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I Felner

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The preparation of magnetic proteinaceous microspheres using the sonochemical method.

Using high-intensity ultrasound, we have developed a method for the synthesis of magnetic microspheres. The microspheres are composed of iron oxide-filled and coated globular bovine serum albumin (BSA). The magnetic microspheres are prepared from BSA and iron pentacarbonyl, or from BSA and iron acetate. Transmission electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy show spherical particles. The particle size distributions are gaussian, with a mean diameter of a few micrometers. Using chemical analysis, it was found that the total percentage of iron oxide in the microspheres is between 39% and 42%. Mössbauer measurements were also performed.

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Polynuclear chromium(III) carboxylates. 1. Synthesis, structure, and magnetic properties of an octanuclear complex with a ring structure.

A novel cyclic octanuclear chromium(III) complex with hydroxo and acetato bridging ligands was isolated and its structure determined by X-ray crystallography. The complex [Cr8(OH)12(OAc)12] (1) (OAc- = CH3CO2-), as found in crystals of 1.34H2O, is obtained by refluxing an aqueous solution of the trinuclear "basic" chromium acetate. 1.34H2O crystallizes in the tetragonal space group I42d with the following unit cell dimensions: a = 16.592(2) A, c = 31.557(4) A, V = 8687(1) A3, and Z = 2. A total of 2000 unique data with I > 3 sigma (I) were used to solve and refine the structure to R(Fo) = 0.066 and Rw(Fo) = 0.085. The structure consists of eight Cr(III) ions that form a ring structure and are bridged by hydroxo and acetato ligands. Each of the two neighboring metal atoms in 1 is bridged either by two OH- ligands and one OAc- ligand, with a Cr...Cr distance of 2.949(2) A, or by two OAc- ligands and one OH- ligand, with a Cr...Cr distance of 3.383(2) A in an alternating fashion. The complex resides on a crystallographic 4 center, and the overall symmetry of 1 is S4. The magnetic susceptibility of 1.34H2O was measured in the temperature range of 5-240 K. Our theoretical modeling of the susceptibility data indicates alternating antiferromagnetic exchange interactions between adjacent spin 3/2 Cr3+ ions around the ring, of magnitude J/kB = 13.7 and 8.9 K, respectively.

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