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Because of its piezoelectric properties, synthetic CC-quartz is used for frequency control in electrical oscillators and filters and in electromechanical transducers. When mechanically stressed in the correct direction, CC-quartz develops an electric polarization. The opposite is also tme an applied electric field gives rise to a mechanical distortion in the crystal. Thin sections of quartz are cut to dimensions that produce the desired resonance frequency when subjected to an alternating electric field the vibrating crystal then reacts with the driving circuit to produce an oscillation that can be narrowly controlled. Quartz is ideal for this application because it is hard, durable, readily synthesized, and can be tuned to high accuracy, for example, quartz crystal clocks can be made that are stable to one part in 109. 

Because radicals are uncharged, one would expect that electron donation and withdrawal would be less important than in ionic reactions. Although this expectation is certainly correct, there is nevertheless ample evidence that transition states of radical reactions do have some polar character. In resonance terminology, one might describe the transition state of a homolysis as a resonance hybrid (25) of covalent, radical, and ionic structures, with importance of the ionic forms subject to influence by substituents in A and B. It should therefore... 

Lycorine (1) and derivatives thereof have been the subject of a number of spectroscopic studies (42,90-92), and the proton and carbon resonances of lycorine and the a-dihydro derivative 18 have been completely assigned (90). The crystal and molecular structure of lycorine (93) and lycorine hydrobromide (94) have been established by X-ray analysis, and the structure of lycorine-chlorohydrin, which had originally been formulated as the cw-chlorohydrin 19, has been corrected and determined to be the rra/ts-chlorohydrin 20 (95). 

The compound of formula (5) is next subjected to selective hydrogenation to convert the acetylenic bond to an ethylenic bond. This can be readily accomplished by a number of different catalysts, such as a nickel catalyst prepared from a nickel salt and NaBFi4, Lindlar catalyst, or 5% palladium on barium sulfate in the presence of qunioline. The reaction was run at one atmosphere. Analyses by nuclear magnetic resonance and vapor phase chromatography showed the correct structure in good quantity. The product obtained was 3,7,ll,15-tetramethylhexadeca-2,5-dien-l-acetate (6), a C2o dienolacetate. 

J/2) from the CH2 protons and the other at 5-94 Hz from the CH proton whose resonance in a normal spectrum is a 1 2 1 triplet with outer components which precess at twice the rate of the components of the CH2 doublet. (148) In fact each spin-echo normally contains a number of different frequency components which can be separated by electronic filtration or by Fourier transformation to yield a set of J-spectra which can then be conveniently displayed in a two-dimensional plot. In practice the second approach is normally used, and thus the set of spin-echoes is subjected to a double Fourier transformation according to equation (2) in which cafe must be taken to combine correctly the real and imaginary transforms. (26)... 

Several methods are available for the determination of total aluminum in biological and other materials. Chemical and physicochemical methods are in most practical situations insensitive and inaccurate X-ray fluorescence is specific but lacks sensitivity neutron activation analysis is complex and subject to interferences, although it is a very sensitive technique. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is not very sensitive but useful to get information on speciation [33]. Graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GFAAS) is the most widely used technique and can produce reliable results, provided that the matrix effects are recognized and corrected. Savory and Wills [19] reviewed chemical and physicochemical methods for the determination of aluminum in biological materials, e.g. X-ray fluorescence, neutron activation analysis, atomic emission spectrometry, flame emission, inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy, and AAS. 

From the theoretical point of view, this relaxation process has been the subject of a large number of quantum dynamics investigations, based on reduced and full dimensional models. Farly works [13-17] reported three- and four-mode models and showed that a simple two-state four-dimensional model provides a qualitatively correct simulation of the UV absorption spectrum [17], These models were used to simulate various spectroscopic signals, including time-resolved transient absorption [18-20], and ionization [21] spectra, fluorescence [22] and resonance Raman spectra [23]. Worth et al. [24-27] performed accurate quantum dynamics simulations based on a model including the twenty-four vibrational modes of the molecule using the MCTDH method. These benchmark results have then been used to test various approximate methods for the simulation of non-adiabatic dynamics of molecular systems [28 0]. 

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