A C3‐Symmetric Macrocycle‐Based,Hydrogen‐Bonded,Multiporous Hexagonal Network as a Motif of Porous Molecular Crystals

A C₃‐symmetric π‐conjugated macrocycle combined with an appropriate hydrogen bonding module (phenylene triangle) allowed the construction of crystalline supramolecular frameworks with a cavity volume of up to 58 %. The frameworks were obtained through non‐interpenetrated stacking of a hexagonal sheet possessing three kinds of pores with different sizes and shapes. The activated porous material absorbed CO₂ up to 96 cm³ g^?1 at 195 K under 1 atm.     

Dominating Cycles and Forbidden Pairs Containing $$P_{5}$$

A cycle C in a graph G is dominating if every edge of G is incident with at least one vertex of C. For a set \(\mathcal {H}\) of connected graphs, a graph G is said to be \(\mathcal {H}\)-free if G does not contain any member of \(\mathcal {H}\) as an induced subgraph. When \(|\mathcal {H}| = 2, \mathcal {H}\) is called a forbidden pair. In this paper, we investigate the characterization of the class of the forbidden pairs guaranteeing the existence of a dominating cycle and show the following two results: (i) Every 2-connected \(\{P_{5}, K_{4}^{-}\}\)-free graph contains a longest cycle which is a dominating cycle. (ii) Every 2-connected \(\{P_{5}, W^{*}\}\)-free graph contains a longest cycle which is a dominating cycle. Here \(P_{5}\) is the path of order \(5, K_{4}^{-}\) is the graph obtained from the complete graph of order 4 by removing one edge, and \(W^{*}\) is the graph obtained from two triangles and an edge by identifying one vertex in each.     

Martensitic transformations in some ferrous and non-ferrous alloys under magnetic field and hydrostatic pressure

Martensitic transformations are extensively influenced by external fields, such as temperature and uniaxial stress, in transformation temperatures, crystallography and amount and morphology of the product martensites. Therefore, to clarify the effect of external fields on martensitic transformations it is very important to understand the essential problems of the transformation, such as thermodynamics, kinetics and the origin of the transformation, whose information is naturally useful in technological applications using the transformation. Magnetic field and hydrostatic pressure are important in such external fields because there exist some significant differences in magnetic moment and atomic volume between the parent and martensitic states. In the present paper, therefore, we summarizz the effects of magnetic field and hydrostatic pressure on martensitic transfonnations in some ferrous and non-ferrous alloys by referring to past and recent works made by our group and many other researchers. The transformation start temperatures of all the ferrous alloys examined increase with increasing magnetic field, but those of non-ferrous alloys, such as Ti-Ni and Cu-Al-Ni shape memory alloys, are not affected. On the other hand, the transformation start temperature decreases with increasing hydrostatic pressure in some ferrous alloys, but increases in Cu-Al-Ni alloys. The magnetic field and hydrostatic pressure dependencies of the martensitic start temperature are in good agreement with those calculated by our proposed equations.

During investigations of ferrous Fe-Ni-Co-Ti shape memory alloy, we found that a magnetoelastic martensitic transformation appears and, in addition, several martensite plates grow nearly parallel to the direction of the applied magnetic field in a specimen of Fe-Ni alloy single crystal.

We further found that the isothermal process in Fe-Ni-Mn alloy changes to athermal under a magnetic field and the athermal process changes to isothermal under hydrostatic pressure. Based on these facts, a phenomenological theory has been constructed, which unifies the two transformation processes.     

Stereospecific reversible deactivation radical polymerization of biomass‐based acrylates for precise control of tacticity and molecular weight

Reversible deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) of biomass‐based acrylates, (S )‐ and (R )‐2‐isopropyl‐5‐methylene‐1,3‐dioxolan‐4‐ones (S‐MiPDO and R‐MiPDO), was successfully performed to produce a well‐defined polymer with simultaneously controlled tacticity and molecular weight, and low dispersity (? < 1.3). In particular, meso triad (mm ) of the polymer was continuously controlled as designed from 28.1% to about 100% by changing the molar ratio of S‐MiPDO/R‐MiPDO in feed. In kinetic studies, the rate of RDRP was strongly influenced by the stereostructures of the propagating radical, and it was much lower in isospecific RDRP than atactic one in reversible chain transfer catalyzed polymerization (RTCP) in contrast to atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) where the rate would not change regardless of the tacticity. Increase of molecular weight and low ? of the polymer were also observed in reversible addition‐fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization of MiPDO. In addition, block copolymers including stereoblock copolymers were feasibly synthesized by RTCP of styrene and methyl methacrylate using poly(MiPDO) prepolymer. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2017 , 55 , 445–456     

Mesomorphic phase transitions of a series of D-phase compounds

Mesomorphic phase transitions of 4'-n-alkoxy-3'-nitrobiphenyl-4-carboxylic acids (ANBC) with numbers of carbons (n) in the alkoxy group ranging from 11 to 22 have been studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and polarizing optical microscopy. The D phase, a mesophase of particular interest through its being optically isotropic, was observed for the n = 17, 19, 20, 21, and 22 members of the ANBCs, as well as for the n = 16 and 18 members, as reported previously. The S_c-D phase transition temperature decreased with increasing n, so that the temperature range of the D phase extended over 64° at n = 22. In the n = 15 member, the D phase was certainly observed on first heating, but was not seen on subsequent cooling and second heating processes.     

Determination of 2,4-dichlorophenol in dichlorophenol isomers by NMR

Quantitative analysis of isomers by NMR has been carried out in the measurement of species whose components present simple and sufficiently isolated spectra. Generally, the substituted aromatic proton splits into complicated spectral lines due to spin-spin coupling. The ring proton spectra of dichlorophenol isomers show a pattern peculiar to the three spin system. It was found that some of the signal attributable to these compounds appear in a position slightly isolated from each other. Therefore, we established the quantitative analysis method for dichlorophenol, using the signal intensity method. From the result of the quantitative analysis, the lowest detectable concentration was 1·1% (±0·3% at the standard deviation). The accuracy of the peak intensity method was found to be ±1·8% within the 50 to 80 mol% concentration range of 2,4-dichlorophenol isomer.     

Renormalization using the background-field method

Renormalization using the background-field method is examined in detail. The subtraction mechanism of subdivergences is described with reference to multi-loop diagrams and one- and two-loop counter-term formulae are explicitly given. The original one-loop counter-term formula of 't Hooft is thereby improved. The present method of renormalization is far easier to manage than the usual one owing to the fact that only gauge-invariant quantities are to be considered when worked in an appropriate gauge. Gravity and Yang-Mills theories are studied as examples.     

Hidden electronic excited state of enhanced green fluorescent protein

Precise two-photon absorption spectra of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the mutants sapphire-GFP (T203I) and enhanced GFP (S65T/F64L), as well as a model compound for the chromophore, 4'-hydroxybenzylidene-2,3-dimethylimidazolinone (HBDI) were measured by multiplex two-photon absorption spectroscopy. The observed TPA bands of the anionic forms of enhanced GFP and HBDI were significantly shifted to the higher energy compared with the lowest-energy bands in one-photon absorption spectra. This result indicated the existence of a hidden electronic excited state in the vicinity of the lowest excited singlet (S1) state of the anionic form of the GFP chromophore, which is the origin of the blue shift of the two-photon absorption spectra as well as two-photon fluorescence excitation spectra.