{"title":"Kinetics and Mechanism of Paracetamol Oxidation by Chromium(VI) in Absence and Presence of Manganese(II) and Sodiumdodecyl Sulphate","authors":"M. Ilyas, M. A. Malik, S. M. A. Andrabi, Z. Khan","doi":"10.1155/2007/82901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/82901","url":null,"abstract":"The kinetics of paracetamol oxidation are first order each in [paracetamol] and [HClO4]. The kinetic study shows that the oxidation proceeds in two steps. The effects of anionic micelles of sodiumdodecyl sulphate (SDS) and complexing agents (ethylenediammine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) and 2,2′-bipyridyl (bpy)) were also studied. Fast kinetic spectrophotometric method has been described for the determination of paracetamol. The method is based on the catalytic effect of manganese(II) on the oxidation of paracetamol by chromium(VI) in the presence of HClO4 (= 0.23 mol dm−3). Optimum reaction time is 4 to 6 minutes at a temperature of 30∘C. The addition of manganese(II) ions largely decreased the absorbance of chromium(VI) at 350 nm. This reaction can be utilized for the determination of paracetamol in drugs.","PeriodicalId":229171,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Physical Chemistry","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115312601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fourier-Domain Analysis of Hydriding Kinetics Using Pneumato-Chemical Impedance Spectroscopy","authors":"P. Millet, C. Decaux, R. Ngameni, M. Guymont","doi":"10.1155/2007/96251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/96251","url":null,"abstract":"Analysis of phase transformation processes observed in hydrogen absorbing materials \u0000(pure metals, alloys, or compounds) is still a matter of active research. Using pneumato-chemical \u0000impedance spectroscopy (PIS), it is now possible to analyze the mechanism of hydriding \u0000reactions induced by the gas phase. Experimental impedance diagrams, measured on activated \u0000 LaNi 5 in single- and two-phase domains, are reported in this paper. It is shown that their shape is \u0000mostly affected by the slope of the isotherm at the measurement point. By considering the details \u0000of the multistep reaction paths involved in the hydriding reaction, model impedance equations \u0000have been derived for single- and two-phase domains, and fitted to experimental impedance \u0000diagrams. The possibility of separately measuring surface and phase transformation resistances, \u0000hydrogen diffusion coefficient, and hydrogen solubility in each composition domain is discussed.","PeriodicalId":229171,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Physical Chemistry","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130026864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surface Adsorption and Replacement of Acid-Oxidized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) Chains","authors":"Wei Chen, Xiaojun Li, L. Dai","doi":"10.1155/2007/17378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/17378","url":null,"abstract":"Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) was used to investigate the adsorption of acid-oxidized single-walled carbon nanotubes (Ox-SWNTs) and poly(vinyl pyrrolidone), PVP. It was found for the first time that Ox-SWNTs adsorbed onto the QCM electrode can be effectively replaced by PVP chains in an aqueous solution. This replacement process was also investigated by atomic force miscroscopic (AFM) imaging, which shows good agreement with the QCM measurements. This study provides powerful tools for fundamental investigation of polymer-nanotube interactions and for controlled design/fabrication of functional polymer-nanotube surfaces for potential applications.","PeriodicalId":229171,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Physical Chemistry","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122250483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. O’Dwyer, V. Lavayen, M. Ana, E. Benavente, G. González, C. M. Torres
{"title":"Anisotropic Vanadium Oxide Nanostructured Host Matrices for Lithium Ion Intercalation","authors":"C. O’Dwyer, V. Lavayen, M. Ana, E. Benavente, G. González, C. M. Torres","doi":"10.1155/2007/32528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/32528","url":null,"abstract":"We report on unique high-volume low-dimensional V 2 O 5 -based turbostratic nanostructures, prepared using sol-gel synthetic methods from V 2 O 5 ⋅ n H 2 O xerogels. Electrochemical intercalation of Li + to form Li 0.65 V 2 O 5 resulted in a maximum measured charge capacity of 1225 mAh g − 1 as the β - Li x V 2 O 5 phase. Conductivities of the \u0000order of 10−3 S cm−1 were found on compressed-nanotube parallelepipedal samples, which exhibit an anisotropy factor of 70 at room temperature by preferential alignment of the nanotubes. The improved electrochemical properties observed in novel vanadium oxide nanostructured arrays are attributed to the increased volumetric density for ion intercalation, shorter diffusion paths to the intercalation sites, and a high degree of crystallinity of \u0000the individual nanotubular host structures.","PeriodicalId":229171,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Physical Chemistry","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134332355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Study of Influence of the Teslar Technology on Aqueous Solution of Some Biomolecules","authors":"E. Andreev, G. Dovbeshko, V. Krasnoholovets","doi":"10.1155/2007/94286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/94286","url":null,"abstract":"The possibility of recording physical changes in aqueos solutions caused by a unique field generated by the Teslar chip (TC) inside a quartz wristwatch has been studied using holographic interferometry. We show that the refraction index of degassed pure distilled water and aqueous solutions of L-tyrosine and b-alanine affected by the TC does not change during the first 10 minutes of influence. In contrast, a 1% aqueous solution of plasma extracted from the blood of a patient with heart vascular disease changes the refractive index when affected by the TC. The characteristic time of reaction is about 10 2 seconds. Based on our prior research experience, we state that the response of the system studied to the TC's field is similar to that stipulated by the action of a constant magnetic field with the intensity of 1.1 × 10 − 3 T. Nevertheless, \u0000our team have unambiguously proved that the \u0000TC generates the inerton field, \u0000which is associated with a substructure of \u0000the matter waves (and, therefore, it does not relate to \u0000the electromagnetic nature). \u0000We could unambiguously prove that the TC generates the inerton field.","PeriodicalId":229171,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Physical Chemistry","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123442666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Ferreira, Alexandra I. Costa, I. Machado, T. Branco, S. Boufi, M. Rei-Vilar, A. Rego
{"title":"Surface Photochemistry: Benzophenone as a Probe for the Study of Modified Cellulose Fibres","authors":"L. Ferreira, Alexandra I. Costa, I. Machado, T. Branco, S. Boufi, M. Rei-Vilar, A. Rego","doi":"10.1155/2007/18278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/18278","url":null,"abstract":"This work reports the use of benzophenone, a very \u0000 well characterized probe, to study new hosts (i.e., modified \u0000 celluloses grafted with alkyl chains bearing 12 carbon atoms) \u0000 by surface esterification. Laser-induced room temperature \u0000 luminescence of air-equilibrated or argon-purged solid \u0000 powdered samples of benzophenone adsorbed onto the two \u0000 modified celluloses, which will be named C12-1500 and \u0000 C12-1700, revealed the existence of a vibrationally structured \u0000 phosphorescence emission of benzophenone in the case where \u0000 ethanol was used for sample preparation, while a nonstructured \u0000 emission of benzophenone exists when water was used instead of \u0000 ethanol. The decay times of the benzophenone emission vary \u0000 greatly with the solvent used for sample preparation and do \u0000 not change with the alkylation degree in the range of \u0000 1500–1700 micromoles of alkyl chains per gram of cellulose. \u0000 When water was used as a solvent for sample preparation, the \u0000 shortest lifetime for the benzophenone emission was observed; \u0000 this result is similar to the case of benzophenone adsorbed \u0000 onto the “normal” microcrystalline cellulose \u0000 surface, with this latter case previously reported by Vieira \u0000 Ferreira et al. in 1995. This is due to the more efficient \u0000 hydrogen abstraction reaction from the glycoside rings of \u0000 cellulose when compared with hydrogen abstraction from the \u0000 alkyl chains of the modified celluloses. Triplet-triplet \u0000 transient absorption of benzophenone was obtained in both \u0000 cases and is the predominant absorption immediately after \u0000 laser pulse, while benzophenone ketyl radical formation occurs \u0000 in a microsecond time scale both for normal and modified \u0000 celluloses.","PeriodicalId":229171,"journal":{"name":"Research Letters in Physical Chemistry","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128690596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}