Workers’ Opposition

Alexandra Kollontai, Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai, trans. Alix Holt (London Allison and Busby, 1977), p. 178. Kollontay s essay "The Workers Opposition, from which this quotation is taken, reprints a translation made in 1921 since the original Russian essay could not be found. 

The ideal exhaust opening is as close to the pollution source as possible. Howeveg it is important that the exhaust does not interfere with the operation or the process. Typically the exhaust is on the working table opposite the worker, or through a grill or perforated holes on the working table (see Fig. 10.88). 

Compatibility with Personnel Expectations Compatibility refers to the degree of similarity between the direction of physical movement of a control or an instrument indicator and the worker s expectations. Many errors are due to the fact that the operation of the controls or the layout of the displays is incompatible with population stereotypes. For instance, on a control panel it is customary to increase the value of a parameter by turning the appropriate switch clockwise and reduce its value by turning it coimterclockwise. (Note that this stereotype is the opposite for controls which control flow directly, e.g., valves.) If such a stereotype is violated, errors may occur. Although such errors may be recoverable in the short run, under the stress of a process transient they may lead to serious consequences. 

Kobayashi and co-workers reported similar enantioselectivity switch in the bi-nol-yterrbium(III) triflate complex-catalyzed cycloaddition reactions [69] between N-benzylidenebenzylamine N-oxide and 3-crotonoyl-2-oxazolidinone [70]. The reaction in the presence of MS 4 A showed an exclusively high enantioselectivity of 96% ee, while that in the absence of MS 4 A (-50% ee) or in the presence of pyridine N-oxide (-83% ee) had the opposite enantioselectivity (Scheme 7.24). This chirality switch happens generally for the combination of a wide variety of nitrones and dipolarophiles. 

Other workers do the opposite and add catalyst to the solvent (which again may be cooled) after first sweeping the flask with inert gas to remove air. It appears that if catalyst and solvent are mixed without removal of air (which is certainly not advised) fires are more likely to occur when catalyst is added to the solvent. Catalyst particles falling through organic vapor cannot be eflectively cooled and may enter the liquid glowing. On the other hand, when solvent is added rapidly to the catalyst, any tendency of the catalyst to heat is limited by quenching with a massive amount of liquid. 

In the approach of Dewar and co-workers (34), termed the half-electron method , a physical model is considered in which an unpaired electron is replaced by two hypothetical half-electrons of opposite spin. For radicals containing one unpaired electron, the eigenvalue problem of this method is, in our opinion, identical with the method of Longuet-Higgins and Pople (27) ... 

However, workers do not agree as to the shape of the c.d. spectrum for these sugars at shorter wavelengths, as Fig. 15 demonstrates. The correct spectrum still remains an open question, but the intense c.d. band expected at 190 nm for the amide mr c.d. bands are of opposite sign for the two anomers and nearly cancel in the equilibrium mixture. Thus, differences in the anomeric mixtures could explain differences in the c.d. spectra. The amide irir c.d. band is obvious for the anomeric mixture from 2-acetamido-... 

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