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High Temperature Adsorption Studies On Solid Adsorbents, Julian Joseph Hamerski

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It has been found that there exist certain crystalline aluminosilicates which provide regular net-works of channels with diameters no bigger than those of molecules. Such crystals can act as sieves (thus the name "molecular sieves" now marketed by the Linde Air Products Company) and bring about a separation of molecular species by occluding small molecules while not adsorbing larger molecules or molecules with shapes that do not "fit."

The aluminosilicates were termed zeolites first by Baron Cronstedt (1) some 200 years ago. He observed that certain mineral crystals, when heated, appeared to melt and to boil at the same time. …

High Frequency Titrations In Liquid Ammonia, Jack Charles Hileman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

An extensive literature has been established on the use of high frequency conductometric methods in chemical analysis and research. The fact that the instruments respond to chemical changes without having electrodes immersed in the reacting solutions has attracted the attention of many investigators. Until the last few years, practically all of the investigations were concerned with aqueous solutions, with the exception of measurements of dielectric constants.

There seemed no logical reason for not extending the use of the high frequency instruments to the study of Bronsted acid-base reactions, organic syntheses, rates of reaction, and the other commonly studied aspects of …

1,3,5,7-Sym-Hydrindacentetrone And Its Derivatives, Irven Davies

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Three chapters of this dissertation, therefore,are devoted to describing the synthesis of 1,3,5,7-s-hydrinda-centetrone using the three starting materials, pyromellitic dianhydride by means of the four above described reactions.

1,3,5,7-s-Hydrindacentetrone, itself, and its properties are described in Chapter three when first prepared.

An entire chapter is devoted to the preparation of the dinitroso and dinitro derivatives; both because of the complexity of their reactions and because of their relative importance.

An additional chapter is devoted to other miscellaneous derivatives.

Conclusions have been drawn as to the appropriateness of each method of synthesis and are presented at the end of their respective …