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The estimation of surface area from solution adsorption is subject to many of the same considerations as in the case of gas adsorption discussed in Chapter XVII, but with the added complication that larger molecules are involved. 

The general type of approach, that is, the comparison of an experimental heat of immersion with the expected value per square centimeter, has been discussed and implemented by numerous authors [21,22]. It is possible, for example, to estimate sv - sl from adsorption data or from the so-called isosteric heat of adsorption (see Section XVII-12B). In many cases where approximate relative areas only are desired, as with coals or other natural products, the heat of immersion method has much to recommend it. In the case of microporous adsorbents surface areas from heats of immersion can be larger than those from adsorption studies [23], but the former are the more correct [24]. 

The state of an adsorbate is often described as mobile or localized, usually in connection with adsorption models and analyses of adsorption entropies (see Section XVII-3C). A more direct criterion is, in analogy to that of the fluidity of a bulk phase, the degree of mobility as reflected by the surface diffusion coefficient. This may be estimated from the dielectric relaxation time Resing [115] gives values of the diffusion coefficient for adsorbed water ranging from near bulk liquids values (lO cm /sec) to as low as 10 cm /sec. 

This is useful since c can be estimated by means of the BET equation (see Section XVII-5). A number of more or less elaborate variants of the preceding treatment of lateral interaction have been proposed. Thus, Kiselev and co-workers, in their very extensive studies of physical adsorption, have proposed an equation of the form... 

A variety of experimental data has been found to fit the Langmuir equation reasonably well. Data are generally plotted according to the linear form, Eq. XVn-9, to obtain the constants b and n from the best fitting straight line. The specific surface area, E, can then be obtained from Eq. XVII-10. A widely used practice is to take to be the molecular area of the adsorbate, estimated from liquid or solid adsorbate densities. On the other hand, the Langmuir model is cast around the concept of adsorption sites, whose spacing one would suppose to be characteristic of the adsorbent. See Section XVII-5B for an additional discussion of the problem. 

The adsorption isotherms are often Langmuirian in type (under conditions such that multilayer formation is not likely), and in the case of zeolites, both n and b vary with the cation present. At higher pressures, capillary condensation typically occurs, as discussed in the next section. Some N2 isotherms for M41S materials are shown in Fig. XVII-27 they are Langmuirian below P/P of about 0.2. In the case of a microporous carbon (prepared by carbonizing olive pits), the isotherms for He at 4.2 K and for N2 at 77 K were similar and Langmuirlike up to P/P near unity, but were fit to a modified Dubninin-Radushkevich (DR) equation (see Eq. XVII-75) to estimate micropore sizes around 40 A [186]. 

The scope of the technique can be estimated from Table XVII which is i Vepresentative, but not exhaustive, listing of the analyses in which het-aerons have been used. Ion-pair chromatography has been the subject of a... 

Table XVII. Estimated Annual Savings for the Model...

Subirats, X., Bosch, E., and Roses, M. Retention of ionisable compounds on high-performance hquid chromatography XVII estimation of pH variation of aqueous buffers with the change of the methanol fraction of the mobile phase. J. Chmmatogr. A. 2007, 1138, 203-215. 

Using the kf data from Table XVII, the calculated value for and the criterion w= 1, we can estimate the maximum sample length, in which complete conversion can be achieved for different nitrogen pressures, po (Table XVIII). Thus, for example, the external nitrogen pressure must be greater than 100 atm in order to achieve complete conversion in a 1-cm-long sample. 

Physical properties determined on a few well-spaced and easily isolated dimethyldecalins are listed in Table XXVI. These results, along with similar data on the monomethyldecalins from Table XVII and available data on cis- and retention time. The correlations are good but are probably more valuable for estimating properties than for predicting structures. 

Because of their concerns about the mutagenicity of numerous commonly consumed heated foods, many of the studies of the isolation, identification, and estimation of N-heterocyclic amines in heated foodstuffs or heated food components, particularly amine-containing components such as amino acids, proteins, and peptides, were conducted by Japanese investigators. This becomes obvious from examination of the authors and coauthors of the references listed in Table XVII.F-3. 

Table XVII. TDHF/AMl static first hyperpolarizabilities ( in a. u.) and the corresponding calculated and estimated packing ratios for MNA clusters. The error made on the estimated ratios by using the multiplicative scheme is given in the last column.

From Fig. 95 it can be seen that [a]x, say at 500 m/i, is more negative for the randomly coiled configurations than for the helical ones. On the basis of similar observations on a variety of polypeptides, it appears possible to generalize and state that the conversion of the helix to the random coil is accompanied by a decrease in [a]x. This is illustrated in Table XVII for a series of copolymers of L-glutamic acid and L-lysine in water solution, the per cent helix depending on the composition. If one wishes to obtain a very crude estimate of helical content from [ajx, one can assign some value such as 90° to 100° as the difference between the helix and random coil (on the basis of observations such as those indicated in Fig, 95 for PBG) and then express the per cent helical content in terms of the ratio of the observed value of [a]x to the assumed total change of 90° or 100°. 

The use of feo to estimate the per cent helical content quantitatively is illustrated in Table XVII. The value of feo is assumed to be zero for a random coil, implying simple dispersion [see Eq. (VI-7)], and is assumed to be — 625 for 100% helical content (right-handed helix). 

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