Patching upX-trees

A fundamental problem in many areas of classification, and particularly in biology, is the reconstruction of a leaf-labeled tree from just a subset of its induced subtrees. Without loss of generality, we may assume that these induced subtrees all have precisely four leaves. Of particular interest is determining whether a collection of quartet subtrees uniquely defines a parent tree. Here, we solve this problem in the case where the collection of quartet trees is of minimal size, by studyingencodings of binary trees by such quartet trees. We obtain a characterization of minimal encodings that exploits an underlying patchwork structure. As we will show elsewhere, this allows one to obtain a polynomial time algorithm for certain instances of the problem of reconstructing trees from subtrees.Supported by DFG — Graduiertenkolleg Strukturbildungsprozesse, Forschungsschwerpunkt Mathematisierung, University of Bielefeld, Germany.Supported by the New Zealand Marsden Fund.     

Benzotriazole-assisted thioacylation

[Chemical reaction: See text] Benzotriazole reagents for thioacylation (RCSBt), thiocarbamoylation (RR'NCSBt), aryl/alkoxythioacylation (ROCSBt), and aryl/alkylthiothioacylation (RSCSBt) are synthesized, and their utility is assessed by syntheses of representative heteroaryl thioureas 3a-g, thioamides 15a-s, thionoesters 16a-h, thiocarbamates 17a-e, dithiocarbamates 18a-d, thiocarbonates 19a-c, and dithiocarbonates 20a-c.     

大孔聚丙烯醛-呋喃-2-硫代酰腙螯合树脂的合成及其性能的初步研究

合成了一新型高分子骨架，大孔内烯醛－苯乙烯－二乙烯苯三元共聚物树脂骨架，通过其含有的活泼醛基与呋喃－2－硫代酰肼螯合剂进行高分子反应，制备了一种含氮、硫配位原子的螯合树脂，聚丙烯醛－呋喃－2－硫代酰腙。对其与贵金属离子的吸附性能进行了初步研究，结果表明，该树脂对金、钯及铂具有选择性吸附作用，吸附容量分别为1.20mmol/g干树脂，0.37mmol/g干树脂及0.28mmol/g干树脂。     

Extension Operations on Sets of Leaf-Labeled Trees

A fundamental problem in classification is how to combine collections of trees having overlapping sets of leaves. The requirement that such a collection of trees is realized by at least one parent tree determines uniquely some additional subtrees not in the original collection. We analyze the "rules" that arise in this way by defining a closure operator for sets of trees. In particular we show that there exist rules of arbitrarily high order which cannot be reduced to repeated application of lower-order rules.     

一种高透过率,深截止的UVc波段(200～280 nm) 有机材料的研究(Ⅰ)

本文阐述了一种专用有机材料(粉末)在不同酸性溶液中的光谱特征,研究表明,这种材料在λ=252 nm处,透过率T=56.5％,带宽约为16nm,而在λ=290nm处有一个很强的吸收峰(ε>10L·(mol·cm)~(-1)),吸光度A_(280～298nm)>8,即透过率T_(280～298nm)<10~(-8)。这种有机材料在UVc波段(200～280nm)具有高透过率,深截止的明显特点。实验中还发现,通过调节溶剂的pH值和选取不同极性的溶剂,原来的两个吸收峰消失,而在λ=290nm处出现一个新的强吸收峰,并且透过峰可以在251～260nm范围内移位。利用材料的这种特征,再配合传统的镀膜和色玻璃技术,有可能制备出性能优良的紫外滤光片。     

Chalcogenide glass photonic crystals

All-optical switching devices are based on a material possessing a nonlinear optical response, enabling light to control light, and are enjoying renewed interest. Photonic crystals are a promising platform for realizing compact all-optical switches operating at very low power and integrated on an optical integrated circuit. In this review, we show that by making photonic crystals from a highly nonlinear chalcogenide glass, we have the potential to integrate a variety of active devices into a photonic chip. We describe the fabrication and testing of two-dimensional Ge₃₃As₁₂ Se₅₅ chalcogenide glass photonic crystal membrane devices (waveguides and microcavities). We then demonstrate the ability to post-tune the devices using the material photosensitivity. In one proposal we hope to introduce a double-heterostructure microcavity using the photosensitivity alone.     

Novel syntheses of polysubstituted pyrroles and oxazoles by 1,3‐dipolar cycloaddition reactions of benzotriazole‐stabilized nitrile ylides

1,3‐Dipolar cycloadditions of benzotriazole‐stabilized nitrile ylides with benzyl α,β‐unsaturated‐carboxy‐lates and aldehydes as dipolarophiles proceeded smoothly and efficiently to give polysubstituted pyrroles and oxazoles, respectively, in good yields.     

ALS-associated mutant SOD1<Superscript>G93A</Superscript> causes mitochondrial vacuolation by expansion of the intermembrane space and by involvement of SOD1 aggregation and peroxisomes

Background  

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an age-dependent neurodegenerative disease that causes motor neuron degeneration, paralysis and death. Mutations in Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) are one cause for the familial form of this disease. Transgenic mice expressing mutant SOD1 develop age-dependent motor neuron degeneration, skeletal muscle weakness, paralysis and death similar to humans. The mechanism whereby mutant SOD1 induces motor neuron degeneration is not understood but widespread mitochondrial vacuolation has been observed during early phases of motor neuron degeneration. How this vacuolation develops is not clear, but could involve autophagic vacuolation, mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) or uncharacterized mechanisms. To determine which of these possibilities are true, we examined the vacuolar patterns in detail in transgenic mice expressing mutant SOD1^G93A.     

Dichlorocarbene Addition to

In contrast to the terminal phosphinidene complex PhPW(CO)(5) (2), which adds to [5]metacyclophane (1) in a 1,4-fashion, dichlorocarbene preferentially adds in a 1,2-fashion to the formal "anti-Bredt" type double bond of the aromatic ring of 1 to afford the norcaradiene 11b, which immediately rearranges to the bridged cycloheptatriene 12b and further by a [1,5] sigmatropic chlorine migration to the isomeric 13b as the first observable product. More slowly, the latter isomerizes via a dissociative mechanism to give 15b. A computational study supports the notion that the [1,5] chlorine migration in the rearrangement 12b --> 13b, for which an activation barrier of 70.2 kJ mol(-)(1) was calculated, is essentially concerted with minor charge separation. In contrast, the analogous [1,5] chlorine migration in the flat model compound 7,7-dichlorocycloheptatriene (12a) displays features of a dissociative pathway.