Plasmon‐Induced Water Splitting Using Metallic‐Nanoparticle‐Loaded Photocatalysts and Photoelectrodes

The front cover artwork is provided by the group of Prof. Hiroaki Misawa (Hokkaido University, Japan, and National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan). The image shows a plasmon‐induced water‐splitting system, which can collect hydrogen and oxygen separately and employs a semiconductor substrate. Read the full text of the Review at 10.1002/cphc.201500761     

Nickel-catalyzed asymmetric grignard cross-coupling of dinaphthothiophene giving axially chiral 1,1'-binaphthyls

Asymmetric cross-coupling of dinaphtho[2,1-b:1',2'-d]thiophene with ArMgBr (Ar = Ph, 4-MeC6H4, 4-MeOC6H4) proceeded with high enantioselectivity in THF at 20 degrees C in the presence of 3 mol % of a nickel catalyst generated from Ni(cod)2 and a chiral oxazoline-phosphine ligand to give high yields of axially chiral 2-mercapto-2'-aryl-1,1'-binaphthyls, whose enantiomeric excesses are over 93%. The mercapto group in the chiral binaphthyl was converted into iodo, boryl, and phosphino groups without racemization.     

Generalized Sobolev's phi function for the resolvent of a Milne-type integral equation with a degenerate kernel

It is well known in the field of radiative transfer that Sobolev was the first to introduce the resolvent into Milne's integral equation with a displacement kernel. Thereafter it was shown that the resolvent plays an important role in the theory of formation of spectral lines. In the theory of line-transfer problems, the kernel representation in Milne's integral equation has been used to provide an approximate solution in a manner similar to that given by the discrete ordinales method.In this paper, by means of invariant imbedding we show how to determine an exact solution of a Milne-type integral equation with a degenerate kernel, whose form is more general than the Pincherle-Gourast kernel. A Cauchy system for the resolvent is expressed in terms of generalized Sobolev's Φ- and Ψ-functions, which are computed by solving a system of differential equations for auxiliary functions. Furthermore, these functions are expressed in terms of components of the kernel representation.     

On the resolvent of Milne's integral equation for a spherical,isotropically-scattering medium

Recently, determination of the resolvent kernel of Milne's integral equation for a spherical, isotropically-scattering medium with internal sources has been made by several authors (cf. Heaslet and Warming;⁽¹⁾Nagirner;⁽²⁾Wilson and Sen⁽³⁾). In this paper, it is shown how to compute the resolvent kernel of the above Milne's equation in terms of the modified Sobolev's Φ-function, which is reduced to the angular integration of the source function in the diffuse radiation field by a finite slab. In other words, once the X- and Y-functions of a slab with twice the optical radius of the sphere have been computed and a Cauchy system for the source function has been solved, the resolvent kernel under consideration can be determined by integration of the modified Sobolev Φ-function.     

Secondary electron emission spectroscopy of solid and liquid high-density polyethylene

Kinetic energy spectra of secondary electrons emitted from liquid and solid high-density polyethylene owing to low-energy electron impacts are measured as a function of temperature. It is found that the spectral features associated with high density-of-states parts of the conduction band smear out with increasing temperature, and disappear completely above the melting point. The smearing out of the conduction band structure is explained as a result of breakdown of the inter-molecular and/or the intra-molecular symmetry induced by thermal excitations of the molecular vibrations.     

Isolation and structure elucidation of genuine oat phytoalexin,avenalumin I

The major phytoalexin from oat leaves has been identified as 2-[2-(4-hydroxyphenyDethenyl] -6-hydroxy-4H-3,1-benzoxazin-4-one ($\text{A}$).