Synthesis of β-heteroaryl carbonyl compounds via direct cross-coupling of allyl alcohols with heteroaryl boronic acids under cooperative bimetallic catalysis

The eco-friendly cooperative Cu/Pd-catalyzed oxidative Heck reaction of allyl alcohols with heteroaryl boronic acids under air was described. The ready availability of starting materials and the mild reaction conditions made this protocol a safe and operationally convenient strategy for the efficient synthesis of β-heteroaryl carbonyl compounds.     

Hydrogen adsorption in a highly stable porous rare-earth metal-organic framework: sorption properties and neutron diffraction studies

A highly stable porous lanthanide metal-organic framework, Y(BTC)(H2O).4.3H2O (BTC = 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate), with pore size of 5.8 A has been constructed and investigated for hydrogen storage. Gas sorption measurements show that this porous MOF exhibits highly selective sorption behaviors of hydrogen over nitrogen gas molecules and can take up hydrogen of about 2.1 wt % at 77 K and 10 bar. Difference Fourier analysis of neutron powder diffraction data revealed four distinct D2 sites that are progressively filled within the nanoporous framework. Interestingly, the strongest adsorption sites identified are associated with the aromatic organic linkers rather than the open metal sites, as occurred in previously reported MOFs. Our results provide for the first time direct structural evidence demonstrating that optimal pore size (around 6 A, twice the kinetic diameter of hydrogen) strengthens the interactions between H2 molecules and pore walls and increases the heat of adsorption, which thus allows for enhancing hydrogen adsorption from the interaction between hydrogen molecules with the pore walls rather than with the normally stronger adsorption sites (the open metal sites) within the framework. At high concentration H2 loadings (5.5 H2 molecules (3.7 wt %) per Y(BTC) formula), H2 molecules form highly symmetric novel nanoclusters with relatively short H2-H2 distances compared to solid H2. These observations are important and hold the key to optimizing this new class of rare metal-organic framework (RMOF) materials for practical hydrogen storage applications.     

Strongly anisotropic electronic transport in higher Landau levels

Low-temperature, electronic transport in higher Landau levels (N>1) in a two-dimensional electron system is strongly anisotropic. At half-filling of either spin level of such Landau levels ( etc.) the magnetoresistance either collapses to form a deep minimum or is peaked in a sharp maximum, depending on the in-plane current direction. The anisotropic axis can be reoriented by applying an in-plane magnetic field of 1–2 T strength. The magnetoresistance at and (N=1) is initially isotropic but an in-plane field induces a strong anisotropy. Our observations are strong evidence for a new many-electron phase in higher Landau levels, which forms spontaneously or can be induced by an in-plane field.     

微波脉冲与圆柱腔体耦合的时域有限差分模拟

给出了微波脉冲与腔体上孔洞线性耦合的物理模型,讨论了数值模拟的时域有限差分方法以及吸收边界条件,计算了不同大小和位置孔洞的耦合过程,分析了耦合对孔洞大小和入射场偏振方向的依赖关系.     

外大气层区域系统电磁脉冲模拟试验技术

 对在实验室实现SGEMP模拟的各项技术进行了分析, 总结了已经开展的工作,给出了一些理论计算数据和实测结果, 并对现阶段可能进一步发展的技术提出了研究设想。涉及的各项技术适用于模拟外大气层区域的SGEMP,其中包含了光子直接激励、电子激励、电压和电流注入等。     

氧化环己烯连续进料下二氧化碳-环氧丙烷-氧化环己烯三元共聚物的合成

由于氧化环己烯（CHO）与二氧化碳的共聚反应速度比其与环氧丙烷（PO）快,这种竞聚率的差异导致一锅法所得的二氧化碳-环氧丙烷-氧化环己烯三元共聚物的组成难以稳定控制。 为此本文在稀土三元催化剂下,采用氧化环己烯单体连续进料的方法合成了二氧化碳-环氧丙烷-氧化环己烯三元共聚物,催化效率可达575 g/(mol Zn h)。 三元共聚物的玻璃化转变温度随CHO含量升高而增大,当CHO的摩尔投料比从0.19增加到0.59时,玻璃化温度从44.3 ℃提高到70.1 ℃。 CHO连续进料合成的三元共聚物的组成与投料比基本相近,且连续进料法所合成的三元共聚物只有一个玻璃化转变温度,而普通的一锅法所得的三元共聚物通常存在两个玻璃化转变温度,因此连续进料法是制备组成稳定的二氧化碳-环氧丙烷-氧化环己烯三元共聚物的有效方法。     

An isometrical CPn-theorem

Let M^n(n\ge \mathrm{3}) be a complete Riemannian manifold with {{\displaystyle \sec ?}}_M\ge \mathrm{1}, and let {{\displaystyle M}}_i^{{{\displaystyle n}}_i}(i=\mathrm{1},\mathrm{2}) be two complete totally geodesic submanifolds in M. We prove that if n₁ + n₂ = n − 2 and if the distance \left|{{\displaystyle M}}_{\mathrm{1}}{{\displaystyle M}}_{\mathrm{2}}\right|\ge \pi /\mathrm{2}, then M_i is isometric to {\mathbb{S}}^{{{\displaystyle n}}_i}/{{\displaystyle \mathrm{?}}}_h,{\mathrm{?}\mathrm{P}}^{{{\displaystyle n}}_i/\mathrm{2}}/{{\displaystyle \mathrm{?}}}_{\mathrm{2}}, or {\mathrm{?}\mathrm{P}}^{{{\displaystyle n}}_i/\mathrm{2}}/{{\displaystyle \mathrm{?}}}_{\mathrm{2}} with the canonical metric when n_i>0, and thus, M is isometric to {\mathbb{S}}^n/{{\displaystyle \mathrm{?}}}_h,{\mathrm{?}\mathrm{P}}^{n/\mathrm{2}}, or {\mathrm{?}\mathrm{P}}^{n/\mathrm{2}}/{{\displaystyle \mathrm{?}}}_{\mathrm{2}} except possibly when n = 3 and M₁ (or M₂) \stackrel{\mathrm{i}\mathrm{s}\mathrm{o}}{{\displaystyle \cong }}{\mathbb{S}}^{\mathrm{1}}/{{\displaystyle \mathrm{?}}}_h with h\ge \mathrm{2} or n = 4 and M₁ (or M₂) \stackrel{\mathrm{i}\mathrm{s}\mathrm{o}}{{\displaystyle \cong }}\mathrm{?}{\mathrm{P}}^{\mathrm{2}}.     

Effects of ammonium citrate additive on crystal morphology of aluminum phosphate ammonium taranakite

In this communication, we demonstrated the growth of aluminum phosphate ammonium taranakite (NH₄-AlPO₄) crystals from regular hexagonal form into the disk-like form could be controlled by ammonium citrate (AMC) as the effective crystal growth modifier at 90 °C. Prepared crystals were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The effects of AMC's concentration on the crystal form and morphology of NH₄-AlPO₄ were studied. The results showed that the AMC's concentration is an important parameter to control the size and morphology of NH₄-AlPO₄ crystal. The formation mechanism of the special morphology of NH₄-AlPO₄ crystals was also analyzed.     

Window-modulated compounding Nakagami imaging for ultrasound tissue characterization

Ultrasound Nakagami parametric imaging is a useful tool for tissue characterization. Previous literature has suggested using a square with side lengths corresponding to 3 times the transducer pulse length as the minimum window for constructing the Nakagami image. This criterion does not produce sufficiently smooth images for the Nakagami image to characterize homogeneous tissues. To improve image smoothness, we proposed window-modulated compounding (WMC) Nakagami imaging based on summing and averaging the Nakagami images formed using sliding windows with varying window side lengths from 1 to N times the transducer pulse length in 1 pulse length step. Simulations (the number densities of scatterers: 2–16 scatterers/mm²) and experiments on fully developed speckle phantoms (the scatterer diameters: 20–106 μm) were conducted to suggest an appropriate number of frames N and to evaluate the image smoothness and resolution by analyzing the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the parameter distribution and the widths of the image autocorrelation function (ACF), respectively. In vivo ultrasound measurements on rat livers without and with cirrhosis were performed to validate the practical performance of the WMC Nakagami image in tissue characterization. The simulation results showed that using a range of N from 7 to 10 as the number of frames for image compounding reduces the estimation error to less than 5%. Based on this criterion, the Nakagami parameter obtained from the WMC Nakagami image increased from 0.45 to 0.95 after increasing the number densities of scatterers from 2 to 16 scatterers/mm². The FWHM of the parameter distribution (bins = 40) was 13.5 ± 1.4 for the Nakagami image and 9.1 ± 1.43 for the WMC Nakagami image, respectively (p-value < .05). The widths of the ACF for the Nakagami and WMC Nakagami images were 454 ± 5.36 and 458 ± 4.33, respectively (p-value > .05). In the phantom experiments, we also found that the FWHM of the parameter distribution for the WMC Nakagami image was smaller than that of the conventional Nakagami image (p-value < .05), and there was no significant difference of the ACF width between the Nakagami and WMC Nakagami images (p-value > .05). In the animal experiments, the Nakagami parameters obtained from the WMC Nakagami image for normal and cirrhotic rat livers were 0.62 ± 0.08 and 0.92 ± 0.07, respectively (p-value < .05). The results demonstrated that the WMC technique significantly improved the image smoothness of Nakagami imaging without resolution degradation, giving Nakagami model-based imaging the ability to visualize scatterer properties with enhanced image quality.