The results of electronic structure modeling of plutonium and americium higher oxide molecules (actinide oxidation states VI through VIII) by two-component relativistic density functional theory are presented. Ground-state equilibrium molecular structures, main features of charge distributions, and energetics of AnO3, AnO4, An2On (An=Pu, Am), and PuAmOn, n = 6-8, are determined. In all cases, m...

Synthesis of new 2-unsubstituted imidazole 3-oxides bearing bulky substituents at the N(1) atom, based on the condensation of appropriate alkylamines, formaldehyde, and corresponding α(hydroxyimino)ketone, is described. Treatment of imidazole 3-oxides with hexafluoroacetone hydrate (HFAH) yields crystalline 1:1 complexes in nearly quantitative yields. Heating of isolated complexes possessing ph...

Amal al-Wahish Advance Solid state 672 Instructor: Elbio Dagotto Spring 2009 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee [email protected] (Dated: May 12, 2009) Abstract Since the Geothermal and solar heat can be directly converted into electricity by using thermoelectric generators, thermoelectric oxides are potential materials to improve the efficiency of these devices. This wor...

The photochemistry of p-azidoaniline was studied in argon matrices in the absence and presence of oxygen. With the help of quantum chemical calculations we were able to characterize the triplet p-aminophenylnitrene as well as the cis- and trans-p-aminophenylnitroso oxides. It was found that the latter two isomers can be interconverted by selective irradiation and that they are ultimately conver...

Heterogeneous polymer-supported triphenylphosphine oxides based on the rasta resin architecture have been synthesized, and applied as reagent precursors in a wide range of halogenation reactions. The rasta resin-triphenylphosphine oxides were reacted with either oxalyl chloride or oxalyl bromide to form the corresponding halophosphonium salts, and these in turn were reacted with alcohols, aldeh...

Some transition metal oxides have frustrated electronic states under multiphase competition due to strongly correlated d electrons with spin, charge, and orbital degrees of freedom and exhibit drastic responses to external stimuli such as optical excitation. Here, we present photoemission studies on Pr0.55(Ca1 - ySry)0.45MnO3 (y = 0.25), SrTiO3, and Ti1 - xCoxO2 (x = 0.05, 0.10) under laser ill...

Abstract: Prediction criterions for the formabilities of perovskite-type oxides are obtained by using the empirical structure map methods constructed by two parameters octahedral factor (rB/rO) and tolerance factor, on this structure map, simple point representing systems of forming and non forming are distributed in distinctively different regions. In this paper we found that the octahedral fa...

We present a novel and highly efficient methodology that allows for the construction of C-P bonds via the palladium-catalyzed air-based oxidative coupling of various commercially available arylboronic acids with easily oxidized H-phosphine oxides leading to valuable aryl phosphine oxides, particularly triarylphosphine oxides, with the use of air as the green oxidant, broad substrate applicabili...

10 aryl propylene oxides and 6 aryl butylene oxides were synthesized. Dose-mutagenicity relationships were studied for these compounds and for 1,2-epoxybutane, using both the preincubation and plate incorporation Ames tests with Salmonella typhimurium strains TA100 and TA1535. Structure-mutagenicity relationships were further examined by concurrent testing at single doses with the plate incorpo...

The regional air quality modeling system RAMS (regional atmospheric modeling system)-CMAQ (community multi-scale air quality modeling system) is applied to analyze temporal and spatial variations in surface ozone concentration over Beijing and its surrounding region from July to October 2008. Comparison of simulated and observed meteorological elements and concentration of nitrogen oxides (NOx)...