Solid-phase extraction in packed beds on glass microdevices.

This chapter provides a detailed description of a network of channels that includes a chamber for trapping beads in a microfluidic device. Instructions are included for the packing and use of the bead bed for solid-phase extraction (SPE). The SPE procedure may be used, e.

Reversible, room temperature bonding of glass devices for microfluidics.

This chapter describes a procedure for bonding glass microdevice substrates to their top plates by contact alone. This method results in devices that are robustly bonded but that can be separated, cleaned, and reused. For glass chips that have been used for applications involving the transport of hard particles, cells, or other biological material, reversible bonding provides a way of increasing the chip's lifetime and utility.

Computational and Spectroscopic Studies of Re(I) Bipyridyl Complexes Containing 2,6-Dimethylphenylisocyanide (CNx) Ligand.

Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations produce optimized geometries of the complexes [Re(CO)3(bpy)Cl] (1), [Re(CO)3(bpy)(py)](CF3SO3) (2), [Re(CO)3(bpy)(CNx)](CF3SO3) (3), and [Re(CO)(bpy)(CNx)3](CF3SO3) (4), where bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, py = pyridine, and CNx = 2,6-dimethylphenylisocyanide in their ground and lowest-lying triplet states. The ground-state optimized geometry for the cation of [Re(CO)3(bpy)(CNx)](CF3SO3) (3) results in a Re-C (CNx) bond length of 2.10 Å, a Re-C (CO) bond length trans to CNx of 2.

Synthesis, characterization, and photochemical and computational investigations of Ru(II) heterocyclic complexes containing 2,6-dimethylphenylisocyanide (CNx) ligand.

The isocyanide ligand forms complexes with ruthenium(II) bis-bipyridine of the type [Ru(bpy)(2)(CNx)Cl](CF(3)SO(3)) (1), [Ru(bpy)(2)(CNx)(py)](PF(6))(2) (2), and [Ru(bpy)(2)(CNx)(2)](PF(6))(2) (3) (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, py = pyridine, and CNx = 2,6-dimethylphenylisocyanide). The redox potentials shift positively as the number of CNx ligands increases. The metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) bands of the complexes are located at higher energy than 450 nm and blue shift in proportion to the number of CNx ligands.