Binary Dinitrogen Complexes of Rhodium, Rh(N2)n (where n = 1–4), in Low Temperature Matrices

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (20) ◽  
pp. 3332-3343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey A. Ozin ◽  
Anthony Vander Voet

The products of the cocondensation reactions of Rh atoms with N2 and N2/Ar mixtures at 10 °K are investigated by matrix isolation infrared spectroscopy and are shown to be binary dinitrogen complexes of the form Rh(N2)n. Examination of the reaction products in pure 14N2, 15N2, 14N2/15N2, and in dilute Ar/14N2, Ar/14N2/15N2, and Ar/14N2/14N15N/15N2 matrices establish the values of n to be 1–4. Isotopic frequencies are computed for the NN stretching modes of the individual dinitrogen complexes on the basis of the Cotton–Kraihanzel (C.K.) force field approximation and are found to be in close agreement with observed values. Trends in the best fit C.K. force constants for Rh(N2)n (n = 1–4) and the thermodynamic stabilities of the individual complexes as indicated by the function ΔHcn, a measure of the enthalpy of decomposition, are discussed. Comparisons are made between Ni(N2)n and Rh(N2)n (where n = 1–4). The structure of Rh(N2)4 in solid nitrogen is shown to be that of a distorted tetrahedron. Calculations show that a site symmetry of D2d for Rh(N2)4 satisfactorily accounts for all of the spectral lines observed for the complex in nitrogen. In solid argon, Rh(N2)4 appears to have an approximately regular tetrahedral structure. The relationship between RhN2 and N2 chemisorbed on Rh metal is discussed and compared with the analogous Ni–, Pd–, and Pt–nitrogen systems.

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (16) ◽  
pp. 2710-2721 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. P. Kündig ◽  
M. Moskovits ◽  
G. A. Ozin

The products of the cocondensation reactions of Pt atoms with N2 at 4.2–10 °K are investigated by matrix isolation infrared and Raman spectroscopy and are shown to be binary dinitrogen complexes of the form Pt(N2)n. Examination of the reaction products in pure 14N2, in 14N2/15N2, in dilute 14N2/Ar, in 14N2/15N2/Ar as well as 14N2/14N/15N/15N2/Ar matrices establishes the stoichiometries of the complexes to be n = 1–3. Structural assignments can be made for the complexes Pt(N2) and Pt(N2)3 which contain end-on bonded dinitrogen and are found to be similar to the corresponding dinitrogen and carbonyl complexes of nickel and palladium. Pt(N2)2 appears to be the exception in this series of complexes, for which side-on bonded dinitrogen is proposed.On the basis of the Cotton–Kraihanzel force field of approximation and the isotope intensity sum rules, isotopic frequencies are computed for the NN stretching modes of the individual complexes and isotopic absorption intensities for Pt(N2)3 and are found to be in close agreement with the observed values. In the case of Pt(N2), the scrambled 14N15N isotope data establish that the dinitrogen ligand is bonded to the Pt atom in an end-on fashion. On the basis of its unusual spectroscopic behavior Pt(N2)2 is proposed to have sideways bonded dinitrogen ligands. Pt(N2)3 in solid α-N2 is found to be slightly distorted from a regular triangular planar molecule but appears to be regular D3h in solid argon. Calculations show that a substitutional site symmetry of C2 for Pt(N2)3 satisfactorily accounts for all the spectral lines observed for the complex in nitrogen. Comparisons are made within the group of binary dinitrogen complexes M(N2)n where n = 1–3 and with the corresponding binary carbonyl complexes M(CO)n. The relationship between the dinitrogen complexes NiN2, PdN2, and PtN2 and nitrogen chemisorbed on those same metals is discussed.


Author(s):  
Brynne D. Ovalle ◽  
Rahul Chakraborty

This article has two purposes: (a) to examine the relationship between intercultural power relations and the widespread practice of accent discrimination and (b) to underscore the ramifications of accent discrimination both for the individual and for global society as a whole. First, authors review social theory regarding language and group identity construction, and then go on to integrate more current studies linking accent bias to sociocultural variables. Authors discuss three examples of intercultural accent discrimination in order to illustrate how this link manifests itself in the broader context of international relations (i.e., how accent discrimination is generated in situations of unequal power) and, using a review of current research, assess the consequences of accent discrimination for the individual. Finally, the article highlights the impact that linguistic discrimination is having on linguistic diversity globally, partially using data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and partially by offering a potential context for interpreting the emergence of practices that seek to reduce or modify speaker accents.


Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meshan Lehmann ◽  
Matthew R. Hilimire ◽  
Lawrence H. Yang ◽  
Bruce G. Link ◽  
Jordan E. DeVylder

Abstract. Background: Self-esteem is a major contributor to risk for repeated suicide attempts. Prior research has shown that awareness of stigma is associated with reduced self-esteem among people with mental illness. No prior studies have examined the association between self-esteem and stereotype awareness among individuals with past suicide attempts. Aims: To understand the relationship between stereotype awareness and self-esteem among young adults who have and have not attempted suicide. Method: Computerized surveys were administered to college students (N = 637). Linear regression analyses were used to test associations between self-esteem and stereotype awareness, attempt history, and their interaction. Results: There was a significant stereotype awareness by attempt interaction (β = –.74, p = .006) in the regression analysis. The interaction was explained by a stronger negative association between stereotype awareness and self-esteem among individuals with past suicide attempts (β = –.50, p = .013) compared with those without attempts (β = –.09, p = .037). Conclusion: Stigma is associated with lower self-esteem within this high-functioning sample of young adults with histories of suicide attempts. Alleviating the impact of stigma at the individual (clinical) or community (public health) levels may improve self-esteem among this high-risk population, which could potentially influence subsequent suicide risk.


Author(s):  
Emma Simone

Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world: A Heideggerian Study explores Woolf’s treatment of the relationship between self and world from a phenomenological-existential perspective. This study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. Drawing on Woolf’s novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual’s connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Emma Simone argues that at the heart of what it means to be an individual making his or her way in the world, the perspectives of Woolf and Heidegger are founded upon certain shared concerns, including the sustained critique of Cartesian dualism, particularly the resultant binary oppositions of subject and object, and self and Other; the understanding that the individual is a temporal being; an emphasis upon intersubjective relations insofar as Being-in-the-world is defined by Being-with-Others; and a consistent emphasis upon average everydayness as both determinative and representative of the individual’s relationship to and with the world.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Mackinnon

This article employs a new approach to studying internal colonialism in northern Scotland during the 18th and 19th centuries. A common approach to examining internal colonial situations within modern state territories is to compare characteristics of the internal colonial situation with attested attributes of external colonial relations. Although this article does not reject the comparative approach, it seeks to avoid criticisms that this approach can be misleading by demonstrating that promoters and managers of projects involving land use change, territorial dispossession and industrial development in the late modern Gàidhealtachd consistently conceived of their work as projects of colonization. It further argues that the new social, cultural and political structures these projects imposed on the area's indigenous population correspond to those found in other colonial situations, and that racist and racialist attitudes towards Gaels of the time are typical of those in colonial situations during the period. The article concludes that the late modern Gàidhealtachd has been a site of internal colonization where the relationship of domination between colonizer and colonized is complex, longstanding and occurring within the imperial state. In doing so it demonstrates that the history and present of the Gaels of Scotland belongs within the ambit of an emerging indigenous research paradigm.


2016 ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
P.N. Veropotvelyan ◽  
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I.S. Tsehmistrenko ◽  
N.P. Veropotvelyan ◽  
N.S. Rusak ◽  
...  

Was to conduct a systematic review of data on the relationship between polymorphisms genes of detoxification system and development of preeclampsia (РЕ). Рresents the main genes of detoxification system (GSTPI, GSTМI, GSTТI, GРХI, ЕРНХI, SOD-2, SOD-3, CYPIAL, MTHЕR, MTR) and their functions. Of interest is the possibility of calculating the individual risk of PE based on the results about the presence of a combination of different polymorphisms in the genotype of the female. Question about early diagnosis of РЕ remains controversial and not fully understood. It is necessary to conduct further in-depth, extended study of this problem. Key words: preeclampsia, oxidative stress, genes of the detoxification system.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Prevan Moodley ◽  
Francois Rabie

Many gay couples engage in nonmonogamous relationships. Ideas about nonmonogamy have historically been theorised as individual pathology and indicating relational distress. Unlike mixed-sex couples, boundaries for gay couples are often not determined by sexual exclusivity. These relationships are built along a continuum of open and closed, and sexual exclusivity agreements are not restricted to binaries, thus requiring innovation and re-evaluation. Three white South African gay couples were each jointly interviewed about their open relationship, specifically about how this is negotiated. In contrast to research that uses the individual to investigate this topic, this study recruited dyads. The couples recalled the initial endorsement of heteronormative romantic constructions, after which they shifted to psychological restructuring. The dyad, domesticated through the stock image of a white picket fence, moved to a renewed arrangement, protected by “rules” and imperatives. Abbreviated grounded theory strategies led to a core category, “co-creating porous boundaries”, and two themes. First, the couple jointly made heteronormative ideals porous and, second, they reconfigured the relationship through dyadic protection. The overall relationship ideology associated with the white picket fence remained intact despite the micro-innovations through which the original heteronormative patterning was reconfigured.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Gabriela E. Gui

In today’s America, not every child starts on a level playing field, and very few children move ahead based solely on hard work or talent. Generational poverty and a lack of cultural capital hold many students back, robbing them of the opportunity to move up professionally and socially. Children of immigrants are especially at-risk because, in addition to facing poverty, race, geographical location or economic disadvantages, they are also confronted with failure due to their limited or non-existent English proficiency. This study focuses on the degree to which teachers in a mid-sized urban school district take into consideration the individual needs of immigrant children in the process of their education. The study also examines the preparation teachers have had to equip them with knowledge of best practices in teaching immigrant children, and the relationship between teachers’ practices, beliefs, and their demographic and personal characteristics (age, gender, years of experience, level of education, etc.). Quantitative data was collected via a survey. Interviews with teachers and one central office administrator provided data for the qualitative section of the study. The findings revealed that teachers, in general, appeared to lack knowledge of specific policies for mainstreaming immigrant students into general education classrooms; their use of effective teaching practices for working with immigrant children were limited; and most of the teachers had not participated actively in professional development that focused on teaching immigrant children.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 126-130
Author(s):  
N. V. SHAMANIN ◽  

The article raises the issue of the relationship of parent-child relationships and professional preferences in pedagogical dynasties. Particular attention is paid to the role of the family in the professional development of the individual. It has been suggested that there is a relationship between parent-child relationships and professional preferences.


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