Compounds

JPC – Journal of Planar Chromatography – Modern TLC - The chromatographic behavior of nine newly synthesized s-tri-azines has been studied by thin-layer chromatography on C18/UV254...     

An ab initio study of the vibronic, spin-orbit, and magnetic hyperfine structure in the X2Pi electronic state of NCO

In the present study we give the results of the ab initio calculations on the vibronic, spin-orbit, and magnetic hyperfine structure in the X (2)Pi electronic state of the NCO radical. The calculations of the potential surfaces and the electronic mean values of the hyperfine coupling constants are carried out by means of the density functional theory approach (B3LYP functional combined with an atomic orbital basis set suitable for calculations of the hyperfine structure). The vibronic levels, spin-orbit splitting, and the vibronic mean values of the components of the hyperfine tensor in the vibronic species are calculated using a variational method. The results of the calculations are in good agreement with the available experimental data.