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Recent technical developments of the method involve the use of the NMR method (Section VIII) at high pressures, both in steady-state and stopped-flow applications. The sample is contained in an open glass sample tube situated within a metallic pressure chamber the metal has to be nonmagnetic in this case, and beryllium-copper alloy or titanium are the favored materials. 

The new two-step Numerov-Type method with phase-lag and its first and second derivatives equal to zero (Method VIII) is better than the Numerov s Method (Method I), the Exponentially-fitted four-step method developed by Raptis (Method II), the two-step Numerov-type Method with minimum phase-lag produced by Chawla and Rao (Method III), the two-step method developed by Raptis and Allison (Method IV), the new two-step Numerov-Type method with phase-lag and its first derivative equal to zero (Method VII). 

A variety of methods for the asymmetric syntheses of aziridine-2-carboxylates have been developed. They can be generally classified into eight categories based on the key ring-forming transformation and starting materials employed (i) cyclization of hydroxy amino esters, (ii) cyclization of hydroxy azido esters, (iii) cyclization of a-halo- and ot-sulfonyloxy-(3-amino esters, (iv) aziridination of ot, 3-unsaturated esters, (v) aziridination of imines, (vi) aziridination of aldehydes, (vii) 2-carboxylation of aziridines, and (viii) resolution of racemic aziridine-2-carboxylates. 

R. Bezman and L. R. Faulkner 189> developed methods for defining a concise set of parameters which quantitatively describe the efficiencies of chemiluminescent electron-transfer reactions (see Section VIII. A.) by means of analysis of chemiluminescence decay curves. 

A new method to synthesis nanoparticles of group VIII-X elements has been developed by Choukroun et al. [178] by reduction of metalUc precursors with CP2V. Mono- and bimetallic colloids of different metals (stabilized by polymers) have been prepared in this way (Fe, Pd, Rh, Rh/Pd). These colloids are then used as catalysts in various reactions such as hydrogenation of CC, CO, NO or CN multiple bonds, hydroformylation, carbonylation, etc. 

When r(n) and g(n) are both linear in n it is usually impossible ) to give an explicit solution of the master equation other than the stationary solution. An approximate treatment is given in chapter VIII and a systematic approximation method will be developed in chapter X. We here merely list a few typical examples. 

Equations for desorption rate, r, could be obtained by calculations similar to those used for adsorption rate, r+, but there is a simpler method based on the following considerations that are analogous to those developed in Section VIII. On a uniform surface at gas pressure P and fugacity of the adsorbed layer p, adsorption rate is... 

This phenomenon has been studied by different combined electrochemical techniques such as -> spectroelec-trochemistry, radioactive -> tracer method, -> electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance, conductivity etc. by varying the experimental parameters, e.g., film thickness, the composition and concentration of the electrolyte solutions, the wait-time at different waiting potentials, and temperature [iii-x]. Several interpretations have been developed beside the ESCR model. The linear dependence of the anodic peak potential on the logarithm of the time of cathodic electrolysis (wait-time) -when the polymer in its reduced state is an insulator -has been interpreted by using the concept of electric percolation [ix]. Other effects have also been taken into account such as incomplete reduction [vii], slow sorp-tion/desorption of ions and solvent molecules [iii-vi], variation of the equilibrium constants of -+polarons and - bipolarons [viii], dimerization [xi], heterogeneous effects [xii], etc. 

The ability of certain soils to sorb the chemical strongly is important in analyzing residues of the chemical in soil. A procedure must be developed which will recover the chemical quantitatively from any soil. Table VII compares extraction from two soils, soil 3 which saturates with 4-amino-3,5,6-trichloropicolinic acid quickly and soil Bi which shows the slow takeup phenomenon. It is apparent that soil Bi, incubated 2 hours, holds the chemical more firmly than soil 3, incubated 5 days, but that hot water will remove most of the chemical from both soils. When soil Bi has been incubated for 28 days, removal of chemical was only 78.7% after three water washes, but further extraction with NaOH increased the recovery to over 99%. Several mild methods of extraction are compared in Table VIII. The same experimental techniques were used here but, instead of determining the extracted 4-amino-3,5,6-trichloropicolinic acid, the washed soil was assayed. A 50-mg. portion of dried, ground soil was suspended in a silica gel medium for scintillation counting and... 

The closed Newton-Cotes formulae developed in ref. 105 (Method VIII)... 

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