Steric vs. electrostatic effects in the nucleophilic addition to a hindered cyclohexanone

The relative importance of steric vs. electrostatic effects in the nucleophilic addition to (4R,6S)-4-(tert-butyldimethylsiloxy)-2,2,6-trimethylcyclohexanone (1), a well-known chiral building block, is investigated.     

The role of surface and volume defects in the fracture of glass under quasi-static and dynamic loadings

In this paper, the role of surface and volume defects on fracture in soda-lime glass is analyzed when samples are submitted to quasi-static or dynamic loadings. To investigate fracture, different experiments are carried out, namely, quasi-static compression of glass spheres and edge-on-impacts. The first test series aims at studying crack initiation. Different surface treatments are performed to study their influence on the failure load, from which it is concluded that initiation of cracks occurs in the vicinity of the contact surface. The second series is concerned with the examination of crack patterns under dynamic loadings with two different strikers (i.e., soft/flat and hard/perforating projectiles). Crack initiation under dynamic load histories is investigated near and far from the impact zone and it is concluded that it cannot take place within the volume, except in a very small zone close to the impact point. Conversely, initiation of damage from the surface, at a location far from the impact point, is possible and clearly present with a soft projectile.     

Application of radioisotope-excited X-ray fluorescence to the determination of trace elements in blood

A radioisotope-excited energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence system has been constructed and used for the analysis of blood samples for trace elements. The possibility of determination of trace elements in blood by X-ray fluorescence based on comparison with standard reference materials has been outlined and the applicability of the method demonstrated by the analysis of blood samples. The method enables fast, non-destructive direct analyses to be carried out without lengthy sample pretreatment on a routine basis.     

Changes in plasma characteristics caused by easily ionisable elements in hollow cathode discharge emission spectrography

The effect of several concomitant easily ionisable elements (EIE's), Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs on the line intensity of Sr II (first ionised state) and Al I and He I (atomic states) has been studied by atomic emission spectrometry (AES) hollow cathode (HCD) analysis. The spectral line intensities emitted by Sr II, Al I and He I have been measured while varying the volume of the EIE's concentrations, ranging from 0.1 mg ml to 10 mg ml. In the presence of EIE's at higher concentrations than 0.5% a considerable decrease of the line intensities of Sr II at 430.54 nm and 407.71 nm was observed, together with a gradual decrease in the line intensities of both Al I 494.40 nm and 396.15 nm, and He I 412.1 nm. It is demonstrated in the present experiments with a water-cooled HCD source that interference effects caused by EIE's are observed when the ratio of the number of gas atoms (n(g)) and atoms with low ionisation energy (n(a))n(g)/n(a)is lower than 10(12).     

Effective on-line coloring ofP 5-free graphs

An on-line algorithm is given that colors anyP ₅-free graph withf() colors, wheref is a function of the clique number of the graph.     

Evidence for higher twist mechanisms in highp ⊥π− p events with prompt ρ0 production at 38 GeV/c

The ^– p interactions with at least one charged secondary produced at polar angle 90° in c.m.s. and having the transverse momentum above 1 GeV/c were investigated. The data were obtained using streamer chamber magnetic spectrometer RISK at 38 GeV/c beam from Serpukhov accelerator. The analyzis of associated production in reconstructed events suggests, that if the transverse momentum of a pair of oppositely charged secondaries compensates the trigger particlep practically completely, this pair is the product of the ⁰ decay in marked fraction of such events. We observed a large spin-alignment for the ⁰-mesons selected as described above: the probability of zero spin projection onto the normal to the ⁰ production plane is equal to ₀₀ ^T =0.86±0.23. The enhancement of the number of events, in which the ⁰ picks up practically full momentum transfer carrying by the exchange, and also the enlarged tensor polarization for the ⁰-mesons in these events could be qualitatively explained as manifestation of direct ⁰-production via the QCD higher twist processes in the highp ^– p collisions. At the same time, the observed effects are markedly larger than the values predicted with QCD model in which the higher twist corrections were included.     

Necessary and sufficient conditions for interpolation with functions having monotoner-th derivatives

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Microwave-assisted direct esterification of a cyclic phosphinic acid with phenols

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Existence of strong solutions for Itô's stochastic equations via approximations

Summary Given strong uniqueness for an Itô's stochastic equation with discontinuous coefficients, we prove that its solution can be constructed on any probability space by using, for example, Euler's polygonal approximations. Stochastic equations in ^d and in domains in ^d are considered.Research supported by the Hungarian National Foundation of Scientific Research No. 2990.Supported in part by NSF Grant DMS-9302516