A new supramolecular assembly obtained from the combination of silver(I) cations with a thiophosphorylated cavitand

The new tetra-thiophosphonatocavitand 1 in its iiii configuration extracts quantitatively Ag+ ions from aqueous solutions; the tetranuclear complex [1(2).Ag4Pic4] was selectively formed and characterized in the solid state by X-ray diffraction which revealed the formation of a new dimeric assembly through Ag+ coordination.     

Expression of the prohelicity of bis-cyclomanganated 2,3-diphenylquinoxaline through reactions with diaryldiazomethanes

The reactions of bis-cyclomanganated 2,3-diphenylquinoxaline with diazodiphenylmethane and 9-diazofluorene allowed the formation of a new oligomeric and dinuclear manganospiralene and the ready preparation of a pentacyclic helix comprising two (eta 5-fluorenyl)Mn(CO)3 fragments, whose helicity can be locked upon one-dimensional linear coordination to silver cation.     

Bis(isoquinoline N-oxide) pincers as a new type of metal cation dual channel fluorosensor

[structure: see text] A new type of donor-spacer-acceptor podand system has been synthesized and proved as an efficient dual channel fluorosensor for Li+, Mg2+, and Ca2+. The known ability for the N-oxide function to bind Lewis acids is the key step in the appearance of a new emitting charge-transfer (CT) excited state. The occurrence of this CT state for alkaline earth (Mg2+ and Ca2+) and not for alkaline metals (Li+) provided a new type of dual channel fluorosensors.     

Square-wave voltammetric techniques for determination of psychoactive 1,4-benzodiazepine drugs

Direct square-wave voltammetry (SWV) and square-wave cathodic stripping voltammetry (SWCSV) at hanging mercury drop electrodes have been developed for determination of the psychoactive 1,4-benzodiazepine compounds clonazepam, bromazepam, midazolam, diazepam, medazepam, and flurazepam over a wide range of concentrations. Analysis was performed with better precision, lower detection limits, and much more rapidly than by previously reported voltammetric techniques.The applicability of both procedures is discussed. The methods were applied to the analysis of commercially available tablets with minimum sample manipulation. The accuracy of the results was accessed by comparison with those obtained by use of the methods described in official pharmacopoeias. A critical comparison with those procedures is also presented.     

Milliwatt-peak-power pulse characterization at 1.55 microm by wavelength-conversion frequency-resolved optical gating

A novel wavelength-conversion configuration based on four-wave mixing in an optical fiber has been used to generate a frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) trace identical to that obtained from second-harmonic generation (SHG). The use of an optical fiber waveguide permits enhanced measurement sensitivity compared with that of conventional SHG-FROG and has been used for complete characterization of 1-mW peak-power picosecond pulses at 1.55 microm from an unamplified semiconductor laser diode gain switched at 10 GHz.     

Euclidian distance-weighted smoothing for quantitative MRI: application to intervoxel anisotropy index mapping with DTI

During the computation of intervoxel anisotropy features, the inclusion of both eigenvalues and eigenvectors reduces the effect of noise, but spatial averaging blurs the resulting maps. We propose a new adaptive technique that uses data-dependent weights in the averaging process so that the influence of each neighbor in the local window is proportional to the similarity of characteristics of the neighbor considered to those of the reference central voxel. This likeness criterion is based on the multidimensional Euclidian distance using the entire available multispectral information contained in the diffusion-weighted images. This solution is controlled by a single parameter beta that results from a compromise between edge-preserving and noise-smoothing abilities. This Euclidian distance-weighted technique is a generic solution for filtering noise during parametric reconstruction. It was applied to map anisotropy using an intervoxel lattice index (LI) from experimental images of mouse brain in vivo and achieves noise reduction without distorting small anatomical structures. We also show how to employ in the discrimination scheme the images not used in the estimation of the considered feature.     

Extensive Properties of the Complex Ginzburg–Landau Equation

We study the set of solutions of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in R^d, d <3. We consider the global attracting set (i.e., the forward map of the set of bounded initial data), and restrict it to a cube Q_L of side L. We cover this set by a (minimal) number N_QL(l) of balls of radius l in $L^infin(Q_L). We show that the Kolmogorov l-entropy per unit length, $L^infin(Q_L). We show that the Kolmogorov l-entropy per unit length, H_\epsilon =\lim_{L\to\infty} L^{-d} \logtwo N_{Q_L}(\epsilon)< /FORMULA > exists. In particular, we bound < FORMULA FORM=ÏNLINE» exists. In particular, we bound H_\epsilon< /FORMULA > by < FORMULA FORM=ÏNLINE» by \OO\bigl(\logtwo(1/\epsilon )\bigr)< /FORMULA > , which shows that the attracting set is < SMALL > smaller < /SMALL > than the set of bounded analytic functions in a strip. We finally give a positive lower bound: < FORMULA FORM=ÏNLINE», which shows that the attracting set is smaller than the set of bounded analytic functions in a strip. We finally give a positive lower bound: H_\epsilon>\OO\bigl (\logtwo(1/\epsilon)\bigr)$.