Prof. Butz in his comment basically argued that the fluctuation observed in hafnium metal after heating at 873 K for two days in air is due to oxygen atoms and not due to hafnium atoms as wrote in the paper. But I don’t agree with his views on this point because of the two following arguments: i) In fact, the relaxation effect arises due to fluctuation of atoms, ions or molecules near to the pr...

Diamond anvil cells (DAC) in radial synchrotron X-ray diffraction geometry were used to investigate texture development and identify deformation mechanisms in zinc and osmium at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) and the Advanced Light Source (ALS), respectively. Further experiments on cadmium and hafnium wires were carried out in the Deformation-DIA (D-DIA) multi-anvil press at APS to study the ...

We have developed a novel oxidant-free direct cross-coupling reaction of 2,6-lutidine and internal alkynes leading to five-membered carbocyclic compounds mediated by nonmetallocene cationic hafnium alkyl complexes. Mechanistic studies of the coupling reaction showed that the reaction begins with C(sp(3))-H bond activation via σ-bond metathesis, after which the coordinatively unsaturated hafnium...

Gamma radiation induced changes in local structure around the probe atom (Hafnium) were investigated in sodium barium borosilicate (NBS) glass, used for immobilization of high level liquid waste generated from the reprocessing plant at Trombay, Mumbai. The (NBS) glass was doped with 181Hf as a probe for time differential perturbed angular correlation (TDPAC) spectroscopy studies, while for stud...

Hafnium is a passive metal with good biocompatibility and osteogenesis, however, little is known about its resistance to wear and corrosion in biological environments. The corrosion and tribocorrosion behavior of hafnium and commercially pure (CP) titanium in simulated body fluids were investigated using electrochemical techniques. Cyclic polarization scans and open circuit potential measuremen...

G . H evesy has written that [6] 1 " In view of the I.great similarity b etween hafnium and zirconium, i t ris hardly possible to separate these two elements in a lsingle operation ." A simple one-step separation c adequ a te for analytical work has still to be developed for hafnium-ziTconium mixtures, although recent work employing ion exchange has developed suitable methods for the separation...

Work during 1963 is reported and the work from mid-1960 reviewed on a comprehensive program of thermodynamic and kinetic studies necessary to the theoretical consideration to temperatures of 3000K of the reactions of the zirconium and hafnium carbides and borides with oxygenor halogen-containing atmospheres. ; • Work presented includes: preparation of borides and carbides; low ', temperature he...

We already reported that an intramolecular benzylation of the imino moiety of bidentate iminopyrrolyl ligands afforded an amido-pyrrolyl complexes 1 and they exhibited better catalytic activity for ethylene polymerization compared to the corresponding bis(iminopyrrolyl) dichloro complexes of zirconium. In this contribution, we prepared amido-pyrrolyl complexes of zirconium (3a-d) and hafnium (4...