• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.52 no.2
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• pp.165-170
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• 2015

We employed the high-pressure high temperature (HPHT) process to enhance the colors of natural sapphires to obtain a vivid blue. First, we analyze the content of the coloring agent $Fe_2O_3$ using the wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WD-XRF) method. The HPHT procedure operates under 1 GPa at various temperatures of 1700, 1750, and $1800^{\circ}C$ for 5 minutes using a cubic press. We determine the color changes using the optical microscopic images, UV-VIS near-infrared (NIR) spectra, micro-Raman spectra, and Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectra for all sapphire samples before and after the treatment. The optical microscopic results indicate that the HPHT process can enhance the sapphire color to a vivid blue at temperatures above $1750^{\circ}C$. The UV-VIS-NIR spectra identify the color changes explicitly and quantitatively through providing the Lab color scales and color differences. Both results demonstrate that the colors of natural sapphires can be enhanced to a vivid blue using the HPHT process above $1750^{\circ}C$ under 1 GPa for 5 minutes.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.143-150
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• 1999

melatonin (MLT), N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine, is mainly secreted by the pineal gland. The ultraviolet (UV), infrared (IR) and 1H-NMR spectra of irradiated and non-irradiated MLT were measured, and phototoxicity tests of MLT, anthracence (positive control) and sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS, negative control) were performed. The methods employed include both in vitro test such as MTS assay using the human fibroblast cell and yeast growth inhibition assay using Candida albicans and in vivo method using the skin of guinea pig. UV absorption spectra and 1H-NMR spectra of MLT were changed by UVA (365 nm, 15 J/$\textrm{cm}^2$), but IR spectra of MLT were not changed. The fifty percent inhibitory concentration (IC50) ratio (UV-/UV+) of MLT was 10. The inhibition zone of irradiated-paper disks treated with MLT was not observed. According to the results of histophathological examination, no pathologic lesion was observed in the non-irradiated group, but slight degeneration of keratinocytes in the epidermis, homorrhage and vasodilation in dermis were observed in the irradiated group. These results indicated that the molecular structure of MLT is altered by UVA to unidentified photoproducts and a moderate phototoxicity of MLT is predicted.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.1323-1328
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• 2014

Molecular structures of the various conformational stereoisomers of 2,8,14,20-cyanophenyl pyrogallol[4]arenes 1 were optimized using the mPW1PW91 (hybrid Hartree-Fock density functional) calculation method. The total electronic and Gibbs free energies and the normal vibrational frequencies of the different structures from three major conformations (CHAIR, TABLE, and 1,2-Alternate) of the four stereoisomers [1(rccc), 1(rcct), 1(rctt), and 1(rtct)] were analyzed. The mPW1PW91/6-31G(d,p) calculations suggested that $1(rcct)_{1,2-A}$, 1(rctt)CHAIR, and $1(rtct)_{CHAIR}$ were the more stable conformations of the respective stereoisomers. Hydrogen bonding is the primary factor for the relative stabilities of the various conformational isomers, and maximizing the ${\pi}-{\pi}$ interaction between the cyanophenyl rings is the secondary factor. The calculated IR spectra of the more stable conformers [$1(rctt)_{CHAIR}$, $1(rcct)_{1,2-A}$, $1(rtct)_{CHAIR}$] were compared with the experimental IR spectrum of $1(rtct)_{CHAIR}$.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.55-60
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• 1992

Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora S. et. Z.) decayed by brown-rot fungi Tyromyces palustris and Gloeophyllum trabeum were subjected to X-ray diffraction analysis and infrared spectral examinations. Pine woods decayed by T. palustris showed the increase of relative crystallinity in the initial stage of degradation. When the weight loss was above 30%, then the crystallinity went down slowly. In contrast, the wood samples degraded by G. trabeum showed the decrease of crystallinity from the beginning stage of decay. The changes of crystallinity in brown-rotted woods suggested that the degradation rate of crystalline cellulose was varied with the brown rot fungal species. X-ray diffraction analyses also indicated that crystalline cellulose was much more slowly broken down than the amorphous one. The most notable difference in the IR spectra of the brown-rotted wood samples was that the adsorption band centered at 1,730$cm^{-1}$ was significantly diminished in the decayed wood. indicating the degradation of hemicellulose by brown-rot fungi. However, no marked changes of intensities at 1,000, 1,060 and 1,040$cm^{-1}$ were observed in the brown rotted wood samples, suggesting that crystal line cellulose was resistant against the attack by brown rot fungi.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.103-107
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• 2004

This paper was studied the properties of materials for treatment of anionic chromate$(CrO4^{-2})$ in industrial wastewater. Ion exchange fiber, poly(acryloamidino diethylene diamine) with ion exchange and adsorption was prepared PAN fiber and diethylenetriamine under $AlC1_3$ catalyst at $120^\circ{C}$ and was analyzed $^{{13}/C-NMR$}$ and FT-IR spectroscopy. The maximum adsorption and the coordination of chromate on chelating fiber were analyzed FT-IR spectra. We proposed the coordination structure with inter/intramolecular bond.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.78.2-78.2
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• 2016

There are many telluric absorption lines which are laid on the science spectrum in ground based spectroscopic observations. In especial, the IR region spectra are considerably contaminated by telluric lines. Therefore, many scientists have a difficulty in removing the telluric effect. We thus tried removing telluric lines with IGRINS data by two methods. One is using the standard stellar spectrum as telluric lines. The other adopt calculated synthetic telluric spectrum. Here we present the results of test for precise removing telluric lines on IGRINS spectra.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.39-51
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• 1989

The infrared and resonance Raman spectra are reported for nickel and zinc tetraphenylchlorins. It is found that the IR and RR spectra become more complicated compared with the corresponding porphyrin analogs due to the symmetry changes. Some vibrational parameters like the core size and the symmetry change are examined in accordance with vibrational spectra of other type of chlorins.

• Journal of Conservation Science
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.247-256
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• 2012

Amber has been used as gemstones and artifacts from the period of the Three Kingdoms or earlier, which are discovered in the process of excavation now. It is, however, very difficult to discuss the importing route and circulation of amber because there are no informations available on the provenance. In this study, we acquired the IR spectra of ambers originating from 5 different locations. We also monitored the change of characteristic IR peaks by artificially aging the ambers under heat, light and heat with oxygen, respectively. As the aging proceeded, the intensity of C=O band and O-H band increased, however, the bands related with C=C bond decreased. There needed some modifications in the discerning scheme because some peak disappeared with aging; yet, it was still possible to discern different ambers largely. Therefore, it is expected that the scheme can be used practically by appraising its applicability to the real amber relics excavated.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.461-465
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• 1990

Fermented soybean sauce was fractionated by gel filteration chromatography and the physico-chemical properties of each fraction were investigated for the study on the separation and characteristics of antioxidative substances in the soybean sauce. The brown coloured melanoidin fractions(MF-I) collected by Sephadex G-10 column were found to contain nitrogeneous compounds and to have strong antioxidative activity and reducing power. The freeze dried MF-I was further fractionated with Sephadex G-50 and G-100 successively and then MF-II and MF-III fractions were observed to be the most effective antioxidant and reducing power among the fractions. The UV-VIS and IR absorption spectra of the each fraction were also determined and discussed.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2008

This study was conducted to isolate polyacetylenes from the Acanthopanax senticosus and to identify the chemical structure of the polyacetylenes by UV, IR, $^1H$-NMR and $^{13}C$-NMR. One of the liposoluble materials was extracted with petroleum ether. Polyacetylene compounds were collected through solvent fractionation at silica gel column chromatograph. The HPLC was used for the semi-preparative separation IR spectra of fraction 5 showed triple bonds at $2256cm^{-1}$ and double bond at $1654cm^{-1}$, respectively, $^1H$-NMR spectra of Fraction 5 showed the double bond at 5.35-5.48 ppm. Triple bond at 64.0. 71.2, 74.2, 80.2 ppm and double bond at 121.89, 133.0 ppm were observed in the $^{13}C$-NMR spectra.