Intramolecular Biaryl Oxidative Coupling of Stilbene Substrates by Vanadium Oxytrichloride (VOCl3): Facile Synthesis of Substituted Phenanthrene Derivatives

The biaryl unit is extensively presented in many classes of natural products, such as polyketides, terpenes, lignanes,coumarins, flavonoids, tannins, and many alkaloids.[1] It has long been recognized that an intramolecular oxidative phenolic or nonphenolic coupling reaction serves as the key step in the biosynthesis of these natural products, and the non-enzymic analogue of this transformation can lead the elegantly simple syntheses of these compounds.[2] During the last decade, a large number of oxidative coupling reagents, such as ferric chloride (FeCl3), phenyliodine(Ⅲ)bis(trifluoroacetate) (PIFA), lead(Ⅳ) tetraacetate [Pb(OAc)4], thallium(Ⅲ) triflouroacetate (TTFA), as well as vanadium oxytrifluoride (VOF3),[3,4] have been developed for this target. However, extensive application of this synthetic potential has been limited by low yields and unexpected side reactions usually encountered.     

“Self-repairing” nanoshell for cell protection

Self-repair is nature''s way of protecting living organisms. However, most single cells are inherently less capable of self-repairing, which greatly limits their wide applications. Here, we present a self-assembly approach to create a nanoshell around the cell surface using nanoporous biohybrid aggregates. The biohybrid shells present self-repairing behaviour, resulting in high activity and extended viability of the encapsulated cells (eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells) in harsh micro-environments, such as under UV radiation, natural toxin invasion, high-light radiation and abrupt pH-value changes. Furthermore, an interaction mechanism is proposed and studied, which is successful to guide design and synthesis of self-repairing biohybrid shells using different bioactive molecules.     

Electronic Entanglement Concentration for the Concatenated Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger State

Concatenated Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (C-GHZ) state, which encodes many physical qubits in a logic qubit will have important applications in both quantum communication and computation. In this paper, we will describe an entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) for electronic C-GHZ state, by exploiting the electronic polarization beam splitters (PBSs) and charge detection. This protocol has several advantages. First, the parties do not need to know the exact coefficients of the initial less-entangled C-GHZ state, which makes this protocol feasible. Second, with the help of charge detection, the distilled maximally entangled C-GHZ state can be remained for future application. Third, this protocol can be repeated to obtain a higher success probability. We hope that this protocol can be useful in future quantum computation based on electrons.     

A Concise Total Synthesis of S-(+)-Tylophorine

Phenanthroindolizidine alkaloids, which exhibit extensively biological properties, are widely present at various plants of the Asclepiadaceae family.[1] The significantly biological importance of these natural products has attracted considerable synthetic efforts.[2] We herein report an efficiently asyinmetric synthesis of S-(+)-tylophorine (1), as a typically representative alkaloids.     

Steered Quantum Coherence as a Signature of Topological Quantum Phase Transitions in the Extended XY Model

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in exploring coherence measures and correlation measures to characterize topological quantum phase transitions (TQPTs). Here, motivated by the continued push in this direction, the steered quantum coherence (SQC) in the extended XY model is studied to analyze its capability in characterizing TQPTs. It is shown that the first derivative of SQC succeeds in signaling different critical points of TQPTs. In particular, it is found that the SQC is a long-range correlation and the first derivative of SQC can always accurately identify TQPTs for different site distance.     

Limit Cycles near Stationary Points in the Lorenz System

The limit cycles in the Lorenz system near the stationary points are analysed numerically. A plane in phase space of the linear Lorenz system is used to locate suitable initial points of trajectories near the limit cycles. The numerical results show a stable and an unstable limit cycle near the stationary point. The stable limit cycle is smaller than the unstable one and has not been previously reported in the literature. In addition, all the limit cycles in the Lorenz system are theoreticallv Proven not to be planar.     

多孔β－TCP生物降解陶瓷的拉曼光谱

求文研究了多孔Ｂ－ＴＣＰ生物降解陶瓷及其粘结剂的拉王光谱。参照各种磷酸盐及磷酸盐玻璃的拉曼光谱，对生物降解陶瓷的拉曼特征频率进行了经验式的归属和指认。实验结果表明，生物降解陶瓷以β－Ｃａ３（ＰＯ４）２（β－ＴＣＰ）为主晶相，当粘结剂含量增加时，生物降解陶瓷中出现明显的Ｃａ４Ｐ２Ｏ９９和Ｃａ２Ｐ２Ｏ７，晶相和其他非晶相，其含量随粘结剂量增加而增加，并呈现一种多孔的网络结构。