A trifluoromethanesulfonic acid-catalyzed reaction of arylhydrazines with benzene

Arylhydrazines reacted with benzene in the presence of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid (TFSA) to give aminobiphenyls. This is a general method for the synthesis of aminobiphenyls.     

Selective separation of water–alcohol binary mixture through poly(maleimide-co-acrylonitrile) membrane

Separation of various alcohols and water through a membrane was carried out by means of a hydrogen-bonding interaction. A membrane obtained from poly(maleimide-co-acrylonitrile) was effective for a selective separation of water from aqueous alcohol solution by pervaporation technique. Spectroscopic analyses verified that this high selectivity was attributed to the hydrogen-bonding interaction between water and maleimide units in the membrane.     

On the breaking of chiral symmetry in the Schwinger model

The Schwinger model is reinvestigated in the A₁ = 0 gauge. Based on the explicit operator solution, it is suggested that the breaking of chiral symmetry is dynamical and the vacuum is unique contrary to the arguments by Kogut and Susskind.     

Crystal structure and radiation-induced solid-state polymerization of 1,3,5,7,9,11-hexoxecane

One of the cyclic oligomers of formaldehyde, 1,3,5,7,9,11-hexoxecane, was found to undergo polymerization in the solid state to form polyoxymethylene both during and subsequent to x- or γ-irradiation. The polymer yield increases with polymerization temperature but decreases drastically near the melting point of the hexoxecane crystal. In order to clarify the specificity of the solid-state polymerization, the crystal structure of hexoxecane was first analyzed; hexoxecane forms a trigonal crystal with cell dimensions of a = b = 7.917 Å, c = 11.345 Å, space group R3 –C_3i², three molecules of 3 symmetry per unit cell. The polyoxymethylene as polymerized from a single crystal of hexoxecane is highly crystalline and the crystallites are definitely oriented with respect to the original crystal. There are three kinds of oriented trigonal polyoxymethylene: i.e., with the polymer chains oriented along the 〈100〉, 〈001〉, and 〈210〉 axes of the hexoxecane crystal. The relative yields of these crystallites depend upon the polymerization temperature. In addition to the ordinary trigonal polyoxymethylene, oriented orthorhombic polyoxymethylene was also found in the case of polymerization during treatment with x-rays.