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The above findings would challenge the classical view of marine food web energy flow from diatoms to fish by means of copepods if this defense would be an universal feature of diatoms. In field experiments monitoring diatom abundance (but not food uptake) and hatching success of copepods, only a few... 

Automatic Monitoring. The success of the experiment is strongly related to the ability of the data acquisition system to automatically record the relevant parameters during the experiment. Monitoring basic parameters by paper and pencil is only the last resort. 

Low temperature CO sorption experiments monitored with the IR spectroscopy were used to determine the nature of active (acid) sites present in the Fe-TON zeolites. It is well known that CO is a useful probe molecule for Lewis acid sites. Narrow and well resolved bands appear in the region 2135 - 2150 cm"1. The IR spectra of CO sorbed in amount sufficient to cover all Lewis sites in the Fe-TON of different Si/Fe ratios are presented in Figure 2A. The samples of a high iron content (Si/Fe=27, 36) showed a significantly lower thermal stability. The activation of the NFL form of these Fe-TON... 

An increase in absorbance at 351 nm and a concomitant decrease in absorbance at 380 nm in the ultraviolet visible spectrum of methylcobalamin during the abiotic transfer of the methyl group to Hg2+ are characteristic for the loss of the methyl group and formation of aquocobalamin. In experiments monitored by both analytical techniques, gas chromatographic measurements of methylmercury formation were in good agreement with the spectropho-tometric measurement of aquocobalamin formation from methylcobalamin at 351 nm. Aerobic versus anaerobic reaction conditions had no measurable effect on either the methyl transfer rates, the stability of the reactants, or on the reaction products. 

For the proton (/= 1/2, AE = 2pB o) in a magnetic field of 9.39 T (tesla)— resonance frequency of 400 MHz—and at a temperature of 300 K, the quantity 2 iBo/ kT has a value of about 6 x 1 () 5. In words, the excess population in the lower energy state is extremely small, approximately one nucleus in 300,000. As will be seen in the following, the NMR experiment monitors the relaxation of molecules from an excited state to a ground state. This is in contrast to the EPR technique and many other instrumental techniques that detect absorption of energy in a species moving from a ground state to an excited state. 

Although 2-PAM is an FDA-approved drug, data submitted to the FDA to obtain approval are proprietary and were not released when requests for them were made to the FDA and to the manufacturer. A report of the FDA Adverse Drug Experiences Monitoring Program (October 30, 1983) contained one adverse reaction (hypotension following 1 g by intravenous Injection). 

A further possibility is that the signals arise from hydrated electrons or base radical ions produced by monophotonic ionization of the polymers. However, the quantum yield for photoionization of adenosine is reported to be approximately the same as that of poly(A) and poly(dA) [25], It is unlikely that photoionization of the polymers can account for the signals seen here since there is no detectable signal contribution from the photoionization of single bases [4], The most compelling argument that our pump-probe experiments monitor excited-state absorption by singlet states is the fact that ps and ns decay components have been observed in previous time-resolved emission experiments on adenine multimers [23,26-28]. 

The CIS trapping experiment monitors the population in level 2 by an incoherent ionization step. In the weak-fleld limit of the pump laser this can be compared to an experiment detecting the fluorescence from level 2 to a spectator state (here level 1) at the field-free resonance frequency between levels 1 and 2. In such an experiment no fluorescence is expected at this frequency due to the strong shift of level 2 for resonant dump laser frequency. 

Sulfenic acid (3) has been synthesized in the gas phase by low-pressure, high-temperature pyrolysis of di-t-butyl sulfoxide (4) and characterized by means of matrix isolation and gas-phase IR spectroscopy (Scheme 4).32 The mechanism of formation of (3) by flash pyrolysis of (4) has been studied by quantum chemical calculations, and different pyrolysis experiments monitored by mass spectrometry. In agreement... 

We have examined the X-ray results from various oriented curdlan gels and report our findings and calculations on a number of models. In addition we have investigated the behaviour of curdlan gels in a series of deuterium exchange experiments monitored with infra-red spectroscopy. 

Several encapsulation experiments with suitably sized guests such as adaman-tane, 1,2,4,5-tetramethylbenzene, anthracene, pyrene, sodium picrate, and fuller-enes in various solvents were carried out. The complexation experiments, monitored by 1H NMR, were performed at room temperature by forming capsule 32f in the presence of excess guest. The only successful encapsulation experiment performed was the one using methano[60]fullerene derivatives bearing dimethyl and diethyl malonate addends. Evidence for inclusion complexation, provided by 1H NMR, was confirmed by ESI-MS investigations, which showed the formation of 1 1... 

Figure 5 Series of IR spectra from a kinetic experiment, monitoring the reaction of neat Mel with [Rh( CO)2I2f supported on a polymer film (25 °C)...

Nearly all the experiments described were performed in an ultra high vacuum chamber at pressures of about 10 10 torr. The specific equipment and experimental procedures used have been described elsewhere (7-9). Experimental protocol for the thermal desorption experiments and for the chemical displacement reactions is presented below. All these experiments were repeated with a control, blank experiment with a metal crystal that had the front and exposed face covered with gold the sides and back of the crystal were exposed (8,9). These blank experiments were performed to ensure that all thermal desorption and chemical displacement experiments monitored only the surface chemistry of the front exposed face of the metal crystal under study. 

Over the past few years, sophisticated techniques have been developed to investigate reactive, unstable. species even in the gas phase, e.g., molecular beam experiments, monitored by laser spectroscopy. As a specific example, the vibrational frequency of the high-temperature Na Cl molecule was measured at 364.6985(25) cm (Horiai et al., 1988). Although this value is not very different from the frequency of 335.9 cm found for the argon matrix-isolated molecule (Ismail et al, 1975), the higher accuracy and knowledge of the exact absolute wave number of the unperturbed molecule are sometimes essential in order to elucidate its molecular physics. On the other hand, more chemically related problems (e.g., reactions of NaCl in solid noble gases) can be solved in a much simpler and more economical way by the matrix technique. This is demonstrated in thi.s chapter. 

Figure 20 Example of hydrogen-deuterium exchange experiment monitored by HSQC. A portion of the HSQC spectrum of...

Buser and co-workers have used different GC/MS techniques in the investigation of PCDTs in fly ash samples and in aquatic organisms [12, 31]. GC/MS and MS/MS were used for detection and to differentiate PCDTs from PCDDs. Various ionization [electron ionization (El) and negative-ion chemical ionization (NCI)] techniques and MS/MS experiments monitoring different daughter ions on a hybrid instrument were used to distinguish PCDTs from PCDDs [31]. 

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