Electrochemical fluorescence switching properties of conjugated polymers composed of triphenylamine,fluorene, and cyclic urea moieties

The study of the electrochemical fluorescence switching properties of the conjugated copolymers containing fluorene, triphenylamine, and 1,3‐diphenylimidazolidin‐2‐one moieties is reported. The polymers show high fluorescence quantum yields, excellent thermal stability, and good solubility in polar organic solvents. While the polymer emits blue light under UV irradiation, the fluorescence intensity is quenched upon electrochemical oxidation. The fluorescent behavior can be reversibly switched between nonfluorescent (oxidized) state and strong fluorescence (neutral) state with a high contrast ratio (I_f/I_f0) of 16.3. The role of the electrochemical oxidation of the triphenylamine moieties is to generate the corresponding radical cations that lead to fluorescence quenching in the solid matrix. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym Chem, 2012     

Aza-Diels–Alder reaction catalyzed by novel chiral metalocomplex Brønsted acids

A series of Co(III) anionic complexes of Schiff bases obtained from salicylaldehydes and enantiomerically pure amino acids has been synthesized. The outersphere counterion was exchanged by H⁺ and the novel chiral Brønsted acids were used to induce asymmetry into an aza-Diels–Alder reaction. The influence of the temperature, solvent polarity, and structural modification of the chiral anions on the enantioselectivity of the process has also been investigated.     

The idea of simultaneous batch in-situ extraction and arsenic and antimony hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry determination directly in the solid (tsunami and lake sediments) samples

The article presents the application of in-situ extraction from a solid sample in order to determine metalloids: arsenic and antimony. The reaction vessel, in which hydride generation followed the extraction, was connected with the atomic absorption spectrometer (AAS) in a fast sequential mode. Deionised water, phosphatic buffer (pH?=?6) and hydrochloric acid (2?mol?L^?1) were used as the extractants to determine the concentration of metalloids in the following fractions: easily (water) leachable, exchangeable, and acid leachable. Two different types of sediments were used while developing the application: lake bottom sediments and tsunami deposits. Both types of the sediments samples (5–20?mg) were placed directly in the reaction vessel and after in-situ extraction the determination of the metalloids was conducted, what allowed to assess concentration of arsenic and antimony during single analysis. The results obtained from the analyses of both sediments types were compared with the results from traditional off-line extraction. As a result a good correspondence with both hydrochloric acid and phosphatic buffer was found. The methodology of solid samples analysis was developed with detection limits of 50?ng?g^?1 (for As) and 30?ng?g^?1 (for Sb) for 10?mg of a solid sample.     

Real-root property of the spectral polynomial of the Treibich–Verdier potential and related problems

We study the spectral polynomial of the Treibich–Verdier potential. Such spectral polynomial, which is a generalization of the classical Lamé polynomial, plays fundamental roles in both the finite-gap theory and the ODE theory of Heun's equation. In this paper, we prove that all the roots of such spectral polynomial are real and distinct under some assumptions. The proof uses the classical concept of Sturm sequence and isomonodromic theories. We also prove an analogous result for a polynomial associated with a generalized Lamé equation, where we apply a new approach based on the viewpoint of the monodromy data.