The wetting behavior of oil on water (or brine) has important consequences for the transport properties of oil in watercontaining porous reservoirs, and consequently for oil recovery. The equilibrium wetting behavior of model oils composed of pure alkanes or alkane mixtures on brine is reviewed in this paper. Intermediate between the partial wetting state, in which oil lenses coexist on water w...

• Broomcorn millet was grown under controlled condition. H/D fractionation during seeds n -alkanes and miliacin synthesis examined. Leaf water δ 2 H value is the primary driver of lipid values. Relative humidity could explain subtle differences in ε bio between -alkanes. Compound specific hydrogen isotopic analyses have potential to reveal biosynthetic pathways biomarkers reconstruct effects st...

the relationship between the randic , wiener, hosoya , balaban, schultz indices, harary numbers anddistance matrix to enthalpies of formation (airf), heat capacity, (cp) , enthalpies of combustion (ah °c ),enthalpy of vaporization (ah °vap) and normal boiling points (bpk)of c2 c10 normal alkanes isrepresented

We combine scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements with ab initio calculations to study the self-assembly of long chain alkanes and related alcohol and carboxylic acid molecules on graphite. For each system, we identify the optimum adsorption geometry and explain the energetic origin of the domain formation observed in the STM images. Our results for the hierarchy of adsorbate-adsorbat...

Radiocarbon ages of vascular plant wax-derived n-alkanes preserved in well-dated Holocene sediments in an anoxic fjord (Saanich Inlet, Canada) were found to be not only substantially older than the depositional age but increasingly so during the Holocene. Assuming that n-alkanes serve as a proxy for recalcitrant terrigenous organic matter, this indicates that the accumulation of refractory orga...

We report the results from Mayer-sampling Monte Carlo calculations of the virial coefficients of the united-atom TraPPE-UA model of normal alkanes. For alkane chain lengths from n=2 to 20 (where n is the number of carbon atoms), results are given for the virial coefficients B(2), B(3), and B(4); results for B(5) are given for chains up to length n=12; and results for B(6) are given for chains o...

New hexanuclear nickel(II) silsesquioxane [(PhSiO1.5)12(NiO)₆(NaCl)] (1) was synthesized as its dioxane-benzonitrile-water complex (PhSiO1,5)12(NiO)₆(NaCl)(C₄H₈O₂)13(PhCN)₂(H₂O)₂ and studied by X-ray and topological analysis. The compound exhibits cylinder-like type of molecular architecture and represents very rare case of polyhedral complexation of metallasilsesquioxane with benzonitrile. Com...

The osmium(VI) nitrido complex, [Os(VI)(N)(L)(CH3OH)](+) (1, L = N,N'-bis(salicylidene)-o-cyclohexyldiamine dianion) is an efficient catalyst for the oxidation of alkanes under ambient conditions using H2O2 as the oxidant. Alkanes are oxidized to the corresponding alcohols and ketones, with yields up to 75% and turnover numbers up to 2230. Experimental and computational studies are consistent w...