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The data plotted in Figure 3.6 were obtained by the fractionation of a polydisperse polymer sample. Polydisperse polymers can be fractionated by a number of techniques. The most widely used technique is chromatography. Other methods include addition of a nonsolvent to a polymer solution, cooling a polymer solution, solvent evaporation, extraction, diffusion, and centrifugation. The molecular weight of the fractions may be determined using any of the classic techniques given in Table 3.3. 

The method developed for sodium fluoroacetate is based on collection of the sample with cellulose ester filters especially low in extractables (Toyo-cel cellulosic ester membrane filters from Nuclepore were used). The samples were extracted with water and analyzed by ion chromatography. Other MCE filters contained high levels of extractables Cfrom wetting agents, surfactants) that... 

Some particular processes can require very high pressures for special applications (i.e. in explosive welding and plating), but pressures between 100 and 1000 bar can be found easily in different industrial processes. Typical examples are the synthesis of ammonia, the synthesis of methanol and the production of low-density polyethylene, but also analytical techniques as high-pressure liquid chromatography. Other important implications are for the storage and transportation of fluids and enhanced oil recovery. 

Nile Red was recently introduced as a solvatochromic dye for studying supercritical fluids (10). Although not ideal, Nile Red does dissolve in both nonpolar and polar fluids and does not lose its color in the presence of acids, like some previously used dyes. Major criticisms of Nile Red include the fact that it measures several different aspects of "polarity" simultaneously (polarizability and acidity (15)) yet it is insensitive to bases (10). However, in chromatography other single dimension polarity scales, like P, are routinely used. Measurements with Nile Red and other dyes indicate that the solvent strength of binary supercritical fluids is often a non-linear function of composition (10-14). For example, small... 

Alternative Reagents. 1-(1-Phenyl)ethyl isocyanate (PEI) is a cheaper alternative to NEI however, diastereomers formed from NEI are usually easier to separate by liquid chromatography. Other alternatives are also used, e.g. in determining the enantiomeric purity of 3-aminoquinuclidine, PEI, NEI, 2,3,4,6-tetraacetyl-p-D-glucopyranosyl isothiocyanate, and (R,R)- and (S,S)-0,0-dibenzoyltartaric acid anhydride are all employed successfully. Mandelic Acid and Mosher s reagent, a-methoxytrifluoromethylphenylacetyl chloride, may not be quite as effective as NEI when resolutions are carried out by liquid chromatography. ... 

Techniques such as SEC-LC (liquid chromatography other than the size exclusion separation mode) are required to characterize copolymers in accurate detail. Several techniques for nonexclusion liquid chromatography (NELC) to separate copolymers according to composition have been developed and reported within the past several years. These techniques can give the information on chemical heterogeneity of copolymers thus, SEC-NELC is required to determine both distributions. 

While carbethoxyaziridines are usually quite stable (they withstand the injection temperature of gas chromatography) other aziri-dines react further and are therefore not detected in the final products. For example, the aziridine presumably formed from pivaloyl nitrene and cyclohexene rearranges to a Schiff s base and to an amine... 

Each of these groups of phases includes the numerous items of various trade names, different average molecular weights, viscosity, thermal stability, and so forth, but all of them are very close to each other by polarity. Up to the middle of the 1970s, the preferred nonpolar phase was squalane (isoprenoid alkane C30H62). This phase is no longer used because of its low thermal stability (only about 110°C). However, this obsolete phase maintains its importance as a nonpolar standard in gas chromatography. Other phases may be characterized by differences of RI values of specially selected test compounds between the phase under consideration and squalane, for example ... 

There are no convenient or reliable functional tests of pantothenic acid status, thus assessment is made by direct measurement of whole blood or urine pantothenic acid concentrations. Urine measurements are perhaps the easiest to conduct and interpret, and concentrations are closely related to dietary intake, Whole blood measurements are preferred to plasma, which contains only free pantothenic acid and is insensitive to changes in pantothenic acid intake. Concentrations of pantothenic acid in aU of the above fluids can be measured by microbiological assay, most commonly using Lactobacillus plantarum. Whole blood must first be treated with an enzyme preparation to release pantothenic acid fi om CoA. Other techniques that have been used to measure pantothenic acid in human samples include radioimmunoassay and gas chromatography, Other techniques that have been developed include gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and a stable isotope dilution assay. CoA and AGP can be measured by enzymatic methods. ... 

To use MIPs in chromatography, other techniques have been developed. Polymers have been prepared in situ in chromatographic columns [104] and in capillary systems for electrophoresis [105]. Their performance does not, however, come up to expectations and efforts have been made to obtain more homogeneous materials. This was done in two ways i) grafting or covering preformed particles by the MIP. The particles covered can be silica or trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate [52,106-108]. Sve and Frechet used a process they call two-step swelling. The first step consists of making polystyrene support beads and the... 

The chemical laboratory was radically transformed by the mid-1960s.13 In addition to NMR and chromatography, other molecular spectroscopies, which were then implemented in commercial instruments, first and foremost mass spectrometry, also invaded the chemical laboratory (Morris 2002). The combination of chromatographic isolation and... 

Examination of Polysulfide Fractions. Polysulfide fractions from the alloocimene, myrcene, limonene, styrene, and Thiokol LP-33 materials prepared at 140 °C have been fractionated by gel permeation chromatography. Other Thiokol products could not be examined because they were insoluble in all organic solvents used. In Tables VIII-XII the molecular weight and molecular formula of each fraction are given. Table... 

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