Preparation of tritiated fluorenone and fluorenol

Summary Tritiated fluorenone 2 was prepared from 2-iodofluorenone 1 by halogen-tritium exchange. The product had specific activity of 17 Ci/mmol. The product 2(after dilution with unlabeled congener) on reduction with NaBH₄gave the corresponding tritiated fluorenol 3.     

Lower bounds for adaptive locally decodable codes

An error‐correcting code is said to be locally decodable if a randomized algorithm can recover any single bit of a message by reading only a small number of symbols of a possibly corrupted encoding of the message. Katz and Trevisan 12 showed that any such code C : {0, 1}ⁿ → Σ^m with a decoding algorithm that makes at most q probes must satisfy m = Ω((n/log |Σ|)^q/(q?1)). They assumed that the decoding algorithm is non‐adaptive, and left open the question of proving similar bounds for adaptive decoders. We show m = Ω((n/log |Σ|)^q/(q?1)) without assuming that the decoder is nonadaptive. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2005     

Electrical and thermal properties of lead titanate glass ceramics

Glass samples with composition of (50−X)PbO-(25+X)TiO₂-25B₂O₃ (where X=0, 5, 10 and 12.5 mol%) were prepared using conventional quenching technique. The glass transition temperature, T_g and crystallization temperature T_c were determined from the DTA. These glass samples were converted to glass ceramics by following two stage heat treatment schedule. The glass ceramic samples were characterized by XRD, SEM and dielectric constant measurements. The XRD results revealed the formation of ferroelectric lead titanate (PT) as a major crystalline phase in the glass ceramics. The density increases and the CTE decreases for all glass ceramics with increase in X (mol%). This may be attributed to increase in PT phase. The SEM results which show rounded crystallites of lead titanate, also supports other results. Hysteresis loops observed at room temperature confirms the ferroelectric nature of glass ceramics. The optimized glass ceramic sample exhibits high dielectric constant which is of technical importance.     

Final state gluon effects in charmed meson decays

In the valence-quark c-decay scheme the decay $\text{D}{}^0\text{→}\text{K}{}^0\text{π}{}^0$ is expected to be strongly suppressed. We suggest that final state soft gluon exchange may account for the rather large branching ratio recently measured for this process, and study two-body decays of charmed mesons in our new scheme.     

The dynamic response of clamped rectangular Y-frame and corrugated core sandwich plates

The dynamic response of fully clamped, monolithic and sandwich plates of equal areal mass has been measured by loading rectangular plates over a central patch with metal foam projectiles. All plates are made from AISI 304 stainless steel, and the sandwich topologies comprise two identical face-sheets and either Y-frame or corrugated cores. The resistance to shock loading is quantified by the permanent transverse deflection at mid-span of the plates as a function of projectile momentum. At low levels of projectile momentum both types of sandwich plate deflect less than monolithic plates of equal areal mass. However, at higher levels of projectile momentum, the sandwich plates tear while the monolithic plates remain intact. Three-dimensional finite element (FE) calculations adequately predict the measured responses, prior to the onset of tearing. These calculations also reveal that the accumulated plastic strains in the front face of the sandwich plates exceed those in the monolithic plates. These high plastic strains lead to failure of the front face sheets of the sandwich plates at lower values of projectile momentum than for the equivalent monolithic plates.     

Effect of Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Compounds on the Radical Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate

Polymerization of methyl methacrylate was carried out at 55 and 65°C using benzoyl peroxide as initiator in the presence of the fol-lowing additives: (a) cholesteric compounds like cholesterol, cho-lesteryl acetate, cholesteryl caprylate, cholesteryl stearate, choles-teryl chloride, cholesteryl laurate, cholesteryl oleyl carbonate, and cholesteryl 2-ethylhexyl carbonate, (b) a nematic liquid crystal, N-(p-methoxy benzylidene)-p-butyl aniline, and (c) rodlike molecules like 2-butynediol and diacetylene diol. The rates of polymerization, activation energies, molecular weights, and tacticities of the poly-mer are discussed in the light of monomer + additive interactions. It is found that monomer-additive complexes affect the polymerization rates.     

Thermogravimetric analysis of cobalt sulfate

Morpholine is a base of moderate strength, comparable with that of ammonia, and capable of forming -onium-type salts. Extensive studies [1,2] have been made on the thermal stability of ammonium perchlorate because of its technological use as an oxidant in solid state rocket propellants. The preparation, characterization and thermal behaviour of morpholinium perchlorate are reported in this note. The study was followed by XRD, IR, TG, DTA and mass spectral techniques.     

Dynamic Mechanical Behaviour of Some Cholesteryl Liquid Crystals

Dynamic mechanical studies of cholesteric liquid crystalline substances in the solid state have been reported using Du Pont's Dynamic Mechanical Analyser, DMA-981. All the substances showed multiple transitions. There is no common transition though the parent structure was similar in the compounds. These weak transitions are not detectable by DSC and hence appear to be second order transitions possibly arising due to rotation of the molecules around the long axis. Alternatively the lattice defects may also be responsible for such transitions.     

SO4 2−/SnO2: Efficient,Chemoselective, and Reusable Catalyst for Acylation of Alcohols,Phenols, and Amines at Room Temperature

Abstract

SO₄ ^2?/SnO₂ was employed for the acylation of a variety of alcohols, phenols, and amines under solvent‐free conditions at room temperature. This method showed preferential selectivity for acetylation of the amino group in the presence of a hydroxyl group. The reported method is simple, mild, and environmentally viable, using several other acid anhydrides at room temperature.