Chemoselective Esterification of Phenolic Acids in the Presence of Sodium Bicarbonate in Ionic Liquids

Chemoselective esterification of phenolic acids with dialkyl sulphates or alkyl halides in the presence of sodium bicarbonate in 1,3‐dialkylimidazolium ionic liquids is reported in excellent yields and less reaction time as compared to organic solvents.     

Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Activity of the Leaf Essential Oil of Schefflera venulosa

Chemistry of Natural Compounds -     

Crystal and Molecular Structure of Tosyl Pyrrolidine-2-Methanol (C12H17SO3N)

C₁₂H₁₇SO₃N, M_r = 255.33, Orthorhombic, P2₁2₁2₁, a = 11.703(1) Å, b = 14.797(3) Å, c = 14.971(2) Å, V = 2592.52 ų, Z = 8, D_m = 1.309 Mgm⁻³, D_c = 1.308 Mgm⁻³, mμ = 21.57 cm⁻¹, F(000) = 1088, T = 290 K, final R = 0.080 for 2416 unique reflections. There are two crystallographically independent molecules in the unit cell of the title compound.     

Bubbling and bistability in two parameter discrete systems

We present a graphical analysis of the mechanisms underlying the occurrences of bubbling sequences and bistability regions in the bifurcation scenario of a special class of one dimensional two parameter maps. The main result of the analysis is that whether it is bubbling or bistability is decided by the sign of the third derivative at the inflection point of the map function.     

Deterministic chaos in one-dimensional maps—the period doubling and intermittency routes

This paper is a review of the present status of studies relating to occurrence of deterministic chaos and its characterization in one-dimensional maps. As our primary aim is to introduce the nonspecialists into this fascinating world of chaos we start from very elementary concepts and give sufficient arguments for clarity of ideas. The two main scenarios during onset of chaos viz. the period doubling and intermittency are dealt with in detail. Although the logistic map is often discussed by way of illustration, a few more interesting maps are mentioned towards the end.     

Occurrence of stable periodic modes in a pendulum with cubic damping

Dynamical systems with nonlinear damping show interesting behavior in the periodic and chaotic phases. The Froude pendulum with cubical and linear damping is a paradigm for such a system. In this work the driven Froude pendulum is studied by the harmonic balancing method; the resulting nonlinear response curves are studied further for resonance and stability of symmetric oscillations with relatively low damping. The stability analysis is carried out by transforming the system of equations to the linear Mathieu equation.     

On the transition to hyperchaos and the structure of hyperchaotic attractors

Using a recently proposed algorithmic scheme for correlation dimension analysis of hyperchaotic attractors, we study two well-known hyperchaotic flows and two standard time delayed hyperchaotic systems in detail numerically. We show that at the transition to hyperchaos, the nature of the scaling region changes suddenly and the attractor displays two scaling regions for embedding dimension M ≥ 4. We argue that it is an indication of a strong clustering tendency of the underlying attractor in the hyperchaotic phase. Because of this sudden qualitative change in the scaling region, the transition to hyperchaos can be easily identified using the discontinuous changes in the dimension (D ₂) at the transition point. We show this explicitely for the two time delayed systems. Further support for our results is provided by computing the spectrum of Lyapunov Exponents (LE) of the hyperchaotic attractor in all cases. Our numerical results imply that the structure of a hyperchaotic attractor is topologically different from that of a chaotic attractor with inherent dual scales, at least for the two general classes of hyperchaotic systems we have analysed here.     

Green Route for the Synthesis of Fluorescent Carbon Nanoparticles from Circassian Seeds for Fe(III) Ion Detection

Journal of Fluorescence - A facile and green strategy was carried out for the preparation of fluorescent carbon nanoparticles (CNp) using non-toxic circassian seeds as carbon precursor (CNp, named...     

Chemical Composition and Biological Activity of Essential Oil of Phoebe wightii

Chemistry of Natural Compounds -     

Use of Padé approximants in the evaluation of α and δ for one-dimensional maps

Recently an analytic algorithm for evaluating the Feigenbaum indices of one-dimensional maps was developed using a perturbative expansion. We find that the use of Padé approximants in the resulting asymptotic series, significantly improves the technique.