The effect of rapid rotation on a vertical bridgman furnace at large Rayleigh number

In quasi-steady operation, convection currents in a Bridgmandevice, used for producing a semi-conductor crystal, createinhomogeneities that may make the crystal unusable. It has oftenbeen suggested that additional forces due to rotation or magnetismmight be efficacious in reducing the segregation of the elementsof the alloy. It has been found that, over a wide range of rotationrates, there is no improvement in performance due to rotationabout the vertical axis. However, numerical results that havebeen obtained previously (Lee & Pearlstein, J. Crys. Growth240, 2002) indicate that, when effects of centrifugal buoyancyare introduced, a substantial reduction in segregation is achieved.In the work reported here, by contrast, in which we extend previouslarge-Rayleigh-number asymptotic analysis to include centrifugalbuoyancy, we find no improvement in radial segregation, butrather increasing segregation with increasing rotation rate.     

Cleavage of Menger’s aliphatic amide: A model for peptidase enzyme solely explained by proximity orientation in intramolecular proton transfer

Ab initio HF/6-31G and DFT B3LYP/6-31G (d,p) calculations for the cleavage of Menger’s aliphatic amide 3 (a peptidase model) under physiological conditions, indicate that the rate limiting step in the cleavage process is a proton transfer from one of the carboxyl groups onto the amidic carbonyl oxygen. The acceleration in rates is mainly due to proximity orientation, and the effect of pseudoallylic strain relief on the rates is negligible. Moreover, the calculations reveal that the mode and the mechanism of the amide cleavage are largely dependent on the pH of the reaction. These results explain the findings that peptidase enzymes are reactive around neutral pH while their activities vanish under basic medium.     

Detecting organic vapors using a conductometric sensor prepared from Ardel®D-100 and graphite

The composites of graphite with Ardel^?D-100 which is a trademark of a polyester of bisphenol-A with terephthalic and isophthalic acid were used as a sensing material in a conductometric vapor sensor. The magnitudes of responses are increased in the order of benzene, isobutyl acetate, isoamyl acetate, ethyl benzene and chloro benzene. This suggests that Ardel^?D-100 can be used as a sensing material for chlorobenzene, ethyl benzene and isoamyl acetate. On the other hand, specific retention volumes of the sensed vapors on Ardel^?D-100 coated on graphite were determined by inverse gas chromatography at temperatures between 200 and 260 °C. The distribution coefficient, K _s of the vapors between stationary and mobile phases in the column was obtained. It was revealed for the first time that the logarithm of K _s of the solvents varies almost linearly with their responses based on conductometric resistance of the sensing polymer composite. Subsequently, the study suggests that gas chromatographic retention data can be used in prediction of the conductometric responses of a polymeric sensor to vapors. Correspondence: Ferdane Karaman, Department of Chemistry, Yildiz Technical University, 34220 Istanbul-Esenler, Turkey     

Prodrugs of aza nucleosides based on proton transfer reaction

DFT calculation results for intramolecular proton transfer reactions in Kirby’s enzyme models 1–7 reveal that the reaction rate is quite responsive to geometric disposition, especially to distance between the two reactive centers, r _GM, and the angle of attack, α (the hydrogen bonding angle). Hence, the study on the systems reported herein could provide a good basis for designing aza nucleoside prodrug systems that are less hydrophilic than their parental drugs and can be used, in different dosage forms, to release the parent drug in a controlled manner. For example, based on the calculated log EM, the cleavage process for prodrug 1ProD is predicted to be about 10¹⁰ times faster than that for prodrug 7ProD and about 10⁴ times faster than prodrug 3ProD: rate _1ProD  > rate _3ProD  > rate _7ProD . Hence, the rate by which the prodrug releases the aza nucleoside drug can be determined according to the structural features of the linker (Kirby’s enzyme model).     

Controlled hydrothermal growth of ZnO nanostructures by sequestering the Zn metal ions with the chelating agent EDTA

In the present work, a controlled growth of ZnO nanostructures by manipulating Zn metal ion concentration by the chelating action of ethylene diaminetetra acetic acid in hydrothermal method is studied. EDTA produces metal–chelate complex by the formation of bidentate ligand with Zn²⁺ in the solution and diminishes the reactivity of Zn metal cations. Concentration of EDTA in the mother solution was varied in different ranges like 3, 5 and 10 mM while retaining the zinc metal salt and the NaOH concentration the same. Three different morphologies of wurtzite structured ZnO nanostructures such as nanorods-bunch, separate/discrete uniformly sized hexagonal nanorods and tapered flower petals like shapes are achieved by 3, 5 and 10 mM strengths of EDTA, respectively. The medium concentration 5 mM of EDTA is found to have moderate control over producing ZnO nanostructures of uniform diameter and a high aspect (length to diameter) ratio. An array of vertically aligned free standing ZnO nanorods with uniform spacing is successfully achieved by the addition of 5 mM of EDTA in the mother solution and the same is studied for its fluorescence property at an excitation of 325 nm and it has exhibited a characteristic UV emission of ZnO around 383 nm.     

Commutators of sublinear operators generated by Calderón-Zygmund operator on generalized weighted Morrey spaces

In this paper, the boundedness of a large class of sublinear commutator operators T _b generated by a Calderón-Zygmund type operator on a generalized weighted Morrey spaces \({M_{p,\varphi }}(w)\) with the weight function w belonging to Muckenhoupt’s class A _p is studied. When 1 < p < ∞ and b ∈ BMO, sufficient conditions on the pair (φ ₁, φ ₂) which ensure the boundedness of the operator T _b from \({M_{p,\varphi 1}}(w)\) to \({M_{p,\varphi 2}}(w)\) are found. In all cases the conditions for the boundedness of T _b are given in terms of Zygmund-type integral inequalities on (φ ₁, φ ₂), which do not require any assumption on monotonicity of φ ₁(x, r), φ ₂(x, r) in r. Then these results are applied to several particular operators such as the pseudo-differential operators, Littlewood-Paley operator, Marcinkiewicz operator and Bochner-Riesz operator.