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Casimir Funk had come from Poland to the Lister Institute in London, England to investigate the chemical nature of the substance in rice-polishings (rice bran) that cured or prevented polyneuritis in birds, a disease closely related to beri-beri in humans. His research in this subject coupled with his awareness of what were becoming known as diet-related diseases, the deficiency diseases, led to his review article of 1912 in which he coined the term, vitamine. Vitamine, to Funk, was actually a variety of chemical substances, organic amines, that acted selective-... 

The notion of the slope as a constant, characteristic of a substance assumes the validity of Stevens s law (Stevens 1957) for odors. This is still a matter of some controversy. For example, Sauvageot (1987) holds the slope to be "characteristic of the stimulus-subject couple." Certainly the value for the slope depends upon the method by which it is determined. 

Dennison coupling produces a pattern in the spectrum that is very distinctly different from the pattern of a pure nonnal modes Hamiltonian , without coupling, such as (Al.2,7 ). Then, when we look at the classical Hamiltonian corresponding to the Darling-Deimison quantum fitting Hamiltonian, we will subject it to the mathematical tool of bifiircation analysis [M]- From this, we will infer a dramatic birth in bifiircations of new natural motions of the molecule, i.e. local modes. This will be directly coimected with the distinctive quantum spectral pattern of the polyads. Some aspects of the pattern can be accounted for by the classical bifiircation analysis while others give evidence of intrinsically non-classical effects in the quantum dynamics. 

The coefficients a t) and b t) are subject to the constraint that + h(0P = 1 If we couple this system to a light field, represented as F= cosCot), then we may write tire TDSE in matrix fonn as... 

A reactive species in liquid solution is subject to pemianent random collisions with solvent molecules that lead to statistical fluctuations of position, momentum and internal energy of the solute. The situation can be described by a reaction coordinate X coupled to a huge number of solvent bath modes. If there is a reaction... 

Numerical solution of this set of close-coupled equations is feasible only for a limited number of close target states. For each N, several sets of independent solutions F.. of the resulting close-coupled equations are detennined subject to F.. = 0 at r = 0 and to the reactance A-matrix asymptotic boundary conditions,... 

Calculations within tire framework of a reaction coordinate degrees of freedom coupled to a batli of oscillators (solvent) suggest tliat coherent oscillations in the electronic-state populations of an electron-transfer reaction in a polar solvent can be induced by subjecting tire system to a sequence of monocliromatic laser pulses on tire picosecond time scale. The ability to tailor electron transfer by such light fields is an ongoing area of interest [511 (figure C3.2.14). 

With tlie development of femtosecond laser teclmology it has become possible to observe in resonance energy transfer some apparent manifestations of tire coupling between nuclear and electronic motions. For example in photosyntlietic preparations such as light-harvesting antennae and reaction centres [32, 46, 47 and 49] such observations are believed to result eitlier from oscillations between tire coupled excitonic levels of dimers (generally multimers), or tire nuclear motions of tire cliromophores. This is a subject tliat is still very much open to debate, and for extensive discussion we refer tire reader for example to [46, 47, 50, 51 and 55]. A simplified view of tire subject can nonetlieless be obtained from tire following semiclassical picture. 

The next question asked is whether there are any indications, from ab initio calculations, to the fact that the non-adiabatic transfonnation angles have this feature. Indeed such a study, related to the H3 system, was reported a few years ago [64]. However, it was done for circular contours with exceptionally small radii (at most a few tenths of an atomic unit). Similar studies, for circular and noncircular contours of much larger radii (sometimes up to five atomic units and more) were done for several systems showing that this feature holds for much more general situations [11,12,74]. As a result of the numerous numerical studies on this subject [11,12,64-75] the quantization of a quasi-isolated two-state non-adiabatic coupling term can be considered as established for realistic systems. 

Another subject with important potential application is discussed in Section XIV. There we suggested employing the curl equations (which any Bohr-Oppenheimer-Huang system has to obey for the for the relevant sub-Hilbert space), instead of ab initio calculations, to derive the non-adiabatic coupling terms [113,114]. Whereas these equations yield an analytic solution for any two-state system (the abelian case) they become much more elaborate due to the nonlinear terms that are unavoidable for any realistic system that contains more than two states (the non-abelian case). The solution of these equations is subject to boundary conditions that can be supplied either by ab initio calculations or perturbation theory. 

In Chapter XI, Peric and Peyerimhoff discuss the Renner-Teller coupling in triatomic and tetraatomic molecules. For this purpose, they describe some of their theoretical tools to investigate this subject and use the systems FeH2, CNC, and FICCS as adequate examples. 

Chapter XI is devoted to Qualitative Organic Analysis. The subject b discussed in moderate detail and this, coupled with the various Sections and Tables of Physical Constants of Organic Compounds and their Derivatives in Chapters III and IV, will provide a satisfactory course of study in this important branch of chemistry. No attempt has been made to deal with Quantitative Organic Analysb in this volume. 

Chlorobenzenes activated by coordination of Cr(CO)3 react with terminal alkynes[253). The 1-bromo-1,2-alkadiene 346 reacts with a terminal alkyne to afford the alka-l,2-dien-4-yne 347[254], Enol tritlates are used for the coupling with terminal alkynes. Formation of 348 in the syntheses of ginkgolide[255] and of vitamin D are examples[256] Aryl and alkenyl fluorides are inert. Only bromide or iodide is attacked when the fluoroiodoalkene 349 or fluoroiodoar-ene is subjected to the Pd-catalyzed coupling with alkynes[257-259]. 

A special application of the Japp-Klingemann/Eischer sequence is in the preparation of tryptamines from piperidone-3-carboxylate salts, a method which was originally developed by Abramovitch and Shapiro[2]. When the piperidone is subjected to Japp-Klingemann coupling under mildly alkaline conditions decarboxylation occurs and a 3-hydrazonopiperidin-2-one is isolated. Fischer cyclization then gives 1-oxotetrahydro-p-carbolines which can be hydrolysed and decarboxylated to afford the desired tryptamine. 

You may have noticed another characteristic of NMR spectra—all of the peaks are singlets With a spin of a nucleus is subject to the same splitting rules that apply to H and we might expect to see splittings due to and — H couplings... 

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