A Switch in the Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Gas-Adsorption Character of Prussian Blue Analogues: An Affinity Control for Smart Gas Sorption

Porous coordination polymers are molecule-based materials presenting a high degree of tunability, which offer many advantages for targeted applications over conventional inorganic materials. This work demonstrates that the hydrophilic/hydrophobic character of Prussian blue analogues having a lipophilic feature may be tuned to optimize the gas adsorption properties. The role of the coordinatively unsaturated metal sites is emphasized through a combination of theoretical and experimental study of water, ethanol, and n-hexane adsorption.     

Beryllium (boron) clustering quest in relativistic multifragmentation (BECQUEREL Project)

A physical program of irradiation of emulsions in beams of relativistic nuclei named the BECQUEREL Project is reviewed. It is destined to study in detail the processes of relativistic fragmentation of light radioactive and stable nuclei. The expected results would make it possible to answer some topical questions concerning the cluster structure of light nuclei. Owing to the best spatial resolution, the nuclear emulsions would enable one to obtain unique and evident results. The most important irradiations will be performed in the secondary beams of He, Be, B, C, and N radioactive nuclei formed on the basis of JINR Nuclotron beams of stable nuclei. We present results on the charged state topology of relativistic fragmentation of the ¹⁰B nucleus at low energy-momentum transfers as the first step of the research.     

Investigation of clustering in light nuclei by means of relativistic-multifragmentation processes

New results concerning the topology of the fragmentation of relativistic nuclei ⁷Li and ¹⁰B are presented. A program is proposed for studying the cluster structure of stable and radioactive nuclei. The use of emulsions in the investigation of nuclear clustering in the fragmentation of light nuclei at energies are in excess of 1 GeV per nucleon is discussed.     

Scattering spectra and colour of disperse systems of low-absorptive particles

In this article, the results of calculations of scattering spectra of low-absorptive spherical particles are presented. It was obtained using different approximate and numerical methods. The comparative evaluations of application of single scattering approximation, the average field approximation and of the methods of computer modeling on the basis of Monte-Carlo method on various scattering multiplicity were performed. The comparison demonstrates the good agreement of calculated results with experimental scattering spectra of eye lens. By using the obtained spectral data the colour coordinates are calculated. The regularities of changes in colour characteristics in dependence of disperse system parameters are analyzed.     

Dependence of the growth-regulating activity of macrocyclic allyl alcohols of the cembrane series on the stereochemistry of the disubstituted double bond

With the use of a number of known and two specially synthesized cembranoids it was established that the growth-inhibiting activity of membrane alcohols does not change appreciably on the inversion of the configuration of the ² double bond in their molecule.Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Novosibirsk. V. N. Sukachev Forestry and Wood Institute, Siberian Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Krasnoyarsk. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 638–641, September–October, 1990.     

Synthesis of organocyclosiloxanes containing cyanoalkyl groups on the silicon atom

The cohydrolysis of-cyanoethyl- and-cyanopropylmethyldichlorosilanes with dimethyldichlorosilane has been studied and the optimum conditions ensuring the maximum yield of rings containing cyanoalhyl groups have been determined.B is(-cyanoethyl)hexamethylcyclotetrasiloxane,-cyanopropylpentamethylcyclotetrasiloxane, and bis(-cyanopropyl)hexamethylcyclotetrasiloxane have been obtained for the first time and characterized.     

Phosphorylated azahomo[60]fullerene: synthesis and electrochemical properties

A reaction of [60]fullerene with O,O-dibutyl azidophosphate affords a first representative of phosphorylated azahomo[60]fullerenes, which is easier to reduce electrochemically than the starting C₆₀.