The absorption and fluorescence spectroscopic studies on the interaction between thionine (TH) and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) have been carried out. The absorption and fluorescence spectral changes of TH with the changes of concentration of SDS are interpreted in terms of i) the aggregation of TH-SDS complex, ii) the stacking process of dye molecules by the association of the TH-SDS complex, iii) breakdown of the stacking due to the formation of dye-rich induced micelles, iv) redistribution of dye molecules in the surface of SDS micelles.

Absorption spectra of thermochromic spiropyran and spirooxazine derivatives were investigated. The effects of solvent polarity on the absorption spectra indicate that the merocyanine-like form of non-substituted spiro compound is likely to the quinoid type. However, the merocyanine-like form of electron-withdrawing substituted spiro compound is likely to the zwitter-ion type. The enthalpy changes between the closed and merocyanine-like forms were measured. The enthalpy change of spiro compound decreases as the solvent polarity increases. The UV-Vis spectrum of merocyanine-like form was resolved into three Lorentzian-Gaussian product bands. The solvent dependence of the amount of the three band was also examined.

A series of samples of solid solutions in the system has been prepared at under an atmospheric air pressure. The structures of solid solutions are studied by X-ray diffraction, thermal, Mohr salt, and Mossbauer spectroscopic analyses. Their physical properties are also discussed with the electrical conductivities. X-ray diffraction data for the compositions of x = 0.00, 0.25, and 1.00 are assigned to the orthorhombic and the compositions of x = 0.50 and 0.75 to the cubic systems. The lattice volume reduced to cubic cell increases with the x value. The mole ratio of iometric chemical formulas of the system are formulated from the x, , and y values. The mixed valency state of Fe ions, the oxygen coordination, and covalent bond character are discussed with the Mossbauer spectroscopic data. The activation enegy of the electrical conductivities depends on the value in the temperature range of - to under the air pressure. The Mossbauer spectrum and electrical conductivity of the solid solutions are discussed with nonstoichiometric chemical compositions.

An indirect spectrophotometric method, presumably heretofore unmentioned, for the rapid determination of COD in the presence of chloride of high concentration is described. The alkaline sample is refluxed to react with a definite amount of permanganate, present in excess. A photometric measurement at 535 nm for the extent of the fading of the permanganate color after refluxing completes the procedure. The optimum conditions which give the absorbance-concentration plot the maximum linearity and slope in the range of 0∼5 ppm COD are as follows: reflux at for 10 min in the presence of 0.15 mM permanganate and 0.2% NaOH with a sample size of 5 ml. An overall running time was less than 15 min. The t-test reveals that the proposed method is not significantly different from the official method.

Kinetics of electrochemical polymerization of aniline on a tungsten electrode in acidic aqueous solution was studied by means of cyclic voltammetry and kinetic measurements of anodic oxidation. Aniline molecule appeared to be intially oxidized via two-electron transfer to produce oxidized deprotonated aniline ion, which subsequently undergoes nucleophilic attack to the parent aniline and results in head to tail coupling to yield a dimerized species. But, being contrary to the case of Pt electrode, the propagation of polymerization occured through attack of the monomer by the oxidized aniline monomer to polymer. The growth rate of polyaniline was slow in comparison with the growth on Pt electrode. The degradation products were confirmed to be not p-benzoquinone(BQ) but p-phenylenediamine(p-PDA) by spectrophotometry, which agrees with the fact that oxidation of p-PDA was not observed below 1.0 V.

A method has been investigated for the determination of Selenium in Ginseng radix, Ganoderma Lucidum and Garlic using hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (HG-AAS). The effects of several acids and sodium tetrahydroborate concentration and their flow rate on the determination of Selenium for the hydride generation were investigated. The method of sample decomposition was also investigated using various mineral acids, such as nitric, perchloric and sulfuric acid in the closed system and foreign ion effects were studied. In the optimum conditions, we obtained calibration curve in the range 0-40 ppb. The analytical data of Garlic, Ganoderma Lucidum and Ginseng radix are 289, 296, 198 ppb, respectively.

The solvent extraction of an inorganic trace mercury in sea water samples was studied using zinc diethyldithiocabamate as chelating agent. The which maintained the stability of DDC- in the acidic aqueous solution in the course of extraction was synthesized from NaDDC and in this laboratory. The trace of mercury(Ⅱ) was extracted at pH 3.0 from 100 ml of sea water into 10ml of chloroform containing 0.05 M by shaking for 5 minutes. And from the organic phase, the was back-extracted into 10ml of 1 to 1 mixed acid of each 3% (v/v) nitric acid and hydrochloric acid by shaking for 25 minutes. The mercury back-extracted was determined by a cold vapor atomic absorption spectrophotometry. The trace mercury(Ⅱ) was so successfully extracted that this procedure could be applied to its determination in the sea water. That is, the recoveries of mercury in two kinds of samples into which as given amount of Hg(Ⅱ) was spiked were 90.0% and 93.3%, respectively

6a-Hydroxy- and 6a-methoxy-derivatives (1∼6) of octahydro-2,3-dioxo-cyclopenta[b]-pyrrole-3a-carboxylate were synthesized from oxalylation of enamine A, which was prepared from condensation of five-membered cyclic -keto ester and phenylalkylamine, followed by addition of water or methanol. The formation of heterocyclic ring was assumed to occur by the way of unstable N-acyliminium (B). Stable adduct C (1∼6) was obtained from nucleophilic addition to the endo-ene type pyrrolinium B.

The Menschutkin type reactions of substituted (Z)-benzyl (X)-arenesulfonates with substituted(Y)-pyridines were studied by the electroconductometric method in acetonitrile at . Hammett values were calculated by the second order rate constants for the reaction of substituted (Z)-benzyl (X)-arenesulfonates with substituted (Y)-pyridines. The negative values meant positive charge development on the nitrogen of pyridine at transition state owing to the charge development on the oxygen atom of benzenesulfonate. And the negative values meant positive charge development on the benzylic carbon. Application of the multi-Hammett interaction,││ > ││ > ││, the Menschutkin type reaction of substituted benzyl arenesulfonates with substituted pyridines was shown to be dissociative mechanism.