Imperial Chemical Industries

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Note on a Method for Calculating Corrected Sums of Squares and Products

Abstract: (1962). Note on a Method for Calculating Corrected Sums of Squares and Products. Technometrics: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 419-420.

The biological properties of the optical isomers of propranolol and their effects on cardiac arrhythmias

Abstract: 1. The optical isomers of propranolol have been compared for their β-blocking and antiarrhythmic activities. 2. In blocking the positive inotropic and chronotropic responses to isoprenaline, (+)-propranolol had less than one hundredth the potency of (-)-propranolol. At dose levels of (+)-propranolol which attenuated the responses to isoprenaline, there was a significant prolongation of the PR interval of the electrocardiogram. 3. The metabolic responses to isoprenaline in dogs (an increase in circulating glucose, lactate and free fatty acids) were all blocked by (-)-propranolol. (+)-Propranolol had no effect on fatty acid mobilization but significantly reduced the increments in both lactate and glucose. 4. Both isomers of propranolol possessed similar depressant potency on isolated atrial muscle taken from guinea-pigs. 5. The isomers of propranolol exhibited similar local anaesthetic potencies on an isolated frog nerve preparation at a level approximately three times that of procaine. The racemic compound was significantly less potent than either isomer. 6. Both isomers of propranolol were capable of preventing adrenaline-induced cardiac arrhythmias in cats anaesthetized with halothane, but the mean dose of (-)-propranolol was 0.09±0.02 mg/kg whereas that of (+)-propranolol was 4.2±1.2 mg/kg. At the effective dose level of (+)-propranolol there was a significant prolongation of the PR interval of the electrocardiogram. Blockade of arrhythmias with both isomers was surmountable by increasing the dose of adrenaline. 7. Both isomers of propranolol were also capable of reversing ventricular tachycardia caused by ouabain in anaesthetized cats and dogs. The dose of (-)-propranolol was significantly smaller than that of (+)-propranolol in both species but much higher than that required to produce evidence of β-blockade. 8. The implications of these results are discussed.

Evolutionary Operation: a Method for Increasing Industrial Productivity

Abstract: : The book is about the philosophy and practice of evolutionary operation (EVOP), a simple but powerful statistical tool with wide application in industry. Experience has long shown that statistical methods, sometimes quite sophisticated in character, can be of great value in improving the efficiency of laboratory and pilot-plant investigations made by specially trained chemists and engineers. What originally motivated the introduction of EVOP, however, was the idea that the widespread and daily use of simple statistical design and analysis during routine production by process operatives themselves could reap rewards. (Author)

The crystal structure of polycaproamide: Nylon 6

Abstract: The crystal structure of nylon 6 (NH (CH2)5CO)p has been determined by interpretation of the x-ray diffraction patterns given by drawn, rolled fibers. The determination was part of a program to investigate the relation between structure and physical properties, in particular melting point. Nylon 6 melts 50°C. lower than its isomer nylon 66 (NH (CH2)6NH·CO (CH2)4CO)p; it had been suggested that this was due to deficient hydrogen-bond formation in nylon 6 crystallites. The unit cell contains eight chemical units (NH (CH2)5CO) and is monoclinic with a = 9.56 A., b = 17.24 A., c = 8.01 A., and β = 671/2°. Calculated density = 1.23. Observed density for a drawn monofilament = 1.16. The structure consists of planar chains of CH2 groups and amide groups tilted 7° from the (001) plane. Alternate chains in this plane are oppositely directed, an arrangement which allows all hydrogen bonds to be made perfectly. The hydrogen-bonded sheets of atoms are packed in an “up-and-down” staggered configuration along the c-axis. Distances between atoms in neighboring molecules are all normal van der Waals contact distances. It appears, from a general survey of polyamide melting points published elsewhere, that the determining factor is the number of CH2 groups between the amide “anchor points”—polymers with odd numbers of CH2 groups melt lower than those with even numbers. The present work shows that the odd number of CH2 groups in this polymer does not lead to deficient hydrogenbond formation, and that the lower melting point of nylon 6 as compared with nylon 66 must be ascribed to some other cause, possibly connected with the propagation of vibrations along odd-numbered chain segments.