Entropy generation of turbulent Cu–water nanofluid flows inside thermal systems equipped with transverse-cut twisted turbulators

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - In the present study, numerical simulations have been carried out on thermal characteristics and second-law analysis of turbulent Cu–H2O...     

SnCl4 and SbCl5 promoted aromatization of enamines

Aromatic amines have been synthesized efficiently from enamines using SnCl₄ and SbCl₅ in CH₂Cl₂ at room temperature.     

An Easy One-Pot Procedure for the Synthesis of <Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis>-Sulfonyl Phosphorous Ylides and Sulfonyl Iminophosphoranes

Summary. Reaction of triphenylphosphine and an electron deficient acetylenic ester in the presence of strong N–H acid such as alkyl and aryl sulfamides or acetamide produces phosphorous ylides at room temperature in CH₂Cl₂. The aryl sulfamide phosphoranes undergo a smooth transformation reaction in boiling toluene and produce iminophosphoranes.     

Duality for Koszul homology over Gorenstein rings

We study Koszul homology over local Gorenstein rings. It is well known that if an ideal is strongly Cohen–Macaulay the Koszul homology algebra satisfies Poincaré duality. We prove a version of this duality which holds for all ideals and allows us to give two criteria for an ideal to be strongly Cohen–Macaulay. The first can be compared to a result of Hartshorne and Ogus; the second is a generalization of a result of Herzog, Simis, and Vasconcelos using sliding depth.     

A mild and green chemistry approach for the synthesis of symmetrical spirooxindole derivatives

A simple and eco-friendly synthesis of the biologically important spirooxindole scaffold was done by the reaction of isatin with activated pyrazolones in the presence of a catalytic amount of p-toluenesulfonic acid in water at room temperature. A variety of symmetrical spirooxindole derivatives were obtained with excellent yields within short reaction time. This method is of great value because of its environmentally benign character, high yield, and easy handling.     

One-pot synthesis of 1,2,4,5-tetrahydro-2,4-dioxobenzo[b][1,4]diazepine and malonamide derivatives using multi-component reactions

In this work, a new series of 1,2,4,5-tetrahydro-2,4-dioxobenzo[b][1,4]diazepine and malonamide derivatives have been synthesized using an aromatic 1,2-diamine, Meldrum's acid, an isocyanide, and an arylidene malononitrile (or an aldehyde and malononitrile instead of an arylidene malononitrile) in CH₂Cl₂ at ambient temperature. Synthesis of 1,2,4,5-tetrahydro-2,4-dioxobenzo[b][1,4]diazepine proceeded via four- and five-component reactions; while the synthesis of malonamide derivatives was performed using five- and six-component reactions. In addition, a new series of the malonamide derivatives have been prepared using an aldehyde, malononitrile, Meldrum's acid, an isocyanide, and two molecules of 1,4-diamine via a six-component reaction. These procedures provide alternative methods to the synthesis of a new series of 1,2,4,5-tetrahydro-2,4-dioxobenzo[b][1,4]diazepine and malonamide derivatives.     

Overcoming acid–base copolymer neutralization using mesoporous carbon and its catalytic activity in the tandem deacetalization–Knoevenagel condensation reaction

Research on Chemical Intermediates - Acid–base copolymer materials are of considerable interest because of their fundamental implications for acid–base bifunctional catalysis...     

纳米晶枝CuAu合金催化剂对二氧化碳电催化还原性能的研究

利用可再生清洁能源将CO2转化为CO和其他小分子是合成含碳燃料的可观方法之一.间歇性可再生能源存储的重要策略之一是将二氧化碳进行电化学还原.选择具有高活性和稳定性的电催化剂对于电化学还原CO2至关重要.在这项研究中,我们使用简单的电沉积方法合成了具有纳米晶枝状结构的CuAu合金电极.各项表征显示原子比约为1∶1的CuA...     

A low-cost optimization framework to solve muscle redundancy problem

Prediction of muscle activations based on optimization procedures mostly leads to a prohibitive computational effort. To overcome this problem, an optimization framework by reformulation of the so-called method of extended inverse dynamics (EID) was developed. A planar, seven-segment model with sixteen muscle groups was used to represent human neuromusculoskeletal dynamics. The muscle activations were estimated based on two methods: EID, which treats the system dynamics (compatibility between muscular and skeletal torques), as an equality constraint, and the proposed method, which employs unconstrained system dynamics of EID (USDEID). The proposed method is based on the idea that the EID equality constraint, which is difficult to satisfy, can be eliminated by reformulation of the governing equations and optimization variables, which not only relaxes the optimization problem and leads to less optimization parameters, but also guarantees the full compatibility of the system dynamics. The comparison of simulation results of optimal muscle activations against experimental data showed a reasonable agreement for both methods during half of a gait cycle. Optimization results showed that USDEID is not only more accurate than EID in terms of the compatibility between the skeletal and muscular system dynamics, but also approximately eight times faster for ten random initial values. USDEID may be used to predict muscle activations, when the computational cost becomes prohibitive.