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The Chemical Educator
ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 8
Issue 3 (2003) pp 199-200
A Heated Cuvette Holder for Fiber-Optic Ultraviolet–Visible Spectrophotometers
Gary W. Breton,* Dwight Kinzer, and John H. Shugart
Berry College, P.O. Box 495016, Mount Berry, GA 30149–5016, gbreton@berry.edu
Received February 10, 2003. Accepted March 30, 2003
Published online: 25 April 2003
Abstract. The design and construction of a novel heated cuvette holder for fiber optic UV–vis spectrophotometers is described. The cuvette holder is especially useful for determining the kinetics of reactions at temperatures greater than 100 °C. Kinetics for the Diels–Alder reaction of tetraphenylcyclopentadienone with diphenylacetylene are investigated at several temperatures as an illustration of the benefits of the new system.
Key Words: Laboratories and Demonstrations; physical chemistry; instrumental analysis; kinetics
(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: gbreton@berry.edu)
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Complete schematic drawings for the heated cuvette holder, additional pictures of the cuvette holder, and experimental details for the Diels-Alder reaction are included in a Zip file (766 KB). 10.1007/s00897030684aSupporting Materials:
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Issue date: June
1, 2003
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