Asymmetric Dearomatization of Phenols via Ligand-Enabled Cooperative Gold Catalysis

By employing a chiral bifunctional phosphine ligand, a gold(I)-catalyzed efficient and highly enantioselective dearomatization of phenols is achieved via versatile metal-ligand cooperation. The reaction is proven to be remarkably general in scope, permitting substitutions at all four remaining benzene positions, accommodating electron-withdrawing groups including strongly deactivating nitro, and allowing carbon-based groups of varying steric bulk including tert-butyl at the alkyne terminus. Moreover, besides N-(o-hydroxyphenyl)alkynamides, the corresponding ynoates and ynones are all suitable substrates. Spirocyclohexadienone-pyrrol-2-ones, spirocyclohexadienone-butenolides, and spirocyclohexadenone-cyclopentenones are formed in yields up to 99 % and with ee up to 99 %.     

Elimination mechanism promotes cooperation in coevolutionary prisoner’s dilemma games

We propose an elimination mechanism in the study of the evolutionary prisoner’s dilemma games on evolving networks. It assumes that after each round of playing, players whose payoffs are below a certain threshold will be eliminated from the game and the same number of new nodes will be added to the network to maintain the size of the network constant. Numerical results show that moderate values of elimination threshold can result in a maximum cooperation level in the evolutionary prisoner’s dilemma game. Moreover, the elimination mechanism can make the network structure evolve into a high heterogeneity in degree distribution, which is considered to be helpful in promoting cooperation in evolutionary games. The present study may provide new insight for understanding the evolution of cooperation in light of the law ‘survival of the fittest’ in nature.     

Adjusting learning motivation to promote cooperation

An evolutionary prisoner’s dilemma game with players adjusting their learning motivation is studied. At each time step, each player can adjust his/her learning motivation according to the difference between the current payoff and payoff aspiration. Greater payoff aspiration means stronger learning motivation, and vice versa. We find that the density of cooperation in a spatial prisoner’s dilemma game is enhanced when the learning motivation mechanism is considered. Meanwhile, we show that proper noise can not only induce the highest cooperation level but also can maintain the cooperation phenomenon even though there is more temptation to defect.     

Reputation-based strategy persistence promotes cooperation in spatial social dilemma

Understanding the emergence and maintenance of cooperation in social dilemma has received a lot of attention. In previous research, many scholars found that the reputation mechanism can promote cooperation, and the variation of reputation is consistent. However, in reality, according to both one's current action and past experiences, every individual's impression from others is modified to varying extent everyday. In other words, the length of duration of the same performance influences the diverse scale of their own reputation fluctuation. Therefore, a reputation-based strategy persistence mechanism, in which the increment of current reputation is determined by the persistence of last strategy, is proposed. Moreover, we introduce a parameter α to illustrate the impact of strategy persistence on reputation variation. The results of simulation show that the new mechanism paves the way for cooperation in evolutionary game, and the smaller α is, the better the mechanism performs.     

Cooperation under institutional incentives with perfect and imperfect observation

Understanding the evolution of cooperation is a challenging topic in various realms. Increasing attention has been paid to exploring the effects of incentives on the emergence of cooperation. Most of the extant studies have implicitly assumed that the cost of incentives is fixed and independent of the individual's payoff. In human societies, taxation is one important source of funds for supporting the government of individuals and nearly involves everyone. Inspired by this phenomenon, we institute an analytic model where the incentives are established based on the tax regime. Individuals play the prisoner's dilemma game and the ones whose payoffs are greater than zero have to contribute a part as taxes to establish an institution to monitor individuals' behaviors and execute incentives. We investigate the emergence of cooperation under the institutional incentives and make a comparative analysis between reward and punishment subject to the perfect and imperfect environment.     

Dip-pen刻蚀技术直接制造蛋白质纳米阵列

美国西北大学 Mirkin等 [1～ 3] 发明的 Dip- pen( DPN,译为蘸水笔技术 )纳米刻蚀技术是以 SPM的针尖为笔 ,通过超分子相互作用使被书写的分子或纳米材料粘在针尖上 ,以某种材料为基底 ,通过合理的超分子相互作用的设计将针尖上的分子或纳米材料书写到基底上 ,从而实现纳米刻蚀和纳米制造的目的 .很显然 ,这种技术对纳米器件、纳米传感器、高密度存储以及生物芯片的制造具有重要意义[4～ 7] .近年来 ,Mirkin研究组和其他几个研究集体利用这种技术成功地制造了有机分子纳米图形与阵列 [8] ;无机氧化物 [9]、金属纳米粒子 [10 ,11]、高分…     

基于海峡两岸经济合作框架协议的两岸渔业经济合作

归纳总结了《海峡两岸经济合作框架协议》(ECFA)和几个附件的内容,分析了ECFA生效之后,货物贸易早期收获产品清单对渔业动物产品进口的影响。研究认为,从台湾进口水产动物产品税率的降低和趋于零,无疑将大大提升台湾水产动物产品在大陆的竞争力;早期收获计划实施后,台湾出口到大陆的水产动物产品数量将会大幅度提高。这种状况无疑是对大陆水产企业的一种挑战和冲击。只有在不断提高产品质量和安全、不断降低生产成本的情况下,大陆的水产企业才能应对这种挑战,承受这种冲击。在服务贸易方面,如果台湾能够在大陆设立这些方面的企业,提供有关远洋渔业、水产养殖和水产品加工方面的科学研究和开发服务,必将推动我国大陆渔业技术的快速提升,促进渔业经济的健康、快速发展。在投资与经济合作方面,如果在ECFA的框架下,逐步减小双方投资的限制,从目前的侧重第一、第二产业的投资扩展到全方位的投资,涵盖水产苗种繁育、水产品加工、水产饲料、远洋渔业、休闲渔业、科技合作等领域,则必定促进大陆水产产业的整体提升,提高渔业经济的效益。作者对在ECFA框架下的渔业经济合作,从渔业资源养护与管理、休闲渔业等几个方面提出了建议。     

Global stability and wavefronts in a cooperation model with state-dependent time delay

This article deals with a diffusive cooperative model with state-dependent delay which is assumed to be an increasing function of the population density with lower and upper bounds. For the cooperative DDE system, the positivity and boundedness of solutions are firstly given. Using the comparison principle of the state-dependent delay equations obtained, the stability criterion of model is analyzed both from local and global points of view. When the diffusion is properly introduced, the existence of traveling waves is obtained by constructing a pair of upper–lower solutions and Schauder's fixed point theorem. Calculating the minimum wave speed shows that the wave is slowed down by the state-dependent delay. Finally, the traveling wavefront solutions for large wave speed are also discussed, and the fronts appear to be all monotone, regardless of the state dependent time delay. This is an interesting property, since many findings are frequently reported that delay causes a loss of monotonicity, with the front developing a prominent hump in some other delay models.     

Reputation-based co-evolutionary model promotes cooperation in prisoner's dilemma game

Indirect reciprocity is a fascinating topic in the field of social cooperation. In this paper, we propose a novel updating strategy based on the critical reputation-aware calculation. The joint of reputation allows players to make decisions not only on current payoffs but also from a third party, which improves the status of cooperators in the prisoner's dilemma game and provides a possibility for surviving. Experiments show that the discrepancies in initial fitness caused by reputation will support cooperators in occupying a high proportion in communities. Interestingly, we find that the massive scale of reputation fluctuation helps to enhance the cooperative effect, and newly name this character as “quasi-time lag”. The simulations show that the promotion of our proposed mechanism is effective and robust on different network topologies. This work provides a new perspective for the study of the cooperative game.     

The effect of recommended role models in prisoner’s dilemma game

Previous studies concerning the prisoner’s dilemma game on graphs conventionally assume that individuals select role models from their replacement graphs at random. We propose a extended prisoner’s dilemma game model to study the impact of recommended role models on the evolution of cooperation in a homogeneous population. Individuals are endowed with the capacity to recommend the ones they imitated in the past to their neighbors for strategy updating. Numerical simulations show that cooperation can be improved significantly when recommendation is allowed. Our results might be helpful in explaining the widespread cooperation in the real world.