Intermolecular sensitization

Crystal stmcture analyses of cyanine and related dyes are reviewed in Ref. 32. Most typical sensitizers are nearly planar, with angles of less than 15° between planes defined by heterocycHc rings. Distinct solvent of crystallization is present in most of the cationic dyes. X-ray crystal analyses also provide intermolecular data. Because of photographic use of cyanine and carbocyanine dyes, the cation-cation arrangements of most interest have been those for l,l -dieth5l-2,2 -quinocyanine chloride [2402-42-8] 5,5, 6,6 -tetrachloro-l,l, 3,3 -tetraethylbenzimidazolocarbocyanineiodide [3520-43-2] and 5,5 -dichloro-3,3, 9-triethylthiacarbocyanine bromide [18426-56-7] (32) (see Fig. 8). 

For elimination of intra- as well as intermolecular energy losses we have synthesized co-polymers - styrene or methylmethacrylate with P-diketones and used them in analysis for the same purpose. In this case the increase of sensitivity of Ln determination as well as selectivity was observed. 

The next important phenomena that the result of supramolecular effect are the concentration and proximity effects concerning the components of analytical reaction, even through they are considerably different in hydrophobicity, charge of the species, complexing or collisional type of interaction. The concentration and proximity effects determine the equilibrium of analytical reaction, the efficiencies of intramolecular or intermolecular electronic energy or electron transfer and as a result the sensitivity of analytical reactions. 

PDMS based siloxane polymers wet and spread easily on most surfaces as their surface tensions are less than the critical surface tensions of most substrates. This thermodynamically driven property ensures that surface irregularities and pores are filled with adhesive, giving an interfacial phase that is continuous and without voids. The gas permeability of the silicone will allow any gases trapped at the interface to be displaced. Thus, maximum van der Waals and London dispersion intermolecular interactions are obtained at the silicone-substrate interface. It must be noted that suitable liquids reaching the adhesive-substrate interface would immediately interfere with these intermolecular interactions and displace the adhesive from the surface. For example, a study that involved curing a one-part alkoxy terminated silicone adhesive against a wafer of alumina, has shown that water will theoretically displace the cured silicone from the surface of the wafer if physisorption was the sole interaction between the surfaces [38]. Moreover, all these low energy bonds would be thermally sensitive and reversible. 

Intermolecular potential functions have been fitted to various experimental data, such as second virial coefficients, viscosities, and sublimation energy. The use of data from dense systems involves the additional assumption of the additivity of pair interactions. The viscosity seems to be more sensitive to the shape of the potential than the second virial coefficient hence data from that source are particularly valuable. These questions are discussed in full by Hirschfelder, Curtiss, and Bird17 whose recommended potentials based primarily on viscosity data are given in the tables of this section. 

Although in the frequency region of the conventionally measured infrared and Raman spectra (400-4000 cm ) only intramolecular modes appear, some particular bands can be sensitive to intermolecular interactions typical of the different modes of packing of chains with identical conformations. 

In the stochastic theory of branching processes the reactivity of the functional groups is assumed to be independent of the size of the copolymer. In addition, cyclization is postulated not to occur in the sol fraction, so that all reactions in the sol fraction are intermolecular. Bonds once formed are assumed to remain stable, so that no randomization reactions such as trans-esterification are incorporated. In our opinion this model is only approximate because of the necessary simplifying assumptions. The numbers obtained will be of limited value in an absolute sense, but very useful to show patterns, sensitivities and trends. 

Rotational-echo double-resonance (REDOR)(75,79) is a new solid-state NMR technique which is sensitive to through-space carbon-nitrogen interactions between selectively 13C and 15N-enriched sites separated by up to 5A (20-22). The parameter directly measured in a REDOR experiment is the heteronuclear dipolar coupling constant DCN, which is in itself proportional to the inverse third power of the intemuclear distance, rCN. It is this dependence on (icn)3 which accounts both for REDOR s ability to accurately measure short distances and its insensitivity to longer-range interactions. As a technique which can probe, in detail, intermolecular interactions over a distance range of 5A, REDOR is well suited to studying the distribution of small selectively-labeled molecules in polymer delivery systems. 

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