Color Conversion Method for Multiprimary Display Using Matrix Switching

The range of reproducible color, i.e., color gamut, of conventional three-primary display devices is sometimes insufficient for reproducing the natural color of an object through color imaging systems. A multiprimary display is being developed for the purpose of reproducing an expanded color gamut using more than three primary colors. In this paper, a color conversion method is proposed to reproduce the natural color by additive mixture of multiprimary colors. The multiprimary color signal in this conversion method is calculated from the three-dimensional color coordinates CIE-XYZ, considering the dynamic range of each primary color. Divided into some linear elements from the polyhedral color solid of the multiprimary display, the conversion considering the constraint of the dynamic range can be performed by simple calculation without iterative calculation or a huge three-dimensional look up table. A fast computation method with a two-dimensional look-up-table is also presented. Using the proposed method, the result of the color reproduction is experimentally demonstrated by a six-primary projection display.     

Random fields and quantum dynamics

We shall discuss quantum mechanical operators depending on the time or on the manifold in space. There is a similarity to the case of stochastic processes or random fields, where the innovation approach is one of the powerful tools to investigate their probabilistic structure. Having had some review of the innovation, similar attempt is made for some cases in quantum dynamics.     

Engineering the interface energetics of solar cells by grafting molecular properties onto semiconductors

The electronic properties of semiconductor surfaces can be controlled by binding tailor-made ligands to them. Here we demonstrate that deposition of a conducting phase on the treated surface enables control of the performance of the resulting device. We describe the characteristics of the free surface of single crystals and of polycrystalline thin films of semiconductors that serve as absorbers in thin film polycrystalline, heterojunction solar cells, and report first data for actual cell structures obtained by chemical bath deposition of CdS as the window semiconductor. The trend of the characteristics observed by systematically varying the ligands suggests changes in work function rather than in band bending at the free surface, and implies that changes in band line-up, which appear to cause changes in band bending, rather than direct, ligand-induced band bending changes, dominate.     

Synthesis of [6]helicene-based sulfonic acid,sulfonamide, and disulfonimides

The synthesis of helically chiral [6]helicene-based sulfonic acid and sulfonamide from enantiomerically pure 1-acetylthio-5,6,9,10-tetrahydro[6]helicene is reported. The first helically chiral disulfonimides were developed as a synthetic application of [6]helicene-based sulfonamide. This new class of organocatalysts was tested in an asymmetric Mukaiyama aldol reaction to obtain up to quantitative yields and enantioselectivities up to 24%.     

Bemerkungen über Thermochromie von Kobalt(II) chloridlösungen in organischen Medien, 1. Mitt.: Lösungen in verschiedenen Alkoholen

The thermochromism of solutions of cobalt(II) chloride in methanol, ethanol, n- and iso-propyl, n-, iso- and sec. butyl alcohol was studied spectrophotometrically. The blue color of these solutions fades with decreasing temperature, solutions in primary alcohols being especially variable, becoming pink at sufficiently low temperature. Solutions in secondary alcohols are, on the other hand, much less variable. The thermochromism can be ascribed, in general, to the shift of the equilibrium $$[CoL_2 Cl_2 ] + (3 - 4) L\begin{array}{*{20}c} \to \\ \leftarrow \\ \end{array} ([CoL_5 Cl]^ + or [CoL_6 ]^{2 + } ) + (1 - 2) Cl^ - $$ (L: solvent molecule). In the case of methanol, however, the two equilibria $$[CoLCl_3 ]^ - + 4 L \begin{array}{*{20}c} \to \\ \leftarrow \\ \end{array} [CoL_5 Cl]^ + + 2 Cl^ - $$ and $$[CoL_5 Cl]^ + + L\begin{array}{*{20}c} \to \\ \leftarrow \\ \end{array} [CoL_6 ]^{2 + } ) + Cl^ - $$ seem to be shifted one after another. The significance of the difference between primary and secondary alcohols is briefly discussed in connection with some related effects, i.e. the pressure effect studied byKitamura andOsugi ⁷ and the water effect found byKato et al.¹⁰.     

Preparation and characterization of highly dispersed V2O5/SiO2prepared by a CVD method

Highly dispersed V₂O₅/SiO₂(CVD catalyst) was prepared by the reaction of vaporized VO(OPrⁱ)₃ with silica at 293 K, whose process was followed by an IR technique. The rate of propylene photooxidation increased with an increase in V₂O₅ loading for CVD catalysts, but leveled off for impregnated ones. The CVD catalysts were characterized by XAFS and photoluminescence spectroscopy.     

Aurisides A and B, Cytotoxic Macrolide Glycosides from the Japanese Sea Hare Dolabella auricularia

Bioassay-guided fractionation of the cytotoxic constituents of the Japanese sea hare Dolabella auricularia led to the isolation of two novel cytotoxic compounds, aurisides A (1) and B (2). Their gross structures were established by spectroscopic analysis including the 2D NMR technique. On the basis of the NOESY spectral analysis and the degradation experiments, their absolute stereostructures were determined to be 14-membered macrolide glycosides that contain a bromine-substituted conjugated diene structure, a cyclic hemiacetal moiety, and a 2,4-di-O-methyl-L-rhamnopyranoside part. Aurisides A (1) and B (2) show cytotoxicity against HeLa S(3) cells with IC(50) values of 0.17 and 1.2 &mgr;g/mL, respectively.     

Formation of n-alkyl-n(1-hydroperoxyalkyl)nitrosamines from n-alkyl-n-(1-acetoxyalkyl)nitrosamines

N-alkyl-N-(1-hydroperoxyalkyl)nitrosamines were prepared by treatment of the corresponding 1-acetoxyalkyl nitrosamines with hydrogen peroxide in acetic acid through an acid-catalyzed nucleophilic substitution.     

Formal total synthesis of ottelione using iridium-catalyzed oxidative desymmetrization

A catalytic asymmetric synthesis of a key intermediate for ottelione has been achieved using oxidative desymmetrization as the critical step. This oxidative desymmetrization was efficiently promoted by an iridium diamine complex to give the desired hydroxy ketone in >99% ee and 60% yield.     

Study on liquid crystallinity in 2,9-dialkylpentacenes

A series of semiconducting and symmetrical 2,9-dialkylpentacenes was successfully synthesized via a five-step process and their structures confirmed by ¹H NMR, IR and elemental analyses. Their liquid crystallinity was investigated by differential scanning calorimetry and polarizing optical microscopy. The introduction of alkyl chains also improved their solubility. For alkyl chains longer than butyl, focal conic or baton texture was observed, indicating the existence of an ordered smectic phase. Thermal analyses revealed that the both melting and smectic-isotropic transition temperatures show an odd-even effect when the alkyl chain is larger than heptyl or octyl. The synthesized compounds are promising candidates for semiconductors in organic field-effect transistors because their liquid crystallinity allows easy molecular alignment in the device fabrication process.