Copper(I)-catalyzed direct C-H trifluoromethylation of imidazoheterocycles with Togni’s reagent

A mild and efficient trifluoromethylation of imidazopyridines with Togni’s reagent in the presence of inexpensive base has been realized at room temperature. This methodology has several advantages: (1) using efficient copper(I) as catalyst and inexpensive K₃PO₄ as base, (2) no additional oxidants required for this reaction. (3) good functional group tolerance. An array of trifluoromethylated imidazopyridines with broad functionalities were obtained in acceptable yields.     

Radical ring opening reaction of pyridine fused heterocycles with IBA-N3 catalyzed by tetra-n-butylammonium iodide

A mild, metal-free and efficient synthesis of 2,3-disubstituted acrylonitriles and α-iminonitriles through radical ring opening reaction of pyridine fused heterocycles has been developed. The tetra-n-butylammonium iodide catalyst acts as a formal one-electron donor. Compared to the previous methods, which require excessive amounts of highly explosive azide sources and the addition of oxidants, this is a safe and convenient transformation.     

Chemical Constituents from the Butanol Fraction of Clinacanthus nutans Leaves

Chemistry of Natural Compounds -     

等距丢失模型下的框架张量积重构方法

框架理论常应用于信号重构.当编码系数在传输过程中发生等距丢失时,基于框架张量积的一些性质,我们可以利用框架张量积对信号进行编码从而降低数据丢失对重构信号的影响.本文由此提出了一种等距丢失模型,并在此模型下,研究了数据等距丢失下的最优对偶框架张量积,得出了对偶框架和正则对偶框架的张量积是最优对偶框架张量积的两个充分必要条件.最后数值实验也说明了：在等距丢失模型下,最优对偶框架张量积比一般对偶框架张量积的信号重构结果更优.     

Damage mechanism and morphology characteristics of chromium film in femtosecond laser rear-side ablation

In this paper, damage mechanism and morphology characteristics of chromium film in femtosecond laser rear-side ablation are investigated. The film removing process includes two key sub-processes: the laser ablation dynamic process and subsequent breaking and ejecting dynamic process. Film morphology in rear-side ablation is determined by the interrelation between the laser energy and the film strength. When lower laser energy is used, residual out-layer film is relative thick and tends to break into some large fragments, which results in an irregular ablation shape. While when higher pulse energy is used, thinner residual film with weaker break strength breaks into small fragments, the ablation quality improves correspondingly. Besides laser energy and film property, energy distribution of laser beam also affects the ablation quality. In experiments, this kind of effect is researched by changing the focal position. It is found that ripples, which are familiar nano-structures in front-side ablation, also exist in rear-side ablation. These ripples are formed initially at the interface between quartz substrate and film, and their coverage varies with the energy distribution. Additionally, increasing number of scans is an effective method to shorten the period of ripples.     

Optical and electrical properties of Y2O3 thin films prepared by ion beam assisted deposition

Y₂O₃ thin films were deposited by ion beam assisted deposition (IBAD) and the effects of fabrication parameters such as substrate temperature and ion energy on the structure, optical and electrical properties of the films were investigated. The results show that the deposited Y₂O₃ films had less optical absorption, larger refractive index, and better film crystallinity with the increase of substrate temperature or ion energy. The as-deposited Y₂O₃ films without ion-beam bombardment had larger relative dielectric constant (?_r) and the ?_r decreased with time even over by 40%, while the ?_r of films prepared with high ion energy had less changes, only less than 3%. Also, with the increase of ion energy, the electrical breakdown strength and the figure of merit increased.     

Cation distribution dependence of magnetic properties of sol-gel prepared MnFe2O4 spinel ferrite nanoparticles

MnFe₂O₄ nanoparticles have been synthesized with a sol-gel method. Both differential thermal and thermo-gravimetric analyses indicate that MnFe₂O₄ nanoparticles form at 400 °C. Samples treated at 450 and 500 °C exhibit superparamagnetism at room temperature as implied from vibrating sample magnetometry. Mössbauer results indicate that as Mn²⁺ ions enter into the octahedral sites, Fe³⁺ ions transfer from octahedral to tetrahedral sites. When the calcination temperature increases from 450 to 700 °C, the occupation ratio of Fe³⁺ ions at the octahedral sites decreases from 43% to 39%. Susceptibility measurements versus magnetic field are reported for various temperatures (from 450 to 700 °C) and interpreted within the Stoner-Wohlfarth model.     

应用动态光散射和透射电镜研究热力学不相容条件下果胶与乳清蛋白混合体系的微观结构

应用动态光散射、透射电镜和粘度-剪切模型3种方法互相配合,研究了果胶与乳清分离蛋白的混合体系在热力学不相容条件下的微观结构。在90℃及pH7.4条件下,向5%蛋白浓度的乳清蛋白溶液中加入带有负电的果胶分子,可导致热变性乳清蛋白分子之间发生损耗聚集,并引发混合体系内的相分离现象。确切地说,当果胶与乳清蛋白的混合重量比小于0.08时,溶液内可观察到粒径小于300nm的聚集颗粒,体系呈现牛顿流体特征;而当混合重量比大于0.08时,体系粘度上升,切稀特征逐渐明显,聚集集团粒径接近700nm。     

Data-based prediction and causality inference of nonlinear dynamics

Natural systems are typically nonlinear and complex, and it is of great interest to be able to reconstruct a system in order to understand its mechanism, which cannot only recover nonlinear behaviors but also predict future dynamics. Due to the advances of modern technology, big data becomes increasingly accessible and consequently the problem of reconstructing systems from measured data or time series plays a central role in many scientic disciplines. In recent decades, nonlinear methods rooted in state space reconstruction have been developed, and they do not assume any model equations but can recover the dynamics purely from the measured time series data. In this review, the development of state space reconstruction techniques will be introduced and the recent advances in systems prediction and causality inference using state space reconstruction will be presented. Particularly, the cutting-edge method to deal with short-term time series data will be focused on. Finally, the advantages as well as the remaining problems in this field are discussed.