{"title":"A numerical modelling of voltammetric reduction of substituted iodobenzenes reaction series. A relationship between reductions in the consecutive-mode multistep system and a multicomponent system. Determination of the potential variation of the elementary charge transfer coefficient","authors":"Przemysław Sanecki","doi":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00114-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00114-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The cyclic voltammetry reduction process of the reaction series of substituted iodobenzenes X–C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>4</sub>–I where X=H, <em>p</em>-Cl, <em>p</em>-Br, <em>p</em>-I, <em>p</em>-CH<sub>3</sub>, <em>m</em>-CF<sub>3</sub> was investigated in 0.3 M TBAP in DMF. A numerical model of the process consistent with the ECE mechanism of mono-iodobenzenes reduction and consecutive ECE–ECE reduction of <em>p</em>-diiodobenzene was applied. On the basis of <em>α</em><sub><em>i</em></sub> vs. <em>E</em><sub>p,<em>i</em></sub> dependence, the value of ∂<em>α</em><sub><em>i</em></sub>/∂<em>E</em> was found to be 0.37±0.07 for first electron transfer (<span>Eq. (10)</span>. The ECE–ECE system seems to be an another example of elementary <em>α</em> kinetic discrimination between two identical two-electron processes analogous to that described in a previous paper (Sanecki, P., Kaczmarski, K. (1999). J. Electroanal. Chem. 471, 14 and erratum to it (2001)). A method of simultaneous treatment of the substrate and all electroactive intermediates, i.e. the transformation of any experimental consecutive CV reduction curves (e.g. ECE or ECE–ECE) into curves corresponding to reduction of the multi-component systems is presented and discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79331,"journal":{"name":"Computers & chemistry","volume":"25 6","pages":"Pages 521-539"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00114-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76155715","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":"Multi-isotopic Modelling of Mass Spectra: A Procedure for Verification of the Fragmentation Hypothesis for the Organometallic and Coordination Compounds","authors":"Andrzej J. Goraczko, J. Szymura","doi":"10.1016/S0097-8485(01)00067-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S0097-8485(01)00067-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79331,"journal":{"name":"Computers & chemistry","volume":"25 1","pages":"559-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81380879","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":"Erratum to “High order spatial discretisations in electrochemical digital simulation. 2. Combination with the extrapolation algorithm”","authors":"J. Strutwolf , D. Britz","doi":"10.1016/S0097-8485(01)00108-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0097-8485(01)00108-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79331,"journal":{"name":"Computers & chemistry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Page 509"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0097-8485(01)00108-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87564212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Carolina Monard , Jorge A.O. Bruno , Joaquina Faour , Alicia Batana
{"title":"Pressure dependence of ionic polarizabilities in crystals","authors":"Maria Carolina Monard , Jorge A.O. Bruno , Joaquina Faour , Alicia Batana","doi":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00107-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00107-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A program in Maple V is developed that allows for the calculation of polarizabilities of both anions and cations on the basis of a new method and of the extension of the one developed previously. Furthermore, an alternative way of evaluation of <em>∂r</em><sub><em>i</em></sub>/<em>∂p</em> is given. Values of <em>∂α</em><sub>total</sub>/<em>∂p</em> can be evaluated for a given salt even when experimental data at high pressures are not available.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79331,"journal":{"name":"Computers & chemistry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 429-438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00107-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90488917","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":"Three-dimensional quantitative structure–activity relationship for several bioactive peptides searched by a convex hull–comparative molecular field analysis approach","authors":"Thy-Hou Lin, Jia-Jiunn Lin","doi":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00113-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00113-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Three-dimensional (3D) convex hulls are computed for theoretically generated structures of a group of 18 bioactive tachykinin peptides. The number of peptides treated as a training set is 14, whereas that treated as a test set is four. The frequency of atoms of the same atomic type lying at the vertices of all the hulls computed for all the structures in a structural set is counted. Vertex atoms with non-zero frequency counted are collected together as a set of commonly exposed groups. These commonly exposed atoms are then treated as a set of correspondences for aligning all the other 13 structures in a structural set against a common template, which is the structure of the most potent peptide in the set using the FIT module of the <span>sybyl</span> 6.6 program. Each aligned structural set is then analyzed by the comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) module using the C.3 probe having a charge of +1.0. The corresponding cross-validated <em>r</em><sup>2</sup> values range from −0.99 to 0.57 for a number of 73 structural sets studied. The comparative molecular similarity indices analysis (CoMSIA) module within the <span>sybyl</span> 6.6 package is also used to analyze some of these aligned structural sets. Although the CoMSIA results are in accord with those of CoMFA, it is also found that the CoMFA results of several structural sets can be improved somewhat for conformations of the structures in the sets that are adjusted by constraint energy minimization and then constraint molecular dynamics simulation runs using distance constraints derived from some commonly exposed groups determined for them. This result further implies that the convex hull–CoMFA is a feasible approach to screen the bioactive conformations for molecules of this class.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79331,"journal":{"name":"Computers & chemistry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 489-498"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00113-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86670772","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}
A. Guiberteau , T. Galeano , N. Mora , F. Salinas , J.M. Ortı́z , J.C. Viré
{"title":"Resolution by polarographic techniques of the ternary mixture of captan, captafol and folpet by using PLS calibration and artificial neuronal networks","authors":"A. Guiberteau , T. Galeano , N. Mora , F. Salinas , J.M. Ortı́z , J.C. Viré","doi":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00109-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00109-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The simultaneous polarographic determination of the ternary mixture of captan-captafol and folpet is studied. The polarographic signals of these compounds in their mixture show a high overlapping. For this reason different chemometric methods such as PLS, PCR and artificial neuronal network (ANN) have been utilized for the simultaneous determination of these compounds in mixtures. The calibration model is built from solutions containing river water of known pesticide concentrations and the signals obtained by Sampled DC and DPP (differential pulse polarography) have been used. The analysis of both synthetic and real samples (river water) has been carried out by PLS with satisfactory results in most cases. It is possible to determine 0.25 ppm of each pesticide in river water samples after a preconcentration step by extraction into diethyl ether. ANN has also been applied to improve the results obtained by the PLS tool when the sampled DC current is recorded or when liquid–solid extraction with C<sub>18</sub> cartridges is performed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79331,"journal":{"name":"Computers & chemistry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 459-473"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00109-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72982424","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}
J.A. Poce-Fatou, R. Alcántara, J.J. Gallardo, J. Martı́n
{"title":"Experimental study of precipitating systems; computerised analysis of the optical transmittance and associated noise","authors":"J.A. Poce-Fatou, R. Alcántara, J.J. Gallardo, J. Martı́n","doi":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00106-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00106-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The change of the transmittance in a precipitant system has been measured by using a focused laser beam into a precipitation cell in which the precipitate was generated by an injection technique. We have monitored the evolution of the transmittance on several precipitation processes with different chemicals (PbI<sub>2</sub>, PbSO<sub>4</sub>, BaSO<sub>4</sub> and BaC<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>) and quantities of precipitated mass (20.0, 17.5, 15.0, 12.5 and 10.0 mg). The noise associated to the transmittance signal has been obtained by a numerical procedure based on computer analysis, finding that it provides information about particle shape features and nucleation kinetics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79331,"journal":{"name":"Computers & chemistry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 447-457"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00106-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84101545","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":"A new numerical procedure to determine the VLE curve","authors":"W. Okrasiński , M.I. Parra , F. Cuadros","doi":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00112-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00112-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A fast and accurate (to any required precision) numerical method is presented to calculate the vapour-liquid equilibrium for any subcritical temperature from a given equation of state. The calculations are made using the popular program <span>mathematica</span>, and we think that this method could be very useful in chemical physics and chemical engineering applications, as well as for teaching purposes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79331,"journal":{"name":"Computers & chemistry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 483-488"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00112-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87082006","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}
Xiaojun Yao , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ruisheng Zhang , Mancang Liu , Zhide Hu , Botao Fan
{"title":"Prediction of enthalpy of alkanes by the use of radial basis function neural networks","authors":"Xiaojun Yao , Xiaoyun Zhang , Ruisheng Zhang , Mancang Liu , Zhide Hu , Botao Fan","doi":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00110-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00110-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A new method for the prediction of enthalpy of alkanes between C<sub>6</sub> and C<sub>10</sub> from molecular structures has been proposed. Thirty five calculated descriptors were selected for the description of molecular structures. The first four scores of Principle Component Analysis on the calculated descriptors were used as inputs to predict the enthalpy of alkanes. Models relating relationships between molecular structure descriptors and enthalpy of alkanes were constructed by means of radial basis function neural networks. To get the best prediction results, some strategies were also employed to optimise the learning parameters of the radial basis function neural networks. For the test set, a predictive correlation coefficient of <em>R</em>=0.9913 and root mean squared error of 0.5876 were obtained.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79331,"journal":{"name":"Computers & chemistry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 475-482"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0097-8485(00)00110-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82532550","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":"High order spatial discretisations in electrochemical digital simulation. 2. Combination with the extrapolation algorithm","authors":"J. Strutwolf , D. Britz","doi":"10.1016/S0097-8485(01)00082-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0097-8485(01)00082-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The application of fourth order discretisations of the second derivative of concentration with respect to distance from the electrode, in electrochemical digital simulations, is examined. In the bulk of the diffusion space, a central five-point scheme is used, and six-point asymmetric schemes are used at the edges. In this paper, the scheme is applied to the extrapolation technique, based on the backward implicit (BI) algorithm for temporal integration, which (with extrapolation) allows higher orders in time as well. The method is found to be stable, using both the von Neumann and matrix methods. Exceptional efficiency is obtained both for Cottrell and chronopotentiometry simulations, requiring as few as 3–5 steps in time, starting at the dimensionless time <em>t</em>=0 to gain four-decimal accuracy at <em>t</em>=1.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":79331,"journal":{"name":"Computers & chemistry","volume":"25 5","pages":"Pages 511-520"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0097-8485(01)00082-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76158291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}