Synthesis,characterization, and properties of regioregular conjugated polymers containing quaterthiophene and an acceptor repeating units

Novel donor–acceptor type polymers consisting of alternating quaterthiophene and an electron withdrawing moiety, pyrazinyl or pyridinyl, have been prepared using Stille coupling approach with moderate yields. The polymers were highly soluble in common organic solvents such as tetrahydrofuran and chloroform. The structure and optical properties of the polymers were characterized by NMR, UV‐vis and fluorescence spectroscopy, and cyclic voltammetry, respectively. The polymer having pyrazine unit exhibited a red‐shift in both absorption and emission in comparison with those analogs containing pyridine because of strong electron withdrawing character of the pyrazinyl group. The polymer containing pyrazinyl as acceptor units also depicted decrease in its optical and electrochemical bandgap relative to those polymers containing 2,5‐ or 2,6‐pyridine moieties. The electrochemical behavior showed facile n‐doping and p‐doping properties of those polymers consisting of alternating quaterthiophene and the acceptor moiety. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 47: 2163–2171, 2009     

A new bidesmoside triterpenoid saponin from Stauntonia chinensis

A new bidesmoside triterpenoid saponin,named stauntoside C1(1) has been isolated from Stauntonia chinensis.Its structure was established by means of spectral and chemical methods.     

Four New Eudesmane Sesquiterpenoid Lactones from Chloranthus serratus

Four new eudesmane sesquiterpenoids endowed with an α,β‐unsaturated γ‐lactone five‐membered ring, serralactones A–D ( 1 – 4 , resp.), along with seven known sesquiterpenoids, were isolated from the whole plant Chloranthus serratus. Their structures and relative configurations were established on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analyses.     

The nucleation study on the cationic miniemulsion polymerization of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4)

The nucleation of the cationic miniemulsion polymerization of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D₄) has been investigated in detail in this work. The particle size was traced by dynamic laser scattering in the polymerization process using different concentration of dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid (DBSA) as both the initiator and surfactant. The results reveal the progressively decreasing particle sizes with the steadily increasing monomer conversion. The descending particle sizes can be explained by the existence of homogeneous nucleation of hydroxyl-terminated polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) oligomers in addition to the primary droplet nucleation. A linear relationship between the natural logarithm of the average particle diameter (lnd(t)) and the natural logarithm of the monomer conversion (lnf(t)) is then deduced based on the theory, which has been validated by the experimental data. The slope of lnd(t)~lnf(t) line relies on the parameter of K which is the ratio of PDMS oligomers entering water phase to all PDMS oligomers produced. The influence of DBSA concentration on the K and the fraction of homogeneous nucleation (F(H)) has been then obtained. Both of the values of K and F(H) increase with the increasing DBSA concentrations.     

Post-buckling of a cantilever rod with variable cross-sections under combined load

IntroductionSinceEuler[1] ,Lagrange[2 ] ,Love[3 ] etal.investigatedtheslenderrod ,asoneofthebasicstructuralstabilityproblems ,manyattentionshavebeenpaidtothepost_bucklingofelasticrodsforalongtime .Today ,flexiblerodshavebeenwidelyusedasspring ,linkages ,robot’sarms,largeantennasandsoon .Hence ,thestudiesofpost_bucklingofelasticrodshavewideengineeringandapplyingbackgroundsinrecentdays .Basedontheassumptionthattheaxiallineoftherodisinextensible ,Timoshenkoetal.[4] examinedthepost_bucklingofco…