Synthesis of 1-Alkyl 3,5-Bis(ω-mercaptoacetoalkyl) Isocyanurates and Macrocyclic Disulfides Derived Thereof

1-Alkyl 3,5-bis(-hydroxyalkyl) isocyanurates were reacted with mercaptoacetic acid to obtain 3,5-bis(-mercaptoacetoxyalkyl) isocyanurates whose oxidation gives rise to macrocyclic disulfides.     

New and efficient high Stokes shift fluorescent compounds: unsymmetrically substituted 1,2-bis-(5-phenyloxazol-2-yl)benzenes via microwave-assisted nucleophilic substitution of fluorine

Two new unsymmetric derivatives of 1,2-bis-(5-phenyloxazol-2-yl)benzene (ortho-POPOP) were synthesized via microwave-assisted nucleophilic substitution of fluorine which appears to be significantly more efficient compared with conventional thermal activation. The compounds synthesized are characterized by high fluorescence Stokes shifts (6000-11,000 cm⁻¹) in solvents of various polarity, intermediate-to-high fluorescence quantum yields and lifetimes in the range of several nanoseconds.     

Freezing out color in fluctuons

We show that an analysis of high-energy hadron-nuclear processes should take the nuclear effects in the nucleon channel into account to make correct conclusions about the contribution of multiquark systems, fluctuons, to the nuclear wave function and about the quark distributions in them. Analysis of these distributions indicates that the color degrees of freedom in a fluctuon are partially frozen out and with a high degree of probability a fluctuon contains one or two diquarks.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 10, pp. 24–29, October, 1989.     

Extended phonon collapse and the origin of the charge-density wave in 2H-NbSe2

We report inelastic x-ray scattering measurements of the temperature dependence of phonon dispersion in the prototypical charge-density-wave (CDW) compound 2H-NbSe2. Surprisingly, acoustic phonons soften to zero frequency and become overdamped over an extended region around the CDW wave vector. This extended phonon collapse is dramatically different from the sharp cusp in the phonon dispersion expected from Fermi surface nesting. Instead, our experiments, combined with ab initio calculations, show that it is the wave vector dependence of the electron-phonon coupling that drives the CDW formation in 2H-NbSe2 and determines its periodicity. This mechanism explains the so far enigmatic behavior of CDW in 2H-NbSe2 and may provide a new approach to other strongly correlated systems where electron-phonon coupling is important.     

Micro diffuser flow modeling for cold gas propulsion systems

The use of highly diluted and hypersonic gas flow is in the scope of application of cold gas thrusters for space applications. Satellites and small spacecrafts are navigated to their orbital trajectory with these nozzles. Inside these propulsion systems high density gradients are dominating the efficiency and the thrust steering behavior of the propulsion systems. Micro flows in the transient regime between free molecular flow and continuous flow are not able to be computed with trustworthy results by using a continuous model with no-slip boundary conditions. Therefore boundary slip-velocity models are used for modeling the reduced wall shear stress. Molecular shear stresses decrease the molecular mean velocity near the wall. With a Knudsen number depending slip-velocity model the effective shear stress is computed by the mean gradient of the velocity profile near the wall. In the present study a trans-sonic nozzle flow is computed by using a calibrated velocity slip model what depends on the Knudsen number. The Knudsen numbers are lower the Kn=1 at the nozzle neck of the propulsion system. The results are compared with simulation results of a uniform channel flow and computations of the corresponding no-slip approach. The differences in the hypersonic region are following discussed. (© 2014 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Ring contraction of 1,3-bis(5-bromopentyl)alloxazine

The reaction of 1,3-bis(5-bromopentyl)alloxazine with ethylamine in propan-2-ol resulted in replacement of the terminal bromine atoms by ethylamino groups and was accompanied by contraction of the pyrimidine ring so that the products were 1,3-bis[5-(ethylamino)pentyl]alloxazine and 1,3-bis[5-(ethylamino)-pentyl]imidazo[4,5-b]quinoxalin-2-one.     

Dynamics of a vortex pair in radial flow

The problem of vortex pair motion in two-dimensional radial flow is solved. Under certain conditions for flow parameters, the vortex pair can reverse its motion within a bounded region. The vortex-pair translational velocity decreases or increases after passing through the source/sink region, depending on whether the flow is diverging or converging, respectively. The rotational motion of a corotating vortex pair in a quiescent environment transforms into motion along a logarithmic spiral in radial flow. The problem may have applications in astrophysics and geophysics.