Synthesis and properties of poly(amic acid)s and polyimides based on 2,2′,6,6′‐biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride

Poly(amic acid)s (PAAs) having the high solution stability and transmittance at 365 nm for photosensitive polyimides have been developed. PAAs with a twisted conformation in the main chains were prepared from 2,2′,6,6′‐biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride (2,2′,6,6′‐BPDA) and aromatic diamines. Imidization of PAAs was achieved by chemical treatment using trifluoroacetic anhydride. Among them, the PAA derived from 2,2′,6,6′‐BPDA and 4,4′‐(1,3‐phenylenedioxy)dianiline was converted to the polyimide by thermal treatment. The heating at 300 °C under nitrogen did not complete thermal imidization of PAAs having glass‐transition temperatures (T_g)s higher than 300 °C to the corresponding PIs. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 6385–6393, 2006     

A highly sensitive spectrophotometric determination of beryllium with chromal blue G and cetyltrimethylammonium chloride

Chromal blue G in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium chloride is proposed for the spectrophotometric determination of microgram amounts of beryllium. The sensitivity of color reaction between beryllium and chromai blue G has been greatly increased by the sensitizing action of cetyltrimethylammonium chloride (_626nm = 93,000). Beer's law is obeyed over the range 0.012–0.12 ppm of beryllium. Full color development occurs in 20 min at pH 5.5 and at 626 nm. The mole ratio of beryllium and chromai blue G in the complex is estimated to be 1:2. The proposed method is very sensitive and selective for determination of beryllium when EDTA is used as a masking agent.     

Dynamical study of femtosecond-laser-ablated liquid-aluminum nanoparticles using spatiotemporally resolved x-ray-absorption fine-structure spectroscopy

We study the temperature evolution of aluminum nanoparticles generated by femtosecond laser ablation with spatiotemporally resolved x-ray-absorption fine-structure spectroscopy. We successfully identify the nanoparticles based on the L-edge absorption fine structure of the ablation plume in combination with the dependence of the edge structure on the irradiation intensity and the expansion velocity of the plume. In particular, we show that the lattice temperature of the nanoparticles is estimated from the L-edge slope, and that its spatial dependence reflects the cooling of the nanoparticles during plume expansion. The results reveal that the emitted nanoparticles travel in a vacuum as a condensed liquid phase with a lattice temperature of about 2500 to 4200 K in the early stage of plume expansion.     

Effects of high-concentration phosphorus doping on crystal quality and lattice strain in SiGe HBTs

A high-concentration in-situ phosphorus-doping technique for silicon low-temperature epitaxial growth with Si₂H₆ has been developed. Growth temperature has an impact on the crystal quality and on lattice strain of phosphorus-doped silicon layers. Resistivity, micro-Raman spectroscopy, and high-resolution X-ray diffraction indicated that good crystal quality was achieved at a growth temperature of 525 °C. On the other hand, growth pressure has little influence on crystal quality or on lattice strain except for surface morphology. By optimizing epitaxial growth conditions, an extremely high concentration of phosphorous doping was achieved without a high-temperature activation annealing, and the resultant good crystal quality of the phosphorus-doped silicon layer gave a very low resistivity. Accordingly, the high-concentration in-situ phosphorus doping is a powerful technique to fabricate future ultra-high-speed SiGe HBTs.     

Teiji Takagi, Founder of the Japanese School of Modern Mathematics

This article is a brief historical report on Teiji Takagi which was prepared at the commencement of ‘Takagi Lectures’ of The Mathematical Society of Japan. The first of its two purposes is to give some informations on the circumstances of education and research of mathematics in Japan surrounding Takagi who could finally established himself as the founder of the Japanese school of modern mathematics. The other is a brief overview on Takagi’s works of mathematics some of which are still attractive to and influential on especially ambitious students of mathematics. The author hopes that careful readers may find some hints for the questions how and why Takagi was able to establish his class field theory. At the end of this article the readers will find an English translation of the preface of his book Algebraic theory of numbers (in Japanese) which is the only thing that he left for us to see his total view over class field theory after the establishment of Artin’s reciprocity law.     

Some families of Mordell curves associated to cubic fields

We introduce some Mordell curves of two different natures both of which are associated to cubic fields. One set of them consists of those elliptic curves whose rational points over the rational number field are described by or closely related to cubic fields. The other is a one-parameter family of Mordell curves which gives all (cyclic) cubic twists and all quadratic twists of the Fermat curve X³+Y³+Z³=0.     

Crystal structure and spin state of Fe0.5Co0.5(NCS)2(bpa)2

Fe(NCS)₂(bpa)₂, Co(NCS)₂(bpa)₂, and Fe_0.5Co_0.5(NCS)₂(bpa)₂ were synthesized. X-ray structural analysis revealed that the structure was the same among the three complexes. Although the metal-ligand distance in the mixed crystals was shorter than the distance in Fe(NCS)₂(bpa)₂ and was similar to that in Co(NCS)₂(bpa)₂, the spin state remained temperature-independent Fe^II high-spin state in ⁵⁷Fe M?ssbauer spectra.     

Synthesis and photophysical properties of luminescent mononuclear and dinuclear gold(I) complexes with ethynyl-substituted phenanthrolines

A novel asymmetric dinuclear gold(I) complex with 3,6-diethynylphenanthroline, 3,6-bis{(PPh₃)–Au–C≡C}₂-phen, has been synthesized from Au(PPh₃)Cl (PPh₃ = triphenylphosphine) and 3,6-diethynyl-1,10-phenanthroline. The asymmetrical dinuclear gold(I) complex, 3,6-bis{(PPh₃)–Au–C≡C}₂-phen, demonstrated a weak phosphorescence assignable to the metal-perturbed ³ π–π* transition in the long wavelength region compared to an intense emission of the symmetrical dinuclear complex with 3,8-diethynylphenanthroline, 3,8-bis{(PPh₃)–Au–C≡C}₂-phen. A similar tendency of phosphorescent bands for the mononuclear gold(I) complexes with 5-ethynylphenanthroline, 5-{(PPh₃)–Au–C≡C}-phen, and 3-ethynylphenanthroline, 3-{(PPh₃)–Au–C≡C}-phen was observed. The absorption bands assignable to the π–π*(C≡Cphen) transition and phosphorescent emission assignable to the metal-perturbed ³ π–π* transition for these four gold(I) complexes were reasonably consistent with the results calculated by DFT and TD-DFT.     

Preparation of soluble and fusible poly(2,5-dimethoxy-1,4-phenylene)

Poly(2,5-dimethoxy-1,4-phenylene) was prepared by oxidative polymerization of p-dimethoxybenzene with aluminum chloride and copper(II) chloride in nitrobenzene under reduced pressure. The polymers obtained were soluble in sulfuric acid and fusible at 320°C. The intrinsic viscosity of the polymer was ca. 0.07 in sulfuric acid. Demethylation of methoxy groups did not occur during the polymerization.     

Crystal structures and magnetic properties of nitroxide radical-coordinated copper(II) and cobalt(II) complexes

Transition Metal Chemistry - The crystal structures and magnetic properties of three coordination compounds constructed from various nitroxide radicals L and MII(hfac)2(H2O)2 building blocks...