Design and Synthesis of Chiral Molecular Tweezers Based on Deoxycholic Acid

Molecular tweezers is a novel type of artificial receptors, which not only offer the advantage of efficient construction but also their surfaces can be tailored for specific applications. The clefts of molecular tweezers are particularly effective in regard to complementarity with substrates since functional groups attached to the interior of the cleft converge on substrates held inside1. So, in recent years, the molecular tweezers receptors have attracted more and more attention in molecular …     

Synthesis of Pyrazolines Used as Blue Organic Electroluminescence Materials

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catena‐Poly­[[[bis­(perchlorato‐O)­(1,10‐phenanthroline‐N,N′)­copper(II)]‐μ‐4,4′‐bi­pyridine‐N:N′] monohydrate]

The Cu atom in the title complex {[Cu(C₁₀H₈N₂)(C₁₂H₈N₂)(ClO₄)₂]·H₂O}_n, has an N₄O₂ octahedral coordination geometry, the Cu atoms being bridged by the bi­pyridine and chelated by the phenanthroline heterocycles. Adjacent mol­ecules are linked into a zigzag chain running along the c axis of the monoclinic unit cell. The chains are connected through lattice water mol­ecules to produce a layer structure.     

Di­methyl 2‐(4‐bromo­phenyl)‐10,11‐di­methoxy‐2,3,7,8‐tetra­hydro­spiro­[azepino[2,1‐a]­iso­quinoline‐3,9′‐fluorene]‐4,5‐di­carboxyl­ate

The title compound, C₃₈H₃₂BrNO₆, is a new photochromic tetra­hydro­azepinoiso­quinoline (THAI). The longest spiro bond [1.589 (4) Å] can be broken very easily by UV light, leading to ring opening. This explains the photochromic behaviour.     

Synthesis of Novel Chiral Diol Ligands for the Enantioselective Reactions

The chiral diols ((,(,((,((-Tetraaryl-1,3-dioxolane-4,5-dimethanols) have been used for the formation of cyclic titanates and similar derivatives of Mg, Al and Zr. These complexes of oxophilic metal centers were employed in catalytic and stiochiometric enantioselective reactions such as enantioselective addition reactions of carbon-centered nucleophiles to aldehydes1, [2+2] cycloadditions2, and Diels-Alder reactions3. So far, the two hydrogen atoms of all this type of diols are in trans form…     

Improving histogram-based image contrast enhancement using gray-level information histogram with application to X-ray images

Many applications of histogram-based techniques for the purposes of image enhancement are well known. However, these techniques often fail to produce satisfactory results for a broad variety of low-contrast images (e.g., X-ray images). In this paper, we propose a new form of histogram for image contrast enhancement. The input image is first divided into several equal-sized regions according to the intensities of gradients, their corresponding statistical values of gray levels are then modified respectively, and finally the processed histogram for the whole image is obtained by the summation of all the weighted values of regions. The fundamental characteristic of this new form of histogram is that the amplitudes of its components can objectively reflect the contribution of the gray levels to the representation of image information. Accordingly, this new histogram is called gray-level information histogram. The performance of many histogram-based enhancement techniques might be improved dramatically using the proposed histogram. Testing on the X-ray images validates the effectiveness of the new histogram.