Photograph of a giant structural distortion in a quasi-one dimensional organic crystal

Using a high-speed photographic technique, we have recorded directly the crystalline distortion associated with a first-order phase transition in tetrathiafulvalenium-bis-ditholene (Cu). This structural distortion, at a temperature of 238 K, has been observed as a crystal motion through an angle of the order of 10°. The phase change may be important in establishing the one-dimensional magnetic character of the crystal that leads to a spin-dimerization transition at a temperature of 12 K.     

Auditors’ evidence evaluation and aggregation using beliefs and probabilities

This paper examines possible differences in auditors’ performance when they make belief-based versus probability-based risk assessments by focusing on two phases of the financial statement audit process: the assessment of two attributes of audit evidence (‘strength’ and ‘direction’) and the aggregation of evidence. Based on an experiment in which 48 experienced auditors participated, three important findings were observed. First, there was no significant difference in the mean assessment of strength of evidence measured using the likelihood ratio. However, the difference in the assessed direction of evidence, that is whether the evidence is interpreted as being confirming or disconfirming, is significant for one of the cases examined. This result shows that auditors making belief-based assessments are able to assess the direction of the evidence more accurately than auditors making probability-based assessments. Third, the auditors’ aggregation of evidence was not in accordance with ‘AND’ logic for either auditors making belief-based or probability-based assessments. These empirical results raise issues which need to be addressed in practice and in future research.     

Wire number doubling in high-wire-number regime increasesZ-accelerator X-ray power

Doubling the number of tungsten wires from 120 to 240, keeping the mass fixed, increased the radiated X-ray power relative to the electrical power at the insulator stack of the Z accelerator by (35±15)% for 8.75- and 20-mm radii Z-pinch wire arrays. One-dimensional radiation magneto hydrodynamic calculations suggest that the arrays were operating in a quasi “plasma-shed” regime, where the plasma generated by the individual wires partially merge prior to the inward implosion of the entire array     

Mixed conduction behavior in nanostructured lanthanum gallate

Electrical conduction in nanostructured 10 mol% Sr- and 15 mol% Mg-doped lanthanum gallate was investigated. The grain boundary conductivity shows mixed ionic and electronic conduction, while the grain conductivity shows ionic conduction. This is attributed to the increase of the contribution of the electron-hole in the grain boundary by the space charge effect. The overall electrical conductivity is governed by the grain boundary conductivity such that nanostructured lanthanum gallate becomes a mixed conductor.     

Übergangsmetall-silyl-komplexe L. darstellung, struktur und reaktivität der Trihydrido-Silyl-und -Stannyl-Komplexe L3FeH3(ER3) (E =Si,

Photochemical reaction of (CO)₂(dppe)Fe(H)(SiR₃) with HSiR₃ (SiR₃ = Si(OMe)₃, Si(OEt)₃, SiMe₃, SiMe₂Ph, SiPh₃) yields the trihydrido silyl complexes (CO)(dppe)FeH₃(SiR₃ ). The analogous complexes (PR′Ph₂)₃ FeH₃(ER₃) are prepared by reaction of the H₂ -complexes (PR′Ph₂)₃FeH₂(H₂) with HER₃ (ER₃ = SiMe₃, SiMC₂Ph, SiMePh₂, SiPh₃, Si(Me₂)OSi(Me₂)H, SnPh₃, SnEt₃). Additional derivates of (CO) (dppe)FeH₃(SiR₃) (SiR₃ = SiMePh₂) and (PR′Ph₂)₃FeH₃(SiR₃) (SiR₃ = Si(OMe)₃, SiH₂Ph, SiHPh₂, Si(OEt)₃, SiMePhCl) are accessible by silane exchange starting from (CO)(dppe)FeH₃(SiMe₃) and (PR′Ph₂) ₃FeH₃(SiMe₃). (PBuPh₂)₃FeH₃(SiMePh₂) was also prepared from (PBuPh₂)₃FeH₂(N₂) and HSiMePh₂, and (PBuPh₂)₃FeH₃(SnMe₃) from (PBuPh₂)₃FeH₂(H₂) and Me₃SnCl. The complex (PBuPh₂) ₃FeH₃(SnMe₃) crystallizes as a toluene solvate in the cubic space group I 3d and shows crystallographically imposed C₃-symmetry. The complexes (CO)₂ (dppe)Fe(H)(SiR₃) and (PR′Ph₂)₃FeH₃(ER₃) are highly dynamic in solution. Low temperature NMR measurements and the E, Fe, H coupling constants strongly indicate that the exchange mechanism involves η²-HER₃ ligands.     

Additions of carbenes to 1,2,2-trimethylbicyclo[1.1.0]butane

Dicarbomethoxy- and dichlorocarbene add to 1,2,2-trimethylbicyclo[1.1.0]butane to give derivatives of 2,3,3-trimethylpenta-1,4-diene. These products are not predicted by the mechanism proposed earlier. A new mechanism is suggested.     

Entropy ionization of an exciton gas

Experimental evidence is presented demonstrating ionization of an exciton gas as its density is lowered at constant temperature. The measurements are made by monitoring the luminescence from a photo-excited sample of high-purity, single-crystal germanium in which the exciton density is nearly uniform.