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Recently siloxane-imide copolymers have received specific attention due to various unique properties displayed by these materials which include fracture toughness, enhanced adhesion, improved dielectric properties, increased solubility, and excellent atomic oxygen resistance 1S3). The first report on the synthesis of poly(siloxane-imides) appeared in 1966, where PMDA (pyromellitic dianhydride) was reacted with an amine-terminated siloxane dimer and subsequently imidized 166>. Two years later, Greber 167) reported the synthesis of a series of poly(siloxane-imide) and poly(siloxane-ester-imide) copolymers using different siloxane backbones. However no physical characterization data were reported. 

Molecular sizes and shapes play key roles in determining chemical and physical properties. The immense variety of chemical and physical properties displayed by substances in the natural world mirrors an equally immense variety of different types of molecules. However, variety need not come from a large number of different elements. The molecules that make up a cup of coffee are made up almost entirely of atoms of just five elements hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur. Carbon, in particular, is capable of combining in many different ways, generating molecules with elaborate stractures. 

The unique feature of L-ascorbic acid and its analogs4 lies in the enediolic system and it is this system which is responsible for the remarkable reducing properties displayed by these substances. 

The formation of this analog CXI of L-ascorbic acid containing one enolic hydroxy group is therefore responsible for the reducing properties displayed by the two dilactones CIX and CX and the two ester lactones CVII and CVIII of D-glucosaccharic acid. 

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Although the superconducting properties of these materials are of major interest at this time, future applications of these materials may depend upon utilization of the dramatic changes in electrical properties accompanying stoichiometric changes in these solid solutions. Particularly interesting are the ferro-, ferri-, piezo- and paraelectric properties displayed by the insulating phases in BaPbx ... 

The study of the relationships between the acidity (N—H) and the basicity ( N ) of azoles has shown that both properties display essentially the same sensitivity to substituent effects (58JA148 69JOC3315). Analogous behavior has been reported for tetrazoles (81KGS559), and, more generally, for all azoles protonated on a pyridine nitrogen (80BSF30). 

The remarkable optical properties displayed by hydrosols of vana- dium pentoxide (see p. 58) have not hitherto been observed with niobium pentoxide or tantalum pentoxide. 

Because of the relatively poor coordinating properties displayed by the P-menthyl-substituted monodentate ligands toward some catalytically useful metals like rhodium and iridium, development of the coordination chemistry of chelating phosphetanes was required. Early studies established that the bidentate ligand P(6 ),C (6 )-43 binds well to rhodium centers. It gives the chelating complex 26 with [Rh(COD)2]PF6 and the bimetallic compound 68 when reacted with [Rh(COD)Cl]2 under an atmosphere of CO (COD = cyclooctadiene Scheme 5) <19950M4983>. 

The estrogenic properties displayed by isoflav-3-ene derivatives have attracted the attention of medicinal chemists. Varma et al. have discovered a facile and general method for the microwave-assisted synthesis of isoflav-3-enes substituted with basic moieties at the 2-position (Scheme 14) [69]. This convergent approach exploits in situ generated enamine derivatives that are subsequently reacted with o-hydroxyaldehydes in the same pot. 

The superconducting properties displayed by the series of ammoniated alkali fullerides, (NH3)xNaA2C60 (0.5[Pg.132]

Terms such as symmetrical , dissymmetric , asymmetric , are frequently encountered in descriptions of molecular structures. At the intuitive level of comprehension, there appears to exist some form of relationship between the degree of order and of symmetry displayed by a molecule, namely that the more ordered molecular structures are the more symmetrical. At the mathematical level, symmetry elements and symmetry operations have been devised which allow to describe rigorously a number of geometrical properties displayed by molecular entities, or for that matter by any object. A short description of symmetry as a mathematical tool will be given in this section, and the interested reader is referred to a number of valuable monographs [8-14] for more extensive treatments. 

Molecules without reflection symmetry (no a plane) are called dissymmetric or chiral. Chirality (from the Greek cheir , hand) is the property displayed by any object (e.g., a hand) which is nonsuperimposable on its mirror image. If aCB( > 1) is also absent the structure lacks all elements of symmetry and is called asymmetric (point group C,). A carbon atom bearing four different substituents (asymmetric carbon atom) is a classical example of this point group. 

It is hoped that the elucidation of the unsynchronized-resonating-covalent-bond theory presented in this chapter demonstrates that it is an intuitively appealing and useful adjunct to band theory in the interpretation of the often complex structures and properties displayed by metals, alloys, and intermetallic compounds. Furthermore, it is hoped that the foregoing presentation will encourage other researchers to investigate the explicit relationship between band theory and the unsynchronized-resonating-covalent-bond theory... 

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