"The great escape" from antiaromaticity: reduction of strained pyrenes

The two-electron reduction of strained pyrenes ([7](2,7)pyrenophanes) with lithium metal leads to the formation of a new sigma-bond as a means to "escape" strained antiaromaticity.     

4-Fluorinated L-lysine analogs as selective i-NOS inhibitors: methodology for introducing fluorine into the lysine side chain

In the literature, the introduction of fluorine into bioactive molecules has been known to enhance the biological activity relative to the parent molecule. Described in this article is the synthesis of 4R-fluoro-L-NIL (12) and 4,4-difluoro-L-NIL (23) as part of our iNOS program. Both 12 and 23 were found to be selective iNOS inhibitors as shown in Table 2 below. Secondarily, methodology to synthesize orthogonally protected 4-fluoro-L-lysine and 4,4-difluoro-L-lysine has been developed.     

All-optical regenerative memory for long term data storage

We describe a novel all-optical regenerative memory comprising two nonlinear optical switching gates coupled by an optical fibre storage loop. Binary pulse patterns were stored in the memory circuit for periods of several hours. This long term storage corresponds to > 10 billion circulations around the fibre storage loop.     

Intrinsic equations for a relaxed elastic line on an oriented surface

Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen [2, p. 221] incorrectly suggested a flexible knitting needle, constrained to conform to a surface, as one model for a geodesic on a surface. This model actually gives a relaxed elastic line on the surface, and is not generally a geodesic unless the surface lies in a plane or on a sphere.In this paper we derive the intrinsic equations for a relaxed elastic line on an oriented surface. This formulation should give a more direct and more geometric approach to questions concerning relaxed elastic lines on a surface. We apply this formulation to give alternate proofs of some results of [3] found by the less direct method of Lagrange multipliers and to give additional results about relaxed elastic lines on various surfaces. For further considerations of a relaxed elastic line on a surface as a model of the DNA molecule, see [3].Partially supported by NIH grant GM 36284-01.     

The reactions of [Co(η-C5H5)(CO)(L)] (L = R3P or RNC) with carbon disuphide and organoisothiocyanates

The reactions of [Co(η-C₅H₅)(CO)(PR₃)] or [Co(η-C₅GH₅)(CO)₂]/R₃P mixtures (R = alkyl or aryl) with CS₂ in refluxing CS₂ or CS₂/toluene gives rise to [Co(η-C₅H₅)(PR₃)(CS)], [Co(η-C₅H₅)(PR₃)(CS₂)], [Co(η-C₅H₅)(PR₃)(CS₃)], and [Co₃(η-C₅H₅)₃ (CS)(S)] in reasonable yields. The corresponding reactions using PhNCS give [Co(η-C₅H₅)(PPh₃)(PhNCS)] and a polymeric species which appears to be [Co₄(η-C₅H₅)₄ (PhNCS)]. Similar products are obtained with [Co(η-C₅H₅)(CO)(CNR)] or [Co(η0C₅H₅)(CO)₂]/RNC mixtures.     

Hydrogen abstraction by fluorine atoms under conditions of thermal initiation: Hydrocarbons and fluorinated hydrocarbons

Modified nuclear recoil techniques have been used to obtain accurate relative bimolecular rate coefficients for thermally induced hydrogen abstraction reactions by atomic fluorine. New results are reported for 12 hydrocarbons and partially fluorinated hydrocarbons studied at 303°K.     

神光-Ⅲ 3ω光路自动准直系统设计

基于闭环反馈控制理论，对神光-Ⅲ 3ω光源自动准直系统进行设计，分析系统的工作原理、控制算法和软件控制流程。对准直过程中电动控制对于控制结果影响的变化规律建立了数学模型，旨在克服俯仰和方位相互联动对准直精度的影响。采用二维镜架自动准直方案，使准直偏差在预定调整范围内不断收敛。神光-Ⅲ调试现场的准直结果证明：该自动准直系统达到了设计要求，即自动准直系统在半小时内完成8路光束的光束准直，其角度误差≤5.0%/空间滤波器小孔直径,平移误差≤1.0%(光束近场直径精度)。     

基于彩色光栅投影的快速三维测量方法

 针对条纹投影术提取物体高度信息的问题,提出了一种新的基于彩色光栅投影的三维测量方法。对选取G分量为255,R,B分量各取0或255而组成的青、白、黄、绿四色遵循格雷码原理进行编码,然后将G分量作正弦调制形成投影光栅投向被测物体。提取采集到的光栅变形图中G分量,利用傅里叶变换方法得到其初始相位;同时对采集到图像中的R,B分量作阈值迭代分割而G分量自动赋值为255,综合三分量信息得到条纹颜色信息进而获取条纹的周期信息,从而展开相位。全过程仅需投影一幅彩色光栅图就能完成三维测量,实验结果表明该算法易于实现,在测量实时性和精确性上表现良好。