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X-ray diffraction work (11,15) shows that there is an ionomer peak at 4°C which is absent in the acid precursor. This low, broad peak is not affected by annealing or ion type and persists up to 300°C. Since the 4°C peak corresponds to a spacing of about 2.5 nm, it is reasonable to propose a stmctural feature of this dimension in the ionomer. The concept of ionic clusters was initially suggested to explain the large effects on properties of relatively sparse ionic species (1). The exact size of the clusters has been the subject of much debate and has been discussed in a substantial body of Hterature (3,4,18—20). A theoretical treatment has shown that various models can give rise to supramoleculat stmctures containing ionic multiplets which ate about 10 nm in diameter (19). 

There is no generally acceptable comprehensive theory of melting. A feature of the fusion process, which is usually regarded as important in theoretical treatments of the subject, is the inability of a solid to superheat, and only a very small number of exceptions to this generalization are known [2], This almost universal onset of liquefaction immediately upon reaching the melting point is in sharp contrast with the reverse process since supercooling of the vast majority of liquids can be demonstrated under appropriate conditions. 

A thiepin is formally isoelectronic with the 8ic-electron 1,3,5,7-cyclooctatetraene and 1,3,5-cycloheptatrienide ion and, if planar, may actually be antiaromatic. Recently, the question of the antiaromaticity of thiepin has been the subject of interest for both synthetic and theoretical chemists. The apparent instability of the thiepin ring system is in good agreement with theoretical calculations. Dewar and Trinajstic 68) have reported that the thiepin is considered to be weakly antiaromatic (RE = — 1.45 kcal mol-1) based on PPP SCF MO calculations. On the other hand, Hess Jr. and Schaad 69) have found it to be substantially antiaromatic (RE = —0.232 J) by using the Huckel MO method. This result was also supported by a graph-theoretical treatment by Aihara 70). 

Figure 8.5 gives the structure of the molecular subject of this classic study, decyloxybenzylideneaminomethylbutylcinnamate (DOBAMBC, 2). DOBAMBC possesses the archetypal FLC molecular structural features A rigid core with two flexible tails, one of which possesses a stereogenic center. A classic theoretical treatment of the SmC phase from 1978 by Durand et al. suggested that a zigzag conformation of the LC molecules is important.9... 

Salt effects in kinetics are usually classified as primary or secondary, but there is much more to the subject than these special effects. The theoretical treatment of the primary salt effect leans heavily upon the transition state theory and the Debye-Hii ckel limiting law for activity coefficients. For a thermodynamic equilibrium constant one should strictly use activities a instead of concentrations (indicated by brackets). 

The theoretical modeling of electron transfer reactions at the solution/metal interface is challenging because, in addition to the difficulties associated with the quantitative treatment of the water/metal surface and of the electric double layer discussed earlier, one now needs to consider the interactions of the electron with the metal surface and the solvated ions. Most theoretical treatments have focused on electron-metal coupling, while representing the solvent using the continuum dielectric media. In keeping with the scope of this review, we limit our discussion to subjects that have been adi essed in recent years using molecular dynamics computer simulations. 

The same cannot be said about the surface tension of solids. The paper by the late Dr. Nicolson 26) is practically the only extensive theoretical treatment of the subject. It is of interest to note that for NaCl, the calculated surface tension is 562 dynes/ cm. 26), and the calculated surface energy 16) is 187 ergs/cm.. Thus, the surface tension, rather than having the same numerical value as the surface energy, is about three times as large. 

Despite the impressive knowledge accumulated on some of the more common organic reactions, the question of true intrinsic reactivity is still at large in most cases. It is known that rates and mechanisms can be influenced by solvent effects, and that such changes can seldom be accommodated by rigorous theoretical treatments which are only applicable to isolated species. Thus, the concept of intrinsic reactivity should be, in principle, derived from chemical behaviour in a solvent-free environment. This statement is particularly relevant for reactions involving ionic species which are subject to strong electrostatic interactions with the solvent. 

More weight should be given to Gee s remark (62) — made already in 1946and repeated in 1966 — that many theoretical treatments of network behaviour ignore the problem of molecular packing. Any strain-dependence of the entropy reduction due to the packing, will lead to a correction in the stress.- This matter will be the main subject of the next section. 

The term interfering solutes has been coined to characterize this situation. The seemingly minor complication has serious consequences for the theoretical treatment and may be said to add a new dimension to chromatographic behavior. An examination of the effects caused by solute interference is the subject of the present communication. 

If the heat generation in an exothermic reaction exceeds the heat loss of the system a runaway reaction will occur. This runaway reaction is commonly called a thermal exptn, even though the manifestation of the runaway reaction can be a fire rather than an expin. Obviously the general subject of thermal expins is of great practical importance to expl safety and it also plays a very important role in the theoretical,treatment of the initiation behavior of expls... 

The chapter table of contents contains subjects that were either unknown or merely distant hopes a decade ago, such as persistent silylenes, the dissociation of disilenes to silylenes and terminal silylene-transition metal complexes. The kinetics and spectroscopy of silylenes and theoretical treatments of silylene structure and reactivity have made such gigantic strides in the intervening years that they represent new vistas in our understanding. 

When the number of torsional degrees of freedom is increased, the intramolecular motion in gaseous molecules is increased as well. At the same time the theoretical treatment of the motion becomes more complex, and the problems that the electron-diffraction method has to face are more difficult to handle. The molecules of this category that have been subject to quantitative conformational analysis by electron diffraction so far, are limited to cases with two or a few degrees of freedom, though qualitative observations about large amplitude motion have been made also for considerably larger molecules. 

The theoretical treatment of a solid-state transition involving covalent (localized) vs. conduction (delocalized) electronic transformation was first enunciated by Mott [44], By considering the Pauli Exclusion Principle and the electron-electron interaction during the transformation, it was shown that such transition will be critically dependent upon the inter-atomic distances. The number of electrons already existing in the conduction state will in turn influence the critical inter-atomic distances and the transition therefore, it is necessarily a cooperative phenomenon. Later, in a theoretical treatment of the same subject, but based on a different context, Goodenough [45] has shown that the transition is likely to be second-order if the number of electrons per like atom is non-integral. Further, a crystallographic distortion is a prominent manifestation of such a transition. 

The [C7H7Fe(CO)3] anion, with its eight ir electrons in the C7H7 ring was for many years the subject of numerous theoretical treatments and discussions. 

The behavior of pyridine, its i T-oxide, and its quaternary salts has been the subject of a number of recent theoretical treatments.1-4 The general conclusions will be summarized here to serve as a guideline on which to superimpose the effect of substituent groups. 

The first theoretical treatment of the subject was by Trinks in 1943/44 in a report submitted by the Research Department of the German Army Weapons Command. 

Spatially periodic models of suspensions (Adler and Brenner, 1985a,b Adler et al., 1985 Zuzovsky et al, 1983 Adler, 1984 Nunan and Keller, 1984) constitute an attractive subject for theoretical treatment since their geometrical simplicity permits rigorous analysis, even in highly concentrated systems. In particular, when a unit cell of the spatially periodic arrangement contains but a single particle, the underlying kinematical problems can be... 

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