Oxidative dehydrogenation of C5 hydrocarbons in the presence of hydrochloric acid

Conclusions The oxidative dehydrogenation of C₅ paraffin hydrocarbons on Fe catalysts in the presence of HCl leads mainly to the formation of unsaturated hydrocarbons, which have the same structure of the carbon skeleton as the starting hydrocarbon, in which connection the yield of olefinic hydrocarbons proved to be substantially higher (25% from isopentane and 32% from n-pentane) than the yield of dienes (respectively 15% of isoprene and 11% of piperylene).Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2599–2601, November, 1972.     

Scattering of surface plasmon-polaritons and volume waves by thin gold films

The specific features of elastic scattering of volume waves and surface plasmon polaritons by polycrystalline gold films have been investigated. An analysis of the relative scattered energy, power spectral density of surface roughness, and integral and angular dependences of scattering of waves of different nature indicates a strong nonradiative multiple scattering of surface plasmon polaritons in gold films. When roughness increases, this scattering leads to an increase in scattering isotropy and to a partial loss of structural information about gold films. The analysis of the scattered energy of surface plasmon polaritons with application of the data on multifractal dimension of gold surface indicates also that the radiative scattering of surface plasmon polaritons depends on both the rms surface roughness and the surface wave propagation length.     

Insights into the reaction paths of copper(i) acetylides with dichloroglyoxime leading to 3,3′-biisoxazoles

Russian Chemical Bulletin - Base-free reaction of dichloroglyoxime with copper(i) acetylides gave 3,3′-biisoxazoles via a nucleophilic substitution of the chlorine atom of dichloroglyoxime...