C−C Bond Formation of Benzyl Alcohols and Alkynes Using a Catalytic Amount of KOtBu: Unusual Regioselectivity through a Radical Mechanism

We report a C?C bond‐forming reaction between benzyl alcohols and alkynes in the presence of a catalytic amount of KO^tBu to form α‐alkylated ketones in which the C=O group is located on the side derived from the alcohol. The reaction proceeds under thermal conditions (125 °C) and produces no waste, making the reaction highly atom efficient, environmentally benign, and sustainable. Based on our mechanistic investigations, we propose that the reaction proceeds through radical pathways.     

Strategies for Probing P-Parity Violation in Nuclear Collisions at the NICA Accelerator Facility

Physics of Particles and Nuclei Letters - Possible approaches to experimentally detecting P-parity violation in polarized proton or deuteron interactions with an unpolarized target are discussed....     

Correction to Molière’s formula for multiple scattering

The semiclassical correction to Molière’s formula for multiple scattering is derived. The consideration is based on the scattering amplitude obtained with the first semiclassical correction taken into account for an arbitrary localized but not spherically symmetric potential. Unlike the leading term, the correction to Molière’s formula contains the target density n and thickness L not only in the combination nL (areal density). Therefore, this correction can be referred to as the bulk density correction. It turns out that the bulk density correction is small even for high density. This result explains the wide range of applicability of Molière’s formula.     

Numerical solution of the Dirichlet problem for nonlinear parabolic equations by a probabilistic approach

A number of new layer methods for solving the Dirichlet problemfor semilinear parabolic equations are constructed by usingprobabilistic representations of their solutions. The methodsexploit the ideas of weak sense numerical integration of stochasticdifferential equations in a bounded domain. Despite their probabilisticnature these methods are nevertheless deterministic. Some convergencetheorems are proved. Numerical tests are presented.     

Diffusion approximation for nonparametric autoregression

A nonparametric statistical model of small diffusion type is compared with its discretization by a stochastic Euler difference scheme. It is shown that the discrete and continuous models are asymptotically equivalent in the sense of Le Cam's deficiency distance for statistical experiments, when the discretization step decreases with the noise intensity ε. Received: 12 April 1996 / Revised version: 29 October 1997