含有手性和发光官能团侧基的聚1-苯基-1-辛炔的合成与性能研究

设计并合成了一系列含手性和发光生色团侧基的聚（1-苯基-1-辛炔）衍生物{-[（C6H13）C=C（C6H4-p-CO2-R）]n-,R=[（1S）-endo]-（-）-冰片基（P3）,（1R,2S,5R）-（-）-薄荷基（P4）,-C6H4-p-（1R,2S,5R）-（-）-薄荷基（P5）,2-萘基（P6）,4-联苯基（P7）}.用WCl6-Ph4Sn作催化剂,成功地制备了这些具有中等产率和高分子量（Mw高达64000）的聚合物.聚合物的结构和性能通过NMR,TGA,UV,CD,PL和EL等分析方法进行了表征.所有聚合物都表现出良好的热稳定性,在N2保护条件下,其失重5%的温度在300～416℃之间.所有聚合物的带隙约为3.0eV.聚合物P4和P5表现出与聚合物链段螺旋性相对应的CD吸收.在UV辐照下,P3～P7的THF溶液均发射强烈蓝光,其最大发射波长位于485nm左右,量子效率均高于20%.聚合物薄膜发射与其溶液发射在相同的光谱区域,并表现出轻微的聚集诱导猝灭.制备了ITO/聚合物：PVK/BCP/Alq3/LiF/Al多层聚合物EL器件,其最大发射波长为487nm.随着侧基的改变,器件的最大亮度和外量子效率也随之发生变化,其中P6表现出最高的外量子效率（0.16%）.EL器件均具有良好的光谱稳定性,其EL最大发射峰几乎不随外加电压的变化而改变.     

Mean–variance asset–liability management: Cointegrated assets and insurance liability

The cointegration of major financial markets around the globe is well evidenced with strong empirical support. This paper considers the continuous-time mean–variance (MV) asset–liability management (ALM) problem for an insurer investing in an incomplete financial market with cointegrated assets. The number of trading assets is allowed to be less than the number of Brownian motions spanning the market. The insurer also faces the risk of paying uncertain insurance claims during the investment period. We assume that the cointegration market follows the diffusion limit of the error-correction model for cointegrated time series. Using the Markowitz (1952) MV portfolio criterion, we consider the insurer’s problem of minimizing variance in the terminal wealth, given an expected terminal wealth subject to interim random liability payments following a compound Poisson process. We generalize the technique developed by Lim (2005) to tackle this problem. The particular structure of cointegration enables us to solve the ALM problem completely in the sense that the solutions of the continuous-time portfolio policy and efficient frontier are obtained as explicit and closed-form formulas.     

Reaction pathways of Sc+ (3D, 1D) and Fe+ (6D, 4F) with acetone in the gas phase: metal ion oxidation and acetone deethanization

The reactions of Sc⁺ (³D, ¹D) and Fe⁺ (⁶D, ⁴ F) with acetone have been investigated in both high‐ and low‐spin states using density functional theory. Our calculations have indicated that oxidation of Sc⁺ by acetone can take place by (1) metal‐mediated H migration, (2) direct methyl‐H shift and/or (3) C = O insertion. The most energetically favorable pathway is metal‐mediated H migration followed by intramolecular ScO⁺ rotation and dissociation. For the deethanization of acetone mediated by Fe⁺, the reaction occurs on either the quartet or sextet surfaces through five elementary steps, i.e. encounter complexation, C–C bond activation, methyl migration, C–C coupling and non‐reactive dissociation. The rate‐determining step along the quartet‐state potential‐energy surface (PES) is similar to that in the case of Ni⁺ (² F, 3d⁹), namely the methyl‐migration step. For the sextet‐state PES, however, the energy barrier for methyl migration is lower than that for C–C bond activation, and the rate‐determining step is C–C coupling. In general, the low‐spin‐state pathways are lower in energy than the high‐spin‐state pathways; therefore, the reaction pathways for the oxidation of Sc⁺ and the Fe⁺‐mediated deethanization of acetone mostly involve the low‐spin states. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Selective opening of airholes in photonic crystal fiber

We introduce a femtosecond-laser-based technique for selective opening of airholes in photonic crystal fibers (PCFs). With this technique, selective filling and inflation of the airholes in the PCF cladding are demonstrated. The technique may find important applications in tailoring or altering PCF characteristics and make it possible to seamlessly integrate various components/functions into PCFs.     

An efficient and practical synthesis of 2,4-substituted pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidin-5(6H)-ones

We describe an efficient synthesis of 2,4-substituted pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidin-5(6H)-ones, which involves the acid-promoted cyclization of cyano enamine 15 to afford 2,4-bis(methylthio)pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidin-5(6H)-one 17 as a key intermediate. Selective displacement of the 4-methylthio group by a wide range of anilines followed by oxidation of the 2-methylthio group and subsequent substitution by amines enabled the synthesis of a variety of 2,4-disubstituted pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidin-5(6H)-ones.     

Silole-containing linear and hyperbranched polymers: synthesis,thermal stability,light emission,nano-dimensional aggregation,and optical power limiting

Linear polyacetylenes and hyperbranched polyphenylenes carrying 1,2,3,4,5-pentaphenylsilolyl (PS) pendants are designed and synthesized. Homo-polymerization of HC≡CPS, HC≡C(CH₂)₉OPS, and C₆H₅C≡C(CH₂)₉OPS and (co)polycyclotrimerization of (HC≡C)₂PS with 1-octyne are effected by NbCl₅-, WCl₆-, MoCl₅-, and TaCl₅-based catalysts. High molecular weight linear ( 1-3 ) and hyperbranched polymers (6) are obtained in high yields (M_w up to ∼70 × 10³ and yield up to 85%). All the polymers are thermally stable, losing little weight when heated to 350°C. Whereas all the polymers emit faint light when molecularly dissolved, polymers 2 , 3 , and 6 become emissive when aggregated in poor solvents or when cooled to low temperatures. Restricted intramolecular rotations of the phenyl rings upon the axes of the single bonds linked to the silole cores may be responsible for the aggregation- or cooling-induced emission. A multilayer electroluminescent device using 3 as an active layer emits a blue light of 496 nm with maximum brightness, current efficiency, and external quantum yield of 1118 cd/m², 1.45 cd/A, and 0.55%, respectively. Polymers 6 are non-linear optically active and strongly attenuate the optical power of intense laser pulses, whose optical limiting performances are superior to that of C₆₀, a best-known optical limiter.     

On maximal cliques of Cayley graphs over fields

Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics - We describe a new class of maximal cliques, with a vector space structure, of Cayley graphs defined on the additive group of a field. In particular, we show...