Proton and alpha radioactivity of very neutron deficient Te,I, Xe and Cs isotopes,studied after electrostatic separation

In fusion reactions of⁵⁸Ni beams with⁵⁴Pe and⁵⁸Ni target nuclei neutron deficient evaporation residues have been produced and separated from the beam in an electrostatic deflector with large acceptance. The recoil nuclei were implanted and detected in an array of 100 PIN photodiodes, where also their particle decays were recorded. The assignment of the 0.81 MeV proton line to the decay of¹⁰⁹I could be experimentally proven by the observation, that it is followed by the 3.31 MeV alpha emission from¹⁰⁸Te. A proton decay from¹¹²Cs was not observed. The decay energies of a number of known emitters have been measured with better precision.Dedicated to Prof. Dr. P. Kienle on the occasion of his 60th birthday     

Bridging the Green Gap: Metal–Organic Framework Heteromultilayers Assembled from Porphyrinic Linkers Identified by Using Computational Screening

In organic photovoltaics, porphyrins (PPs) are among the most promising compounds owing to their large absorption cross-section, wide spectral range, and stability. Nevertheless, a precise adjustment of absorption band positions to reach a full coverage of the so-called green gap has not been achieved yet. We demonstrate that a tuning of the PP Q- and Soret bands can be carried out by using a computational approach for which substitution patterns are optimized in silico. The most promising candidate structures were then synthesized. The experimental UV/Vis data for the solvated compounds were in excellent agreement with the theoretical predictions. By attaching further functionalities, which allow the use of PP chromophores as linkers for the assembly of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), we were able to exploit packing effects resulting in pronounced redshifts, which allowed further optimization of the photophysical properties of PP assemblies. Finally, we use a layer-by-layer method to assemble the PP linkers into surface-mounted MOFs (SURMOFs), thus obtaining high optical quality, homogeneous and crystalline multilayer films. Experimental results are in full accord with the calculations, demonstrating the huge potential of computational screening methods in tailoring MOF and SURMOF photophysical properties.     

The Reactivity of Hexafluorothioacetone and Hexafluoroacetone versus Phosphites

Abstract

The dimer of hexafluorothioacetone reacted with various phosphites to form thiophosphates and bis(trifluoromethyl)methylenphosphoranes, being unstable in the case of (Me₃SiO) P(OMe)_3-n, (n=1?3), where phosphonates (Me₃SiO)_n-1(MeO)_3-nP(O)[C(CF₃)=CF₂] (n=1-3) and Me₃SiF were observed. In general, cyclic phosphites behaved similar to acyclic ones. The resulting bis(trifluoromethyl)methylenphosphoranes were thermally stable except compound A, because of a new intramolecular fluorine transfer to phosphorus forming fluorophosphorane B.