The title compound, [NiCl(2)(C(3)H(9)P)(3)], was obtained as a product of the reaction of [NiCl(2)(PMe(3))(2)] with an equivalent trimethyl-phosphine in diethyl ether. It easily loses trimethyl-phosphine at room temperature to give NiCl(2)(PMe(3))(2). There are two independent mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit, and their bond lengths and angles are similar. The Ni environment is trigonal bipyra...

Tetramethylsilane reacts with 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE) in the presence of a cationic platinum(II) catalyst [(NN)PtMe(TFE)]+ (NN = 1,2-bis(3,5-dimethylphenylimino)butane). Catalytic Si-C bond heterolysis results in the formation of the trimethylsilyl ether, Me3SiOCH2CF3, accompanied by liberation of one equivalent of methane. Preliminary experiments suggest that a rate-determining C-H bond a...

The nodal structures of atomic wave functions based on a product of spatial orbitals, namely, restricted, unrestricted, and generalized valence bond wave functions, are shown to be equivalent. This result is verified by fixed node-diffusion Monte Carlo simulations for atoms up to Ne. Also for a molecular system, Li(2) at the equilibrium geometry, a multideterminantal generalized valence bond wa...

In the title compound, C(10)H(7)NO(2)S, the dihedral angle between the benzimidazole and malonaldehyde group is 1.41 (2)°. An intra-molecular hydrogen bond is formed between the NH group and one of the adjacent carbonyl O atoms. In addition, the NH group forms an inter-molecular hydrogen bond to a symmetry equivalent of this carbonyl O atom, connecting the mol-ecules into centrosymmetric dimers...

A bis(phosphine)/triflatosilyl pincer-type Rh(i) complex can reversibly store one equivalent of H2 across the Si-Rh bond upon triflate migration from silicon to rhodium. The triflatosilyl complex serves as an effective precatalyst for norbornene hydrogenation, but Si-OTf bond cleavage is not implicated in the major catalytic pathway. The combined findings suggest possible strategies for M/Si co...

Muon spin rotation (µSR) and relaxation has been used to study the local magnetic structure of K3Fe5F15. A collinear F-µ+-F "hydrogen bond-like" symmetric double minimum type complex with a F...F distance of 2.8 Å and a separation between the two minima of 0.8 Å has been found in the paramagnetic phase. The apparent central position of the muon seems to be the result of fast muon tunneling betw...

This paper studies the criterion of local risk-minimization for life insurance contracts in a financial market which includes longevity bonds. The longevity bond is a bond specifying payments which are linked to the current number of survivors in a given portfolio of insured lives. The number of survivors is modeled via a doublestochastic process, where the mortality intensity is driven by a ti...

This paper presents an experimental investigation of bond-strengthening hooks as a new method to increase bond strength along flexural reinforcing bars in reinforced concrete (RC) beams. The proposed method attempts to increase confining stiffness around the flexural bars by placing U-shaped hooks and to prevent premature bond splitting failure. Ten specimens with different numbers and sizes of...

This paper presents investigations of two special cases of dynamic valve analysis. These special cases arose in the development of a new type of gas field reciprocating compressor. These special cases were for a moving frame of reference (since the discharge valves were integral with the piston) , and for independent mass damping {sealing/damping elements are modelled separately instead of as "...

Backbone-backbone hydrogen-bonding interactions are a ubiquitous and highly conserved structural feature of proteins that adopt the same fold (i.e., have the same overall backbone topology). This work addresses the question of whether or not this structural conservation is also reflected as a thermodynamic conservation. Reported here is a comparative thermodynamic analysis of backbone hydrogen ...