Boat atomizers

Absolute Detection Limits Using a Tantalum Boat Atomizing System ... 

The tantalum boat atomization technique provides very low detection limits coupled with small sample size. The reproducibility of the sample size is apparently the limiting factor on precision of results. Figure 10-25 shows results obtained on replications of zinc samples. Relative standard deviations of between 2.8 and 3.4% were obtained for zinc concentrations between 1 X 10 and 5 x 10 g. Some typical absolute detection limits with the tantalum boat systems are given in Table 10-4. They range from 10 to... 

Figure 8-6. Comparison of the radial distribution function of the ctiair, boat, and twist conformations of cyclohexane (hydrogen atoms are not considered).

A highly successful route to stereoisomers of substituted 3-cyclohexene-l-carboxylates runs via Ireland-Claisen rearrangements of silyl enolates of oj-vinyl lactones. The rearrangement proceeds stereospeaifically through the only possible boat-like transition state, in which the connecting carbon atoms come close enough (S. Danishefsky, 1980 see also section 4.8.3, M. Nakatsuka, 1990). 

FIGURE 1.7 The boat conformation of cyclohexane, a = axial hydrogen atom and e = equatorial hydrogen atom. 

Electrothermal vaporization can be used for 5-100 )iL sample solution volumes or for small amounts of some solids. A graphite furnace similar to those used for graphite-furnace atomic absorption spectrometry can be used to vaporize the sample. Other devices including boats, ribbons, rods, and filaments, also can be used. The chosen device is heated in a series of steps to temperatures as high as 3000 K to produce a dry vapor and an aerosol, which are transported into the center of the plasma. A transient signal is produced due to matrix and element-dependent volatilization, so the detection system must be capable of time resolution better than 0.25 s. Concentration detection limits are typically 1-2 orders of magnitude better than those obtained via nebulization. Mass detection limits are typically in the range of tens of pg to ng, with a precision of 10% to 15%. 

Some triazepinones in which one of the nitrogen atoms belongs to a fused azole moiety have been reported. For instance, compound 63 was prepared (74JHC751) and its X-ray structure determined (75CSC317). Similarly, and NMR spectra and X-ray structural determination of 64 revealed that this compound exists as a 3//-tautomer with the 1,2,4-triazepine ring in a distorted boat conformation (88T7185). 

Amongst other devices used to produce the required atoms in the vapour state are the Delves cup which enables the determination of lead in blood samples the sample is placed in a small nickel cup which is inserted directly into an acetylene-air flame. The tantalum boat is a similar device to the Delves cup in this case the sample is placed into a small tantalum dish which is then inserted into an acetylene-air flame. The use of these devices, especially for small sample volumes, has now been largely superseded by the graphite furnace. 

The atomization energy, electron affinity and ionization potential have been calculated for 1//-azepine. and a difference in energy between the boat and chair forms of 64.8 kJ mol -1 deduced.98 The calculated dipole moment for l//-azepine is 4.67 D.98 Hiickel-London theory has been applied to calculate the ring-current octopole hypersusceptibilities of l//-azepine."... 

In contrast to the 1,4-dithiocin system, 1,4-dioxocin (1) is well-known and has been characterized as an olefinic compound by its spectra as well as its chemical behavior.5-6 The reason why 1,4-dioxocin in contrast to 1.4-dihydro-1.4-diazocine (see Section 1.4.) and 4//-l,4-oxazocinc (sec Section 1.12.), does not qualify as a 107r-aromatic species, is the less pronounced tendency of oxygen atoms for 7t-electron delocalization. An X-ray analysis of the 6-substituted 1,4-dioxocin 2 confirms the presumed nonplanar conformation of the 1,4-dioxocin structural element.9 The eight-membered ring exhibits a twisted boat-chair confirmation. 

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