This thesis will explore and study rhodium, a group VIII element that has rarely been studied.

The procedure of Takimoto, Denault, and Hotta was followed in order to prepare 4-amino-3-hydrazino-5-methyl-s-triazole hydrochloride (II) and its precursor, triamino-guanidine hydrochloride (I).

The primary objective of this work was to prepare dichloroketene.

This thesis contains the exploration and investigation of self-diffusion of Na-22 in Molten PbCl2-NaCl mixtures.

This thesis is concerned with the thermal decomposition of a series of alkyllithium compounds in the pure state in an attempt to determine the relative stability of alkyllithium compounds and to examine the mechanism of the elimination reaction.

The purpose of this investigation is two-fold. Some new complex compounds, where one of the bidentate molecules is an optically active amino acid, were prepared, and attempts to separate those complex isomers by different methods were made. The replacement of the amino acids by optically inactive ligands was studied.

Gases at satisfactory pressures fluoresce in the presence of radio frequency radiation (6). Such fluorescent gases have been used to probe fields of radio frequency oscillation and their emission spectra have been recorded and studied. Ions with multiple charges also exist in these gases, (6). In 1941 Oliver (12) observed the fluorescence of an isobutane- isobutene gaseous mix flowing to a pump through a glass tube which was wrapped by a spiral antenna of a sevenmegacycle transmitter. A white deposit was noticed at a bend in the tubing on the pump side of the fluorescing section of the gas (12, p. 8). In 1957 Blacknall (3) studied the fluorescence and reaction products of propylene in the antenna region of sevenmega- cycle radiation, The oscillator employed by Blacknall was an ARC-5/T-22 military surplus transmitter of range 7.00 to 9.10 megacycles, which he operated at 7.00 megacycles. Blacknall observed a drop in pressure and the formation of a brown deposit in the region of the coil. Blacknall did not report an analysis of this product. In 1959 Armstrong (1) repeated Blacknall's experiments and modified Blacknall's apparatus into an improved design. He also performed an analysis on Blacknall's product. Blacknall used a vertical …