8631and the only candidate whose use is questionable, based upon this requirement, is the 16sHo-2,4,-hexanedionate complex.It was concluded that the solvent evaporation technique would be the most usefd method to produce nonporous retentive polyester spheres. Since an organic solvent such as chloroform is able to dissolve the polyesters, it is imperative that the Ln complex have adequate solubility in chloroform in order to be encapsulated in suitable amounts in the spheres. It is apparent that the CHC13 solubility of the ' 6 5 H~ complexes with acetylacetone and ethyl acetoacetate are sufficient for their intention. Although ethyl acetoacetate complexes Ho3+, its higher pK, allows a competing hydrolysis mechanism to occur which greatly reduces the maximum percent 1 6 5 H~ complexed. From these Observations, it is apparent that acetylacetone is the most effective complexing agent for 1 6 5 H~ for subsequent incorporation of the complex into PLA microspheres.
Acknowledgment.Infrared spectra ("CN stretch") of the thiocyanate ion of NaSCN in the solvents tetrahydrofuran (THF) and 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME) are attributed to contact ion pairs in equilibrium with dimer ion pairs (or quadrupoles). The thermodynamic dimerization constant Kdo is obtained from the spectral envelopes in two ways: (1) An apparent dimerization constant Kdapp (ignoring solvent-separated dimers) is calculated, and Kdo is obtained through extrapolation to zero electrolyte concentration, with activity coefficients yp = (&aw/Kdo)l/z calculated by theoretical equations expressing dipole-dipole interactions using a single adjustable parameter d, the dipole-dipole minimum approach distance. (2) A two-step Eigen dimerization scheme is also proposed, and Kdo = Kl( 1 + K2) is calculated from spectroscopically determined KI and K2 values, achieving fair agreement