Nonlinear rheological behavior of silica filled solution‐polymerized styrene butadiene rubber

The reinforcement and nonlinear viscoelastic behavior have been investigated for silica (SiO₂) filled solution‐polymerized styrene butadiene rubber (SSBR). Experimental results reveal that the nonlinear viscoelastic behavior of the filled rubber is similar to that of unfilled SSBR, which is inconsistent with the general concept that this characteristic comes from the breakdown and reformation of the filler network. It is interesting that the curves of either dynamic storage modulus (G′) or loss tangent (tan δ) versus strain amplitude (γ) for the filled rubber can be superposed, respectively, on those for the unfilled one, suggesting that the primary mechanism for the Payne effect is mainly involved in the nature of the entanglement network in rubbery matrix. It is believed there exists a cooperation between the breakdown and reformation of the filler network and the molecular disentanglement, resulting in enhancing the Payne effect and improving the mechanical hysteresis at high strain amplitudes. Moreover, the vertical and the horizontal shift factors for constructing the master curves could be well understood on the basis of the reinforcement factor f(φ) and the strain amplification factor A(φ), respectively. The surface modification of SiO₂ causes a decrease in f(φ), which is ascribed to weakeness of the filler–filler interaction and improvement of the filler dispersion. However, the surface nature of SiO₂ hardly affects A(φ). © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 45: 2594‐2602, 2007     

Forces due to changes of electronic density: A complementary view of the Jahn–Teller effect

The E ⊗ e Jahn–Teller (JT) effect in an octahedral complex is explored in this work looking directly at forces on ligand ions. It is shown that distortions at adiabatic minima are driven by a force associated with the difference between the real electronic density and that coming from a closed shell ion keeping the same number of electrons. Through this more direct approach main characteristics of tetragonal distortions are shown to be well reproduced in a simple case. As a salient feature the existence of an infinity of equivalent distortions when anharmonicity of vibrations is ignored is also found in the present approach. The way of applying these ideas to other JT systems as well as to excited states of transition-metal complexes is also briefly discussed.     

Magnetic properties of dendritic polycarbenes substituted by bulky peripheral groups

As photo-reactive precursors of high-spin organic compounds sterically separated from surroundings by bulky peripheral groups, diphenyldiazomethane derivatives substituted by tetrakis{3,5-bis(benzyloxy)benzyloxy} groups 1, by tetrakis[3,5-bis{3′,5′-bis(benzyloxy)benzyloxy}bezyloxy] groups 2, and nonakisdiazo compound associated with ferromagnetic spin couplers substituted by dodecakis{3,5-bis(benzyloxy)benzyloxy} groups 3, were prepared and their magnetic properties after irradiation in their own condensed films were investigated. Field dependences of magnetization and temperature dependences of χT value after irradiation of 1 and 2 clearly exhibited that spin centers i.e., diphenylcarbene parts of 1 and 2 were magnetically isolated from surrounding molecules each other by steric hindrance of the peripheral bulk substituents even in the neat films. In the case of 3, some part of molecules interacted antiferromagnetically with neighboring molecules but a fatal strong antiferromagnetic interaction was also avoided.     

2,2-双(4-氯-2-氟苄基)丙二酸二乙酯的晶体结构和密度泛函理论研究

标题化合物是一个重要的精细化工中间体,可用于制备嘧啶类、吡唑类等产品.本文利用红外光谱(IR)、质谱(MS)、核磁共振氢谱(1 H NMR)、核磁共振碳谱(13 C NMR)和X-射线单晶衍射对此化合物进行了表征,并在B3LYP/6-311G(d,p)模式下使用密度泛函理论(DFT)计算了此化合物的最稳定晶体结构以及最...     

Acoustic study of low-energy activation processes in amorphous Se,Ge and SeGe compounds

The study of the elastic properties of amorphous selenium over a wide range of frequency (30 kHz−100 MHz) reveal a single internal friction peak below the glass transition temperature.This one involves low activation energies ranging down to very small values and is reduced when the chains are crosslinked. In amorphous germanium, there is no evidence for the existence of activation processes exhibiting very small values. We suggest that the underlying microscopic mechanisms responsible for the peak in a-Se are closely related to the polymeric structure and so should exist in any amorphous polymers. We also suggest that the numerous other peaks existing in most polymers are not intrinsically related to structure in chains.     

Total synthesis of arteannuin and deoxyarteannuin

Arteannuin 1 is a new sesquiterpene lactone containing a peroxide linkage and is an antimalarial principle isolated from Artemisia annua L. . R(+)-Citronellal 5 as a starting material for the total synthesis was converted into 11R(-)-methyl dihydroarteannuinate 12 in 14 steps. The key intermediate 4 was obtained from compound 12 in 5 steps. The introduction of hydroperoxide in 4 by photooxidation followed by acid treatment gave 1. Hydroxylation of 4 with osmium tetraoxide afforded deoxyarteannuin 2.