Lubricants can affect quasicrystalline coating surfaces by modifying the commensurability of the interfaces. We report results of the first computer simulation studies of physically adsorbed hydrocarbons on a quasicrystalline surface: methane, propane, and benzene on decagonal Al-Ni-Co. The grand canonical Monte Carlo method is employed, using novel embedded-atom method potentials generated fro...

Bifunctional mesoporous material with an acidic framework and basic pores was synthesized via the co-condensation of TEOS, bistrimethoxysilylated precursors with a disulfide core, and 3-tert-butyloxycarbonyl (aminopropyl)triethoxysilane using P123 as surfactant; the reduction of disulfide units to SH groups followed by their oxidation into SO3H and deprotection of amino groups gave rise to a ma...

A hybrid silica monolithic stationary phase for RP CEC was prepared by in situ co-condensation of (3-mercaptopropyl)-trimethoxysilane (MPTMS), phenyltriethoxysilane (PTES), and tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) via a sol-gel process. The thiol groups on the surface of the stationary phase were oxidized to sulfonic acids by peroxytrifluoroacetic acid. The introduced sulfonic acid moieties on the monolith...

A new Schiff base ligands (H2L -H2L 3) was synthesized by the condensation reaction of 4-acyl pyrazolones and 2-benzothiazolyl thiosemicarbazide. The ruthenium(II) Schiff base complexes were prepared by the interaction of the ligands with [RuHCl(CO)(EPh3)2(B)] (E=P/As; B=PPh3/AsPh3/py). They were characterized by elemental analysis, IR, UV-vis, 1H, 13C, and 31P NMR spectral data. The interactio...

A polyalkynylene-based conducting polymer (molecular wire) has been synthesized within the Cu-functionalized mesoporous MCM-41 silica catalyst. Fluorescence and 13C solid-state NMR provided spectroscopic evidence that the synthesis of extended polymeric chains with a high degree of alignment requires homogeneously distributed catalytic sites throughout the entire MCM matrix. This type of homoge...

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1-(8-Hydroxy quinolin-2yl-methyl) thiourea ligand (HTF) was synthesized from 8-hydroxyquinoline and thiourea with formaldehyde by condensation method in N,N-dimethyl foramide medium. The metal complexes Zn(II), Cu(II), Ni(II) and Co(II) were prepared using the 1-(8-hydroxy quinolin-2yl-methyl) thiourea as ligand. The ligand and its metal complexes were characterized by elemental analysis, FT-IR...

The binuclear Schiff base complexes have been prepared newly using different transition metals at their stable oxidation states as Cu(II), Ni(II), and Co(II) with the ligand (L) obtained by the condensation of isoniazid and benzilmonohydrazone. The composition and structure of the complexes have been established by analytical and spectral data, thermal analysis, magnetic and conductivity measur...