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Dilute samples can also be introduced into the GC system by on-column injection however, this technique requires special syringes or other devices and therefore will not be disci xp I in detail. Split or splitless injection, on the other hand, can be performed in a GC system equipped with a split/splitless injector without the need for additional devices. Investigators can simply change the control of the split/splitless valve and the oven temperature for the column to choose between the two injection techniques. 

Maximal-Tree Building. To build the maximal tree, one needs to choose the best splitter to divide each root node into two child nodes. The measure of a good split is the impurity decrease between the parent node and its children ... 

In a very early study Patat (1945) investigated the hydrolysis of aniline to phenol in a water-based acidic solution in near-critical and supercritical water (Tc = 374.2°C, Pc = 220.5 bar). Phosphoric acid and its salts are used as the catalyst for this reaction. The reaction proceeds extremely slowly under normal conditions and reaches equilibrium at low conversion levels. For these reasons, Patat chooses to study the reaction in supercritical water to temperatures of 450°C and to pressures of 700 bar in a flow reactor. He finds that the reaction follows known, regular kinetics in the entire temperature and pressure space studied and the activation energy of the hydrolysis (approximately 40 kcal/mol) is the same in the supercritical as well as in the subcritical water. He suggests that the reaction is catalyzed by hydrogen ions formed from dissolution of phosphoric acid in supercritical steam. Very small amounts of phosphoric acid and the salts of the phosphoric acid are dissolved in the supercritical steam and are split into ions. Patat lists several dissolution constants for primary ammonium phosphates in supercritical steam. In this instance, the reaction performance is improved when the reaction is operated homogeneously in the mixture critical region and, thus, in intimate contact between the reactants and the catalyst. 

For an experimental test of the pulse perturbation method [1] we choose a part of glycolysis shown in fig. 6.1. There are similarities and some differences between the model in fig. 5.12 and the reaction system in fig. 6.1. The reaction system has reactants, enzymes, and some effectors. One point of interest in choosing this system is the test of detecting and identifying the split of the reaction chain, from glucose to F1,6BP, at the aldolase reaction into two chains, one terminating at G3P and the other at 3PG. 

In choosing the frequencies, some caution must be taken since, in the spectra, multiple OH stretching bands due to different factors may be observed. They can be due to different protonic species as, for instance, in antimonic acid (cf Chapter 11) where H2O, HsO and —OH entities occur. In cases where only one species exists, multiple bands may arise because of the presence of crystallographically non-equivalent molecules and/or correlation field splitting as is found, for instance, in H30 P-alumina. In hydrates, there is also an intramolecular coupling of HjO vibrations such that in centrosymmetric crystals, infrared and Raman frequencies are different. Finally, the band multiplicity may be due to Fermi resonances such as occur between v, and HjO modes. 

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