Photochemical Transformations with Iodine Azide after Release from an Ion‐Exchange Resin

This report discloses the photochemical homolytic cleavage of iodine azide after its formation following release from polymer‐bound bisazido iodate(I) anions. A series of radical reactions are reported including the 1,2‐functionlization of alkenes and the unprecedented chemoselective oxidation of secondary alcohols in the presence of primary alcohols.     

Defect Structure in Te-doped GaAs Single Crystals after Plastic Deformation (II). Dislocation Slip and Cell Formation

At temperatures above the brittle-to-ductile transition (490 °C) in Te-doped GaAs three types of predominant defect configurations have been observed after uniaxial compression along a [001] direction: (i) twins and stacking faults (500 … 520 °C), (ii) slip zones of dislocations (≈550 °C) and (iii) dislocation cells (580 … 590 °C). In Part II quantitative details of the appearance of slip and cell formation are given. Leading segments of gliding half loops are mainly of 60° type. Cell walls were formed by multiple slip of perfect dislocations.     

Linear infrared dichroism by a double modulation technique

In the first part of this paper an experimental setup using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) in combination with a photoelastic modulator (PEM) for linear dichroism measurements is described. The second part shows the influence of PEM-amplitude and scan-velocity on the sensitivity of the instrument. The third part deals with the fringe-problem in the baselines of absorbance spectra and its influence on the determination of the linear dichroic ratio.     

The microwave spectrum,structure and nuclear quadrupole coupling constants for stibabenzene

The microwave spectrum of 121-SbC₅H₅, 123-SbC₅H₅, β-dideutero 121-SbC₅H₃D₂ and 123-SbC₅H₃D₂ has been assigned in the region 26.5–40.0 GHz. The respective rotational constants and uncertainties are: A = 4512.69 ± 0.42, B = 1738.00 ± 0.01, C = 1254.51 ± 0.01; A = 4512.84 ± 0.30, B = 1729.80 ± 0.01, C = 1250.22 ± 0.01; A = 4176.18 ± 0.33, B = 1660.94 ± 0.01, C = 1188.15 ± 0.01; A = 4176.60 ± 0.61, B = 1652.94 ± 0.03, C = 1184.03 ± 0.03 (in MHz units). The structure is found to be planar, C_2v in symmetry. The $\text{d(}\text{Sb-C}\text{) = 2.050 ± 0.005}\text{A}\text{?}$ and ∠CSbC = 92.9° ± 1.0°. The nuclear quadrupole coupling constants for the 121 and 123 antimony isotopes are χ_aa = 456.4 ± 4.1 MHz, η = 0.396 ± 0.008, and χ_aa = 583.00 ± 5.3 MHz, η = 0.399 ± 0.008, respectively. Several alternate techniques using the coupling constants as data support a σ-donating property for antimony.     

A millimeter wave dielectric waveguide antenna

This paper describes the theoretical and experimental results of a novel leaky-wave antenna incorporating a homogeneous dielectric transmission line and radiating aperture into a single structure. The primary objective of this investigation is to demonstrate the ability to control aperture radiation by simply cutting slots into a metal-free dielectric transmission line. Experimental line source antennas with identical periodic slots were designed to operate in the 35 GHz frequency region. The successful performance of these antennas resulted in the design of a dielectric line source antenna with a symmetrical amplitude taper which provided a lower sidelobe level. The design represents a significant breakthrough in achieving affordable, low-loss, lightweight antennas in the millimeter wave region. The most significant applications for this type of antenna include radar surveillance and tactical missile-seeker terminal guidance.     

Cycloaddition Reactions of an Active Cyclic Phosphane/Borane Pair with Alkenes,Alkynes, and Carbon Dioxide

The active six-membered cyclo-FLP 6 undergoes a rapid P/B addition reaction to carbon dioxide. At elevated temperature, the resulting heterobicyclo[2.2.2]octane derived product 7 undergoes ring opening and equilibrates with the cyclotetramer (7)₄ . In the large macrocyclic structure, four monomeric six-membered cyclo-FLP units are connected by four CO₂ molecules to form the supramolecular ring system. The P/B cyclo-FLP 6 undergoes a variety of additional cycloaddition reactions.     

Computational experience with a bundle approach for semidefinite cutting plane relaxations of Max-Cut and Equipartition

We propose a dynamic version of the bundle method to get approximate solutions to semidefinite programs with a nearly arbitrary number of linear inequalities. Our approach is based on Lagrangian duality, where the inequalities are dualized, and only a basic set of constraints is maintained explicitly. This leads to function evaluations requiring to solve a relatively simple semidefinite program. Our approach provides accurate solutions to semidefinite relaxations of the Max-Cut and the Equipartition problem, which are not achievable by direct approaches based only on interior-point methods. Received: April, 2004 The last author gratefully acknowledges the support from the Austrian Science Foundation FWF Project P12660-MAT.     

Vehicle routing problems with time windows and multiple service workers: a systematic comparison between ACO and GRASP

This paper systematically compares an ant colony optimization (ACO) and a greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP) metaheuristic. Both are used to solve the vehicle routing problem with time windows and multiple service workers. In order to keep the results comparable, the same route construction heuristic and local search procedures are used. It is shown that ACO clearly outperforms GRASP in the problem under study. Additionally, new globally best results for the used benchmark problems are presented.