Solvent‐Controlled Bifurcated Cascade Process for the Selective Preparation of Dihydrocarbazoles or Dihydropyridoindoles

A solvent‐controlled cascade process has been identified for the dual purpose of the preparation of either dihydrocarbazoles or dihydropyridoindoles from identical N‐aryl‐α,β‐unsaturated nitrones and electron‐deficient allene starting materials. These reactions proceed smoothly under mild metal‐free conditions affording a range of two types of skeletally distinct indole‐based heterocycles in high yield and diastereoselectivity. These transformations demonstrate the use of a bifurcated cascade process that hinges on the ring‐opening event of a benzazepine intermediate for the synthesis of skeletally diverse heterocyclic products and rapid access to biologically‐significant, indole‐based structures.     

Deterministic Multi-hop Controlled Teleportation of Arbitrary Single-Qubit State

International Journal of Theoretical Physics - Multi-hop teleportation is of great significance due to long-distance delivery of quantum information and wireless quantum communication networks. In...     

MAO‐free and extremely active catalytic system for ethylene tetramerization

The original Sasol catalytic system for ethylene tetramerization is composed of a Cr source, a PNP ligand, and MAO (methylaluminoxane). The use of expensive MAO in excess has been a critical concern in commercial operation. Many efforts have been made to replace MAO with non‐coordinating anions (e.g., [B(C₆F₅)₄]^?); however, most of such attempts were unsuccessful. Herein, an extremely active catalytic system that avoids the use of MAO is presented. The successive addition of two equivalent [H(OEt₂)₂]⁺[B(C₆F₅)₄]^? and one equivalent CrCl₃(THF)₃ to (acac)AlEt₂ and subsequent treatment with a PNP ligand [CH₃(CH₂)₁₆]₂C(H)N(PPh₂)₂ ( 1 ) yielded a complex presumably formulated as [ 1 ‐CrAl (acac)Cl₃(THF)]²⁺[B(C₆F₅)₄]^?₂, which exhibited high activity when combined with iBu₃Al (1120 kg/g‐Cr/h; ~4 times that of the original Sasol system composed of Cr (acac)₃, iPrN(PPh₂)₂, and MAO). Via the introduction of bulky trialkylsilyl substituents such as –SiMe₃, –Si(nBu)₃, or –SiMe₂(CH₂)₇CH₃ at the para‐position of phenyl groups in 1 (i.e., by using [CH₃(CH₂)₁₆]₂C(H)N[P(C₆H₄‐p‐SiR₃)₂]₂ instead of 1 ), the activities were dramatically improved, i.e., tripled (2960–3340 kg/g‐Cr/h; more than 10 times that of the original Sasol system). The generation of significantly less PE (<0.2 wt%) even at a high temperature is another advantage achieved by the introduction of bulky trialkylsilyl substituents. NMR studies and DFT calculations suggest that increase of the steric bulkiness on the alkyl‐N and P‐aryl moieties restrict the free rotation around (alkyl)N–P (aryl) bonds, which may cause the generation of more robust active species in higher proportion, leading to extremely high activity along with the generation of a smaller amount of PE.     

Interior gradient and Hessian estimates for the Dirichlet problem of semi-linear degenerate elliptic systems: A probabilistic approach

In this paper, we give interior gradient and Hessian estimates for systems of semi-linear degenerate elliptic partial differential equations on bounded domains, using both tools of backward stochastic differential equations and quasi-derivatives.     

Attraction behaviour of Anagrus nilaparvatae to remote lemongrass (Cymbopogon distans) oil and its volatile compounds

Utilisation of Anagrus nilaparvatae is a promising and effective method for planthoppers manipulation. Twenty-seven components of remote lemongrass (Cymbopogon distans) oil were identified by GC/MS and nine volatiles were selected for behavioural experiments. In this study, we noted that the remote lemongrass oil was attractive to female A. nilaparvatae at concentrations of 0.1 and 1 mg/L. α-Pinene, β-pinene, eucalyptol, carveol and D-carvone attracted female wasps in the dose-dependent bioassays. Blend 1 (a mixture of eucalyptol, D-carvone, carveol, α-pinene, and β-pinene with ratios of remote lemongrass oil volatiles of 625:80:11:5:3) attracted female wasps at 10 mg/L, while blend 2 (a mixture of the same five volatiles at the same loading ratio) attracted them at 0.1 and 1 mg/L. These results suggested that plant essential oils could be attractants for natural enemies to control pests. The ratios of volatiles in the mixtures affect the attractiveness of the synthetic mixtures.     

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Qualitative Properties of Infinite Dimensional Linear Programming Problems

Necessary and sufficient conditions for qualitative properties of infinite dimensional linear programing problems such as solvability, duality, and complementary slackness conditions are studied in this article. As illustrations for the results, we investigate the parametric version of Gale’s example.     

A Quantum Watermarking Protocol Based on Bell Dual Basis

This paper presents a Bell-dual-basis-based quantum watermarking protocol composed of three major algorithms: watermark embedding and extracting and the intercepting test. The first two are completed by using the entanglement swapping property of Bell dual basis and the test is accomplished through IBF protocol to guarantee its bottom security. The watermarking protocol is mainly designed for the protection of digital copyright in the existence of classical information. This design finds that the quality of digital contents is not damaged with its zero-watermark attributes when embedding watermarks.     

Variable square pulse vs conventional PFN pumping of Er:YAG laser

The influence of the flashlamp pump current pulse shape on Er:YAG laser efficiency and laser rod thermal focusing was studied theoretically and experimentally. Two pulse shapes, PFN (Pulse Forming Network) and VSP (Variable Square Pulse), were considered. Theoretical modeling and experimental measurements show that the pump pulse shape itself does not have a significant influence on the Er:YAG laser efficiency or thermal focusing. Instead, the major parameter influencing Er:YAG laser efficiency and thermal focusing was found to be the overall pulse duration. For PFN pulses, rise and fall times directly define the overall pulse duration, and therefore do have influence on thermal focusing. By contrast, VSP pulse duration is defined by the externally controlled on-time of the switching transistor. For square shaped pulses, short rise and fall times do not have a direct beneficial influence on thermal lensing.