Revealing water's secrets: deuterium depleted water.

Background: The anomalous properties of water have been of great interest for generations of scientists. However the impact of small amount of deuterium content which is always present in water has never been explored before. For the first time the fundamental properties of deuterium depleted (light) water at 4°C and 20°C are here presented.

Theoretical analysis of physicochemical processes occurring during water treatment by ozone and ultraviolet radiation.

The paper presents a kinetic model developed for ozone dissolution in water and taking into account convective and diffusion processes occurring in the vicinity of floating bubbles that contain an ozone-air mixture. It was shown that the gradient of ozone concentration in a convective-diffusion layer and consequently the rate of ozone transfer from bubbles to the solution depended on the rate of ozone decomposition both in its reaction with organic admixtures and in the conditions of exposure to ultraviolet radiation. The obtained kinetic curves of destruction of organic compounds and changes of ozone concentration in water and ozone-air mixture are compared with experimental data for humic acids.

Isomerization of free base porphyrin. Theoretical study.

The photoinduced isomerization reaction of free base porphyrin molecule has been calculated using the DFT-B3LYP method combined with the 6-31G(d,p) basis set. To prove the accuracy of results, the 6-311G+(2p,2d) basis set was used. Two types of isomerization mechanisms were studied.