The cover picture shows a typical building within the Campus of Xiamen University displaying Chen Jiageng (Tan Kah Kee)'s style. Just like many beautiful buildings designed and constructed by human, Nature “designs and constructs” a huge number of useful molecules with fascinating structures called natural products. Many natural products possess a fused six or seven‐membered carbocyclic unity. On page 315–322, the Huang's group disclosed a three‐step “[2+n]” annulation method for the construction of fused six and seven‐membered carbocyclic enimines and enones. The method starts from simple cyclic ketones and terminal olefinic amides, and relies on both the Suzuki coupling reaction and the olefin‐amide based Friedel‐Crafts type acylating reaction, a method developed by Huang and coworkers.
Poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) (PMP) hollow fiber membranes were prepared by the melt-spun and cold-stretch(MSCS) method. Scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) was used to characterize the section and surface structures of themembranes with special asymmetric structure. The preliminary results of gas permeation measurements indicated that the resultant hollow fiber membranes have the potential ability for oxygen/nitrogen separation. 相似文献
The resistance distance rij between two vertices vi and vj of a (connected, molecular) graph G is equal to the resistance between the respective two points of an electrical network, constructed so as to correspond to G, such that the resistance of any two adjacent points is unity. We show how the matrix elements rij can be expressed in terms of the Laplacian eigenvalues and eigenvectors of G. In addition, we determine certain properties of the resistance matrix R=||rij||.
AcknowledgementsThis research was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China and Fujian Province, and by the Ministry of Sciences, Technologies and Development of Serbia, within Project no. 1389. The authors thank Douglas J. Klein (Galveston) for useful comments. 相似文献
A highly efficient Pd/C-catalyzed ligandless, heterogeneous Suzuki reaction of p-(un)substituted phenyl halide with (p-substituted phenyl)boronic acid in DMF/H2O solvent in a short reaction time (0.5 h) at 75 ℃ was developed. The key for such a catalytic system was the addition of 1 equivalent of tetrabutylammonium bromide. A wide variety of substituents can be tolerated and high yields of cross coupling products were achieved. The palladium catalyst can be easily recovered and reused without significantly decreasing its efficiency. 相似文献
Transparent TiO2 films with a high photodegradation activity towards an azo dye in aqueous solution were prepared by sol–gel processing. Films
on soda–lime glass supports protected with a thin silica barrier layer exhibited better crystallization and monodisperse nanoparticles,
higher absorption of light below 370 nm, and higher photocatalytic activity than those films deposited on bare glass supports
proving the detrimental effect of interdiffused sodium ions on the development of the anatase nanostructure. The effect of
substrate was more pronounced in thinner films (300 nm) than in thicker ones (1200 nm), which were achieved by adding a template
(i.e. Pluronic F127) to the sol. 相似文献
The compounds with a single and double -CH2C6H4CH2- spacer, [CpFeC3B8H10-NH-CH2C6H4CH2-NH-C3B8H10FeCp] and [CpFeC3B8H10-N-(CH2C6H4CH2)2-N-C3B8H10FeCp], represent the first example of designed shaping by extremely stable cyclopentadienyl-ferratricarbollide (CpFeTCB) cages into rigid molecular constructions approaching linear arrangement. 相似文献
The metalation of (quasi)alkoxy-substituted dibromobenzenes C6H3(OR)Br2 with lithium diisopropylamide (LDA) has been investigated. For 1-(quasi)alkoxy-3,5-dibromobenzenes (R = Me, TMS), different selectivities were observed depending on reaction conditions and the size of the alkoxy group. The methoxy group was an effective ortho-director whereas this was not the case for the bulky trimethylsilyloxy group. The metalation of related 2,5-dibromoanisole was also examined showing a significant meta-directing effect by the methoxy group. The thermal stability of aryllithium intermediates is significantly lower when lithium is flanked by a bromine and a methoxy group, whereas 4-(quasi)alkoxy-2,6-dibromoaryllithiums are less labile. 相似文献
Due to the steric barrier provided by the adsorption of the dispersant hypermer KD1 (a polyester/polyamine condensation polymer), stable and low-viscosity suspensions of SiC, Y(2)O(3), and Al(2)O(3) powder mixtures could be prepared in methyl ethyl ketone (MEK)/ethanol (E) solvent with solids loading as high as 60 vol%. The solvency of the dispersant in MEK/E decreased dramatically on cooling. Steady shear viscosity and oscillatory measurements were performed as a function of temperature for suspensions with different solids loading. The viscosity and elastic modulus of suspension increased with decreasing temperature and became more sensitive with the increase of solids loading. The suspensions with solids loading higher than 40 vol% could be solidified with decreasing temperature, but gelation temperature and gelation stiffness decreased with decreasing solids loading. The 60 vol% solid-loaded suspension was a stable and free-flowing fluid at 20 degrees C and gradually transformed to a very highly viscous and elastic system upon cooling to about 13 degrees C. Complete solidification occurred when the temperature was decreased to 5 degrees C. The gelation mechanism was mainly based on the collapse of the adsorbed layer as the temperature decreases, which induced incipient flocculation and formed a stiff network. The gelled body was further strengthened by separation of the dispersant from the suspension. 相似文献
We calculate energy barriers of atom- and proton-transfer reactions in hydrogen-bonded complexes in the gas phase. Our calculations do not involve adjustable parameters and are based on bond-dissociation energies, ionization potentials, electron affinities, bond lengths, and vibration frequencies of the reactive bonds. The calculated barriers are in agreement with experimental data and high-level ab initio calculations. We relate the height of the barrier with the molecular properties of the reactants and complexes. The structure of complexes with strong hydrogen bonds approaches that of the transition state, and substantially reduces the barrier height. We calculate the hydrogen-abstraction rates in H-bonded systems using the transition-state theory with the semiclassical correction for tunneling, and show that they are in excellent agreement with the experimental data. H-bonding leads to an increase in tunneling corrections at room temperature. 相似文献