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Notes: Me3SiCl bildet mit N-Methylimidazol (NMI) eine bei Raumtemperatur beständige, kristalline 1:1 Verbindung. Nach der Röntgenstrukturanalyse entsteht unter Spaltung der Si—Cl-Bindung und Anlagerung eines NMI-Rings eine Verbindung ionischer Struktur [Me3Si(NMI)]+Cl- 1. Die Reaktion von Me2HSiCl mit NMI (Molverhältnis 1:2) führt unter Spaltung der Si—Cl-Bindung und Koordination von zwei NMI-Ringen zur Verbindung [Me2HSi(NMI)2]+Cl- 2. Bei der analogen Umsetzung von Me2SiCl2 mit NMI (Molverhältnis 2:1) entsteht eine Verbindung, die Me2SiCl2 und NMI im Molverhältnis 1:2 enthält. Bei der Sublimation werden Einkristalle der Verbindung [Me2Si(NMI)3]2+ 2 Cl-· NMI 3 erhalten.

Notes: One of the basic prerequisites for rational and high quality production of plastic parts is a tool layout tailored to the production process. To date, both design and construction have generally been based on values acquired by experience. This first, necessitates highly qualified personnel and second, involves what is frequently time consuming and costly finishing work. Experience acquired so far with computer-aided layout of injection molds shows that even a designer with little experience reaches the target more quickly and more reliably. At the same time he is able to draw on the results of intricate calculation and simulation methods which he was unable to apply in the past for reasons of time alone. This paper thus sets out the possibilities currently open and the experience available for computer-aided mold layout. The chief point of focus here is a system for the layout of injection molds. Working on from this system, however, the potentials for computer application are presented for blow mold- and foaming mold-design. After finding the mold principle, mold layout essentially divides up into two major areas, namely dimensioning calculations (CAE) and compilation of production documents (CAD). In dimensioning, the different functional elements of the mold are calculated. The aids that have been developed and the potentials of computer-aided dimensioning are presented with examples from the fields of rheological, thermal, and mechanical mold layout. Computer-aided rheological layout divides up into two steps. The first gives information on qualitative filling behavior (filling picture, flow paths) and the second provides quantitative results (pressures, shear stresses, temperatures). Computer-aided thermal layout similarly divides up into part steps. These are a rough overall energy balance, a rough layout of the tempering system, a segmented layout, and a homogeneity check, which involves simulating the temperature conditions in the mold by means of difference methods. When it comes to mechanical layout of the mold, programs are available for deformation calculations on basic cases and these will frequently be sufficient. For more complex cases of loading and deformation, a finite element program is used. Graphic data processing units can be used to supply extra facilities - first, to provide an aid for the simulation programs in dimensioning and second, to rationalize the compilation of the production documents. An illustration of a CAD workplace is given, incorporating the necessary computer configuration and peripherals. Compiling production documents is essentially a problem of variant design. The variants in this case are the individual components of the mold and a number of standardized accessories that can be called up as “standardized components.” The mold cavity, however, always has to be a free design. All programs are dialogue driven and are in a standardized manner so that even designers with no data processing experience can use the computer as an aid. The CAD/CAE system presented duly fulfils all these requirements. It allows the designer, at a single computer work station, to carry out both simulation and dimensioning calculations, to obtain information on material data, and to compile production documents on the basis of variant and free design. This provides the designer with a readily manageable aid and makes a considerable contribution towards improving the design result. Finally, the capacity of different computer concepts and the CAE/CAD/CAM systems on the market are discussed. For the future it will be possible to establish a computer-aided link between the different areas of design, from development of the molded part, via mold design and production, through setting the processing parameters of the injection molding machine.

Notes: Thermo-oxidative ageing processes were investigated in films (100 μm thick) made from isotactic polypropylene with different antioxidant concentrations between 0% and 0.1% using isothermal long-term differential thermal analysis (ILDTA). The end of the oven life of polypropylene coincided with the loss of mechanical properties which was confirmed by tensile tests at temperatures far below the crystallite melting range. Already prior to the beginning of autocatalytic decomposition, ILDTA experiments permits conclusions to be drawn on the thermal history of the specimens and statements made regarding the end of thermo-oxidative stability of the polymer, which is accompanied by a deterioration in the mechanical properties.In consequence of the correlation between oxidation time and antioxidant concentration the local antioxidant concentration in sheets or films can be measured by ILDTA. Thus, investigating the diffusion of an antioxidant in polypropylene using ILDTA is possible.

Notes: Infrared spectroscopy was used for the determination of the base-pairing content of four specific tRNAs in deuterium oxide solution. Infrared spectra were obtained in the 1750-1550 cm-1 region at various temperatures ranging from about 15 to 90°C. Melting curves were constructed by plotting the molar extinction coefficient at ν = 1657 cm-1 versus temperature. These transition curves enabled us to determine the ranges of temperature which correspond to the ordered (partially double-stranded) or randomly coiled structure of the tRNA. For a set of wavenumbers the extinction coefficients at these temperatures were used for the calculation of the base-pairing content. The procedure employed here is based on a method described earlier by Thomas [(1969) Biopolymers 7, 325-334]. For the conditions selected for this investigation (Mg2+-free D2O-buffer; 0.01M tris-DCl, 0.015M NaCl, pD 7.5) the results of this determination agree within the limits of errors with the number of base pairs predicted by the cloverleaf model.

Notes: Recently, it was suggested that parallel β-sheets have a significant dipole moment, in contrast to antiparallel sheets. Ab initio molecular-orbital (MO) calculations on parallel and antiparallel β-strands of tetra(Gly) show that they have very similar charge distributions. Interaction energies between two and three strands of tetra(Gly), obtained using the direct reaction field Hamiltonian, show that a particular choice of point charges is probably not crucial for calculating interactions within β-sheets, but that it might be for calculating interactions between these sheets and other parts of a protein, in particular, α-helices. The point-charge representation of our MO-SCF results will probably reduce the hazard of introducing artefacts in electrostatic calculations of protein conformational energies, provided the short-range interactions are treated in a more realistic way, i.e., such that intra- and interchain induction effects are included.

Notes: Es wird gezeigt, daß die im Betriebe von Spinnbadeindampfern fallweise auftretenden, schwer entfernbaren Verkrustungen der Heizrohre im wesentlichen durch die Ausscheidung von Glauberit verursacht werden. Verschiedene Einflüsse, die die Bildung des Doppelsalzes begünstigen, werden aufgeklärt.

Notes: Nach einführender Betrachtung des Meßproblems hinsichtlich der zu verlangenden Meßgenauigkeit und den sich ergebenden Einzelforderungen werden die Bestandteile des Staubmeßgerätes, nämlich die Waage, die Staubabscheidungskammer, das Gebläse, das Hochspannungsgerät und die zum selbsttätigen Ablauf notwendige Automatik besprochen. Ferner wird über vergleichende Versuche mit einem optischen Staubmeßgerät berichtet.

Notes: Die Ähnlichkeitstheorie hat den Weg gezeigt, die Gesetzmäßigkeiten des Wärmeüberganges mit Hilfe dimensionsloser Kennzahlen auszudrücken. Die Anzahl der zur eindeutigen Beschreibung eines Vorganges notwendigen Kenngrößen ist recht verschieden, sie ist z. B. besonders groß bei komplizierten Austauscherformen. Bei der Zusammenfassung der Einzelfaktoren zu Kennzahlen hat man gewisse Freiheiten, die man dazu benützen kann, die Gesetzmäßigkeiten bei der Berechnung von Wärmeaustauschern in einer möglichst zweckmäßigen Form darzustellen. An einem Beispiel wird gezeigt, daß die Rechnungen sich verhältnismäßig einfach durchführen lassen.

Notes: Die konstruktiven Voraussetzungen für Laboratoriumszentrifugen mit bisher in der Praxis nicht erreichbaren Fliehkräften werden dargelegt. Das entwickelte Gerät, das im Gegensatz zu anderen Bauarten nur eine einzige radial um die Drehachse rotierende Zelle für die Einsatzflüssigkeit besitzt, wird beschrieben. Es ermöglicht bei 84 000 U/min Normalbeschleunigungen von 584 000 g, bei 120 000 U/min und kleineren Präparatmengen von 915 000 g. Besondere Einsätze zur Erfassung des Sediments bringen bei präparativen und möglicherweise auch analytischen Arbeiten besondere Vorteile.

Notes: Organic radicals were produced in the tensides C16H33(OCH2CH2)21OH and C14H29(OCH2CH2)3-SO3Na in aqueous solutions using a short pulse of high energy electrons. The radicals were formed by OH attack on the (OCH2CH2)x-parts of the tensides. The decay of the 250nm absorption of the radicals was recorded at different initial radical concentrations and tenside concentrations. Several radicals could be produced in one micelle. Radicals formed in the same micelle decay within microseconds or faster. The half life time τ1 in a micelle carrying two radicals is 2,0·10-6 s for C16H33(OCH2CH2)21 OH and less than 6·10-7 s for C14H29(OCH2CH2)3SO3Na. A model for intramicellar radical-radical reactions is proposed according to which the rate is faster in tensides of high critical micelle concentration. Single radicals in micelles of C16H33(OCH2CH2)21OH can deactivate each other without leaving the micelles. This intermicellar reaction is discussed in terms of the rate of diffusion-controlled micelle-micelle encounters, an encounter time of 7·10-8s, and the above time τ1 for intramicellar reaction. The observed rate constant 2k of intermicellar reaction is 3,5·106 mol-1·l·s-1. At low tenside concentrations, the bimolecular rate constant increases since more single tenside radicals are present in solution. They react rapidly (ca. 108 mol-1·l·s-1) with radicals in micelles. Single radicals in C14H33(OCH2CH2)3-SO3Na micelles cannot directly react with each other because of the Coulombic repulsion between two anionic micelles. Reaction occurs after the exit of a tenside radical from its micelle, the rate of which depends on the micellar equilibrium Mn⇄Mn-1+M (M: tenside molecule; n: agglomeration number of micelle). A single radical in solution reacts with a single radical in a micelle with 2k = 1,0·108 mol-1·l·s-1 and with another single radical in solution with 4,0·107 mol-1·l·s-1.γ-Irradiation of both tensides in aqueous solution leads to slight increases in viscosity, followed by turbidity beyond the “gel dose” and phase separation. These effects are explained in terms of crosslinking of tenside molecules. Formation of a large network requires bridges between all participating tenside molecules (not only bridges between micelles).