Carba-acyclonucleoside antiherpetic agents

Ganciclovir 2 and 2′-carba-ganciclovir 5a are anti-viral agents differing structurally only in the replacement of an oxygen by a methylene group and yet expressing their biological properties along mechanistically independent pathways. Methoxy, hydroxy and fluoro derivatives of 2′-carba-ganciclovir were prepared to examine the effect of re-introducing a binding site close to that in the original oxa side chain. The cyclic phosphate of carba-ganciclovir was also prepared.     

Synthesis and evaluation of photoluminescent and electrochemical properties of new aromatic polyamides and polyimides with a kink 1,2‐phenylenediamine moiety

A series of novel triphenylamine‐containing aromatic polyamides and polyimides having a crank and twisted noncoplanar structures were synthesized in inherent viscosities of 0.14–0.64 dL/g and 0.11–0.67 dL/g, respectively. These polymers had useful levels of thermal stability associated with relatively high glass‐transition temperatures (174–311 °C). They exhibited strong UV–Vis absorption bands at around 300 nm in NMP solutions. The PL spectra of these polymers in NMP solutions (1 × 10^?5 M) showed maximum peaks around 396–479 nm. The hole‐transporting and electrochromic properties were examined by electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical methods. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) of the polymer films cast onto an indium‐tin oxide (ITO)‐coated glass substrate exhibited two reversible oxidation redox couples at potentials of 0.70–1.01 V and 1.10–1.46 V, respectively, vs. Ag/AgCl in acetonitrile solution. The polymer films revealed electrochromic characteristics, with a color change from neutral pale yellowish to green and then to a blue oxidized form at applied potentials ranging from 0.00 to 1.75 V. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 2587–2603, 2006     

高效液相色谱法测定氟白普洛芬

氟白普洛芬(FB)为一具有光敏感特性的非类固醇抗发炎药物(NSAID s)。当将氟白普洛芬的甲醇溶液以低压汞灯照射,可观察到氟白普洛芬有3种光解产物的产生。建立了一种灵敏度高、准确的、稳定的高效液相色谱分析法(HPLC),并藉此观察氟白普洛芬的光解反应。日内、日间实验的相对标准偏差(RSD)值皆可低于1.1%和1.7%,回收率在98.2%~102.0%之间。结果显示,HPLC分析方法具有良好的选择性和专一性。氟白普洛芬的光解反应在不同醇性溶剂中并无显著的差异。     

Strictly Regiocontrolled α-Monosubstitution of Cyclic Carbonyl Compounds with Alkynyl and Alkyl Groups via Pd-Catalyzed Coupling of Cyclic α-Iodoenones with Organozincs[]

The conditions for the Pd-catalyzed cross coupling of cyclic α-iodoenones, such as 2-iodo-2-cyclohexenone, with alkynylzincs have been optimized. The use of tris(o-furyl)phosphine (TFP) as a ligand and DMF as a solvent has led to the formation of α-alkynylenones in excellent yields. This optimized procedure has been applied to the synthesis of (±)-harveynone and (±)-tricholomenyn A in high yields. Investigation of related α-alkylation reactions using alkylzincs has revealed the following. Methylzinc and primary alkylzinc derivatives readily undergo Pd-catalyzed cross coupling with α-iodoenones. Although (s-Bu)₂Zn also undergoes Pd-catalyzed cross coupling, only the n-Bu-substituted products were obtained. α-Benzylation and α-homobenzylation can proceed satisfactorily, whereas allylzinc and propargylzinc derivatives undergo only addition to the carbonyl group. Although some promising results have been obtained in α-homoallylation and α-homopropargylation, these reactions need to be further improved.     

Wire-shaped electrode of CdSe-sensitized ZnO nanowire arrays for photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation

We combined CdSe nanoparticles and ZnO nanowire arrays to demonstrate a wire-shaped electrode for photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation illuminated with AM 1.5 spectrum. An array of ZnO nanowires was grown vertically and radially outward from a Cu-wire mesh substrate. CdSe nanoparticles were attached to the surface of the orientated ZnO nanowires. Such wire-shaped electrode with radially outward orientated CdSe/ZnO nanowires provided improved electrolyte mass transport and minimized loss of incident photons. CdSe/ZnO nanowires were formed in all directions over the Cu wire, leading to low incident-light-angle dependence. For photoelectrochemical hydrogen generation under one-sun irradiation, the wire-shaped electrode device outperformed the planar-shaped electrode device by at least 30%.     

Existence of solutions for variational inequalities on Riemannian manifolds

We establish the existence and uniqueness results for variational inequality problems on Riemannian manifolds and solve completely the open problem proposed in [S.Z. Németh, Variational inequalities on Hadamard manifolds, Nonlinear Anal. 52 (2003) 1491–1498]. Also the relationships between the constrained optimization problem and the variational inequality problems as well as the projections on Riemannian manifolds are studied.     

Trajectory approach to the mode-selected photodissociation of CS2

Through the study of photodissociation events in the CS(2) molecule that originate in various selected vibrational modes, but terminate in the same final predissociation state, we looked for the evidence that photodissociation processes can depend on the initial conditions. Such dependence would not occur within RRKM theory, because of its statistical assumptions. The experimental results were compared with trajectory calculations in normal mode coordinates, in which initial conditions were given in terms of coordinates and momenta. We have found that the photodissociation rate for events originating in the combination nu(1), nu(2) mode is higher than that for events from the pure nu(2) mode, and shows a large variation along the vibrational progression. The experimental observations agree with the trajectory calculations. In addition, the trajectory calculations predict that photodissociation events initiated at small values of the vibrational coordinates result in larger dissociation rates at low excess energy above the dissociation limit, while events from large values of the coordinates result in larger dissociation rates at high excess energies.     

Modified Extragradient Methods for a System of Variational Inequalities in Banach Spaces

In this paper, we introduce a new system of general variational inequalities in Banach spaces. We establish the equivalence between this system of variational inequalities and fixed point problems involving the nonexpansive mapping. This alternative equivalent formulation is used to suggest and analyze a modified extragradient method for solving the system of general variational inequalities. Using the demi-closedness principle for nonexpansive mappings, we prove the strong convergence of the proposed iterative method under some suitable conditions.     

Manifold construction based on local distance invariance

This paper presents a distance invariant manifold that preserves the neighborhood relations among data patterns. All patterns have their corresponding cells in the manifold space. The constellation of neighborhood cells closely resembles that of patterns. The manifold is invariant under the translation, rotation and scale of the pattern coordinates. The neighborhood relations among cells are adjusted and improved in each iteration according to the reduction of the distance preservation energy.