Synthetic reactions catalyzed by immobilized lipase from oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.)

Lipase from rape (Brassica napus L., immobilized onto celite, catalyzes esterification and transesterification reactions in hexane. The activity of the lipase is stimulated up to 35 fold by the addition of water (1.3% w/v). The activity of the lipase in hydrolysis is about 8 times higher than in the esterification reactions in hexane. Interesteri-fication reactions between mono- and diacylglycerols and transesterification reactions of mono- and diacylglycerols with alcohols were also catalyzed at relatively high rates but transesterification/esterification of these acylglycerols with fatty acids was comparatively slow. In transesterification reactions, triacylglycerols reacted rather slowly.     

Studies on the solvent extraction of yttrium thenoyltrifluoroacetonate

Studies of extractions of yttrium from aqueous solution into chloroform, benzene, methyl isobutyl ketone, and mixtures of these solvents, containing thenoyltrifluoroacetone are described. The effects of reagent concentration, added n-butylamine, and added fluoride were investigated. Values of pH$\text{1}\text{2}$ and P_e were determined, and identifications of the involved species are suggested.     

Application of parallel processing techniques to improving the efficiency of MM2 molecular mechanics calculations

The application of parallel processing techniques to molecular mechanics calculations is evaluated. Using the standard molecular mechanics package, MM2, four different parallel versions of the program are implemented in a four-processor computing environment. A set of 529 test structures is used to compare the efficiency of the parallel versions of MM2 to a standard serial version of the program. Statistics describing execution times and program execution cycles are gathered and analyzed. The effects of parallel processing overhead and computer system load are explored, and the practical utility of parallel processing in molecular mechanics is estimated. The results of these parallelization experiments indicate that for geometry optimizations requiring significant amounts of computing time an improvement in program execution speed approaching 50% is realizable. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Übergangsformen zwischen Einkristall- und Sphärolithwachstum im Polyäthylen

Zusammenfassung Steigert man für das Poly?thylen die Kristallisationstemperatur, so findet man Kristallformen in der folgenden Reihenfolge: rautenf?rmige Einkristalle— rautenf?rmige Einkristalle mit abgeschnittenen spitzen Ecken (“truncated lozenge crystals”)-l?ngliche sechseckf?rmige Einkristalle, bei denen die kristallographische b-Achse der orthorhombischen Elementarzelle in Richtung der l?ngsten Ausdehnung des Kristalls liegt. Diese l?nglichen Sechsecke lagern sich zu Sph?rolithen zusammen, und zwar so, da? die kristallographische b-Achse radial liegt, wie es auch bei den aus der Schmelze gewachsenen Sph?rolithen der Fall ist. Damit sind für das Poly?thylen übergangsformen zwischen den Einkristallen und Sph?rolithen aufgezeigt. Sph?rolithe, die aus der L?sung gewachsen sind, zeigen im Polarisationsmikroskop nur dann ein konzentrisches Ringsystem, wenn bei der Bildung der Sph?rolithe ein Mindestangebot an Substanz vorhanden ist. Die Ringbreite nimmt dann mit steigender Kristallisationstemperatur zu. Bei aus der Schmelze gewachsenen Poly?thylen-Sph?rolithen ist mit der Bildung von nicht-kristallographischen Verzweigungen eine Drehung der Indikatrix verbunden. Vermutlich wird also auch bei aus der L?sung gewachsenen Sph?rolithen das Ringsystem auf dem Auftreten von Verzweigungen infolge hohen Angebotes von kristallisierender Substanz beruhen.

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Summary With increasing temperature of crystallization polyethylene crystallizes from solution as lozenge single crystals, truncated lozenge crystals and longish hexagonal crystals, with the crystallographic b-axis along the long diagonal. In the solutions longish hexagonal crystal plates are able to cluster and to form spherulites, in which their crystallographic b-axes are oriented radially like the b-axes in spherulites grown from the melt. Various transition species have been observed. In polarised light the spherulites grown from solution show a concentric ring-system only, if during the crystallization a sufficient quantity of polyethylene is present. The ring-width increases with increasing crystallization temperature. Further it is shown that in polyethylene spherulites grown from the melt the rotation of the indicatrix is connected with a non-crystallographic branching. We suppose, that also for the solution-grown spherulites the ring-system depends on branching.

     

Mg2Ru5B4 und Mg5Ru13B11, zwei ternäre Magnesium-Rutheniumboride mit Kanalstrukturen

Mg₂Ru₅B₄ and Mg₅Ru₁₃B₁₁, Two Ternary Magnesium Ruthenium Borides with Channel Structures The ternary borides Mg₂Ru₅B₄ and Mg₅Ru₁₃B₁₁, crystallizing in the orthorhombic space group Pbam, were prepared by reaction of the elementary components in sealed tantalum ampoules. Mg₂Ru₅B₄ (a = 1000.0(2) pm, b = 837,6(1) pm, c = 295.42(3) pm, Z = 2, R_W = 0.027 for 563 reflections) is homeotypic with Sc₂Ru₅B₄. The structure contains BRu₆-trigonal prisms, connected by faces and edges to form pentagonal channels filled with chains of magnesium atoms. Mg₅Ru₁₃B₁₁ (a = 2190.1(2) pm, b = 996.7(2) pm, c = 294.65(3) pm, Z = 2, R_W = 0.031 for 959 reflections) has a similar but so far unknown structure in which parts of the magnesium and boron atoms are disordered.     

Solvent extraction studies of some cobalt(ii) chelates.

Extraction of radiolabeled cobalt(II) from aqueous solution into one or more solvents using 25 reagents was studied. Both reagent concentration and pH variation were investigated. The relevant association and partition constants for several of the better reagent-solvent systems were determined. These systems were hexanoic acid in I-hexanol, octanoic acid in I-octanol, and thenoyltrifluoroacetone in benzene.