Terry, I don't have enough data to make even an informed guess about other aromatics. Phenanthrene works for Mizuno, and there are several possible reasons for "why" it might work - given the hindsight to know that it does work - and also several reasons for why it might work *far* better with D2 than H2.
The kinetics of the hydrogen-deuterium exchange reactions is the angle I am going on now. Deuterium substitutes for hydrogen on both the #4 and #5 locations in the molecule and these two are poised to take up an inordinate amount of kinetic stress (tethered vibration) under UV irradiation and bounce towards each other often - such that any free electron - when it is able to get into that gap when two rapidly closing protons are vibrating - would then function as the Coulomb shield. This is where I need one of Roarty's fancy animations of jiggling deuterons drawing in a free electron, which might also be deflated. The site you gave, also mentioned absorbance at 290 nm was observed in Phenanthrene. This could be important. I have other references to ~290 nm being resonant for deuterium substitution. Deuterium substitution for hydrogen at an active location could be the key. Note how much better (at least in my minds-eye) a kinetic-enhanced impact fusion model would (probably) function in a magnetic field, where the benzene rings are held stationary. Otherwise the necessary alignment would almost never happen... in that a complex molecule can contort in so many ways, unless restrained. Just a wild guess. Jones -----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton Based on your conjecture, would you find chrysene or triphenylene an even better initiators? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clar's_rule#Aromaticity T Jones Beene wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Terry Blanton > > ... Although there *were* some penetrating aromas on those southern August > Sundays when the engineers were allow to work on the machinery ... > > Well, I'm sure those ramblin' wrecks were a head of their time, and > phenanthrene is found in cigarette smoke, and presumably other volatile tars > as well... but getting back to what makes it unusual, in regard to FRET - is > the photo-activity and fluorescence combined with the aromagnetism. Notice > the way the protons located on carbons 4 and 5 on the stick model here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenanthrene > > almost touch. That would possibly be the active site for some kind of LENR > effect. And the fact that the molecule can be aligned easily may shed some > light, so to speak on what Mizuno has discovered. > > Looking back in the archive, I see we did explore some facets of this, esp. > in re: Les Case. His effect was difficult to reproduce and it "could have" > related to whether phenanthrene was in the starting material or not. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg29270.html > > Jones > > > > >
