A detailed understanding of the methanol electrooxidation reaction mechanism is important for further development fuel cells. By modeling on Au(111) using density funct...

We study steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence of 5-cyano-2-naphthol in various pure solvents. To some of these, excited-state proton transfer occurs within the excited-state lifetime of the chromophore. Solvatochromic shifts in the acid and anion bands are analyzed using the empirical Kamlet-Taft approach. The hydrogen-bond donated from the OH group to basic solvents accounts for most of...

Monomer nucleosomes (nu 1) from chicken erythrocyte nuclei were examined in aqueous buffers (8 greater than pH greater than 3) and in solvent mixtures (i.e., water and ethanol, ethylene glycol, dioxane, dimethyl sulfoxide, 2-methyl-2,4-pentanediol, polyethylene glycol, sucrose, or urea). Circular dichroism, laser Raman spectroscopy of nu 1, and the fluorescence of nu 1 labeled with N-(3-pyrene)...