High-pressure accelerated asymmetric organocatalytic Friedel-Crafts alkylation of indoles with enones: application to quaternary stereogenic centers construction

An organocatalytic Friedel-Crafts alkylation of indoles with α,β-unsaturated ketones was found to be efficiently accelerated under high-pressure conditions with a low loading of chiral primary amine salts with good yield and enantioselectivity up to 90%. This approach also allows, for the first time, selected indole derivatives containing quaternary stereogenic centers to be obtained from prochiral β,β-disubstituted enones with an enantioselectivity up to 80%.     

Traveling chimera states for coupled pendula

Nonlinear Dynamics - We investigate the phenomenon of traveling chimera states in the ring of self-excited coupled pendula suspended on the horizontally oscillating wheel. The bifurcation scenario...     

Diffusion and aggregation of adatoms on faceted Pd/Mo(111) surface

Diffusion of Pd adatoms on faceted Pd/Mo(111) surface with hill and valley structure is studied by kinetic Monte Carlo method. The surface consists of {211} channeled facets separated by concave and convex edges. It is shown that diffusion on the faceted surface is significantly reduced with comparison to diffusion on (112) surface by the presence of concave edges. A simple formula for the diffusion coefficient is proposed. The growth of linear structures, studied at low coverage θ = 0.1, depends on the cross-channel diffusion, although the cross-channel diffusion coefficient is by 6–8 orders of magnitude smaller than the in-channel diffusion coefficient. We observed that most of atomic structures grow in valleys and the average size of the structure increases with increase of facet size.     

Management science in the era of smart consumer products: challenges and research perspectives

Smart products not only provide novel functionalities, but also may establish new business models, markets, or distribution channels, strengthen relationships with consumers, and/or add smart remote services. While many technical obstacles of such products have already been overcome, the broad market dissemination of smart products still poses some vital managerial challenges for decision makers. In this paper, we outline the technical potential and future trends of smart consumer products, discuss economic challenges in four scopes, namely, preference-based new product development, market analysis, supply chain design, and industry development, and, in particular, we highlight research perspectives for management science in this promising field.     

Product innovation with partial capacity rollover

Central European Journal of Operations Research - This paper analyzes how the transferability of production capacities from an established to a new product influences the incentives of a firm to...     

Reduction theorems for principal and classical connections

We prove general reduction theorems for gauge natural operators transforming principal connections and classical linear connections on the base manifold into sections of an arbitrary gauge natural bundle. Then we apply our results to the principal prolongation of connections. Finally we describe all such gauge natural operators for some special cases of a Lie group G.