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2009

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Pierre Vogel, Maris Turks, Claudia Jana Exner

At low temperature and in the presence of an acid catalyst, sulfur dioxide undergoes hetero-Diels-Alder additions with 1-oxy-1,3-dienes, giving unstable sultines, which are ionized into zwitterionic species and react as 1-oxyallylic cation intermediates (U ...

2009

Interplay of DNA supercoiling and catenation during the segregation of sister duplexes

Andrzej Stasiak, Guillaume Witz, Pablo Hernandez

The discrete regulation of supercoiling, catenation and knotting by DNA topoisomerases is well documented both in vivo and in vitro, but the interplay between them is still poorly understood. Here we studied DNA catenanes of bacterial plasmids arising as a ...

Oxford University Press2009

RAFT homo- and copolymerization of N-acryloyl-morpholine, piperidine, and azocane and their self-assembled structures

Davide Demurtas, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Yun Suk Jo, Jay Gantz

We present new polymeric amphiphiles derived from N-acryloyl derivatives of the cyclic secondary amines: morpholine, piperidine, and azocane polymerized by reversible addition -fragmentation transfer (RAFT) polymerization. Both homopolymerization and block ...

2008

Low temperature hydrothermal routes to various PZT stoichiometries

Scott Harada

The production of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) with a variation in Zr and Ti ratios using a hydrothermal method has been attempted. We show that when reactions are conducted at 160 degrees C, for 4 h, the phase of PZT produced is independent of the initia ...

Springer Verlag2008

Selectivity of montmorillonite catalyzed prebiotic reactions of D, L-nucleotides

The montmorillonite-catalyzed reactions of the 5′-phosphorimidazolides of D, L-adenosine (D, L-ImpA) (Figure 1a. N = A, R = H) and D, L-uridine (Figure 1a., N = U, R = H) yields oligomers that were as long as 7 mers and 6 mers, respectively. The reactions ...

2007

Protons at the Si-SiO2 interface: a first principle investigation

Alfredo Pasquarello

We studied protons attached to bridging O atoms in the vicinity of the Si(100)-SiO2 interface through density-functional calculations for realistic interface models. These protons do not disrupt the bonding network except in the case of strained SiO bonds ...

2007

Development of nitrile-functionalized ionic liquids for C-C coupling reactions: implication of carbene and nanoparticle catalysts

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Wee Han Ang, Dongbin Zhao, Cinzia Chiappe

A series of nitrile-functionalized imidazolium salts (many of which are liquid at room temperature) have been prepared. The reactivity of these salts with PdCl2 has been studied, resulting in salts containing a tetrachloropalladate dianion or co ...

2007

Palladium-Catalyzed Desulfitative Mizoroki-Heck Coupling Reactions of Sulfonyl Chlorides with Olefins in a Nitrile-functionalized Ionic Liquid

Paul Joseph Dyson, Pierre Vogel, Zhaofu Fei, Dongbin Zhao, Chandra Mouleeswara Rao Volla

Aryl and alkenyl sulfonyl chlorides can be used in Heck-Mizoroki-type couplings with mono- and disubstituted olefins in a nitrile-functionalized ionic liquid, viz. [C3CNpy][Tf2N]. Advantages over previously reported methods include: (1) use of a cheap cat ...

2006

The effect of silica on the degradation of organohalides in granular iron columns

Tamar Kohn

Dissolved silica species are naturally occurring, ubiquitous groundwater constituents with corrosion-inhibiting properties. Their influence on the performance and longevity of iron-based permeable reactive barriers for treatment of organohalides was invest ...

Elsevier2006

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