Gel-Saturation

The evolution of nitrogen aids in removing dissolved air. A salt bridge (4 mm tube) attached to the saturated calomel electrode is filled with 3 per cent agar gel saturated with potassium chloride and its tip is placed within 1 mm of the mercury cathode when the mercury is not being stirred this ensures that the tip trails in the mercury surface when the latter is stirred. It is essential that the mercury-solution interface (not merely the solution) be vigorously stirred, and for this purpose the propeller blades of the glass stirrer are partially immersed in the mercury. 

Second cleanup Transfer the above carbon tetrachloride solution into a glass column packed with 7 g of silica gel saturated in carbon tetrachloride. Rinse the column, first with 2 mL of carbon tetrachloride and then with 35 mL of hexane-ethyl acetate (17 3, v/v). Elute benfuracarb with 30 mL of the same hexane-ethyl acetate solution. Concentrate the eluate to near dryness by rotary evaporation and prepare the GC/HPLC-ready sample solution by dissolving the residue either in benzene for plant material or in acetonitrile for water and soil. 

Roskamp reported29 a similar intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction accelerated by silica gel saturated with water. The reaction led to the ready construction of the 11-oxabicyclo [6,2,1] ring systems (Eq. 12.4). The intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction has also been investigated by Keay.30 The Diels-Alder reaction of 2,5-dimethylpyrrole derivatives with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate in water generated the corresponding cyclization products.31... 

Silica-based anion-exchangers tend to have short life-times. This may be extended somewhat by proper sample clean-up and by the use of a silica-gel-saturation column, but this rapid degradation remains the biggest disadvantage of these phases. The resin-based phases are very stable, unless operated above 65°. Unfortunately, because of the slow diffusion processes in these resins, they must be operated at higher temperatures in order to achieve good efficiencies. 

Si02 films were deposited on soda lime glass from a silica gel-saturated solution of hydrofluorosilicic acid (H2S1F6) and boric acid [39]. The boric acid reacts with... 

Thin Layer Chromatography is used by major manufacturers of radiolabeled vitamin D3 (48) for monitoring purity. The systems described are 1) silica gel G with 10% acetone in hexane 2) silica gel G with acetone-hexane 1 1 and acetone-chloroform 1 1 3) silver nitrate-impregnated silica gel G with chloroform or chloroform-acetone 9 1 and 4) silica gel saturated with silicone oil using 4 1 acetone-water. It may be mentioned that these operations are carried out under very carefully controlled conditions to prevent or minimize decomposition. TLC is an excellent technique for separating vitamin Do from interfering materials, but it has to be used with due care in the quantita-... 

In the case that the fluid in contact with the polymeric surface is a liquid, the amount of that liquid sorbed to attain gel-saturation (or solution) after C becomes Cg is of course considerably greater than the amount sorbed to attain Cg. The kinetics of sorption thereafter, however, is dependent upon the history of the... 

Although the kinetics of liquid uptake to attain gel-saturation is history-dependent, the composition at the true end-state (i.e. thermodynamic equilibrium in excess liquid) is not therefore the observed end-state is usually reproducible [19]. Gel-saturation is attained when the restraining force (per unit area) of the polymeric crosslinked network becomes equal and opposite to the osmotic pressure that causes the system to swell [20], In other words saturation is achieved when the chemical potential of swelling liquid, p1 in the swollen network is equal to the chemical potential of the excess pure liquid, p , outside the network. It was logical to anticipate that the volume of liquid sorbed per gram of polymer, at this state of thermodynamic equilibrium with excess liquid, would correlate with the molecular structure of the liquid. In fact two parameters already exist which relate the sorption affinity to the molecular structure, namely the solubility parameter, 8, first proposed by Hildebrand [21], and the interaction parameter, %, introduced by Flory [22] and Huggins [23-26],... 

Unless the nature and number of the liaisons in the initial and final states are known with certainty, the reliability of the x-Parameter (based on Eq. 7 and relationships derived therefrom) suffers accordingly, even with the most accurate thermodynamic methods for measuring colligative physical properties of polymer-liquid systems. It would be well, therefore, to develop methods for defining the mode of complexation at the initial and final states on a molecular basis. Elucidation of the molecular nature of these complexations at gel-saturation (or in true solution) is an end-objective of the work described in Sect. 3 of this review. 

The phenomenon of polymer swelling, owing to sorption of small molecules, was known even before Staudinger reported [1] in 1935 that crosslinked poly(styrene) swells enormously in certain liquids to form two-component polymer gels. The physical state of such systems varies with the concentration (C) and molecular structure of the sorbed molecules thus, the system undergoes transition at constant temperature from a rigid state (glassy or partially crystalline) at C < Cg to a rubbery state at Cg (the transition state composition). When C > Cg and the second component is a liquid, its subsequent sorption proceeds quickly to gel-saturation and of course a solution is produced if the polymer lacks covalently bonded crosslinks or equivalent restraints. Each successive physical state exhibits its own characteristic sorption isotherm and sorption kinetics. 

Determination of Response Factors. Speciflc response factors were obtained by injecting known concentrations of saturates and aromatics fractions obtained by clay-gel chromatographic separation of various gas oil fractions as well as residua boiling above 510°C. All of the clay-gel saturates fractions showed the presence of some aromatic impurities (2-20%) by HPLC. This was particularly true of the saturates obtained from the 510°C residue samples. Also, the aromatics fractions showed the presence of some saturates (2-3%) by HPLC. The response factors for these saturates and aromatics fractions are listed in Table II. Based on the values shown in Table II, the response for the aromatics was about 1.7 times that for the saturates. The ratio of the response factors for the gas oil fractions differs from the ratio for the residuum samples by about 6%, relative. 

Trace amounts of Sb were sorbed on silica gel, saturated with a mixture of the amine Aliquat 336 and Eriochrome Black T [32]. Antimony and bismuth are sorbed at pH l. 

Zhabotinsky et al. (1990, 1991) observed coupled patterns in the ferroin-cata-lyzed BZ reaction in a different configuration. In a layer of silica gel saturated with BZ solution, waves first begin to propagate along the bottom of the layer. 

Polysilicic Acid Gel. Term for the (more or less) soft or plastic gel, saturated with liquid (e. g., water) that is, for a reaction product that can be derived from silicic acids of low molecular weight through processes of polymerisation, condensation and aggregation. 

Drug Diffusion in the Contact Adhesive. The contact adhesive formulation consists of a polymeric gel saturated with scopolamine, with excess drug uniformly dispersed throughout the gel. The release kinetics from such a dispersed formulation has been derived previously by Higuchi (10) using the model shown in Figure 5. 

The effect of a somewhat different phase transition, namely the gelation of photographic gelatin, was studied by Mel nichenko, et a/.(24). Neutron transmission was used to observed the diffusion of H2O into gelatin gels saturated with D2O at various gel concentrations. The value of Dg depended on gel concentration as Dg 4>) = D o(l — for gel volume fractions as large as... 

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