Bound states of the Dirac equation with position-dependent mass for the Eckart potential

Studying with the asymptotic iteration method, we present approximate solutions of the Dirac equation for the Eckart potential in the case of position-dependent mass. The centrifugal term is approximated by an exponential form, and the relativistic energy spectrum and the normalized eigenfunctions are obtained explicitly.     

Reactions of Substituted Indoles with 2,3-Dichloro-1,4-naphthoquinone and Electrochemical Properties of Some 2,3-Substituted 1,4-Naphthoquinones

Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry - The reactions of 2,3-dichloro-1,4-naphthoquinone with some indoles and thiols were investigated. The resulting nucleophilic substitution products were...     

An electrochemical chiral sensor based on electrochemically modified electrode for the enantioselective discrimination of D-/L-tryptophan

Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry - Chirality is a universal characteristic of natural systems and discrimination of enantiomers of a chiral molecule plays a major role particularly in...     

Biodegradation of Tetracycline Under Various Conditions and Effects on Microbial Community

Five hundred tons of antibiotics are consumed yearly in the world. In this study, the biodegradation characteristics of tetracycline (TET) under nitrate-reducing, sulfate-reducing, and methanogenic conditions were determined by batch tests. Also, effects of TET on mixed microbial cultures were revealed by microbiological analysis. In this scope, gas generation and composition, dissolved organic carbon, and electron acceptor concentrations were monitored during 120 days. Additionally, changes on quantities of specific microbial groups were determined by Q-PCR. TET showed non-biodegradable behavior under nitrate- and sulfate-reducing conditions, whereas slightly biodegradable behavior under methanogenic conditions approximately 46 % degradation. The effects of TET on the abundance of mixed culture varied according to taxonomic units. Sulfate-reducing bacteria were inhibited by TET, while archaeal, bacterial, and methanogenic populations were not affected significantly.     

The complex step approximation to the higher order Fréchet derivatives of a matrix function

Numerical Algorithms - The k th Fréchet derivative of a matrix function f is a multilinear operator from a cartesian product of k subsets of the space $\mathbb {C}^{n\times n}$ into itself. We...     

Studies on the stereoselective synthesis of C-allyl glycosides

An investigation was carried out to explore the use of sulfoxide donors as common precursors to stereoisomeric C-glycoconjugates of glycoprotein and glycolipid tumor antigens. A study focusing on the effects of reaction conditions and substrate structure on the stereoselectivity of allylation was carried out. Although conditions were realized to selectively afford alpha-allylation products in good to excellent yields, the search for conditions favoring beta-selectivity proved less successful.     

用光学频谱仪测量几种典型图像的频谱

利用空间频谱分析仪对不同光学图像进行频谱分析。     

Local relaxation of polymers in dense media: Cooperative kinematics theory and applications

Cooperative kinematics (CK) theory and its recent applications are presented. CK theory has been developed as an efficient approach for predicting the mechanism of segmental relaxation processes in bulk polymers. The theory aims at determining the most probable changes in atomic coordinates, occurring collectively in response to a given, external or localized, structural perturbation. The basic postulate is the minimization of the energy change involved in the overall conformational motion, which naturally yields the optimal pathway of cooperative relaxation. Attention has been confined here to the collective motions accompanying the rotational transitions of backbone bonds in polyethylene (PE) and polybutadiene (PB). The strong dependence of the mechanism of motions on the geometry of the repeat unit and on chain connectivity is emphasized. The differences in the types of correlated transitions operating in different structures, the effective conformational energy changes triggered by bond rotational jumps, and the correlation lengths for particular bond isomerizations are analyzed. The reorientations of C H bond vectors in cis- and trans-PB are also examined to explain the shorter correlation time of cis units, compared to trans, detected by NMR. A good agreement between various CK predictions and results from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is obtained. The fact that CK calculations are at least two orders of magnitude faster than MD simulations invites attention to the utility of the CK method as an efficient tool for elucidating the pathway of motion in complex systems.