Reaction of Co(BF4)2·6H2O with tris-[(6-methyl-pyridin-2-yl)meth-yl]amiine in methanol results in a fluoride abstraction from BF4 (-), yielding the unexpected title compound, [Co2F2(C21H24N4)2](BF4)2. The complex cation consists of two inversion-related [Co(C21H24N4)](2+) moieties bridged by a pair of fluoride ligands. The Co(II) cation is six-coordinated in a distorted octa-hedral geometry and...

The title compound, {[Ba{Co(H-2L1)}(ClO4)(H2O)]ClO4} n , L1 = 4,10-bis-[(3-hy-droxy-4-pyron-2-yl)meth-yl]-1,7-dimethyl-1,4,7,10-tetra-aza-cyclo-dodeca-ne, is a one-dimensional coordination polymer. The asymmetric unit consists of a {Ba[Co(H-2L1)](ClO4)(H2O)}+ cationic fragment and a non-coordinating ClO4- anion. In the neutral [Co(H-2L1)] moiety, the cobalt ion is hexa-coordinated in a trigonal...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Several published reports describe the benefits of using the carbon dioxide laser for cutaneous resurfacing. The mechanisms on which skin resurfacing work are still not completely understood. This study was performed to obtain quantitative and qualitative information describing the thermal response of skin during high-energy, short-pulsed CO2 laser irradiation. STUDY ...

The ecosystem-level carbon uptake and respiration were measured under di€erent CO2 concentrations in the tropical rainforest and the coastal desert of Biosphere 2, a large enclosed facility. When the mesocosms were sealed and subjected to step-wise changes in atmospheric CO2 between daily means of 450 and 900 lmol mol, net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of CO2 was derived using the diurnal changes in...

The reliable prediction of future atmospheric CO2 concentrations and associated global climate change requires an adequate understanding of the CO2 sources and sinks. The sparseness of the existing surface measurement network limits current knowledge about the global distribution of CO2 surface fluxes. The retrieval of CO2 total vertical columns from satellite observations is predicted to impro...

Selective history is thought to constrain the extent and direction of future adaptation by limiting access to genotypes that are advantageous in a novel environment. Populations of Chlamydomonas previously selected at high CO2 were either backselected at ambient levels of CO2, or selected at levels of CO2 that last occurred during glaciation in the Pleistocene. There was no effect of selective ...

It is well established that lakes are typically sources of CO2 to the atmosphere. However, it remains unclear what portion of CO2 efflux is from endogenously processed organic carbon or from exogenously produced CO2 transported into lakes. We estimated high-frequency CO2 and O2 efflux from three north temperate lakes in summer to determine the proportion of the total CO2 efflux that was exogeno...

We combine density-functional theory with the string method to calculate the minimum free energy path of bubble nucleation in two polymer–CO2 mixture systems, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)–CO2 and polystyrene (PS)–CO2. Nucleation is initiated by saturating the polymer liquid with high pressure CO2 and subsequently reducing the pressure to ambient condition. Below a critical temperature (Tc),...