Silicon wafers and glass surfaces were functionalized with facially amphiphilic antimicrobial copolymers using the "grafting from" technique. Surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) was used to grow poly(butylmethacrylate)-co-poly(Boc-aminoethyl methacrylate) from the surfaces. Upon Boc-deprotection, these surfaces became highly antimicrobial and killed S. aureus and E. co...

Japan has been developing a new satellite based positioning system called Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS). Since improvement of positioning availability in urban area is one of the most important advantages of the QZSS, multipath mitigation is a key factor for the QZSS positioning system. Therefore, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and GNSS Inc. developed a pseudolite, which trans...

Recently, the authors have proposed a new class of BinaryOffset-Carrier (BOC) modulation, namely the Double-BOC (DBOC) modulation which generalizes the main modulation types used in GPS and Galileo under a single, unified formula, and allows extra-flexibility in designing the suitable spectral shaping of future GNSS signals. The goal of this paper is to extend the previous analysis to multipath...

The X-ray structure of the title compound was determined for first time. There are four independent molecules that form a repeat unit packed in crystal alternating pairs with orthogonal orientation and further joined into infinite chains by hydrogen bonding.

The reactions of N1,N2-Di-boc-1,2,4-triaminobutane with bridged dicarboxylic acids afford the corresponding bis-amides from which – after removal of the Boc groups – bis(N,N′-bidendate) ligands H2NCH2CH(NH2)(CH2)2NHCO-X-CONH(CH2)2CH(NH2)CH2NH2 can be obtained. New examples are the reactions of the triaminobutane with pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid, with phenylene-1,4-diacetic acid, with terepht...

This paper addresses a novel cosine-phased binary offset carrier (BOC) signal tracking, enabling an unambiguous signal tracking. Two novel locally-generated signals are first obtained by dividing the cosine-phased BOC sub-carrier into multiple parts, and then, cross-correlations between each of the locally-generated signals and the received signal are generated. Finally, the cross-correlations ...

Although enantioconvergent alkyl-alkyl couplings of racemic electrophiles have been developed, there have been no reports of the corresponding reactions of racemic nucleophiles. Herein we describe Negishi cross-couplings of racemic α-zincated N-Boc-pyrrolidine with unactivated secondary halides, thus providing a one-pot, catalytic asymmetric method for the synthesis of a range of 2-alkylpyrroli...

We have previously developed water-based microwave (MW)-assisted peptide synthesis using Fmoc-amino acid nanopaticles. It is an organic solvent-free, environmentally friendly method for peptide synthesis. Here we describe water-based MW-assisted solid-phase synthesis using Boc-amino acid nanoparticles. The microwave irradiation allowed rapid solid-phase reaction of nanoparticle reactants on the...

The decapeptides Boc-(Aib-L-Ala)s-OMe and Boc-(Aib-L-Val)s-OMe have been studied by 270-MHz lH-nmr in CDCl3 and (CD&SO solutions. Intramolecular hydrogen-bonded NH groups have been delineated using the temperature and solvent dependence of the NH chemical shifts and differential broadening of the NH resonances, induced by addition of a nitroxide radical. Both peptides have eight solvent-shielde...

Four small molecular receptors of vancomycin have been designed to make part of a novel biosensor device based on the FTIR-ATR detection: N-Boc (2a) or N-Ac (2b)-6-aminocaproyl-D-Ala-D-Ala and N-Boc (3a) or N-Ac (3b)-6-aminocaproyl-D-Ala-d-Ser. Using an original microbiological approach to assess the competition of compounds with the natural target of vancomycin in bacteria, EC(50) values of 6....