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The advantages of microreactors, for example, well-defined control of the gas-liquid distributions, also hold for photocatalytic conversions. Furthermore, the distance between the light source and the catalyst is small, with the catalyst immobilized on the walls of the microchannels. It was demonstrated for the photodegradation of 4-chlorophenol in a microreactor that the reaction was truly kinetically controlled, and performed with high efficiency [32]. The latter was explained by the illuminated area, which exceeds conventional reactor types by a factor of 4-400, depending on the reactor type. Even further reduction of the distance between the light source and the catalytically active site might be possible by the use of electroluminescent materials [19]. The benefits of this concept have still to be proven. 

Interestingly, after reaching the maximum at the 6-membered cycle, the yields drop again. This decrease in efficiency occurs despite the appreciable reduction in the distance between the terminal acetylenic carbons relative to the 6-membered analogue. Here, the efficiency may simply be a function of how photochemical excitation is distributed in the reactive excited state. Calculated enediyne geometries suggest the cyclization is more efficient for those enediynes where the terminal phenyl groups are rotated outside of the enediyne plane (Table 3). 

For the 6 mol % doped device the number of dopant molecules inside the doped volume can be calculated with the hypothesis of homogeneous distribution of the molecules. With 12 ts of the averaged lifetime of the excited state of complex 53 and the additional assumption of homogeneous distribution of excited molecules, the upper level of the effective distance between excited molecules as a function of the current density can be estimated. Thereby, the charge density distribution was admitted to half of the doped zone, which is a reasonable assumption as demonstrated by model calculations [ 127]. This effective distance is directly related to the current-dependent quantum efficiency r)( ) of the device. 

Because the density of charge is constant in each layer, the electric field varies linearly with distance between two boundaries, which implies, in turn, that the variation of the potential is quadratic within the same limits. Furthermore, we assume that charge transfer between adjacent layers is sufficiently efficient that the distribution of charge-carriers in the whole film is at thermodynamic equilibrium. Assuming Boltzmann s statistics holds, which is true as long as the charge density remains much lower than the density of molecules, this yields ... 

The probability for resonance transfer of electronic excitation decreases as the distance between the two molecules increases. If chlorophyll molecules were uniformly distributed in three dimensions in the lamellar membranes of chloroplasts (Fig. 1-10), they would have acenter-to-center spacing of approximately 2 nm, an intermolecular distance over which resonance transfer of excitation can readily occur (resonance transfer is effective up to about 10 nm for chlorophyll). Thus both the spectral properties of chlorophyll and its spacing in the lamellar membranes of chloroplasts are conducive to an efficient migration of excitation from molecule to molecule by resonance transfer. 

The most important peak parameters are the peak area, the elution time of the centre of the peak and the peak variance. The peak area is proportional to the mass of the eluted compound and is usually used as the basis of quantitation. The elution time of the centre of gravity of the chromatographic peak is the elution (retention) time, fR, or the elution (retention) volume, Vr. of the compound. It is controlled by the distribution constant of the compound between the stationary and the mobile pha.ses and can be used for identification of the individual sample components. Finally, the peak variance, o (in time units) or a (in volume units) is a measure of peak broadening and can be used for the evaluation of the efficiency of the chromatographic column. For a truly Gaussian peak, the distance between the two inflection points (at 0.607 peak height) corresponds to 2(7. The peak width, u>, equals 4a and can be determined as the distance between the intersection points of the baseline with tangents drawn to the inflection points of the peak. 

Figure 8 Illustration of the use of Luyaponov exponents to describe the efficiency of mantle mixing, (a) Temperature at / = 0. 1,000 X 250 particle pairs distributed uniformly in the area indicated by the black box. The particles in each pair are offset by a horizontal distance of 10 . The small yellow boxes indicate the source regions for heterogeneities I and II. We trace the distance between the particle pairs as they are advected with the flow and plot their distance at (b) t = 0.004 and (c) t = 0.02 in their original location. The black regions correspond to areas where the distance between particle pairs became smaller the colors indicate minor stretching (dark blue) to...

A basic requirement for all plate columns is that the distance between the plates should be sufficient to prevent mechanical entrainment of liquid. Liquid carried upward by the vapour flow would markedly decrease the efficiency. Wagner et al. [48] made experiments with radioactive tracers in a vacuum distillation apparatus to determine non-volatde impurities in the distillate. In connection with mechanical entrainment Newitt et al. [49] made theoretical and experimental studies of the mechanism of droplet formation and of droplet size distribution. 

The spectrocopic models of the coumarin donor and acceptor are 7-ethoxycoumarin and 4-trifluoromethyl-7-ethylaminocoumarin (coumarin 500), respectively. The emission spectrum of the coumarin-donor strongly overlaps the absorption spectrum of the coumarin-acceptor so that nonradiative resonance energy transfer can occur with a rate and an efficiency that depend of the distance between the two moieties. In previous papers, we reported the synthesis of this bifluorophore and studies of the distribution of interchromophoric distances by means of conformational calculations, and steady-state and time-resolved energy transfer experiments (24 5). 

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