Evidence of Dynamical Fluctuation of Target Residues in Relativistic Nuclear Interaction at 14.5 AGeV

An analysis of data of target fragments of ²⁸Si-AgBr (at 14.5 AGeV) reveals the existence of emission asymmetry in the azimuthal plane, which is found to depend on the number of target fragments. The comparison with the data of ³²S-AgBr (at 200 AGeV) and ¹⁶O-AgBr (at 60 AGeV) interactions indicates that emission asymmetry depends on the projectile mass and energy.     

Atom Capture by Nanotube and Scaling Anomaly

The existence of bound state of the polarizable neutral atom in the inverse square potential created by the electric field of a single walled charged carbon nanotube (SWNT) is shown to be theoretically possible. The consideration of inequivalent boundary conditions due to self-adjoint extensions lead to this nontrivial bound state solution. It is also shown that the scaling anomaly is responsible for the existence of such bound state. Binding of the polarizable atoms in the coupling constant interval η ²∈[0,1) may be responsible for the smearing of the edge of steps in quantized conductance, which has not been considered so far in the literature.     

Finite Inhomogeneous Radial Expansion (Contraction) and Longitudinal Shearing of an Isotropic Compressible Elastic Circular Cylindrical Shell

We have first obtained that the equations of equilibrium governing the finite radial expansion (contraction) and longitudinal shearing of a circular cylindrical shell become uncoupled for a class of harmonic materials (a class of isotropic homogeneous compressible elastic materials). Next it has been assumed that the dilatation is uniform. Following this the exact solutions of the uncoupled equations of equilibrium have been obtained for a simple harmonic material which is reduced to the Neo-Hookean material for the incompressible case. The deformation is nonhomogeneous in nature. The stresses have been obtained. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Reductive deamination of aryl- and heteroaryl-amines via pyridinium fluorides

The corresponding “pseudobase” Δ² -1,5-diketones (8) and (14) afford dihydrochromenylium (9b) and tetrahydro-xanthylium monofluorides (15). These convert aryl- and heteroarylamines into dihydroquinolinium (10) and tetrahydro-acridinium (16) monofluorides which at 130–250° give the deaminated arenes and heteroarenes (average overall yield 60%).     

Synthesis and intramolecular nitrile oxide cycloaddition of 3,5'-ether-linked pseudooligosaccharide derivatives: an approach to chiral macrooxacycles

3,5'-ether-linked pseudooligopentose derivatives were synthesized for the first time from readily available carbohydrate precursors. The 1,2-isopropylidene-protected ether-linked oligopentoses are potentially important as precursors of novel RNA analogues. Intramolecular cycloaddition of the nitrile oxides prepared from these derivatives led to the diastereoselective formation of chiral isoxazolines fused to 10-16-membered oxacycles. The stereochemistry of some of these isoxazolines was established by X-ray diffraction and NOESY analysis.     

A dynamical study of the principle of maximum hardness

Temporal evolution of local and global hardness during an ion-atom collision process has been studied within a quantum fluid density functional framework. A dynamical variant of the maximum hardness principle has been found to be operative. Entropy maximises in the encounter regime. Time dependence of density and its laplacian provides important insights into the collision processvis-a-vis the hardness maximisation.     

Divergent cycloaddition and ring-closing metathesis approaches to indolizidine and pyrrolo[1,2-a]azepine skeletons from a chiral precursor: an expeditious route to (-)-8-epi-swainsonine triacetate

[reaction: see text] A divergent strategy for the synthesis of diverse azabicyclic ring systems has been developed in which a chiral N-allylpyrrolidine derivative, obtained from a carbohydrate precursor was converted to (-)-8-epi-swainsonine triacetate by RCM and to a pyrrolo[1,2-a]azepine derivative and a 3-hydroxymethyl-substituted indolizidine by N-allylcarbohydrate nitrone and nitrile oxide cycloadditions.