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    Thermodynamics of complexation of cadmium(II) by open-chain N-donor ligands in dimethyl sulfoxide solution

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    Thermodynamic parameters for the complexation of Cd-II by the amines n-butylamine (n-but), ethylenediamine (en), N,N'-dimethylethylenediamine (dmen), N,N,N'-trimethylethylenediamine (trmen), N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine (tmen), diethylenetriamine (dien), N,N"-dimethyldiethylenetriamine (dmdien), and N,N,N',N",N"-pentamethyldiethylenetriamine (pmdien) have been determined in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solution by potentiometric and calorimetric techniques at 298 K and 0.1 mol dm(-3) ionic strength (NEt4ClO4). Only mononuclear complexes are formed, in which the polyamines act predominantly as chelating agents. All the complexes are enthalpy-stabilized, whereas the entropy changes counteract the complexation. The steric requirements of the donors have a strong influence on the stoichiometry and nature of the Cd-II complexes formed. Comparisons are made with data reported for some of these systems in water and with available data on silver(I) complexation by the same amines in DMSO, the latter showing that the selectivity of the ligands towards metal ions is also influenced by N-alkylation

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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