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We explore a thermal separation technique for use with Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART). By applying gas temperature ramping, we are able to disburse a mixture of compounds in time. The three components were selected to create a challenging mixture that would not likely be discerned solely using exact mass capabilities. While the thermal separation technique is of low resolution, it preserves the inherent rapid, non-contact, ambient characteristics of the ion source.

Nerve agents VX and GB (sarin) are sequestered and removed by aluminium sulfate and sodium aluminate mixtures adjusted to pH 4 in solution. The products of hydrolysis are removed with the alum floc below NMR detection limits over time depending and the amount of aluminium molar excess relative to agent. Half-lives for GB decomposition are 3.1 h and 1.1 h, respectively, for a 120 and a 1200 molar excess. For VX, the half-lives are 8.5 d and 2.9 d for a 240 and a 5000 molar aluminium excess. In the case of GB, fluorine is sequestered as the hexafluoroaluminate ion. In the case of VX, no phosphorus containing hydrolysis products including the very toxic S-[2-(diisopropyl-amino)-ethyl]methylphosphonothiolate (EA-2192) are detected in the hydrolysate.

Schiff base boron and aluminium bromides have been used to cleave organophosphate nerve agents and pesticides and their simulants: salben(tBu)[BBr2]2 was very effective in cleaving the VX simulants EMPPT and DEPPT and nerve agent VX; salen(tBu)AlBr was effective in cleaving the nerve agents VX and Soman and the pesticideDiazinon.

The crystal structures of sodium 2-iodosyl-4-nitrobenzoate and sodium 2-iodyl-4-nitrobenzoate demonstrate a bicyclic structure for each, pKa, considerations indicate that the anions remain cyclized in solution. The crystal structure of 2-iodyl-5-methylbenzoic acid has also been obtained.

The 13C NMR, IR, and UV spectra of 3- and 4-iodobenzoic, 3- and 4-iodosylbenzoic, and 3- and 4-iodylbenzoic acids and their sodium salts have been measured and compared with those of the corresponding 2-isomers. Kinetic data for the catalytic microemulsion hydrolysis of 4-nitrophenyl diphenyl phosphonate in the presence of the iodosyl and iodyl compounds have been obtained. Catalytic efficiency of the 3- and 4-substituted isomers are measured to be three to six orders of magnitude less effective than the corresponding 2-substituted isomers. Possible structural configurations are suggested and discussed.

Silica-bound lodosobenzoate derivatives have been prepared and found to be phosphorolytically active against both p-nitrophenyldiphenyl phosphate and the nerve agent, soman.