Anilide activation of adjacent C-H bonds in the palladium-catalysed Fujiwara-Moritani reaction

The Pd(II)-catalysed oxidative counterpart of the Heck reaction, originally described by Fujiwara and Moritani, has been studied in detail by a combination of NMR, single-crystal X-ray diffraction and substrate variation. The process involves a palladacycle that is a true intermediate in catalysis. Pd(OAc)(2) is first converted into a more electrophilic palladium species for effective catalysis, defining the main role of added acid. In the course of these studies, three palladacyclic intermediates have been characterised by X-ray diffraction, firstly the directly produced acetate complex 1, the camphorsulfonate complex 2, and additionally tosylate 3, isolated from a reacting system, demonstrating the accessibility of a cationic or comparably electrophilic palladium entity under turnover conditions. The isolated palladacycle 3 is also an effective catalyst. The reaction rate shows a first-order dependency on [anilide] and [Pd], but not on benzoquinone, alkene or p-TsOH. Acid, in the form of p-TsOH, is an essential component, whereas acetate is dispensable. A crossover experiment involving distinct substitution in reactant and palladacycle demonstrates that the palladacycle is directly involved in the catalysis.     

Formation of unusual molecular rectangles and squares containing low spin and high spin Co(II) and Fe(II) centers

The ditopic carbohydrazide and thiocarbohydrazide based ligands H?L1 and H?L2 react with Co(II)(OAc)? to produce the homoleptic Co(II) molecular rectangles 1 and 2, containing either a mixture of high spin and low spin Co(II) sites or exclusively low spin Co(II) centers, respectively, with two mono-deprotonated ligands in a syn-conformation, and the other two doubly-deprotonated ligands in an anti-arrangement. The Co(II) centers are bridged by μ-O/S and μ-N-N groups, respectively. Magnetic susceptibility measurements indicate weak antiferromagnetic coupling between metal centers in 1 and 2, with room temperature magnetic moments of 6.6 and 3.4 μ(B), respectively, in good agreement with two S = 3/2 and two S = 1/2 centers for 1 and four S = 1/2 centers for 2. Reaction of H?L1 and H?L2 with Fe(II)(CF?SO?)? in the presence of a base leads to the formation of μ-O/S bridged homoleptic molecular squares 3 and 4, with the Fe(II) centers in high spin and low spin configurations, respectively at room temperature, as indicated from X-ray structural data and magnetic susceptibility measurements. However, in 3 one Fe(II) site undergoes spin crossover to a low spin state at about 150 K, while 4 stays diamagnetic in the full 2-300 K temperature range. Electrochemistry of 4 showed four distinct reversible red-ox waves associated with step-by-step one electron processes in the molecular square [-0.643 (ΔE(p) = 81 mV), -0.278 (ΔE(p) = 70 mV), +0.565 (ΔE(p) = 65 mV), ~1.1 V], associated with the Fe(II)/Fe(III) red-ox couples.     

Numerical Simulations of Backward-to-Forward Leaky-Wave Antenna with Composite Right/Left-Handed Coplanar Waveguide

A composite right/left-handed （CRLH） coplanar waveguide （CPW） structure and its leaky-wave antenna （LWA） with continuous backward-to-forward scanning applications are proposed. The structure of the CRLH transmission line （TL） is composed of split-ring resonators （SRRs） for left-handed （LH） series capacitance and short-circuited stubs connected between the CPW central signal line and the ground for LH shunt inductance, while the unavoidable right-handed （RH） parasitic effects series inductance and shunt capacitance are generated by wave propagation through the host transmission line. The dispersion relations are calculated and compared with the equivalent circuit model method and 3D full-wave simulations, which can be used to determine the physical dimensions of the CRLH-CPW, such as in the balanced CRLH-TL case. As a main example, a CRLH-CPW-LWA operating from 1.67 GHz to 1.80 GHz with the dispersion characteristics of the balanced CRLH-TL case shows continuous leakage frequency band （fast wave region） from LH （phase constant β 〈0, .67〈f〈1.74 GHz） to RH （β〉0, 1.74〈f〈1.80 GHz） state through the transition frequency point （β=0, f=1.74 GHz）, whereas conventional LWAs operated in RH state only provide forward scanning capabilities （β〉0）.     

Preparation of High-Density Nanocrystalline Bulk Selenium by Rapid Compressing of Melt

The melt＇s solidification behavior of elemental selenium is investigated by a series of experiments including rapid compressing to 2.8 and 3.5 GPa within 20ms respectively, slow compressing to 2.8 GPa for 20 min and natural cooling at ambient pressure. Based on the x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope and transmission electron microscope results of the recovered samples, it is clearly shown that homogenous nanostructures are formed only by the rapid compression processes, and that the average crystal sizes are about 18.7 and 19.0 nm in the samples recovered from 2.8 and 3.5 GPa, respectively. The relative density of the nanocrystalline bulk reaches 98.17% of the theoretical value. It is suggested that rapid compression could induce pervasive nucleation and restrain grain growth during the solidification, which is related to fast supercooling, higher viscosity of the melt and lower diffusivity of atoms under high pressure.     

高剥离态Fe Ⅹ Ⅵ离子能级寿命测量

在原子能院串列加速器上,利用束箔方法,测量了能量为30 MeV Fe离子产生的高剥离态谱线跃迁结构的寿命值.在30 MeV时,Fe通过箔膜的电荷态分布在7+到17+,我们选择Fe XⅥ2p~6(~1S)4p—2p~6(~1S)5d(~2P_(3/2)~o—~2D_(3/2))的谱线,谱线波长124.696(?),能级寿命为79±4 ps.最后对实验误差进行了分析.     

几种含吡啶环的双醛腙类化合物的结构与光谱性质

采用DFT/B3LYP方法在3-21+G基组下对4种含吡啶环的双醛腙类化合物进行基态(S_0)构型优化,并用单组态相互作用方法(CIS)优化四种化合物分子的激发态(S_1)结构,从理论上探讨了四种化合物的分子轨道能量、电子吸收和发射光谱等性质与结构的关系,并与实验值进行了对比,发现理论计算数据能够与实验结果基本一致.通过对分子中前线轨道能量的计算,揭示了不同取代基对材料光电活性的影响,即分子中的共轭体系增大,吸收光谱波长也随之红移.根据化合物的吸收和发射光谱的计算数据推测化合物D是这四种化合物中最可选的电子传输材料及光活性材料.     

High‐Purity Discrete PEG‐Oligomer Crystals Allow Structural Insight

To great (monodisperse) lengths : An improved synthesis of purer ethylene glycol (EG) oligomers allows access to 16‐ and 32‐mers pure enough for multiple incorporation, and also to the longest (48‐mer) discrete EG oligomer yet reported. The high purity enables the first crystallizations and hence the first glimpses of secondary 3₁₀‐helical PEG structures.

     

Methane hydrate formation and decomposition: structural studies via neutron diffraction and empirical potential structure refinement

Neutron diffraction studies with hydrogen/deuterium isotope substitution measurements are performed to investigate the water structure at the early, medium, and late periods of methane clathrate hydrate formation and decomposition. These measurements are coupled with simultaneous gas consumption measurements to track the formation of methane hydrate from a gas/water mixture, and then the complete decomposition of hydrate. Empirical potential structure refinement computer simulations are used to analyze the neutron diffraction data and extract from the data the water structure in the bulk methane hydrate solution. The results highlight the significant changes in the water structure of the remaining liquid at various stages of hydrate formation and decomposition, and give further insight into the way in which hydrates form. The results also have important implications on the memory effect, suggesting that the water structure in the presence of hydrate crystallites is significantly different at equivalent stages of forming compared to decomposing. These results are in sharp contrast to the previously reported cases when all remaining hydrate crystallites are absent from the solution. For these systems there is no detectable change in the water structure or the methane hydration shell before hydrate formation and after decomposition. Based on the new results presented in this paper, it is clear that the local water structure is affected by the presence of hydrate crystallites, which may in turn be responsible for the "history" or "memory" effect where the production of hydrate from a solution of formed and then subsequently melted hydrate is reportedly much quicker than producing hydrate from a fresh water/gas mixture.     

Proton dynamics in lithium-ammonia solutions and expanded metals

Quasielastic neutron scattering has been used to study proton dynamics in the system lithium-ammonia at concentrations of 0, 4, 12, and 20 mole percent metal (MPM) in both the liquid and solid (expanded metal) phases. At 230 K, in the homogenous liquid state, we find that the proton self-diffusion coefficient first increases with metal concentration, from 5.6x10(-5) cm2 s(-1) in pure ammonia to 7.8x10(-5) cm2 s(-1) at 12 MPM. At higher concentrations we note a small decrease to a value of 7.0x10(-5) cm2 s(-1) at 20 MPM (saturation). These results are consistent with NMR data, and can be explained in terms of the competing influences of the electron and ion solvation. At saturation, the solution freezes to form a series of expanded metal compounds of composition Li(NH3)4. Above the melting point, at 100 K, we are able to fit our data to a jump-diffusion model, with a mean jump length (l) of 2.1 A and residence time (tau) of 3.1 ps. This model gives a diffusion coefficient of 2.3x10(-5) cm2 s(-1). In solid phase I (cubic, stable from 88.8 to 82.2 K) we find that the protons are still undergoing this jump diffusion, with l=2.0 A and tau=3.9 ps giving a diffusion coefficient of 1.8x10(-5) cm2 s(-1). Such motion gives way to purely localized rotation in solid phases IIa (from 82.2 to 69 K) and IIb (stable from 69 to 25 K). We find rotational correlation times (tau(rot)) of the order of 2.0 and 7.3 ps in phases IIa and IIb, respectively. These values can be compared with a rotational mode in solid ammonia with tau(rot) approximately 2.4 ps at 150 K.     

Polypyrroles as antioxidants: kinetic studies on reactions of bilirubin and biliverdin dimethyl esters and synthetic model compounds with peroxyl radicals in solution. Chemical calculations on selected typical structures

[reaction: see text] Rate constants for hydrogen-atom transfer (HAT) from bilirubin dimethyl ester (BRDE) and biliverdin dimethyl ester (BVDE) to peroxyl radicals during inhibited autoxidation of styrene initiated by azo-bisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) were k(inh)(BRDE) = 22.5 x 10(4) and k(inh)(BVDE) = 10.2 x 10(4) M(-1) s(-1), and the stoichiometric factors (n) were 2.0 and 2.7, respectively. A synthetic tetrapyrrole (bis(dipyrromethene)) containing the alpha-central (2,2') CH2 linkage gave k(inh) = 39.9 x 10(4) M(-1) s(-1) and n = 2.3, whereas the beta-linked (3,3') isomer was not an active antioxidant. Several dipyrrinones were synthesized as mimics of the two outer heterocyclic rings of bilirubin and biliverdin. The dipyrrinones containing N-H groups in each ring were active antioxidants, whereas those lacking two such "free" N-H groups, such as N-CH3 dipyrrinones and dipyrromethenes, did not exhibit antioxidant activity. Overall, the relative k(inh) values compared to those of phenolic antioxidants, 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methoxyphenol (DBHA) and 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (BHT), were 2,2'-bis(dipyrromethene) > BRDE > DBHA > dipyrrinones > BVDE > BHT. This general trend in antioxidant activities was also observed for the inhibited autoxidation of cumene initiated by AIBN. Chemical calculations of the N-H bond dissociation enthalpies (BDEs) of the typical structures support a HAT mechanism from N-H groups to trap peroxyl radicals. Intramolecular hydrogen bonding of intermediate nitrogen radicals has a major influence on the antioxidant activities of all compounds studied. Indeed, chemical calculations showed that the initial nitrogen radical from a dipyrrinone is stabilized by 9.0 kcal/mol because of H-bonding between the N-H remaining on one ring and the ground-state pyrrolyl radical of the adjacent ring in the natural zusammen structure. The calculated minimum structure of bilirubin shows strong intramolecular H-bonding of the N-H groups with carbonyl groups resulting in the known "ridge-tile" structure which is not an active HAT antioxidant. The calculated minimum structure of biliverdin is planar. BRDE is readily converted into BVDE by reaction with the electron-deficient DPPH* radical under argon in chlorobenzene. An electron-transfer mechanism is proposed for the initiating step in this reaction, and this is supported by the relatively low ionizing potential of a model dipyrrole representing the two central rings of bilirubin.