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Chlorinated and methylated dibenzothiophenes in sediment samples from a river contaminated by organochlorine wastes
2001
Eleven sediment samples from the lower Kymijoki River were analyzed for the occurrence of polychlorinated and polymethylated dibenzothiophenes (PCDT and PMeDTs). The area was heavily polluted by wastes from a pulp chlorobleachery and by leakage from a factory producing wood preservative chlorophenol formulation Ky-5. Levels in the sediments were from <5 to 400, 200 and 50 pg g-1 dw for tetra, penta and hexa-CDT, respectively. The concentrations of mono, di, tri and tetra-MeDTs were in the range of 1–5, 5–85, 5–500 and 15–2300 ng g-1 dw, respectively. PCDT contents in surface sediment (0–3 cm layers) decreased by distance downstream from the bleachery and Ky-5 factory similar to those of the…
A Study of Lipid-Lipid and Lipid-Polypeptide Interactions by High Performance Liquid Chromatography
1984
Abstract Ternary systems containing phosphatidylcholine-cholesterol, phosphatidylcholine-gramicidin A or cholesterol-gramicidin A in tetrahydrofuran have been examined by high performance liquid chromatography. Preferential solvation of cholesterol and especially gramicidin A by phosphatidylcholine is observed. These results are interpreted in terms of hydrophobic interactions between membrane components.
Role of solvent and base in the silanization reaction of silicas for reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography
1984
Reversed-phase packings were synthesized by reaction of n-alkyldimethylchloro- and trifluoroacetoxysilanes with silicas of 15 and 25 nm pore size, employing tetrahydrofuran, N,N-dimethylformamide, benzene, diethyl ether, dichloromethane and acetonitrile as solvents and triethylamine, pyridine, triazole, quinuclidine, 2,4- and 2,6-lutidine and imidazole as bases. With dichloromethane as solvent and 2,6- lutidine as base, n-alkyldimethyltrifluoroacetoxysilanes did not yield n-alkyl ligand densities higher than those obtained with n-alkyldimethylchlorosilanes under identical conditions. With a given base and given n-alkyldimethylchlorosilane the solvent type was found to exert a noticeable inf…
Ionomers in solution: 1. Viscometric and chromatographic studies in cononsolvent and cosolvent mixtures
1997
Abstract The viscosity and elution behaviour of polystyrene sulfonate ionomers with varying ionic content has been studied in the pure solvents chloroform (CHL), tetrahydrofuran (THF), dioxan (DIO), ethyl acetate (EA) and dimethylformamide (DMF) as well as in their cononsolvent mixtures CHL/THF (50:50), DIO/CHL (75:25) and in the cosolvent mixture EA/DMF (50:50). In the pure solvents with low dielectric constant the reduced viscosities of ionomers are lower at low concentrations and higher at moderate ones than the respective viscosities of the polystyrene precursor. These results can be explained by formation of intramolecular and intermolecular associations. Moreover, differences in visco…
Preferential solvation of a dicyanate ester monomer and poly(sulfone) in different organic solvents by size-exclusion chromatography.
2002
Preferential solvation parameters A in the ternary systems solvent (1) -monomer (2) -polymer (3) were determined as a tool to measure the compatibility between the cyanate ester monomer Arocy B10 and poly(sulfone), PSF, in the presence of three organic solvents: tetrahydrofuran, dimethylformamide and dicloromethane. The A parameter was measured by size-exclusion chromatography at different monomer-to-polymer ratios. The quantitative evaluation was rigorously made at polymer-diluted conditions. PSF was found to be preferentially solvated by the monomer. Concerning the solvent used, systems containing tetrahydrofuran showed the strongest solvation, the lowest A values being those obtained in …
Resolution assessment and performance of several organic modifiers in hybrid micellar liquid chromatography
2001
The performance of four criteria that measure the elementary resolution (modified selectivity, modified RS, peak purity, and orthogonal valley-to-peak ratio) was critically assessed using as global resolution function, the product of elementary measurements. The peak purities and valley-to-peak criteria yielded the best description of the overall separation according to the shape of the resolution surfaces compared to the peak arrangements in the chromatograms, the capability of defining unambiguously the composition regions of complete resolution, and the resolution achieved in the predicted optimums. Peak purities were used to compare the effect of five organic modifiers (1-propanol, 1-bu…
Ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase induction potency of polychlorinated diphenyl ethers in H4IIE rat hepatoma cells
1996
Polychlorinated diphenyl ethers (PCDEs) are structurally similar to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and some PCDE congeners have been reported to cause toxic responses similar to those caused by some of the non-ortho-substituted PCBs, which are mediated by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR). Twenty-nine PCDEs were tested for their potency as AhR agonists relative to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) by measuring their ability to induce the cytochrome P-450 1A1-associated enzyme activity, ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD), in the H4IIE rat hepatoma cell bioassay. All PCDE congeners tested were found to be inactive as EROD inducers except for PCDE 156, which was a weak E…
Phase diagrams of the system tetrahydrofuran/γ-butyrolactone/poly(ether imide) and determination of interaction parameters
1998
Abstract The thermodynamic interactions in the ternary mixture tetrahydrofuran/γ-butyrolactone/poly(ether imide) (THF/γ-BL/PEI) are investigated from 30 to 50°C. This is a membrane-forming system with a high He-selectivity. Cloud point measurements show that the two binary polymer solutions THF/PEI and γ-BL/PEI exhibit miscibility gaps which close towards the centre of the ternary phase diagram where the mixtures become homogeneous (cosolvency). Vapour pressures were determined for the subsystem THF/γ-BL. For the theoretical calculations the Gibbs energy of mixing is formulated according to the Flory-Huggins theory and the interaction parameter χ THF γ-BL calculated from the vapour pressure…
Analyses of known and new types of polyhalogenated aromatic substances in oven ash from recycled aluminium production
2003
Abstract Persistent aromatic bromine, chlorine and mixed chlorine-bromine compounds were analysed from recycled aluminium smelter (ALS) ashes to explore the impact of brominated flame retardants (BFR) on their formation. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) were the most abundant original BFRs found. Induction furnace ash contained tetra- to octa-BDEs about 2000 ng g −1 in similar congener ratios as the original scrap, but contents of nona- and deca-BDEs were only 25 and 5 ng g −1 indicating their significant degradation in ALS process. In the most non-polar fraction, PCB levels and profiles were similar as earlier ALS ash samples in 1990s. The highest PCB level measured was that of deca-C…
Multidentate Tetrahydrofurfuryloxide Ligand in a Ziegler−Natta Catalyst Studied by Molecular Modeling
2008
The transition from a generation III Ziegler-Natta catalyst with a monodentate Lewis base to a more modem generation 1V/V system, containing a tetrahydrofuran derivative, the tetrahydrofurturyloxide C 4 H 7 O-CH 2 O - bidentate ligand (THFFO), was studied by means of molecular modeling and DFT calculations. This particular ligand was carefully chosen so that it remained in the titanium coordination sphere in the model active site. With such a constraint, the dual role of tetrahydrofurfuryloxide was identified: it was demonstrated how the presence of this ligand limits the number of isomeric active sites as well as enhances the selectivity of the species that can still exist. The results ind…