Highly regioselective hydrogenolysis of bis(alpha-methylbenzyl)amine derivatives affected by the trifluoromethyl substituent on the aromatic ring

[reaction: see text] The highly regioselective hydrogenolysis of bis(alpha-methylbenzyl)amine derivatives proceeded with influence not from the electronic effect but from the steric effect of the trifluoromethyl substituent on the aromatic ring to provide a practical asymmetric synthesis of trifluoromethyl-substituted alpha-phenylethylamines.     

Algebraic study on the super-KP hierarchy and the ortho-symplectic super-KP hierarchy

Bilinear residue formulas are established for the super-KP hierarchy and the ortho-symplectic super-KP hierarchy. Furthermore, superframes corresponding to the ortho-symplectic super-KP hierarchy are completely characterized. Soliton solutions to the super-KP hierarchy are given.     

Super-Kadomtsev—Petviashvili hierarchy and super-Grassmann manifold

The super-Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (SKP) hierarchy is introduced, and the general solutions are explicitly represented in terms of a superdeterminant. It is proved that the SKP hierarchy can be regarded as a dynamical system on a super-Grassmann manifold of infinite dimensions.     

Unitary representations of the quantum group SU q (1,1): Structure of the dual space ofU q (sl(2))

Real forms of the quantum universal enveloping algebraU _q (sl(2)) and a topological quantum group associated with this algebra are discussed.     

A Small One-Fiber WDM Optical Ethernet PC Card for FTTD

A new generation of network interface card for fiber-to-the-desktop has been fabricated. The fabricated card is PC-card size and suitable for notebook PCs. It could become the key element in the coming optical Ethernet age.     

Simple molecular orbital calculations on the electronic structure of iron-porphyrin complexes

The simple Hückel method was first applied to the electronic structure of the iron-porphyrin complexes by Pullman et al. [12]. In this paper, their work is extended to include (a) the effect of a dipole or a point charge placed at the sixth coordination position, and (b) the effect of a nitrogen atom placed at the fifth coordination position. A set of new parameter values is used, whose estimation is made by directing special attention to their dependence on the charge distribution among the atoms.The resulting charge distribution for ferro-porphyrin seems to be reasonable. The fact that the position of the Soret peak is insensitive to the sixth ligand can be understood from the resulting orbital energy levels.The difficulty of finding a reasonable charge distribution for ferri-porphyrin is discussed.

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Zusammenfassung Die einfache Hückelsche Methode ist auf die Elektronenstruktur der Eisen-Porphyrin-Komplexe zuerst von Pullman et al. [12] angewandt worden. In der folgenden Arbeit wird ihr Verfahren auf (a) die Wirkung eines Dipols oder einer Punktladung an der sechsten Koordinationsstelle und (b) die eines Stickstoffatoms an der fünften erweitert. Ein Satz neuer Parameterwerte wird verwandt, bei deren Bestimmung besonders auf ihre Abhängigkeit von der Ladungsverteilung geachtet wird.Die erhaltene Ladungsverteilung für Ferroporphyrin erscheint vernünftig. Die Unempfindlichkeit der Lage der Soret-Bande gegen den sechsten Liganden ist aus den erhaltenen Energieniveaus zu verstehen.Die Schwierigkeit, eine vernünftige Ladungsverteilung für Ferriporphyrin zu finden, wird diskutiert.

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Résumé La simple méthode de Hückel a été appliquée à la structure électronique des complexes fer-porphyrine pour la première fois par Pullman et al. [12]. Dans l'article suivant, leur travail est étendu afin d'inclure (a) l'effet d'un dipôle ou d'une charge ponctuelle sur la sixième position coordinative, et (b) l'effet d'un atome de nitrogène sur la cinquième position. Un jeu de nouvelles valeurs des paramètres est usé qu'on détermine en tenant compte spécialement de leur dépendance de la distribution des charges atomiques.La distribution de charge obtenue pour la ferroporphyrine semble être raisonnable. Le fait que la position de la bande Soret est insensitive contre le sixième ligand, peut être compris à l'aide des énergies des orbitales calculées.La difficulté de trouver une distribution de charge raisonnable pour la ferriporphyrine est discutée.

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The research reported in this paper was sponsored in part by the King Gustaf VI Adolf's 70-Years Fund for Swedish Culture, Knut and Alice Wallenberg's Foundation, the Swedish Natural Science Research Council, and in part by the Aeronautical Research Laboratory, OAR, through the European Office, Aerospace Research, United States Air Force.

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On leave from Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.     

Some remarks on the Pariser-Parr-Pople method

Basic assumptions which characterize the Pariser-Parr-Pople method of computing molecular electronic wave functions are critically examined. By restricted variational calculation of the valence state of carbon and nitrogen atoms and ions, it is demonstrated that the usual methods of evaluation of one-centre Coulomb integrals and atomic core energies are rather good. A semi-theoretical means of estimating the core resonance integral is proposed and shown to give fair agreement with the empirical values for C-C, O-O, C-N, and C-O bonds.

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Zusammenfassung Die Grundannahmen der Methode von Pariser-Parr-Pople zur Berechnung molekularer Wellenfunktionen werden kritisch durchleuchtet. Mittels beschränkter Variationsansätze für den Valenzzustand von Kohlenstoff- und Stickstoff-Atomen und -Ionen wird dargelegt, daß die Methoden, wie sie üblicherweise zur Berechnung von Einzentren-Coulombintegralen und atomaren Rumpfenergien angewendet werden, zu recht guten Ergebnissen führen. Ferner wird ein halbtheoretisches Verfahren zur Abschätzung der Rumpfresonanzintegrale vorgeschlagen und nachgewiesen, daß das Resultat gut mit den empirischen Werten für die C-C-, O-O-, C-N- und C-O-Bindung übereinstimmt.

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Résumé Les hypothèses fondamentales de la méthode de Pariser-Parr-Pople pour le calcul des fonctions d'onde électroniques sont examinées critiquement. Un calcul variationel limité des états de valence des atoms et ions de carbone et de nitrogène montre que les méthodes usuelles pour l'évaluation des intégrales de Coulomb monocentriques et des énergies de coeur atomiques sont assez bonnes. Nous proposons un procédé semithéorique pour évaluer l'intégrale de résonance de coeur, qui s'accorde assez bien aux valeurs expérimentales pour les liaisons C-C, O-O, C-N et C-O.

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The research reported in this paper was sponsored in part by the King Gustaf VI Adolf's 70-Years Fund for Swedish Culture, Knut and Alice Wallenberg's Foundation, the Swedish Natural Science Research Council, and in part by the Aeronautical Research Laboratory, OAR, through the European Office, Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, and also in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Research Grant NsG-512.

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On leave of absence from the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido, University, Sapporo, Japan.     

Comparison of the equilibrium geometry of acetylene (C2H2) and disilyne (Si2H2)

The equilibrium geometry of disilyne is not linear, but is twisted. The potential surfaces of acetylene and disilyne have a critical internuclear distance between the central atoms, where the stable geometry changes from linear to twisted forms the R-dependence of the valence-shell electron energy causes the difference in the structure of the molecules.