A new approach to the synthesis of 3-amino- and 3-benzoylamino-5-aminoalkyl-1,2,4-triazoles

Nickel(II) acetylacetonate for the first time was shown to efficiently catalyze the addition of Boc-protected amino acid hydrazides to the nitrile group of benzoylcyanamide with the formation of the corresponding 3-benzoylamino-substituted 1,2,4-triazoles with the Boc-aminoalkyl group at position 5. A further modification of the latter led, depending on the conditions, to mono- or dihydrochlorides of 1,2,4-triazole-derived amines.     

A review of furfural derivatives as promising octane boosters

Prospects for using furfural derivatives as octane boosters for gasoline are discussed on the basis of analysis of their physicochemical and operation properties. Knock resistance data, toxicity parameters, and results of motor bench tests are considered for furan compounds, furfural ethers, furfurylamine, and other furfural derivatives.     

Calculation of hadronic contribution to the anomalous magnetic momentum of muon (g − 2)μ from light by light scattering diagram in nonlocal chiral quark model

The correction to anomalous magnetic momentum muon from the light by light scattering diagram with intermediate pion is calculated in framework nonlocal chiral quark model. To fix the model parameters it is suggested to use the values of mass and two photon width of the neutral pion. The value of the correction is in region a_m ^{p0 , LbL} = (5.05 ±0.03) ×10 ^{- 10}a_\mu ^{\pi ^0 , LbL} = (5.05 \pm 0.03) \times 10^{ - 10} for different set of model parameters.     

Pion-distribution amplitude within the instanton model

The leading-twist pion-distribution amplitude is obtained at a low normalization scale of order ρ _c (inverse average size of an instanton). Pion dynamics, consistent with gauge invariance and low-energy theorems, is considered within the instanton vacuum model. The results are QCD-evolved to higher momentum-transfer values and are in agreement with recent data from CLEO on the pion transition form factor. It is also shown that some previous calculations violate the axial Ward-Takahashi identity.