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3rd Annual Rocky Mountain Spectroscopy Conference Abstracts Of Papers

Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance

Abstracts of papers presented at the 3rd annual meeting of the Rocky Mountain Spectroscopy Conference, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy. Held in Denver, Colorado, August 8-9, 1960.

Oxygen Permeability Of Free Paint Films, Janice I. Kellerman

Masters Theses

"As early as the mid 1800’s investigations were performed on the gas passage through rubber, but it is only comparatively recently that plastic polymeric materials have come into prominence. One interesting aspect of much experimentation begun was that of permeability, and it was soon evident that, in general, polymeric materials have extremely low permeability of gases. This is, in essence, the basis for use of plastics as packaging materials, balloons, and in many other designs and fabrications where it is desirous and/or necessary to exclude air.

There are several variables which must be taken into consideration in the evaluation of …

The Dielectric Strength Of Some Anti-Corrosive Paints, John Harvey Gustafson

Masters Theses

"Metals undergo chemical reaction with nonmetallic elements of their surroundings to produce compounds which are either oxides or salts. These corrosion products, as they are called, may accelerate, impede, or have no influence on the course of further corrosion. It is unfortunate that iron, the metal of greatest use to man, receives very little protection from its corrosion products. There are no easy or inexpensive means of prevention of this corrosion and at best the reactions can only be controlled. One method of control is the use of anti-corrosive paints. Their protection is produced by placing an inert, continuous, and …

Colorado "Rush To The Rockies Centennial" Spectroscopy Conference

Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance

Program from the Colorado "Rush to the Rockies Centennial" Spectroscopy Conference, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Spectroscopy Society. Held in Denver, Colorado, August 10-11, 1959.

A Kinetic Study Of The Reaction Between Acetic Anhydride And Isobutyl Alcohol Using A Chemical Oscillometer, Charles Huffman Lewis Jr.

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The object of this research project is to investigate the base catalyzed reaction of acetic anhydride and isobutyl alcohol reacting to form acetic acid and isobutyl acetate. In this investigation, a high frequency oscillometer is used to observe the progress of the reaction as it proceeds to the formation of products.

The chemical oscillometer, in one form or another, has been in existence for over twenty years. During this time it has developed from a laboratory curiosity to a practical instrument with a great number of applications. However, its use in connection with kinetic studies has not been too active …

A Study Of The Action Of 1-Pentanol In The Debromination Of 1, 2-Dibromoethane By Zinc, Jerry Frederick Janssen

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The fact that rapid evolution of ethene took place at moderately low temperatures in the presence of 1-pentanol suggested that the alcohol perhaps played a less evident role in the reaction than was previously supposed. The problem of this study is to elucidate the role of 1-pentanol in the reaction of 1, 2-dibromoethane with zinc .

Rocky Mountain Spectroscopy Conference

Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance

Program from the Rocky Mountain Spectroscopy Conference, sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Spectroscopy Society. Held in Denver, Colorado, August 11-12, 1958.

Rhenium Trioxide, Rhenium Heptoxide And Rehnium Trichloride As Hydrogenation Catalysts, William J. Bartley

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to characterize the catalytic activity of rhenium trioxide and rhenium trichloride as hydrogenation catalysts. Work was also undertaken to further study the catalytic properties of rhenium heptoxide. The activity of this latter compound had received some study in a previous project. A complete review of the literature has been made on the organic and inorganic chemistry of rhenium trioxide and rhenium trichloride. A survey of the literature on catalytic hydrogenation and the chemistry of rhenium heptoxide has also been included. Rhenium trioxide was prepared by three similar methods. The first two involved the formation …

Rhenium Catalysis I. Hydrogenation And Hydroformylation Using Rhenium Carbonyl Compounds ; Ii. Hydrogenation Using Catalysts Obtained From The Reduction Of Perrhenates With Metals In Aqueous Solution, Terry G. Selin

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this work was to investigate the catalytic activity in both hydrogenation and hydroformylation reactions of rhenium preparations which have not been previously characterized. Rhenium pentacarbonyl was prepared in good yield from rhenium heptoxide and carbon monoxide. The optimum conditions for preparation were 25 hours per gram of dry rhenium heptoxide at 250° under 3000 psig. (initial) of carbon monoxide. Rhenium chloropentacarbonyl was prepared in 62% yield from potassium chlororhenite and carbon monoxide at high temperatures and pressures. The iodopentacarbonyl was prepared in 29% yield from potassium perrhenate, methyl iodide, and carbon monoxide. The preparation of rhenium hydrocarbonyl …

An Investigation Into The Effects Of Ultrasonic Sound Waves On The Electrolytic Oxidation Of The Ferrous Ion, David Joseph Leestma

Bachelors’ Theses

Upon becoming interested in the use of ozone as an oxidizing agent, the author found a reference in the current literature to the production of ozone by means of ultrasonic radiation. It was decided to investigate the effects of this ultrasonically produced ozone upon the ferrous ion. As far as the author has been able to determine, no work of this type has ever been published. This work, then, is of the nature of pioneering fundamental research.

Transference Numbers Of Concentrated Manganous Chloride Solutions, Marshall L. Severson

Masters Theses

"Electrolytic conduction differs from metallic conduction only in the nature of the carrier of the current. In the case of metallic conduction the carrier is electrons. The passage of an electric current through an electrolyte occurs only by the movement of ions of opposite charge moving in opposite directions under an applied potential. The current carried by a particular ionic species is a direct function of the concentration, the charge on the ion, and the ionic mobility. A transference number is the fraction of the total current a given ion carries in a particular electrolyte undergoing electrolysis. The sum of …

The Instability Constant Of The Cobaltous Citrate Complex Ion Using Cobalt-⁶⁰ As A Tracer, Lee T. Cox

Theses and Dissertations

The instability constant of a substance shows the tendency of a substance to dissociate into simple ions. The stability of the substance can be related to stabilities of other substances through the instability constant. Schubert gives a method for the determination of the instability constant which involves measurements of the adsorption of a radiotracer cation on a cation exchange resin. Two different types of resin were employed in this research. It was found that with a resin containing carboxylic acid exchange groups the adsorption of the cobaltous ion changed rapidly with pH but with a resin containing nuclear sulfonic acid …

A Correlation Of The Catalytic Activity Of Various Mixtures Of Rhenium And Molybdenum Sulfides In Liquid-Phase Hydrogenation Of Certain Reducible Organic Groups, Li-Chen Hsu

Theses and Dissertations

The promoter action of mixtures of catalysts has been reported in literature to be valuable in industries. Whether mixtures of rhenium and molybdenum sulfides would have promoter actions in the hydrogenations of certain reducible organic groups was the main object of this research. Mixtures of rhenium and molybdenum sulfides of various compositions were prepared by three different methods, i.e., (a) by saturating perrhenate and molybdate with hydrogen sulfide in hydrochloric acid solutions, (b) in ammonium hydroxide solutions followed by acidification, and (c) by treating perrhenate and molybdate with thiosulfate in dilute sulfuric acids followed by extraction with toluene to remove …

Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1956

The Entropy

The Entropy (also published as the Providence College Journal of Physics and Chemistry) was an undergraduate scholarship journal published by the Phi Chi Club of Providence College. (Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1956 - 16 pages in total.)

Various Ways Of Preventing The Formation Of Scale In Sea Water Evaporators, James M. Stanek

Bachelors’ Theses

Previous work carried out at Marquette University has proved that the formation of scale in sea water evaporators can be prevented if such things as dehydrated alfalfa foliage or dehydrated corn, oats, peas, and grass foliage are added to the feed sea water. It has also been proved that the maturity of the plant from which the corn foliage has been stripped varies the scale preventing ability of the foliage, and that the storing of the corn foliage increases its scale preventing ability. The object of this work is to determine what effect the combination of various types of stainless …

Addition Of Ketene To Ethylene Oxide, John Philip Friedrich

Masters Theses

"The object of this work was to study the reaction between ethylene oxide and ketene, and if possible, to isolate and identify the postulated γ-butyrolactone. Although the results could hardly be described as completely gratifying, they were at least in a sense positive. Many possibilities remain with regard to further modifications of the experimental work on this problem, however it is the author's sincere wish that this investigation will serve some useful purpose in the future"--Introduction, page 4.

Volume 1, Number 1 - January 1954

The Entropy

The Entropy (also published as the Providence College Journal of Physics and Chemistry) was an undergraduate scholarship journal published by the Phi Chi Club of Providence College. (Volume 1, Number 1 - January 1954 - 22 pages in total.)

Corrosion Studies Of Pentachlorophenol, Robert F. Uhen

Bachelors’ Theses

The author’s interest in the field of corrosion was stimulated through the study of the basic metals in inorganic chemistry, and also through his contact with metals while working in the Heat Treating Department of a local manufacturing company.

A Preliminary Study Of Scale Prevention In Sea Water Evaporators By Various Dehydrated Grasses, Basil H. Tannel

Bachelors’ Theses

Although water is relatively abundant throughout the World, it presents a unique and interesting problem when considered in the light or Chemistry with its many and varied applications. One of these problems had its' incipience with the invention of Watt's steam engine. In short, it was the formation of scale in the boiler preventing an efficient heat transfer.

The Effect Of Cross-Linkage On Internal Diffusion In Dowex-50 Ion Exchange Resin, John Paul Peterson Jr.

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

As far back as the time of Aristotle sand filters were used to purify water. However it was not until the time of Thompson and Way (1848), two English agricultural chemists, that the idea of actual exchange of ions was proposed. Ion exchange has been investigated extensively, resulting in applications to softening of water, purification of sugar, separation of compounds, recovery of metals, many pharmaceutical separations and many others.

It has been proposed that the internal diffusion should be related to the internal structure of the ion exchange resin. The object of this research was to measure the internal diffusion …

The Teaching Of Science, Sherwin Maeser

Faculty Honor Lectures

Like to teach! Whether with the expectant, half-frightened freshman, the senior, worried about his preparation now that . he must get out and meet competition, or the graduate student interested in new discoveries, I like to work with all of them.

I have been teaching a long time now. As has always been the case when one generation is thinking of turning over its work to the next, I am glad to have the opportunity to talk about some of the things that I consider important in this job of teaching.

The most varied and the most acute problems of …

The Theory Of Fractional Solvent Extraction And Its Application To Creosol Separation., Ada Lorine Ryland

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

Halogenated Epoxide-Phenol Reactions A Mechanism Study, Richard L. Rowton

Masters Theses

"The object of this investigation was to study the reactions of two other halogenated epoxides--namely, 3-bromo-1,2-epoxybutane and l-bromo-2,3-epoxybutane--with the phenolate ion, with the hope that the results obtained would shed additional light upon the mechanisms of such reactions. At the present time, no direct practical applications of the results can be forseen. However, the information gained will be a worthwhile addition to the vast existing store of knowledge already at our disposal, and might be of some help to future investigators"--Introduction, page 2.

4-Benzoyl-4-Methyl-1, 2-Epoxypentane, An Attempted Synthesis, Robert L. Snell

Masters Theses

"The object of this research was to prepare first the simplest homologue of the epoxy-ketone considered by Russell to have been his product. If this homologue, 4-benzoyl-4-methyl-1,2-epoxypentane, could be prepared and caused to form a cyclic derivative of the type given by 1,4-diketones with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazone, the organic chemist would be given a new approach to substituted 1,2-diazines as well as a previously unreported reaction of the epoxide grouping. If this reaction could be made to occur, other epoxides of this series would be prepared and treated in the same manner.

It was decided that the shortest route to 4-benzoyl-4-methyl-1,2-epoxypentane would …

The Preparation Of Long Chain Secondary Aliphatic Amines, Robert Fay Betts

Bachelors’ Theses

As organic chemistry has always seemed to be the most interesting study to me, I have chosen this particular branch ­ or chemistry for a thesis.

I found through correspondence with some of the larger petroleum companies in the United States that the preparation of long chain secondary amines would constitute a good thesis topic because these compounds have begun to assume importance as additives to lubricating oil.

Some Applications Of Chromatography To Specific Problems., Marvin Lee Owens

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

The Polarographic Determination Of Germanium, Herbert L. Bowkley

Masters Theses

"The purpose of this investigation was to study the polarographic behavior of germanium in various aqueous solutions. In addition to the simple polarographic behavior of germanium some attention was given to the applications or polarography for the development of an anlytical [sic] procedure for its quantitative determination in zinc ore concentrates and spelter fume materials"--Introduction, page 1.

Radioactive Carbon Labeled Molecules: A Method Of Synthesis, Glen E. Benedict

Masters Theses

"Use of isotopic carbon in determining organic reaction mechanisms is becoming more popular daily. The reasons for this trend are, the increasing availability of intermediate compounds, the increase in isotope handling knowledge, and mechanisms defined by well ordered tracer reactions are considered infallible.

The mechanism of reaction of halo-epoxides has been a point of conjecture for some time"--Introduction, page 1.

Soft X-Rays, William F. Roherty

Bachelors’ Theses

Traditionally, radiation of those wavelengths produced by a potential of from 2 to 25kv. has been classified as "Grenz" or "soft" x-rays. The peculiar property of this radiation is its low penetrating power. While being transparent to more energetic radiation, animal tissue and similar materials are sufficiently opaque to Grenz rays as to be studied in detail. Since the radiation is of the continuous type, it can be made soft enough to reveal any object, providing, of course, that the tube window and object medium be not opaque. Soft x-rays are produced in exactly the same manner as others, except …

Certain Coordination Compound Of The Element Thallium, David Albert Hill Roethel

Bachelors’ Theses

While pursuing courses at Marquette University, my curiosity was constantly piqued by that group of elements classified as the rarer elements. Because of its somewhat unusual properties, thallium in particular aroused my interest and I decided that I should like to investigate the element further to my own satisfaction. While thallium in all its ramifications has been studied at one time or another, comparatively little work has been done upon the coordination compounds that the element forms. In 1909 a German chemist, Gewecke, did a limited amount of work with these coordination compounds but since then very little has been …