Stereospecific intramolecular C-H amination of 1-aza-2-azoniaallene salts

We report that 1-aza-2-azoniaallene salts, generated from α-chloroazo compounds by treatment with halophilic Lewis acids, participate in intramolecular C-H amination reactions to provide pyrazoline products in good to excellent yield. This intramolecular amination occurs readily at both benzylic and tertiary aliphatic positions and proceeds at an enantioenriched chiral center without loss of enantiomeric excess. A competition reaction shows that insertion occurs more readily at an electron-rich benzylic position than an electron-deficient one. These observations are consistent with the 1-aza-2-azoniaallene intermediate reacting as a nitrenium-like ion by a concerted insertion mechanism.     

Dynamics of Heavy Carriers in the Ferromagnetic Superconductor UGe<Subscript>2</Subscript>

Superconductivity and ferromagnetism in a number of uranium-based materials come from the same f-electrons with a relatively large effective mass, suggesting the presence of a band of heavy quasiparticles, whose nature is still a mystery. Here, UGe₂ dynamics in both ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases is studied employing high-field μ⁺SR spectroscopy. The spectra exhibit a doublet structure characteristic to formation of subnanometer-sized magnetic polarons. This model is thoroughly explored here and correlated with the unconventional physics of UGe₂. The heavy-fermion behavior is ascribed to magnetic polarons; when coherent they form a narrow band, thus reconciling heavy carriers with superconductivity and itinerant ferromagnetism.     

奇A 核的多声子γ振动带实验研究进展

对于近年来清华大学与美国合作研究组在原子核结构实验研究中有关奇A 核的多声子 振动带方面的进展进行了评述。研究人员通过有效的国际合作,识别了质量数A = 100 丰中子核区的奇A核103Nb,105Mo,107Tc 和109Tc中的两声子 振动带,这是迄今为止国际上在奇A 核的结构研究中发现的仅有的4 例这样的结构。对于实验方法、研究结果以及这些多声子 振动带的特性进行了评述,并对目前在多声子带其他方面的研究及今后进一步的工作进行了概述。The experimental research on multi-phonon γ-vibrational bands in odd-A nuclei by our international collaboration has been reviewed. The two phonon -vibrational bands in 103Nb, 105Mo, 107Tc and 109Tc in the A = 100 neutron-rich nuclear region were identified, which are the only four such bands discovered in nuclear structure studies until now. The experimental methods and results are summarized, and the characteristics for these band structures are discussed. The other aspects for our research on the multi-phonon vibrational bands as well as our future research work are also briefly reviewed.     

Zero-field μSR in crystalline C60

The C_o60Mu radical in polycrystalline C₆₀ has been studied in zero magnetic field between 9 K and 200 K, and at room temperature. At low temperatures, we observe three low-frequency oscillations which correspond to the intra-triplet transitions of a completely anisotropic muon-electron hyperfine interaction. These signals exhibit a strongly temperature-dependent T₁, attributed to thermally-activated jump rotational diffusion of the C₆₀Mu radical. A fit to an Arhenius law yields an activation energy of 200(20) meV for temperatures below the fcc-sc structural phase transition. At room temperature only the motionally-narrowed 325 MHz singlet-triplet transition is observed.     

Muonium quantum diffusion in cryocrystals

In this paper we review our recent study on muonium (Mu) diffusion in simplest solids — Van der Waals cryocrystals. We give experimental evidence for the quantum nature of Mu diffusion in these matters. The results are compared with the current theory of quantum diffusion in insulators. The first direct observation of theT ⁷ power-law for the Mu hop rate (in solid nitrogen) is taken as confirmation of two-phonon scattering mechanism. In solid xenon the one-phonon interaction is shown to be dominant. Muonium diffusion in solid neon is discussed in terms of band-like motion. Finally, we report a dramatic effect of impurities on Mu quantum diffusion.     

Magnetic properties of crystalline and amorphous DyAg from μSR measurements

Muon spin relaxation in crystalline and amorphous DyAg has been studied in the paramagnetic and magnetically ordered regimes. In cr-DyAg the critical slowing down of the Dy³⁺ spin fluctuation is seen on approaching T_N = 60 K. In the ordered state we observe a Lorentzian field distribution. The muon spin relaxation in am-DyAg approaches at lower temperatures a root exponential law usually encountered in spin glasses.