Enantioselective Addition of Iodine Azide to α,β-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acid Derivatives

The addition of iodine azide to chiral conjugated N-enoyl-sultam or α,β-unsaturated N-acyloxazolidinones generated two asymmetric centers at C(α) and C(β) with high π-face differentiation and regioselectivity. The diastereomerically pure product was easily obtained by crystallization with purity up to 94% de. The structure of 2a was determined by X-ray diffraction analysis which also indicated that B and 4 are reactive conformations.     

A_4型量子群中紧单项式的区域

整体晶体基(又称为典范基)在量子群及其表示理论中起着重要的作用. 紧单项式是典范基中最简单的元素.本文基于Lusztig的工作来确定A_4型量子群中紧单项式的区域.     

A Study of Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reactions of Allylamino Dienenitriles

The intramolecular Diels-Alder reactions of 2-allylanilino 3,5-heptadienenitriles (3) produced equimolar amounts of perhydroisoindoles 4 and 5, the structures of which were determined by spectral methods, but also by X-ray diffraction of 4a.     

Belief rule-based system for portfolio optimisation with nonlinear cash-flows and constraints

A belief rule-based (BRB) system is a generic nonlinear modelling and inference scheme. It is based on the concept of belief structures and evidential reasoning (ER), and has been shown to be capable of capturing complicated nonlinear causal relationships between antecedent attributes and consequents. The aim of this paper is to develop a BRB system that complements the RiskMetrics WealthBench system for portfolio optimisation with nonlinear cash-flows and constraints. Two optimisation methods are presented to locate efficient portfolios under different constraints specified by the investors. Numerical studies demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed methodology.     

Improved extremal optimization for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem

This paper presents an improved extremal optimization (IEO) algorithm for solving the asymmetric traveling salesman problem (ATSP). At each update step, the IEO algorithm proceeds through two main steps: extremal dynamics and cooperative optimization. As an improvement of extremal optimization (EO), the IEO provides a general combinatorial optimization framework by emphasizing the step of cooperative optimization. In the paper, an effective cooperative optimization strategy with combination of greedy search and random walk is designed in terms of the microscopic characteristics of the ATSP solutions. Simulation results on a set of benchmark ATSP instances show that the proposed IEO algorithm provides satisfactory performance on computational effectiveness and efficiency.     

Optimization with extremal dynamics for the traveling salesman problem

By mapping the optimization problems to physical systems, the paper presents a general-purpose stochastic optimization method with extremal dynamics. It is built up with the traveling salesman problem (TSP) being a typical NP-complete problem. As self-organized critical processes of extremal dynamics, the optimization dynamics successively updates the states of those cities with high energy. Consequently, a near-optimal solution can be quickly obtained through the optimization processes combining the two phases of greedy searching and fluctuated explorations (ergodic walk near the phase transition). The computational results demonstrate that the proposed optimization method may provide much better performance than other optimization techniques developed from statistical physics, such as simulated annealing (SA). Since the proposed fundamental solution is based on the principles and micromechanisms of computational systems, it can provide systematic viewpoints and effective computational methods on a wide spectrum of combinatorial and physical optimization problems.     

钒催化剂选择性氧化乳酸乙酯制丙酮酸乙酯

The structure and surface acidity of vanadium oxide supported on α-Al₂O₃、TiO₂、SiO₂ have been studied by XRD、IR、TPR and adsorption microcalorimetry. The catalytic performance of the catalysts for selective oxidation of ethyl lactate to ethyl pyruvate was determined in a continuous flow fix-bed reactor. The results showed that the dispersion of vanadium oxide on the supports weakened the V=O bond and actived the terminal oxygen, which increased the reaction activity. On the otherhand, The surface acidity is harmful to the selectivity of ethyl pyruvate. V/α-Al₂O₃ exhibited a lower conversion since its dispersion is low. The low selectivity on V/SiO₂ is due to its fairly strong surface acidity. Addition of K⁺ weakened the surface acidty and enhanced selectivity of V/SiO₂. V/TiO₂ exhibited the best activity and selectivity among the catalysts studied because of its weak surface activity. The conversion of ethyl lactate and selectivity to ethyl pyruvate are 97% and 81%, respectively, over the V/TiO₂ catalyst at 473K.     

均匀流中近壁面垂直流向振荡圆柱水动力特性研究

对均匀来流下靠近壁面处在垂直流向做强迫振荡运动的光滑圆柱的水动力特性进行了试验研究. 试验在拖曳水池中进行, 雷诺数为2× 10⁵, 通过采集顺流向和垂直流向的力, 得到了阻力系数、升力系数、相位角等与间隙比、振荡频率和振幅之间的关系. 通过研究得到如下结论: 1)振荡圆柱的平均阻力系数在近壁面处随间隙比的减小而骤降; 2)振荡圆柱泄涡受到完全抑制的临界间隙比要小于静止圆柱; 3)近壁面的存在对振荡圆柱的能量传递有着重要的影响, 自由边界圆柱强迫振荡所得到的水动力系数不能用来预报海底管道的涡激振动; 4)对于振荡圆柱, 附加质量系数只有在一定的频率范围内才是定值, 且在低频率区域其绝对值随间隙比减小而增大; 5)圆柱在进行强迫振荡时, 其平均阻力系数、振荡阻力系数和振荡升力系数均随无因次振幅的增加而增大. 关键词： 海底管道 强迫振荡 水动力特性 涡激振动