Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Isoxazolinediones from One-pot Reaction of Alkylidene Meldrum ’s Acid with Alkyl Isocyanides in the Presence of Arylhydroxylamines

Alkyl isocyanides undergo a smooth reaction with alkylidene Meldrum’s acids in the presence of arylhydroxylamines to produce N ¹-alkyl-2-(3,5-dioxo-2-aryltetrahydro-4-isoxazolyl)alkanamides in high yields.     

On Extracting Maximum Stable Sets in Perfect Graphs Using Lovász's Theta Function

We study the maximum stable set problem. For a given graph, we establish several transformations among feasible solutions of different formulations of Lovász's theta function. We propose reductions from feasible solutions corresponding to a graph to those corresponding to its induced subgraphs. We develop an efficient, polynomial-time algorithm to extract a maximum stable set in a perfect graph using the theta function. Our algorithm iteratively transforms an approximate solution of the semidefinite formulation of the theta function into an approximate solution of another formulation, which is then used to identify a vertex that belongs to a maximum stable set. The subgraph induced by that vertex and its neighbors is removed and the same procedure is repeated on successively smaller graphs. We establish that solving the theta problem up to an adaptively chosen, fairly rough accuracy suffices in order for the algorithm to work properly. Furthermore, our algorithm successfully employs a warm-start strategy to recompute the theta function on smaller subgraphs. Computational results demonstrate that our algorithm can efficiently extract maximum stable sets in comparable time it takes to solve the theta problem on the original graph to optimality. This work was supported in part by NSF through CAREER Grant DMI-0237415. Part of this work was performed while the first author was at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statisticsat Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA.     

Electrochemical Polymerization of Aniline at Low Supporting-Electrolyte Concentrations and Characterization of Obtained Films

Conductive polymers of aniline were synthesized in aqueous acidic media such as perchloric, sulfuric, hydrochloric, phosphoric, and trifluoroacetic acids and the effect of supporting electrolyte was investigated. The conductivity of each polyaniline (PAn) sample was determined by the four-probe technique. PAn (H₂SO₄) sample was shown to have the highest conductivity, specifically, 3.55 S cm^–1. The effect of concentrations of monomers and acids on the conductivity of PAn's was studied. It was observed that the conductivity decreased with increasing aniline concentration and increased with increasing sulfuric acid concentration. The conductivities of PAn (CF₃COOH) were also investigated in different supporting electrolytes and highly good increments of its conductivities were obtained. Magnetic properties of the PAn salts were analyzed by Gouy balance measurements and it was found that their conducting mechanisms are of bipolaron nature. From the FTIR analysis it was found that polymerization occurs via the –NH₂ group in a head-to-tail mechanism. The thermal analyses revealed that PAn (HCl) among the PAn salts studied shows the highest thermal stability. Surface analyses of polymers were clarified by scanning electron microscopy. From elemental analysis results, PAn salts were concluded to be in emeraldine structure.     

Transition energies, wavelengths, oscillator strengths and transition probabilities between 1s, 1sns and 1snp (2?n?9) states for He-like Silicon

Multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock calculations with Breit-Pauli relativistic corrections are reported for electric dipole transition (E1) energies, wavelengths, weighted oscillator strengths and transition probabilities between all of the 1s², 1sns and 1snp (2?n?9) states for He-like silicon. The results are found to compare very well with available other results except Δn=0 due to differences in the calculated excitation energies.     

New glyoxime derivatives and their transition metal complexes

Two new vic-dioxime ligands and their complexes with Co⁺², Ni⁺², Cu⁺², Cd⁺², and Zn⁺² ions were synthesized. Primer amines (3,4-methylenedioxaaniline and 4-methylbenzylamine) reacted with antichloroglyoxime to give 3,4-methylenedioxaphenylaminoglyoxime (H₂L¹) and N-(4-methylbenzyl)aminoglyoxime (H₂L²) ligands. Structures of the ligands and their complexes are proposed based on elemental analyses, IR, UV-Vis, and ¹H NMR spectra, magnetic susceptibility measurements, and thermogravimetric analyses (TGA). The article was submitted by the authors in English.     

Solid Phase Extraction and Simultaneous Spectrophotometric Determination of Trace Amounts of Copper and Iron Using Mixture of Ligands

 A novel sensitive and simple method for rapid and selective extraction, preconcentration and determination of iron (as its bathophenanthroline complex) and copper (as its neocuproine complex) using octadecyl silica cartridges and dual wavelength spectrophotometry is presented. The dual wavelength method (533 nm for the iron-bathophenanthroline and 454 nm for the copper-neocuproine as the analytical wavelength) is used to eliminate spectral interferences. Extraction efficiency and the influence of flow rates of sample solution and eluent, pH, amount of neocuproine, bathophenanthroline and hydroxylamine hydrochloride, type and least amount of eluent for elution of iron and copper complexes from cartridge, break-through volume and limit of detection are evaluated. The effects of various cationic and anionic interferences on percent recovery of iron and copper are also studied. Extraction efficiencies >95% are obtained by elution of cartridges with minimal amount of organic solvent. Iron and copper were determined in the range of 3–100 ng mL⁻¹. The limits of detection are 0.98 and 1.13 ng mL⁻¹ for iron and copper, respectively. The proposed method is applied successfully to the determination of both analytes in river, tap and well water samples. Author for correspondence. E-mail: yyamini@modares.ac.ir Received September 18, 2002; accepted December 12, 2002 Published online May 5, 2003     

A note on

There is only one pair of non-real zeros of , and of , in the left half-plane. The Riemann Hypothesis implies that and have no zeros in the strip .

     

Diterpenoid Alkaloids of Delphinium buschianum Grossh.

From the aerial parts of Delphinium buschianum Grossh ., collected in Turkey, a new diterpenoid alkaloid 1 , named budelphine, was isolated along with the known diterpenoid alkaloids karakoline ( 2 ), 18‐hydroxy‐14‐O‐methylgadesine ( 3 ), delsoline ( 4 ), lapaconidine ( 5 ), columbianine ( 6 ), 14‐benzoylneoline ( 7 ), and hetisine ( 9 ). The structure of 1 was established on the basis of ¹H‐, ¹³C‐, DEPT, ¹H,¹H‐COSY, NOESY, HSQC, and HMBC NMR studies.     

Bioadhesion to solids: contact angle hysteresis effect

It was recently reported that the ease of removal of sporelings of green seaweed Ulva under shear stress from the polymer surfaces was found to be linearly and positively correlated with contact angle and wetting hysteresis, i.e., the higher the hysteresis, the greater the removal. Motivated by this report, we examined the relationship between the bioadhesion of blood platelets and proteins with contact angle hysteresis of solid substrates using the data of published papers. It was determined that there is a linear and positive relationship between the contact angle hysteresis and bioadhesion of both blood platelets and γ-globulin protein contacting the solid substrates, i.e., the higher the hysteresis, the greater the bioadhesion. The reasons are discussed and it is proposed that testing the effect of CAH on the adhesion strengths of biomaterials on surfaces is useful in order to gain a better insight on the bioadhesion mechanism.