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Compression induced chiral symmetry breaking of monolayers comprised of banana-shaped achiral molecules at an air-water interface: Williams-Bragg approach

Chirality of monolayers comprised of banana-shaped achiral molecules at an air-water interface was investigated theoretically, and a forming mechanism of chiral structure as an assembly of achiral molecules was argued. A model of such monolayers was constructed taking into account the short-range repulsive interaction between constituent banana-shaped achiral molecules, and the free energy density functional of the model was derived as a generalization of Williams-Bragg approach. It was predicted that chiral symmetry breaking occurs by monolayer compression, where two-dimensional characteristics of monolayers at an interface plays an important role in the formation of chiral structure by banana-shaped achiral molecules.     

Energy distribution around 175 MeV Ar ion path in argon at the density of water

The ionization distribution in Ar gas by 175 MeV Ar ion was measured, and reduced to the energy density as a function of the radial distance in water. The energy density within the radial distance smaller than 294 nm decreased proportionally to the inverse of the square of the distance. Beyond this distance, however, the energy density decreased more steeply. The deposited energy except in the core region of the track amounts to 89% of linear energy transfer (LET).     

Anthranilamide: a simple, removable ortho-directing modifier for arylboronic acids serving also as a protecting group in cross-coupling reactions

Anthranilamide (AAM) serves as a bifunctional modifier on the boron atom in catalytic transformations of arylboronic acids. It makes boronyl groups unreactive in Suzuki-Miyaura coupling and promotes Ru-catalyzed ortho-silylation. Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of AAM-modified bromophenylboronic acids with tolylboronic acid gave 1,1'-biaryl-4-boronic acid bearing AAM on the boron atom, which subsequently underwent Ru-catalyzed ortho-silylation at the 3-position by virtue of the ortho-directing effect of the AAM group.     

Polyaddition of bisketenimines. II. Synthesis of poly(N-acylamides) from bisketenimines and dicarboxylic acids

Poly(N-acylamides) were synthesized by polyaddition of bisketenimines with dicarboxylic acids. Yields and inherent viscosities of these polymers were low, presumably because of side reactions. The thermal stability and solubility of the polymers were studied.     

Cooperative molecular field effect and induced orientational ordering effect in polar liquid crystalline films on metals

Using the in situ measurements of the surface potential built across the evaporated liquid crystalline 4-n-pentyl-4'-cyanobiphenyl (5CB) films on metal electrodes with different work functions, we studied the cooperative molecular field effect (CMFE) that assists carrier injection from electrodes and the induced orientational reordering in evaporated liquid crystalline molecules on metals. The surface potential increased, and then became constant after the 5CB monomolecular layer was formed. It was shown that the CMFE accompanying orientational reordering accounts for the metal work function dependence of the surface potential. Finally, the orientational reordering is discussed in terms of the anchoring energy.     

Roles of noise in single and coupled multiple genetic oscillators

The noisy fluctuation of chemical reactions should profoundly affect the oscillatory dynamics of gene circuit. In this paper a prototypical genetic oscillator, repressilator, is numerically simulated to analyze effects of noise on oscillatory dynamics. The oscillation is coherent when the protein number and the rate of the DNA state alteration are within appropriate ranges, showing the phenomenon of coherence resonance. Stochastic fluctuation not only disturbs the coherent oscillation in a chaotic way but also destabilizes the stationary state to make the oscillation relatively stable. Bursting in translation, which is a source of intense stochastic fluctuation in protein numbers, suppresses the destructive effects of the finite leakage rate of protein production and thus plays a constructive role for the persistent oscillation. When multiple repressilators are coupled to each other, the cooperative interactions among repressilators enhance the coherence in oscillation but the dephasing fluctuation among multiple repressilators induces the amplitude fluctuation in the collective oscillation.