An efficient,regio- and stereoselective palladium-catalyzed route to tetrasubstituted olefins

An efficient, regio- and stereoselective palladium-catalyzed route to tetrasubstituted olefins has been developed, which involves the intermolecular coupling of an aryl iodide, an internal alkyne, and an arylboronic acid. The reaction involves cis-addition of the aryl group from the aryl halide to the less hindered or less electron-poor end of the alkyne, while the aryl group from the arylboronic acid adds to the other end. [reaction: see text]     

Synthesis of aryl ketones by the PD-catalyzed C-H activation of arenes and intermolecular carbopalladation of nitriles

The palladium-catalyzed reaction of simple arenes and nitriles provides good to excellent yields of aryl ketones or the corresponding hindered imines. The addition of a small amount of DMSO increases the yields dramatically. Both intermolecular and intramolecular examples of this process are successful. This novel chemistry is believed to involve palladium-catalyzed C-H activation, followed by carbopalladation of the nitrile.     

纳米荧光小球标记在蛋白质微阵列检测中的应用研究

研究了不经分离、一次性制备氨基化联吡啶钌掺杂的双层二氧化硅纳米小球的方法。实验证明该纳米小球尺寸均匀,光稳定性、水溶性好,分散稳定。通过简单的偶联反应后,它能有效的和蛋白质结合,结合后的蛋白能保持其生物活性。以此纳米荧光小球为标记物,应用于蛋白质微阵列的定量检测,结果发现其效果明显优于相同条件下以异硫氰酸荧光素(FITC)为标记物的定量结果,检出限可以达到3.5 mg/L。     

Visual Speech Recognition with Lightweight Psychologically Motivated Gabor Features

Extraction of relevant lip features is of continuing interest in the visual speech domain. Using end-to-end feature extraction can produce good results, but at the cost of the results being difficult for humans to comprehend and relate to. We present a new, lightweight feature extraction approach, motivated by human-centric glimpse-based psychological research into facial barcodes, and demonstrate that these simple, easy to extract 3D geometric features (produced using Gabor-based image patches), can successfully be used for speech recognition with LSTM-based machine learning. This approach can successfully extract low dimensionality lip parameters with a minimum of processing. One key difference between using these Gabor-based features and using other features such as traditional DCT, or the current fashion for CNN features is that these are human-centric features that can be visualised and analysed by humans. This means that it is easier to explain and visualise the results. They can also be used for reliable speech recognition, as demonstrated using the Grid corpus. Results for overlapping speakers using our lightweight system gave a recognition rate of over 82%, which compares well to less explainable features in the literature.     

Electrochemical aptamer sensor for highly sensitive detection of mercury ion with Au/Pt@carbon nanofiber‐modified electrode

In this paper, an electrochemical aptamer sensor was proposed for the highly sensitive detection of mercury ion (Hg²⁺). Carbon nanofiber (CNF) was prepared by electrospinning and high‐temperature carbonization, which was used for the loading of platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs) by the hydrothermal method. The Pt@CNF nanocomposite was modified on the surface of carbon ionic liquid electrode (CILE) to obtain Pt@CNF/CILE, which was further decorated by gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) through electrodeposition to get Au/Pt@CNF/CILE. Self‐assembling of the thiol‐based aptamer was further realized by the formation of Au‐S bond to get an electrochemical aptamer sensor (Aptamer/Au/Pt@CNF/CILE). Due to the specific binding of aptamer probe to Hg²⁺ with the formation of T‐Hg²⁺‐T structure, a highly sensitive quantitative detection of Hg²⁺ could be achieved by recording the changes of current signal after reacting with Hg²⁺ within the concentration range from 1.0 × 10^?15 mol/L to 1.0 × 10^?6 mol/L and the detection limit of 3.33 × 10^?16 mol/L (3σ). Real water samples were successfully analyzed by this method.     

Chain Extension of Polyamide 6 Using Bisoxazoline Coupling Agents

The chain extension behaviors of 2,2′-(1,3-phenylene)bis(2-oxazoline) (MPBO) and 2,2′-bis(2-oxazoline) (BOZ) were studied to evaluate the coupling effect on polyamide 6 (PA6) in a Haake Rheocord mixer and an extruder. The coupling results showed that there existed an optimal dosage of chain extender, lack of which caused deficiency of chain extension and excess of which led to more blocking reaction. The effect of chain extension with MPBO was shown to be inferior to BOZ. When the optimum amount of chain extenders was added in PA6, the intrinsic viscosity of the polyamide 6 increased from 1.632dl/g to 1.787dl/g(MPBO) and 2.031dl/g(BOZ), respectively. The reaction time decreased very fast with an increase in the temperature. The chain-extended products dissociated at high temperature; the degradation is suggested to proceed from the onset of the chain extension reaction, as do the coupling and blocking reactions. Furthermore, the effects of MPBO and BOZ on the thermal and mechanical properties of chain-extended PA6 were also investigated.     

NaCl、KCl和NaF晶体高压结构相变点的计算

 通过晶格动力学方法，计算了NaCl、KCl和NaF晶体的NaCl（BⅠ相）结构和CsCl（BⅡ相）结构的Gibbs函数，以及晶体的BⅠ相- BⅡ相变点。计算结果表明，次近邻离子对间存在较强的短程吸引作用，对上述晶体的高压结构相变起关键作用。利用刚离子模型算得的离子势，得到了较为满意的相变点。结果还表明，温度变化对相变点的影响很小。还从Gordon-Kim模型出发，对短程作用势的物理实质作了讨论。     

Synthesis of tetrasubstituted olefins by Pd-catalyzed addition of arylboronic acids to internal alkynes

[Reaction: see text] Tetrasubstituted olefins are readily prepared by the Pd-catalyzed cis addition of two aryl groups from an arylboronic acid to opposite ends of the triple bond of internal alkynes. The synthesis proceeds under very mild reaction conditions and tolerates a wide variety of functional groups, including alcohol, aldehyde, ester, TMS, and acetal groups.     

红外测温新技术

通过介绍红外辐射的一般性质和红外测温新技术说明黑体辐射定律的具体应用     

Direct Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis of Myoglobin with Ionic Liquid through Multilayers Film on Carbon Ionic Liquid Electrode

Multilayers of myoglobin (Mb) with ionic liquid 1‐ethyl‐3‐methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([EMIM]BF₄) was assembled on carbon ionic liquid electrode (CILE) based on the electrostatic attraction between the negatively charged Mb and the positively charged imidazolium ion of IL. The CILE was fabricated with 1‐ethyl‐3‐methylimidazolium ethylsulfate ([EMIM]EtOSO₃) as the modifier, which exhibited imidazolium ion on the electrode surface. Then Mb molecules were assembled on the surface of CILE step‐by‐step to get a {IL/Mb}_n multilayer film modified electrode. UV‐Vis adsorption and FT‐IR spectra indicated that Mb remained its native structure in the IL matrix. In deaerated phosphate buffer solution (pH 7.0) a pair of well‐defined quasi‐reversible redox peaks appeared with the apparent formal potential (E^0′) as ‐0.212 V (vs. SCE), which was the characteristic of Mb heme Fe(III)/Fe(II) redox couples. The results indicated that the direct electron transfer of Mb was realized on the modified electrode. The {IL/Mb}_n/CILE displayed excellent electrocatalytic ability to the trichloroacetic acid reduction in the concentration range from 2.0 to 22.0 mmol/L with the detection limit of 0.6 mmol/L (3σ). The proposed method provides a new platform to fabricate the third generation biosensor based on the self‐assembly of redox protein with ILs.