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Analytical separation and spectroscopic techniques normally used for petroleum crudes and residues were modified and used to characterize coal liquids, tar sands bitumens, and shale oils. These techniques include solvent extraction, adsorption, ion-exchange, and metal complexing chromatography to provide discrete fractions. The fractions are characterized by various physical and spectroscopic methods such as GLC, MS, NMR, etc. The methods are relatively fast, require only a few grams of sample, provide compound type fractions for detailed characterization, and provide comparative compositional profiles for natural and synthetic fuels. Additional analytical methods are needed in some areas. 

Physical Methods and Physical Chemistry.—Physical diet hods, e.g. chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques, are used routinely in the separation, purification, and characterization of carotenoids and related compounds, and of intermediates in their synthesis. This section will consider only those papers which are devoted largely or entirely to detailed study or analysis of such physical techniques, or which include systematic surveys, often with tabulated data. 

We will show in this chapter that a designed combination of thermodynamic and/or kinetic control of the self-assembly processes has allowed us to develop various applications all based on the induced chirality in the porphyrin Soret band absorption region. Chiral information transfer has been followed using circular dichroism, a spectroscopic technique particularly useful to characterize (supra) molecular dissymmetry or chirality [3]. 

The ground and excited state geometry of the six-coordinate copper(II) ion is examined in detaU using the CuF and Cu(H20)g+ complexes as examples. A variety of spectroscopic techniques are used to Ulustrate the relations between the geometric and electronic properties of these complexes through the characterization of their potential energy surfaces. 

Many other spectroscopic techniques are used for the study of polymers, some having general applicability and others being used for a specific property characterization. For example, UV absorption spectroscopy has been used for the analysis of residual monomers and the presence of antioxidants in a polymer. Electron spin resonance,... 

Uv-vis-nir is another spectroscopic technique widely used for the characterization of conducting polymers. The existence of a spatially extended n-bonding system in conjugated polymers gives rise to electronic transitions in the uv-vis-nir region of the spectrum. In neutral (undoped) polymers, the dominant peak is usually associated with the n—n transition. The uv-vis-nir spectra of conjugated polymers can be treated as a qualitative measure of the overlap of their n orbitals. 

NMR Characterization. To identify the cis and trans isomers, solution NMR spectroscopic techniques were used (chemical shifts, the magnitude of the C-H coupling constants, and the dynamic exchange of the cyclohexane ring which exists for... 

A beautiful and elegant example of the intricacies of surface science is the formation of transparent, thermodynamically stable microemulsions. Discovered about 50 years ago by Winsor [76] and characterized by Schulman [77, 78], microemulsions display a variety of useful and interesting properties that have generated much interest in the past decade. Early formulations, still under study today, involve the use of a long-chain alcohol as a cosurfactant to stabilize oil droplets 10-50 nm in diameter. Although transparent to the naked eye, microemulsions are readily characterized by a variety of scattering, microscopic, and spectroscopic techniques, described below. 

In this review the definition of orientation and orientation functions or orientation averages will be considered in detail. This will be followed by a comprehensive account of the information which can be obtained by three spectroscopic techniques, infra-red and Raman spectroscopy and broad line nuclear magnetic resonance. The use of polarized fluorescence will not be discussed here, but is the subject of a contemporary review article by the author and J. H. Nobbs 1. The present review will be completed by consideration of the information which has been obtained on the development of molecular orientation in polyethylene terephthalate and poly(tetramethylene terephthalate) where there are also clearly defined changes in the conformation of the molecule. In this paper, particular attention will be given to the characterization of biaxially oriented films. Previous reviews of this subject have been given by the author and his colleagues, but have been concerned with discussion of results for uniaxially oriented systems only2,3). 

Chain length is another factor closely related to the structural characterization of conducting polymers. The importance of this parameter lies in its considerable influence on the electric as well as the electrochemical properties of conducting polymers. However, the molecular weight techniques normally used in polymer chemistry cannot be employed on account of the extreme insolubility of the materials. A comparison between spectroscopic findings (XPS, UPS, EES) for PPy and model calculations has led some researchers to conclude that 10 is the minimum number of monomeric units in a PPy chain, with the maximum within one order of magnitude n9- 27,i28) mechanical qualities of the electropolymerized films,... 

Mass spectroscopy is a useful technique for the characterization of dendrimers because it can be used to determine relative molar mass. Also, from the fragmentation pattern, the details of the monomer assembly in the branches can be confirmed. A variety of mass spectroscopic techniques have been used for this, including electron impact, fast atom bombardment and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) mass spectroscopy. 

Vibrational spectroscopy and in particular Raman spectroscopy is by far the most useful spectroscopic technique to qualitatively characterize polysulfide samples. The fundamental vibrations of the polysulfide dianions with between 4 and 8 atoms have been calculated by Steudel and Schuster [96] using force constants derived partly from the vibrational spectra of NayS4 and (NH4)2Ss and partly from cydo-Sg. It turned out that not only species of differing molecular size but also rotational isomers like Ss of either Cy or Cs symmetry can be recognized from pronounced differences in their spectra. The latter two anions are present, for instance, in NaySg (Cs) and KySg (Cy), respectively (see Table 2). 

Several spectroscopic, microscopic and diffraction techniques are used to investigate catalysts. As Fig. 4.2 illustrates, such techniques are based on some type of excitation (in-going arrows in Fig. 4.2) to which the catalyst responds (symbolized by the outgoing arrows). For example, irradiating a catalyst with X-ray photons generates photoelectrons, which are employed in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) -one of the most useful characterization tools. One can also heat a spent catalyst and look at what temperatures reaction intermediates and products desorb from the surface (temperature-programmed desorption, TPD). 

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