Iridium-Catalyzed C5-Regioselective Esterification of Dienyl Alcohols with Carboxylic Acids

One-step process for the preparation of a 1,3-dienyl-5-ester motif from readily available substrate remains a challenging work in organic synthesis. We herein report the first example of C5-regioselective esterification of unactivated dienyl alcohols, using free carboxylic acids as nucleophiles under mild conditions, providing a series of 1,3-dienyl-5-ester compounds in excellent regioselectivity and E-selectivity.     

Effect of Antioxidant System on Aging Properties of Poly(1-butene) and the Aging Mechanism

The aging property of poly(1-butene) in which different antioxidant systems were added was characterized by its physical and mechanical properties before and after aging for 300 h in a hot air aging box. In addition, the oxidation induction time (OIT) of all designed samples was tested. The result demonstrated that the primary antioxidant pentaerythritol tetrakys 3-(3,5-ditert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl) propionate performed better than n-octadecyl-β-(4-hydroxy-3,5-di-tert -butyl-phenyl)-propionate. The anti-aging effect of the secondary antioxidant was ranked in the order bis-(2,4-di-tert-butyl-pheny)-phosphiterythritol diphosphite better than tns-(2.4-di-tert-butyl)-phosphite, with both better than distearyl thiodipropionic acid. Confirmation of oxidation of the polymer was made by IR analysis and a general oxidation mechanism scheme for poly(1-butene) is presented.     

Experimental and Computational Analysis of the Solvent‐Dependent O2/Li+‐O2− Redox Couple: Standard Potentials,Coupling Strength,and Implications for Lithium–Oxygen Batteries

Understanding and controlling the kinetics of O₂ reduction in the presence of Li⁺‐containing aprotic solvents, to either Li⁺‐O₂⁻ by one‐electron reduction or Li₂O₂ by two‐electron reduction, is instrumental to enhance the discharge voltage and capacity of aprotic Li‐O₂ batteries. Standard potentials of O₂/Li⁺‐O₂⁻ and O₂/O₂⁻ were experimentally measured and computed using a mixed cluster‐continuum model of ion solvation. Increasing combined solvation of Li⁺ and O₂⁻ was found to lower the coupling of Li⁺‐O₂⁻ and the difference between O₂/Li⁺‐O₂⁻ and O₂/O₂⁻ potentials. The solvation energy of Li⁺ trended with donor number (DN), and varied greater than that of O₂⁻ ions, which correlated with acceptor number (AN), explaining a previously reported correlation between Li⁺‐O₂⁻ solubility and DN. These results highlight the importance of the interplay between ion–solvent and ion–ion interactions for manipulating the energetics of intermediate species produced in aprotic metal–oxygen batteries.     

Approximation of Invariant Measures for Regime-switching Diffusions

In this paper, we are concerned with long-time behavior of Euler-Maruyama schemes associated with regime-switching diffusion processes. The key contributions of this paper lie in that existence and uniqueness of numerical invariant measures are addressed (i) for regime-switching diffusion processes with finite state spaces by the Perron-Frobenius theorem if the “averaging condition” holds, and, for the case of reversible Markov chain, via the principal eigenvalue approach provided that the principal eigenvalue is positive; (ii) for regime-switching diffusion processes with countable state spaces by means of a finite partition method and an M-Matrix theory. We also reveal that numerical invariant measures converge in the Wasserstein metric to the underlying ones. Several examples are constructed to demonstrate our theory.     

Lewis acid catalyzed rearrangement of vinylcyclopropenes for the construction of naphthalene and indene skeletons

[reaction: see text] The choice of Lewis acid catalyst can result in dramatic differences in the chemoselectivity of the rearrangement reactions of vinylcyclopropenes. When BF3.OEt2 was used as the catalyst, naphthalenes were formed. However, when Cu(OTf)2 was used as the catalyst, indenes were obtained.     

Karman vortex street assisted patterning in the growth of silicon nanowires

A Karman vortex street was employed to pattern catalysts and grow nanomaterial arrays, which were made of a disk-like superstructure built of silicon nanowires; there also existed nanowires connected with the disks.     

Silicon nanotube array/gold electrode for direct electrochemistry of cytochrome c

The highly ordered Si nanotube (SiNT) arrays have been fabricated and demonstrated to be an attractive matrix to accommodate macromolecules, such as proteins, and exhibit facile direct electrochemistry of cytochrome c without any pretreatment. A pair of well-defined redox waves can be observed in the aqueous solution containing cytochrome c on this SiNT electrode using cyclic voltammetry. The peak separation (DeltaEp) between the anodic and the cathodic peaks is 63 mV at the sweep rate of 10 mV/s, and the peak current is proportional to the square root of the sweep rates, which indicates that the redox process is a quasi-reversible process. The experimental results show that the good biocompatibility and nanoscale hollow structure of the SiNT arrays can be applicable to preparing Si-based biosensors and protein characterizations.     

The stability on the solution of the initial value problem

In this paper,using the differentiability of the solution with respect to the initial value and the parameter,we present a method which,different from Liapunov’s direct method.will determine the stability of the non-stationary solution of the initial value problem when the non-stationary solution remains unknown.     

大冷变形对化学镀Ni-Sn-P非晶态合金晶化的影响

本文研究了大冷变形对化学镀Ni-Sn-P非晶合金晶化的影响,结果表明,冷变形促进了晶化,不仅降低了Ni-Sn-P非晶合金的热稳定性,而且在冷变形过程中就有晶化产生.