Correction to: Effect of varying biogas mass flow rate on performance and emission characteristics of a diesel engine fuelled with blends of n‑butanol and diesel

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - In the original publication of the article, Figs. 6 and 7 were published incorrectly without test fuel D80/nb20+BG (0.5 kg/h).     

Studies on a new solid–liquid Cs separation using the ionic liquid extraction system in comparison with the conventional adsorption

The process characteristics of a new solid–liquid Cs⁺ separation from the radioactive liquid waste using a crown ether dicyclohexano-18-crown-6 as an extractant and an ionic liquid of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide were studied. The physicochemical properties of the precipitate containing Cs⁺ which is an solid–liquid extraction product were investigated to identify the solid–liquid phase separability and Cs⁺ loading. The Cs⁺ separation process performances were compared experimentally with those of the conventional adsorption system for pretreatment requirement and the amount of Cs⁺ waste. It was observed that the solid–liquid separation method using ILs has high Cs⁺ separation performance especially in the low Cs⁺ concentration.

     

Unified Noncrossing Multiple Quantile Regressions Tree

In this article, we consider the estimation problem of a tree model for multiple conditional quantile functions of the response. Using the generalized, unbiased interaction detection and estimation algorithm, the quantile regression tree (QRT) method has been developed to construct a tree model for an individual quantile function. However, QRT produces different tree models across quantile levels because it estimates several QRT models separately. Furthermore, the estimated quantile functions from QRT often cross each other and consequently violate the basic properties of quantiles. This undesirable phenomenon reduces prediction accuracy and makes it difficult to interpret the resulting tree models. To overcome such limitations, we propose the unified noncrossing multiple quantile regressions tree (UNQRT) method, which constructs a common tree structure across all interesting quantile levels for better data visualization and model interpretation. Furthermore, the UNQRT estimates noncrossing multiple quantile functions simultaneously by enforcing noncrossing constraints, resulting in the improvement of prediction accuracy. The numerical results are presented to demonstrate the competitive performance of the proposed UNQRT over QRT. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.     

Palladium‐catalyzed carbonylative cyclization of β‐bromo‐α,β‐unsaturated carboxylic acids with 2,2‐dimethylhydrazine leading to 1‐(dimethylamino)‐1H‐pyrrole‐2,5‐diones

β‐Bromo‐α,β‐unsaturated carboxylic acids are carbonylatively cyclized with 2,2‐dimethylhydrazine under carbon monoxide pressure in THF in the presence of a catalytic amount of a palladium catalyst along with a base to give 1‐(dimethylamino)‐1H‐pyrrole‐2,5‐diones. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A rapid,simple and reliable HPLC‐triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometer method for a simultaneous quantification of irinotecan and its active metabolite 7‐ethyl‐10‐hydroxycamptothecin (SN38) in mouse plasma

A simple, fast and reliable high‐performance liquid chromatography–triple quadrupole mass spectrometry method (HPLC‐MS/MS method) was developed, validated and used for the simultaneous quantification of irinotecan and 7‐ethyl‐10‐hydroxycamptothecin (SN38) in heparinized mouse plasma. Camptothecin was used as the internal standard. A single‐step protein precipitation without evaporation and reconstitution steps was adopted as sample processing method. Our bioanalytical method was validated in compliance with the guidelines from the European Medicines Agency. The lower limit of quantification for both irinotecan and SN38 was 5 ng/mL. The calibration curves for both analytes fitted to a 1/x² weighted linear regression model and ranged from 5 to 1000 ng/mL. The intra‐run and inter‐run precisions were within 8.6%, and the intra‐run and inter‐run accuracies were within 96.4?103.9%. Our validated bioanalytical method was successfully applied to the pharmacokinetic study in mice, in which 4 mg/kg irinotecan was intraperitoneally injected. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Asymmetric Synthesis of Cα-Substituted Prolines through Curtin–Hammett-Controlled Diastereoselective N-Alkylation

Asymmetric synthesis of α-substituted proline derivatives has been accomplished by an efficient chirality-transfer method. High diastereoselectivity of the N-alkylation of the proline ester (C→N chirality transfer) was achieved when a 2,3-disubstituted benzyl group was used as the N-substituent. DFT calculations provided a mechanistic rationale for the high degree of stereoselectivity. The generated N-chirality of the quaternary ammonium salt was transferred back to the α-carbon through a stereoselective [2,3]-Stevens rearrangement (N→C chirality transfer) to give α-substituted proline ester.     

Palladium‐catalyzed carbonylative cyclization of 1‐bromoallyl bromides with anilines leading to 1‐aryl‐1H‐pyrrol‐2(5H)‐ones

1‐Bromoallyl bromides are carbonylatively cyclized with anilines under carbon monoxide pressure in DMF in the presence of a catalytic amount of a palladium catalyst along with a base to give the corresponding 1‐aryl‐1H‐pyrrol‐2(5H)‐ones in moderate to good yield. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Approximation of common solutions of variational inequalities via strict pseudocontractions

In this paper, a convex feasibility problem is considered. We construct an iterative method to approximate a common element of the solution set of classical variational inequalities and of the fixed point set of a strict pseudocontraction. Strong convergence theorems for the common element are established in the framework of Hilbert spaces.