A procedure for the preparation of peptizable pseudoboehmite has been described in detail based upon a process of neutralization of an aqueous aluminum sulfate or chloride solution with aqueous ammonia. In order to obtain peptizable pseudoboehmite products, carefully controlled conditions were required in the whole processes of neutralization, aging, washing, and drying. The optimum conditions experimentally found are the following. The aluminum salt solution is neutralized with aqueous ammonia until the final pH of the solution reaches 10.0 to 10.8 or 9.0 to 9.3 for the sulfate of chloride, respectively. The alumina gel formed is subjected to aging at $80^{\circ}C for about 3 hours and washed with water more than 5 times to reduce the residual sulfate or chloride ion in the final products to less than 4%. The pseudoboehmite gel thus obtained should be dried oven at 80 to $100^{\circ}C for a few to several hours depending on the selected temperatures.

Cholesteryl formate$(HCOOC_{27}H_{45})$ is monoclinic, space group $P2_1$ with a=15.757(1), b=6.073(1), c=13.592(2) ${\AA},{\beta}=94.1(1)^{\circ},Z=2.$ Intensities were measured, using an automatic diffractometer with graphite-monochromated $Cu-K{\alpha}$ radiation. The structure was solved by a direct method and refined by least-squares method. The final R factor was 0.087 for 1640 observed reflections. There are no unusual bond distances and angles. The molecules are arranged in antiparallel array forming monolayers of thickness $d_{100}=15.757{\AA}.$ Adjacent cholesteryl ring groups by the translation operation along the b axis.

A statistical mechanical approach to elucidate the solvent effects on the high polymer solutions has been carried out on the basis of the simple model of liquids improved by Pak. In our works, the partition function of the polymer solutions is formulated by the lattice model and our simple treatment of liquid structures. For the ideal polymer solutions proposed by Flory, thermodynamic functions of the polymer solutions are obtained and equations of mixing properties and partial molar quantities are derived from the presented partition function of the polymer solutions. Partial molar quantities are calculated for the rubber solutions in carbon disulfide, benzene and carbon tetrachloride. Comparisons have been made between our equations and those of Flory's original paper for partial molar properties of the rubber-benzene system. Comparing the experimental data of the osmotic pressure of polystyrene-cyclohexane system with our calculated values and those of Flory's, our values fit to the agreeable degrees better than those of Flory's.

Perovskite type oxides of $SrTiO_3,SrZrO_3,and\;SrTi_{1-x}Zr_xO_3$ have been systematically synthesized at $1250^{\circ}C$and $1550^{\circ}C$ with specimens containing additions of up to x=0.9 of zirconium by solid state reactions and characterized by X-ray diffraction. X-ray diffraction studies showed that the compound $SrTi_{1-x}Zr_xO_3$ has cubic structure. The lattice paramters of $SrTi_{1-x}Zr_xO_3$ solid solutions obey the Vegard's law and fairly large increase in volume can acompany the formation of this solution with increasing Zr content(X). Assuming the lattice constants of perovskite type compounds $A(B_{1-x}B'_x)O_3$where $B_{1-x}B'_x$ is $Ti_{1-x}Zr_x$, to be a linear function of the ionic radii of B and B' ions, the disordered ion pair of $Ti^{4+}$and $Zr^{4+}$ was verified from the lattice constants of a series compounds varying x=0,0.05, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.9, and 1.0 with known isovalent pairs.

The compound 1,1,3,4-tetramethyl-1-sila-3-cyclopentene was obtained through the reaction of 2,3-dimethylbutadiene and dichlorodimethyl-silane in THF in the presence of sodium metal. After the bromination of this compound at $0^{\circ}C$ for 2 hrs and dehydrobromination by using a base, we prepared 1.1.3.4-tetramethyl-1-sila-2,4-cyclopentadiene, Which could undergo dimerization. The identification has been done by using $^1H-,^{13}C-$ and C/H-Correlation two dimensional nmr spectroscopies.

1-[Ethyl (E)-5,6-dideoxy-2,3-O-isopropylidene-$\beta$-D-ribo-hept-5-enofuranosyluronate] uracil(12) was synthesized. Other various heptofuranose uncleosides were also synthesized from uridine and adenosine by two-carbon chain extension using Witting reaction.

Carbon-13 nuclear spin-lattice relaxation times have been measured over the range of temperature from 213K to 353K for carbons in n-heptane in neat liquid. The experimental data have been analyzed to obtain informations of segmental motions in the chain polymers by employing a model which describes jumps between several discrete states with different lifetimes. The overall reorientation of the molecule is assumed to be isotropic rotational diffusion. From the above analysis the activation energies of each C-C bond reorientation as well as the overall reorientation have been obtained through the Arrhenius-type temperature dependence.

Thianthrene cation radical perchlorate (1) reacted with azo-bis-2-phenoxy-2-propane (6) to give thianthrene (2), cisthianthrene-5,10-dioxide, 5-(p-hydroxyphenyl) thianthrenium perchlorate (10), acetone, phenol, and 5-(2-propenyl) thianthrenium perchlorate (11) when the mole trtio of 1 to 6 was 1:1. Among the products, 11 was a new compound. However, when the corresponding mole ratio was 5:1, 11 was not formed. Similar result was obtained for azo-bis-2-(p-nitrophenoxy)-2-propane.

The hydrogen atom transfer reaction between substituted methane, $CH_3X,$ and its radical, $CH_2X(X=H,F,CH_3,CN,OH\;and\;NH_2$ was studied by MINDO/3 method. The transition state(TS) structure and energy barriers were determined and variation of the transition state and of the reactivity due to the change of X were analyzed based on the potential energy surface characteristics. It was found that the greater the radical stabilization energy. the looser the TS becomes; the TS occurs at about 15% stretch of the C-H bond, which becomes longer as the radical stabilization energy of $CH_2X$ increasers. The intrinsic barrier, ${\Delta}E*_{x.x},$ of the reaction with X was found to increase in the order $H The degree of bond stretch of the C-H bond stretch of the C-H bond at the TS also had the same order indicating that the homolytic bond cleavage of the C-H bond is rate-determining. Orbital interactions at the TS between LUMO of the fragment $C{\ldots}H{\ldots}C$ and the symmetry adapted pair of nonbonding, $n{\pm}(=n_1{\pm}n_2),$ or pi orbitals of the two X atoms were shown to be the dominant contribution in determining tightness or looseness of the TS. The Marcus equation was shown to apply to the MINDO/3 barriers and energy changes of the reaction.

The reactions of (E)-1-hexenylboronic acid (1) or (E)-${\beta}$-phenylethenylboronic acid (2) with various olefins in acetonitrile at room temperature in the presence of lithium palladium chloride and triethylamine gave the corresponding (E, E)-conjugated dienes stereospecifically in good yields. (E)-${\beta}$-Phenylethenylboronic acid (2) was more reactive than (E)-1-hexenylboronic acid (1) in these vinylations. And these vinylations were also carried out catalytically when 10 mol % of lithium palladium chloride and cupric chloride, as the reoxidant of palladium, or 10 mol % of palladium acetate and mercuric acetate were added instead of stoichiometric amount of lithium palladium chloride.

A new flexible quadridentate ligand, N,N'-dimethylethylenediamine-N,N'-di-${\alpha}$-propionic acid (dmedpa) has been synthesized, and diammine and ethylenediamine cobalt(III) complexes of dmedpa, $[Co(dmedpa)(NH_3)_2]^+$ and $[Co(dmedpa(en)]^+,$ have been prepared. Only s-cis isomer has been yielede. A known N,N'-dimethylethylediamine-N,N'-diacetic acid (dmedda) has also been prepared. Dichloro cobalt(III) complexes of both dmedda and dmedpa have been prepared. Only the s-cis isomer has been yielded in the $[Co(dmedda)Cl_2]^-$ complex, while only the uns-cis isomer has been obtained for the $[Co(dmedpa)Cl_2]^-$ complex.