Formation of Azulene-Embedded Nanographene: Naphthalene to Azulene Rearrangement During the Scholl Reaction

Incorporation of a non-hexagonal ring into a nanographene framework can lead to new electronic properties. During the attempted synthesis of naphthalene-bridged double [6]helicene and heptagon-containing nanographene by the Scholl reaction, an unexpected azulene-embedded nanographene and its triflyloxylated product were obtained, as confirmed by X-ray crystallographic analysis and 2D NMR spectroscopy. A 5/7/7/5 ring-fused substructure containing two formal azulene units is formed, but only one of them shows an azulene-like electronic structure. The formation of this unique structure is explained by arenium ion mediated 1,2-phenyl migration and a naphthalene to azulene rearrangement reaction according to an in-silico study. This report represents the first experimental example of the thermodynamically unfavorable naphthalene to azulene rearrangement and may lead to new azulene-based molecular materials.     

Lipase‐Supported Metal–Organic Framework Bioreactor Catalyzes Warfarin Synthesis

A green and sustainable strategy synthesizes clinical medicine warfarin anticoagulant by using lipase‐supported metal–organic framework (MOF) bioreactors (see scheme). These findings may be beneficial for future studies in the industrial production of chemical, pharmaceutical, and agrochemical precursors.     

Planar AIEgens with Enhanced Solid-State Luminescence and ROS Generation for Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Treatment

Planar luminogens have encountered difficulties in overcoming intrinsic aggregation-caused emission quenching by intermolecular π-π stacking interactions. Although excited-state double-bond reorganization (ESDBR) can guide us on designing planar aggregation-induced emission (AIE) luminogens (AIEgens), its mechanism has yet been elucidated. Major challenges in the field include methods to efficiently restrict ESDBR and enhance AIE performance without using bulky substituents (e.g., tetraphenylethylene and triphenylamine). In this study, we rationally developed fluoro-substituent AIEgens with stronger intermolecular H-bonding interaction for restricted molecular motions and increased crystal density, leading to decreased nonradiative decay rate by one order of magnitude. The adjusted ESDBR properties also show a corresponding response to variation in viscosity. Furthermore, their aggregation-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) generations have been discovered. The application of such planar AIEgen in treating multidrug-resistant bacteria has been demonstrated in a mouse model. The relationship between ROS generation and distinct E/Z-configurational stacking behaviors have been further understood, providing a design principle for synthesizing planar AIEgen-based photosensitizers.     

Intended Treatments of Arithmetic Average in U.S. and Asian School Mathematics Textbooks

This study examined how selected U.S. and Asian mathematics curricula are designed to facilitate students' understanding of the arithmetic average. There is a consistency regarding the learning goals among these curriculum series, but the focuses are different between the Asian series and the U.S. reform series. The Asian series and the U.S. commercial series focus the arithmetic average more on conceptual and procedural understanding of the concept as a computational algorithm than on understanding the concept as a representative of a data set; however, the two U.S. reform series focus the concept more on the latter. Because of the different focuses, the Asian and the U.S. curriculum series treat the concept differently. In the Asian series, the concept is first introduced in the context of “equal‐sharing” or “per‐unit‐quantity,” and the averaging formula is formally introduced at a very early stage. In the U.S. reform series, the concept is discussed as a measure of central tendency, and after students have some intuitive ideas of the statistical aspect of the concept, the averaging algorithm is briefly introduced.     

多相体系中Ni-PMMA纳米复合材料的γ辐射制备

在多相体系中 ,运用γ射线辐射法 ,在常温常压下成功地一步合成了镍 聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯 (Ni PMMA)纳米复合材料 .XRD、TEM分析和IR光谱表明 ,在此实验条件下 ,镍离子和甲基丙烯酸甲酯已成功地被还原或聚合 ,镍粒子为面心立方 ,尺寸为 7.33nm .研究显示 ,用醋酸钠代替氢氧化钠或氨水作为碱性试剂 ,可以有效地控制体系的pH ,同时不影响单体的聚合 .     

全光纤脉冲压缩器的理论及实验研究

对色散位移光纤＋普通单模光纤构成的全光纤脉冲压缩器进行了理论分析，分析了压 缩效果与光纤参数及输入脉冲参数的关系；对不同中心波长和脉宽的主动锁模光纤激光器的 输出脉冲进行了压缩实验，均得到了近变换限Sech的压缩脉冲，实验结果与理论分析一致. 关键词： 全光纤脉冲压缩器 压缩因子 基座能量 主动谐波锁模光纤 激光器     

Crystallographic report: Diiodo[tris(2‐pyridyl)amine]mercury(II), [(C5H4N)3N]HgI2

In mononuclear HgI₂[(C₅H₄N)₃N], mercury is tetrahedrally coordinated by two nitrogen atoms of a tris(2‐pyridyl)amine ligand and two iodides. The coordination moieties are connected by weak intermolecular Hg(II)···I interactions to give a one‐dimensional structure. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Iterative methods for solvingAx=b,GMRES/FOM versus QMR/BiCG

We study the convergence of the GMRES/FOM and QMR/BiCG methods for solving nonsymmetric systems of equationsAx=b. We prove, in exact arithmetic, that any type of residual norm convergence obtained using BiCG can also be obtained using FOM but on a different system of equations. We consider practical comparisons of these procedures when they are applied to the same matrices. We use a unitary invariance shared by both methods, to construct test matrices where we can vary the nonnormality of the test matrix by variations in simplified eigenvector matrices. We used these test problems in two sets of numerical experiments. The first set of experiments was designed to study effects of increasing nonnormality on the convergence of GMRES and QMR. The second set of experiments was designed to track effects of the eigenvalue distribution on the convergence of QMR. In these tests the GMRES residual norms decreased significantly more rapidly than the QMR residual norms but without corresponding decreases in the error norms. Furthermore, as the nonnormality ofA was increased, the GMRES residual norms decreased more rapidly. This led to premature termination of the GMRES procedure on highly nonnormal problems. On the nonnormal test problems the QMR residual norms exhibited less sensitivity to changes in the nonnormality. The convergence of either type of procedure, as measured by the error norms, was delayed by the presence of large or small outliers and affected by the type of eigenvalues, real or complex, in the eigenvalue distribution ofA. For GMRES this effect can be seen only in the error norm plots.In honor of the 70th birthday of Ted RivlinThis work was supported by NSF grant GER-9450081.     

审讯过程的数学模型

本文从经济学的观点出发，利用对策论方法建立了审讯过程的数学模型，并由此研究了讯问人三种主要策略对审讯成功的效度。