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Relaxor ferroelectric thin films exhibit a drastic reduction in the dielectric constant and associated properties in the thin film form, even for thicknesses in the micron range, which are essentially infinity for the size effects typically investigated in ...
The cationic ruthenium half-sandwich complex [CpRu(PPh3)(2)(CH3CN)][OTf] (2) (CP = eta(5)-C5Me5, OTf = SO3CF3) was synthesized by reduction of Cp*RuCl2 with zinc in the presence of NaOTf and subsequent reaction with PPh3. When NaOTf was omitted, the ...
Sulphur dioxide reacts with 1-oxydienes generating zwitterions which are quenched by enoxysilanes to form substituted silyl alkenylsulfinates. These intermediates are desilylated with Bu4NF and the resulting sulfinates react with MeI giving the correspondi ...
The conversion of 2,2-difluoro-1,3-benzodioxole, an exceptionally acidic arene, via a 4-lithiated intermediate into more than three dozen new derivs. was conceived as a case study. The lithiated species was trapped by C0-electrophiles (4-toluenesulfonyl az ...
Selective modification of zirconium alkoxide by acetic acid or acetylacetone was used in solution processing of PZT Pb(Zr,Ti)O-3 thin films by 2-methoxyethanol route. EXAFS results clearly show a decrease of Zr-O-Zr links in the acetic acid modified PZT so ...
A dimeric composition of the formula: wherein L', L'', L''', and L'''' are each a bidentate ligand having at least one functional substituent, the ligand selected from bipyridine, phenanthroline, 2-phenylpyridine, bipyrimidine, and bipyrazyl and th ...
A two-step sequence involving an Ugi four-component reaction and an intramol. nucleophilic arom. substitution (SNAr) has been developed for the rapid access to biaryl-ether contg. macrocycles. For example, reacting heptanal with butylamine, (3-hydroxypheny ...
The kinetics of the polycondensation of a fully arom. polyester was studied. The mass-loss curves examd. with a thermogravimetric balance were analyzed on the basis of a kinetic model. Under the exptl. conditions used the polycondensation of 4-acetoxybenzo ...
An in-situ, mid-IR sensor was used to monitor the major analyte concns. involved in the cultivation of Gluconacetobacter xylinus and the prodn. of gluconacetan, a food-grade exopolysaccharide. To predict the analyte concns., three different sets of std. sp ...
A heterobimetallic complex, in which a RuCl2(acetone) (PPh3)(2) fragment is connected via three chloro bridges to a (eta(4)-C4Ph4CO)RhCl fragment, has been identified as a potent catalyst precursor for the Oppenauer-type oxidation of alcohols. With 0.1-0.5 ...