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Thermochimica Acta, 202 (1992) v—vi Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., Amsterdam CONTENTS Kinetic analysis of thermal decomposition reactions. Part VI. Thermal decomposition of man- ganese(II) acetate tetrahydrate nn Ca i a eee euedebeeaucebeubebeecs The thermal decomposition kinetics of CdCO, powder eo bebe a bebeeeks 17 Thermodynamics of molecular recognition of nitrogen heterocycles. Part 1. Interaction of imidazole and imidazolium cation with a-cyclodextrin and B-cyclodextrin M.V. Rekharsky, E.V. Nemykina, A.V. Eliseev and A.K. Yatsimirsky (Moscow, Russia) ... . 25 Formation of B’-sialon in the Al-SiO,—N, system P. Albano, A.N. Scian and E. Pereira (Buenos Aires, Argentina)..................04- 35 Thermal decomposition of vanadyl Schiff-base compounds H.L. David, M. Ionashiro, A.V. Benedetti (Araraquara, Brazil), J.R. Zamian and E.R. ee I e.g sc tgs a ae b RRS Oo ob ake Oe Cae oe Ae Oe 88 45 Prediction of ternary excess enthalpies using the PRSV and PRSV2 equations of state i sei Ge. Rk aU ie ole ek es pee bee ea be aa 51 Microcalorimetry study of seminiferous tubules in vitro C.-L. Xie, Z.-H. Song, S.-S. Ou, Y. Guo and C.-B. Tang (Wuhan, China)............... 65 The system YPO,—Na,PO,—Na,P,0, a eeeoe eee bh PE O Ca eee ee tne 71 Phase equilibria in the system YPO,—Mg(PO;), a eS poe CGE PCD REA dO Oba Uhre 8 77 Phase equilibria in the system Y,0,—K,PO,—-K,Y(PO,), I lg rales be Ee 2S os aes oii se dale ade MOE RECS 81 DSC study of 2-bromothiophene: a compound with three melting points A. Gonthier-Vassal, H. Szwarc (Orsay, France) and F. Romain (Thiais, France).......... 87 Effect of the anhydride structure on the curing kinetics and thermal stability of tetrafunctional epoxy resin S.R. Patel and R.G. Patel (Vallabh Vidyanagar, India).............. * oe ke eh eke a 97 Heat capacity and phase transitions of mixtures of neopentylglycol and pentaerythritol from 270 K to their melting points Z.Y. Zhang, M.L. Yang and H.P. Li (Xi'an, People’s Republic of China)............... 105 Determination of the standard enthalpy of formation of Cu,P by direct-combination drop calorimetry 3. Boone ead O.J. Risppe (Chicnee, TL, UGA) «0... ccc cece cece cbc ereweces secs 113 The ageing compensation effect in the thermal degradation of some electrical insulators P. Budrugeac and E. Segal (Bucharest, Romania) ...........0c. ee.e .ce.ce 0ne0ue s 121 Salt effects on the protonation of oxalate in aqueous NaCl, KCI and tetraethylammonium iodide solution at 5 < T < 50°C and 0 <7 <1 mol dm~? A. De Robertis, C. De Stefano (S. Agata di Messina, Italy), C. Rigano and S. Sammartano I ag i i eG ee Ba a ee i eae ee ee e's aut 133 Diffusional limitations on the kinetics of dehydration reactions of hydrated barium chloride J.A. Lumpkin and D.D. Perlmutter (Philadelphia, PA, USA) ...................245.- 151 The ion and thermal electron conventions applied to free energies of ionization and electron attachment P. Sharpe and D.E. Richardson (Gainesville, FL, USA) ..............0c. 2ee2 e0ee e 173 Thermogravimetric analysis of urea—formaldehyde polycondensates S. Zeman and L.A. Tokarova (Strazske, Czechoslovakia) ..............0e0eee eee0e s 181 Relationship between the Arrhenius parameters of the low-temperature thermolysis and the °C and '°N chemical shifts of nitramines ee es bebe sees ease eebehbus een ee ees 191 Determination of the relative oxidative stability of petroleum bitumens by thermogravimetry P.R. Herrington, G.F.A. Ball and J.E. Patrick (Lower Hutt, New Zealand) Low temperature calorimetric study of methyl acetate N. Okamoto, M. Oguni and H. Suga (Osaka, Japan) Calorimetric titration for coordination reactions of dibenzo-30-crown-10 with rare earth perchlo- rates in titrate of acetonitrile containing 0.5 vol.% water H.-G. Liu, D.-Q. Liu, J.-H. Zhang, B.-G. Jiang (Jinan Shandong, People’s Republic of China) and H.-K. Yan (Beijing, People’s Republic of China) Kinetic study of solid—plastic transitions. Part 1. Comparison of methods describing the transi- tion by differential scanning calorimetry N. Sbirrazzuoli, Y. Girault and L. Elegant (Nice, France) Thermodynamic characterization of the 9-aminoacridine intercalated into DNA Y. Baba, A. Kunihiro and A. Kagemoto (Osaka, Japan) Fullerene Cs, isomers: temperature-induced interchange of relative stabilities Z. Slanina, L. Adamowicz (Tucson, AZ, USA), D. Bakowies and W. Thiel (Wuppertal, Germany) Thermal investigation and stereochemical studies of some cyclic diamine complexes of nickel(ID), zinc(II) and cadmium(II) in the solid state S. Mitra and L.K. Singh (Imphal, India) Acid properties of silica and alumina surfaces as probed by thermogravimetry and differential scanning calorimetry of temperature-programmed desorption of pyridine H.M. Ismail, S.A.A. Mansour and M.I. Zaki (El-Minia, Egypt) Thermal decomposition of mixed crystals Ni,Mn,_,(C,0,4)3 -6H,0 J. Tépfer and J. Jung (Jena, Germany) Thermal studies on the chelation behaviour of biologically active 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde thiosemicarbazone (HNATS) towards bivalent metal ions: a potentiometric study Sahadev, R.K. Sharma and S.K. Sindhwani (Delhi, India) Note Study on the thermal decomposition of tetrahydrated ceric sulphate Y. Yang and R. Yang (Gansu, People’s Republic of China) Author Index Subject Index