Effect of Cation/Anion Co‐doping on the Photocatalytic Performance of Na3SbO(PO4)2

Silver/copper‐nitrogen co‐doped Na₃SbO(PO₄)₂ were prepared by solid state/ion exchange methods. The materials were characterized by powder XRD, SEM‐EDS, TG analysis, as well as FT‐IR and UV/Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. All the doped materials crystallize in orthorhombic lattice with space group P2₁2₁2₁. The infrared spectra of the samples gave characteristic bands corresponding to PO₄ and SbO₆ groups. The bandgap energy of all the samples was deduced from their UV/Vis DRS profiles. The bandgap energy of doped materials decreased substantially. Visible‐light‐induced photocatalytic oxidation of the methyl violet (MV) and methylene blue (MB) was examined. The influence of cation, anion, and co‐doping on the photoactivity of Na₃SbO(PO₄)₂ was studied. The Ag⁺ and nitrogen co‐doped Na₃SbO(PO₄)₂ exhibited the highest photocatalytic activity among the materials investigated.     

Choosing among heterogeneous server clouds

This paper considers a model of interest in cloud computing applications. We consider a multiserver system consisting of N heterogeneous servers. The servers are categorized into M(\(\ll N\)) different types according to their service capabilities. Jobs having specific resource requirements arrive at the system according to a Poisson process with rate \(N \lambda \). Upon each arrival, a small number of servers are sampled uniformly at random from each server type. The job is then routed to the sampled server with maximum vacancy per server capacity. If a job cannot obtain the required amount of resources from the server to which it is assigned, then the job is discarded. We analyze the system in the limit as \(N \rightarrow \infty \). This gives rise to a mean field, which we show has a unique fixed point and is globally attractive. Furthermore, as \(N\rightarrow \infty \), the servers behave independently. The stationary tail probabilities of server occupancies are obtained from the stationary solution of the mean field. Numerical results suggest that the proposed scheme significantly reduces the average blocking probability compared to static schemes that probabilistically route jobs to servers in proportion to the number of servers of each type. Moreover, the reduction in blocking holds even for systems at high load. For the limiting system in statistical equilibrium, our simulation results indicate that the occupancy distribution is insensitive to the holding time distribution and only depends on its mean.     

Efficient method for the synthesis of 1,2,3-triazole functionalized isoxazolidine derivatives by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of nitrones with terminal olefins

1-Phenyl-1,2,3-triazole-4-carbaldehyde 1 was treated with different N-alkyl hydroxylamine hydrochlorides 2 using NaHCO₃ to obtain 1,2,3-triazole substituted N-alkyl nitrones 3a–c. The nitrones 3a–c were further reacted with different substituted olefins and furnished 2-alkyl-3-(1-phenyl-1H-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)-5-(substituted)isoxazolidine derivatives 4a–p in high yields via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction.     

A catalyst free synthesis of 8, 9, 11-trihalo-5H-benzofuro[3,2-c]carbazol-10-ols

8, 9, 11-Trichloro-5H-benzofuro[3,2-c]carbazol-10-ol analogues have been synthesized by treating 2,3-dihydro-1H-carbazol-4(9H)-one with chloranil/fluoranil without any catalyst and is found to be applicable across a range of carbazolone substrates. A possible mechanism has been proposed.     

Solvent effects on the structure of the triplet excited state of xanthone: a time‐resolved resonance Raman study

Solvent effects, especially intermolecular hydrogen bonding, play a central role in the photophysics and photochemistry of aromatic ketones. To gain insight into the solute–solvent interactions and their implications for structure and reactivity, we studied xanthone (XT) in two different solvents of similar dipolarity: acetonitrile (ACN; aprotic) and methanol (MeOH; protic), using time‐resolved resonance Raman (TR³) spectroscopy in conjunction with time‐dependent density functional theory calculations. Raman excitation profiles of XT in ACN followed the triplet‐triplet absorption band with a shoulder at the blue end, but for MeOH, they followed the triplet‐triplet absorption band quite closely; therefore, we propose that the resonance enhancement of Raman peaks are from two states in ACN and from a single state in the MeOH solvent. Furthermore, a resonance Raman peak at 614 cm⁻¹ (a₂ symmetry) that appeared in ACN but not in the MeOH solvent has been identified as a vibronic active mode that could be involved in coupling the two lowest 1³ππ* (1³A₁) and 1³nπ* (1³A₂) excited states. This was further confirmed by depolarization ratio measurements of some of the representative TR³ peaks in ACN, which showed a depolarized intensity for the 614 cm⁻¹ peak while the other peaks were polarized. Interestingly, we also observed blue shifting of some of the vibrational frequencies of XT in the 1³ππ* state compared with the ground state with increasing solvent polarity. This anomalous blue shift casts doubt on the general use of the resonance canonical structure to explain the structure of the excited states. In summary, we propose that the different hydrogen bonding mechanisms exhibited by the two lowest triplet states of XT separate them further in energy and that this can contribute to its low reactivity towards H atom abstraction in protic solvents. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Eco-friendly synthesis of 1,8-naphthyridine 5-aryl-1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives under solvent-free solid-state conditions and their antimicrobial activity

Research on Chemical Intermediates - A simple and highly efficient green synthetic procedure has been described for the construction of...     

Rheological observation of glassy dynamics of dilute polymer solutions near the coil-stretch transition in elongational flows

It has long been conjectured that the macroscopic dynamics of dilute polymer solutions may exhibit a glasslike slowdown caused by ergodicity breaking, in the vicinity of the coil-stretch transition in elongational flows. We report experimental observations using a filament stretching rheometer that confirm the existence of such glassy states. It is observed that different time-dependent elongational strain-rate profiles lead to a pronounced history dependence and aging effects within a narrow range of strain rates. The results have a direct bearing on the analysis and design of processes employing dilute polymer solutions, such as ink-jet printing, surface coating, and turbulent-drag reduction.     

10-W-level diode-pumped compact 2.78 microm ZBLAN fiber laser

We report on >9W transverse-fundamental-mode CW output near 3 mum from a 4m heavily erbium-doped ZBLAN double-clad fiber laser pumped by a collimated 100 W 975 nm laser diode array. The pump threshold of the fiber laser was about 1W, and the slope efficiency was 21.3%. The peak wavelength of free running was about 2708 nm at low pump power and moved to around 2785 nm at high pump power. Output of 9W was obtained when the launched pump power was 42.8W. The output, however, fluctuated intensively like a pulsed laser, and the operation broke down with optical damage of the pumping end facet when the pump was increased beyond 42.8 W. Therefore, alleviation of the operation fluctuation, heat management, and strengthening the pumping fiber are crucial considerations for the stable operation of 10-W-level mid-IR ZBLAN fiber lasers.