The elution behaviors of molybdate and tungstate through anion exchange column have been investigated in the various concentration of hydrochloric and perchloric acid. A discussion is made to evaluate the existing these equilibrium and constant according to acidity. In both acids of 0.01-2.0 M concentration range, the existing equilibrium for molybdate and its constant calculated at $20^{\circ}C$ is $10^{18.9}$ for $Mo_8O_2^{4-} + 20H^+ {\rightleftharpoons} 8MoO_2^{2+} + 10H_2O$. In the 3-3.5 M hydrochloric acid it is 0.16 for $MoO_2Cl_2 + Cl^- {\rightleftharpoons} MoO_2Cl^{3-}$ and for the case of tungstate, in the both acids of 0.01-1.0 M concentration range $10^{6.6}$ for $W_{12}O_{39}^{6-} + 6H^+ {\rightleftharpoons} 12WO_3{\cdot}3H_2O$. In higher concentration than 1.0 M both acids the following equilibrium seems to be existed. $12WO_3{\cdot}3H_2O {\rightleftharpoons} 12WO_3 + 3H_2O$

For solvolyses of benzenesulfonylchlorides we determined transfer enthalpies of transition states, and solvent (TFE + EtOH) and substituent effects on rates. We have used the More O'Ferrall plots to show that transition states variation caused by solvent and substituent changes is consistent with an associative $S_N2$ mechanism for the nucleophilic substitution reaction of benzenesulfonylchlorides.

CNDO/2 calculation was carried out on hexafluorocyclopropane, tetrafluorocyclopropene, 1,2-dichlorodifluorocyclopropene and 1-lithio-2-chlorodifluorocyclopropene. A partial geometry optimization was carried out on 1-lithio-2-chlorodifluorocyclopropene.

A new approach in calculating the dipole moments for transition metal complexes has been proposed and the calculated results are tabulated with the experimental values. The calculated dipole moments are applied to the theoretical prediction or confirmation of the geometric structure for the transition metal complexes.

In this paper a further generalization of the theory of multilayer physical adsorption previously developed by the authors is attempted so that the effect of vertical interactions between adsorbent and adsorbate can be explicitly taken into account. In this attempt we have to discard the previously adopted assumption that the molecules in the second layer or above are all in the same physical state. In order to estimate the effect of vertical interactions on the adsorption isotherm the interaction energy between an adsorbed molecule and the adsorbent surface is assumd to vary as $r^{-3}$ where r is the distance that the molecule under consideration is separated from the adsorbent surface. Resulting adsorption isotherm is applied to interpret the adsorption data of tetramethylsilane vapor on iron film and good agreements between observed and calculated values are obtained over wide range of pressure.

The hypothesis that three classes of water exist in hydrogels, namely X water (free water-like), Z-water (bound water-like), and Y water (interfacial water-like), has been verified and generally accepted. To further check the validity of this hypothesis and to study the nature of X, Y, and Z water as conformation changes, several experiments have been done using Tactic Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (P-HEMA) gels. Thermal expansively data for tactic P-HEMA gel was obtained. In each case of isotactic and syndiotactic P-HEMA, the higher water content gels showed an extremely sharp volume change at $0^{\circ}C$, indicating the presence of normal free water-like. Lower water content gels showed no anomalous change in thermal expansion, indicating that the water is bound water-like. The medium water content gels exhibited intermediate behavior. These results were also confirmed by bulk gel conductivity measurments. The differential scanning calorimeter(DSC) experiment was simply introduced to further verify the bound water-like quantities which was obtained by the method of dilatometry and specific conductivity. Observing the amounts of X, Y, and Z water with the change of tacticity, the similar content of bound water-like may be due to the same primary structure of isotactic and syndiotactic polymer and the difference in free and interfacial water-like content may be due to the difference in secondary and tertiary structure of tactic polymer. Therefore, as the polymer conformation varies, the free and interfacial water-like content will be varied. In order to demonstrate these concepts, Russel et al.'s CPK space-filling molecular models of isotactic and syndiotactic P-HEMA was utilized.

The effects of cation on tRNA have been theoretically investigated using the semiempirical potential energy functions. The binding of $Mg^{2+}$ to the model compound and the hydration scheme of the anticodon loop have been determined, and their stabilization energies produced by the introduction of magnesium pentahydrate and water molecules in the first hydration shell were calculated. The results indicate that magnesium pentahydrate is important for decreasing the flexibility of the anticodon loop and satisfying the large Y37 stereochemically during the protein synthesis. The effects of $Mg^{2+}$ on the hydration scheme were also investigated.

Vacuum ultraviolet photolysis of ethyl bromide was studied at 104.8-106.7 nm (11.4-11.6 eV) in the pressure range of 0.2-18.6 torr at $25^{\circ}$ using an argon resonance lamp with and without additives, i.e., NO and He. Since the ionization potential of $CH_3CH_2Br$ is lower than the photon energy, the competitive processes between the photoionization and the photodecomposition were also investigated. The observations indicated that 50% of absorbed light leads to the former process and the rest to the latter one. In the absence of NO the principal reaction products for the latter process were found to be $CH_4, C_2H_2, C_2H_4, C_2H_6, and C_3H_8$. The product quantum yields of these reaction products showed two strikingly different phenomena with an increase in reactant pressure. The major products, $C_2H_4$ and $C_2H_6$, showed positive effects with pressure whereas the effects on minor products were negative in both cases, i.e., He and reactant pressures. Addition of NO completely suppresses the formation of all products except $C_2H_4$ and reduces the $C_2H_4$ quantum yield. These observations are interpreted in view of existence of two different electronically excited states. The initial formation of short-lived Rydberg transition state undergoes HBr molecular elimination and this state can across over by collisional induction to a second excited state which decomposes exclusively by carbon-bromine bond fission. The estimated lifetime of the initial excited state was ${\sim}4{\times}10^{-10}$ sec. The extinction coefficient for $CH_3CH_2Br$ at 104.8-106.7 nm and $25{\circ}$ was determined to be ${varepsilon} = (1/PL)ln(I_0/I_t) = 2061{\pm}160atm^{-1}cm6{-1}$ with 95% confidence level.