Liquid Systems with Fullerenes in Organic Solvents and Aqueous Media

A model for sedimentation in inhomogeneous media. II. Compressibility of aqueous and organic solvents.

The effects of solvent compressibility on the sedimentation behavior of macromolecules as observed in analytical ultracentrifugation are examined. Expressions for the density and pressure distributions in the solution column are derived and combined with the finite element solution of the Lamm equation in inhomogeneous media to predict the macromolecular concentration distributions under differ...

Novel organic solvents for electrochemistry at the liquid/liquid interface.

Two-phase voltammetry has been carried out using a reverse cell configuration, i.e. with the lower density organic solvent on the top of the aqueous solution in the cell, where the organic solvents contain either nitrile or ketone functional groups. The transfer of tetraphenylarsonium TPAs(+), tetrabutylammonium TBA(+), tetrapropylammonium TPrA(+), and perchlorate CIO4(-) ions across these liqu...

Organic co-solvents in aqueous DNA-based asymmetric catalysis.

Water-miscible organic co-solvents can be used in DNA-based catalytic asymmetric reactions at appreciable concentration without a negative effect on enantioselectivity. While the rate of the copper(II) Diels-Alder reaction is affected negatively by the presence of organic co-solvents, the copper(II) catalyzed Michael addition and Friedel-Crafts alkylation reaction are significantly faster. Addi...

Mesogenic Polyelectrolyte Gels Absorb Organic Solvents and Liquid Crystalline Molecules

In this paper, mesogenic polyelectrolyte gels (MPEgels) tethering mesogenic groups on the side chains were synthesized from a mesogenic monomer and ionic monomer via a conventional radical polymerization process. The obtained MPEgels absorbed various organic solvents in a wide range of dielectric constants from chloroform (ε = 7.6) to DMSO (ε = 46.5). The electrostatic repulsion among the polym...

Iodine-Iodide Equilibrium in Aqueous and Mixed Aqueous Organic Solvent Media with or without a Surfactant