Muon spin resonance and repolarization in amorphous silicon monoxide (a-SiO)

Studies of the muonium fractions in the amorphous oxide a-SiO have been carried out by RF resonance at TRIUMF, Canada and LF repolarization techniques at RAL, U.K. The resonance measurements confirm the presence of the interstitial Mu centre in this intermediate oxide of silicon. Analysis of the data gathered at RAL, using a recently-developed fitting technique, reveals that the Mu^* state is present here as well, but with lower relative fractions than in a-Si. However, as in the latter material, but in contrast to c-Si, this bond-centre species appears to be stable up to room temperature.     

Kinetics and mechanism of polymerization of methyl methacrylate initiated by stibonium ylide

Homopolymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) was carried out in the presence of triphenylstibonium 1,2,3,4-tetraphenyl-cyclopentadienylide as an initiator in dioxane at 65°C±0·l°C. The system follows non-ideal radical kinetics (R _p ∝ [M]^1·4 [I]^0·44 @#@) due to primary radical termination as well as degradative chain-transfer reaction. The overall activation energy and average value ofk ₂ ^p /k _t were 64 kJmol⁻¹ and 0.173 × 10⁻³ 1 mol⁻¹ s⁻¹ respectively     

Upper consolute temperature of water-phenol systems with some additives

Using upper consolute temperatures (UCT) and corresponding consolute compositions (CC) of water-phenol systems with each of 0.1 mol kg^?1 salts and acids, 1.0% polyethylene glycol 200, 0.01 mol kg^?1 surfactant and aromatic compounds, we obtained 0.01 mol kg^?1 CaF₂ and CrCl₃ compositions. Focusing on UCT and CC, the role of valence electrons and shell number, basicity, hydrophilic, hydrophobic and π conjugated electrons of corresponding additives are reported. The surfactants and π conjugation electrons are noted to decrease the UCT in a constant ratio that depicts the state and inherent strength of ionic and molecular-water interactions. The data are useful in the investigation of cloud points of immiscible solutions based on the Hofmeister series.     

An efficient total synthesis of sulfobacin A

A short and efficient enantioselective synthesis of sulfobacin A has been achieved using the Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation and the regiospecific nucleophilic opening of a cyclic sulfate as the key steps.     

Synthesis of a hairpin pyrrole-imidazole polyamide conjugate containing a quinone methide precursor and vinyl linking group

Standard procedures for elaborating a quinone methide precursor for conjugation to a DNA ligand was not compatible with the presence of a vinyl group. Instead, an acrylate linker was attached by Heck coupling subsequent to o-substitution of the phenolic precursor. This transformation required protection of the phenolic group and use of ethyl acrylate rather than acrylic acid. The presence of the vinyl group also rendered the quinone methide precursor more labile to alkaline conditions than its equivalent saturated derivative and required mild conditions for coupling to the pyrrole-imidazole polyamide.     

Graceful Signed Graphs

A (p, q)-sigraph S is an ordered pair (G, s) where G = (V, E) is a (p, q)-graph and s is a function which assigns to each edge of G a positive or a negative sign. Let the sets E ⁺ and E ^– consist of m positive and n negative edges of G, respectively, where m + n = q. Given positive integers k and d, S is said to be (k, d)-graceful if the vertices of G can be labeled with distinct integers from the set {0, 1, ..., k + (q – 1)d such that when each edge uv of G is assigned the product of its sign and the absolute difference of the integers assigned to u and v the edges in E ⁺ and E ^– are labeled k, k + d, k + 2d, ..., k + (m – 1)d and –k, – (k + d), – (k + 2d), ..., – (k + (n – 1)d), respectively.In this paper, we report results of our preliminary investigation on the above new notion, which indeed generalises the well-known concept of (k, d)-graceful graphs due to B. D. Acharya and S. M. Hegde.     

Working group report: Neutrino and astroparticle physics

This is the report of neutrino and astroparticle physics working group at WHEPP-7. Discussions and work on CP violation in long baseline neutrino experiments, ultra high energy neutrinos, supernova neutrinos and water Cerenkov detectors are discussed.     

The sojourn time and related characteristics of the age-dependent branching process

An age-dependent branching process where disasters occur as a renewal process leading to annihilation or survival ofall the cells, is considered. For such a process, the total mean sojourn time of all the cells in the system is analysed using the regeneration point technique. The mean number of cells which die in timet and its asymptotic behaviour are discussed. When the disasters arrival as a Poisson process and the lifetime of the cells follows exponential distribution, elegant inter-relationships are found among the means of (i) the total number of cells which die in timet (ii) the total sojourn time of all cells in the system upto timet and (iii) the number of living cells at timet. Some of the existing results are deduced as special cases for related processes.