CATALYSE INTRAMOLECULAIRE DE L'AMINOLYSE DES HETEROCYCLES PHOSPHORES DERIVES DES α AMINOAMIDES. II: ETUDE DE LA CYCLISATION DES PHOSPHORDIAMIDES INCORPORANT UN RESIDU DE β AMINOACIDE,REACTIVITE VIS A VIS DE NUCLEOPHILES DES HETEROCYCLES FORMES

Abstract

Derivatives of β aminoacids in form of esters 1 or nitrile 4 (table I) undergo in an alcohol-ate/alcohol medium a rearrangement (Fig. 2), with formation of a β peptide link, resulting in the formation of esters 6 (table II). According to the experimental conditions the six membered ring heterocycles 5 are detected or isolated. They are also synthetized by cyclisation of acids 2 or hydrazide 3 (Fig. 5). While phosphorus easily reacts with alcohols and water, leading respectively to esters 6 and acids 9 (Fig. 7), it remains unaffected by amines. These results are discussed in term of mechanisms of the phosphorylation. The applications for β peptide synthesis and the participation of the p amide group in phosphorylation are limited.     

Synthesis of green organogelators with a sulfide linkage via solvent-free Michael addition: soft templates for the preparation of size-controlled gold nanoparticles

Green organogelators with a sulfide linkage and free amino groups were synthesized via phase transfer catalysis using a N-benzylcinchonidinium bromide catalyst. Their self-assemblies in various common solvents were examined. These compounds exhibit high gelation ability especially in aromatic and highly polar solvents with a low critical gelation of 0.1 wt %. The organogels were analyzed by ¹H nuclear magnetic resonance (¹H NMR) and Fourier transfer-infrared spectroscopies (FT-IR), and their phase transition temperatures were determined by differential scanning calorimetry. The homogeneity of the gel networks was examined by field emission scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). A lamellar structure was also confirmed by X-ray diffraction analysis. The organogels were employed as soft-templates for the in situ generation of stable gold nanoparticles dispersed in the gel matrix, and the resulting GNP dispersions were studied by ¹H NMR and UV–vis absorption. Transmission electron microscopy showed that GNPs assemble into a thin membrane-like structure.     

Electrodeposited copolymer electrolyte into nanostructured titania electrodes for 3D Li-ion microbatteries

The electrochemical synthesis of a copolymer electrolyte (PEO-PMMA) into titania nanotubes is described and studied. Compared with the electrochemical systems based on solid electrolytes deposited by top-down techniques, the copolymer/titania nanotube material reveals high electrochemical performance, opening new perspectives for the fabrication of 3D all-solid-state microbatteries.     

High Speed Video Camera and Electrical Signal Analyses of Arcs Behavior in a 3-Phase AC Arc Plasma Torch

A 3-phase AC plasma torch has been developed and aims at overcoming some limits of the classical DC torches in terms of efficiency, cost and reliability. However, the arc behavior in 3-phase plasma torch remains poorly explored. This paper is dedicated to the high speed video camera at 100,000 frames per second and electrical signal analyses of arcs behavior in a 3-phase AC arc plasma torch. First, a reference case at 150 A, in nitrogen as working gas, has been deeply analyzed. Afterwards, a parametric study based on current and inter-electrode gap has been carried out. Results show that only one arc can exist at a given time and arcs rotate by switching from a pair of electrodes to another one, following the maximal electrical gap potential. However, a particular “abnormal” arc behavior was sometimes observed. Indeed, the arc motion within the inter-electrode gap increases the heat exchange and stabilizes the 3-phase discharge whereas the system is unbalanced when the arc is in the periphery. The analysis highlights that the arc motion is strongly influenced by the electrode jet velocity and repulsive Lorentz forces. The parametric study shows that the current increases both jet velocity and arc discharge stability. Elsewhere, the increase of the inter-electrode gap can also stabilizes the electrical 3-phase arc discharge. Furthermore, the correlation between arc motion and current waveform is highlighted. This work is likely to open the way toward a better understanding of 3-phase discharges in the perspective of their further optimization.     

Tetraazamacrocycles lipophiles : synthese et application a l'extraction de Cu (II), Cd (II) et Pb (II)

The synthesis of three lipophilic n-dodecyl tetraazacycloalkanes is described. Extraction of Cu(II), Cd(II) and Pb(II) is related.     

On Torsion of Prismatic Bodies

The method of decaying residual solution is applied to obtain an approximate interior solution for the torsion of slender prismatic elastic bodies under different end conditions. The approximate solution is generally accurate up to terms that are exponentially small in the length-to-cross-sectional-width ratio. For stress end conditions, the result is identical to the classical Saint-Venant torsion solution. Similar types of simple solutions, not known previously, are obtained for different types of mixed end conditions. For displacement conditions at both ends, the corresponding Saint-Venant type result requires an accurate solution of a canonical problem for a semi-infinite prismatic body that is to be obtained once and for all. The solution of the canonical problem is elementary for a circular cross section. The approximate interior solution in that case is identical to the known exact interior solution.     

On Non-simple Marked Point Processes

Simple point processes are often characterized by their associated compensators or conditional intensities. Non-simple point processes are not uniquely determined by their conditional intensity and compensator, so instead one may identify with the point process its associated simple point process and corresponding conditional intensity, on an expanded mark space. Some relations between the conditional intensity on the expanded mark space and the ordinary conditional intensity are investigated here, and some classes of separable non-simple processes are presented. Transformations into simple point processes, involving thinning and rescaling, are presented.     

Design and FPGA-realization of a self-synchronizing chaotic decoder in the presence of noise

This paper describes requirement for wireless transmission of Chaotic Code Division Multiplexed Access (Chaotic CDMA) and it focuses on real-time synchronization algorithm embedded into electronic programmable device. CDMA with quasi-orthogonal codes is used to allow multi-users to transmit simultaneously in the same channel. Since the channel is shared between all users, the receiver system has to cope with channel noise and overall with interference from other users. As a result, one of the main problems of communication with quasi-orthogonal chaotic codes is to implement a real time decoder in presence of noise. Even if set-membership algorithm are efficient in real time synchronization of chaotic discrete generators in the presence of noise, these algorithms require a large memory resource. In this paper, we propose an evolution of set-membership algorithm toward genetic algorithm to be implemented into electronic programmable device. The advantage of genetic algorithm compared with set-membership algorithm is that they require a fixed size of memory.     

Considerations on the spring analogy

This paper presents an investigation on the spring analogy. The spring analogy serves for deformation in a moving boundary problem. First, two different kinds of springs are discussed: the vertex springs and the segment springs. The vertex spring analogy is originally used for smoothing a mesh after mesh generation or refinement. The segment spring analogy is used for deformation of the mesh in a moving boundary problem. The difference between the two methods lies in the equilibrium length of the springs. By means of an analogy to molecular theory, the two theories are generalized into a single theory that covers both. The usual choice of the stiffness of the spring is clarified by the mathematical analysis of a representative one‐dimensional configuration. The analysis shows that node collision is prevented when the stiffness is chosen as the inverse of the segment length. The observed similarity between elliptic grid generation and the spring analogy is also investigated. This investigation shows that both methods update the grid point position by a weighted average of the surrounding points in an iterative manner. The weighting functions enforce regularity of the mesh. Based on these considerations, several improvements on the spring analogy are developed. The principle of Saint Venant is circumvented by a boundary correction. The prevention of inversion of triangular elements is improved by semi‐torsional springs. The numerical results show the superiority of the segment spring analogy over the vertex one for a small rotation of an NACA0012 mesh. The boundary correction allows for large deformation of the mesh, where the standard spring analogy fails. The final test is performed on a Navier–Stokes mesh. This mesh contains high aspect ratio mesh cells near the boundary. Large deformation of this mesh shows that the semi‐torsional spring improvement is imperative to retain the validity of this mesh. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.