A microporous 3D cobalt(II) coordination polymer featuring pillared layers [Co(2)(ma)(ina)](n) x 2nH(2)O (1 x 2H(2)O) (ma = malate, ina = isonicotinate) was generated by hydrothermal treatment with a void volume of 25.8%, in which the in-situ generated ma ligands connect the Co(II) ions into a 2D lattice with mixed and multiple exchange-bridges, affording a new geometrical topology different fr...

s for talks scheduled for the 2016 annual meeting of the J.B. Johnston Club for Evolutionary Neuroscience are listed in alphabetical order by presenting author. The final schedule of talks will be sent to the membership prior to the meeting and will be available at the registration desk during the meeting. This year’s Karger Invited Guest will be Prof. Menno P. Witter. The title of his talk wil...

The binding stoichiometry of a host-guest complex can be effectively controlled by the redox chemistry of the guest: a 1:1 inclusion complex of methylviologen dication (MV2+) in cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]) converts completely and reversibly to a 2:1 inclusion complex of cation radical (MV+.) in CB[8] upon the reduction of the guest.

I present in this dissertation, a technique to measure the integrity of an operating system, so that the user can verify that all critical software components, including the operating system kernel, is running in a known valid state. The technique solves a key problem of providing continuous runtime verification of kernel memory-space. The measurement is integrated with a trustworthy verificati...

One of the options suggested for methane recovery from natural gas hydrates is molecular replacement of methane by suitable guests like CO2 and N2. This approach has been found to be feasible through many experimental and molecular dynamics simulation studies. However, the long term stability of the resultant hydrate needs to be evaluated; the decomposition rate of these hydrates is expected to...

Tetraarylpyrenes H1-H4 that typify molecular systems with orthogonal planes and lack hydrogen bonding functional groups were designed as new host systems with three distinct domains for guest inclusion. In particular, H2 and H4 hosts are found to include a variety of guest molecules. We have determined 42 crystal structures overall (i) to establish the importance of skeletal features of the hos...

The characteristics of host-guest systems, such as molecular recognition, complexation, encapsulation, guest composition, and dynamic exchange, are manifested by changes in the chemical shifts (Δω) in the NMR spectrum. However, in cases where NMR signals cannot be detected, due to low concentrations, poor solubility, or relatively fast exchange, an alternative is needed. Here, we show that by u...

Binding sites are at the heart of all host-guest systems, whether biological or chemical. When considering binding sites that form covalent bonds with the guest, we generally envision a single, highly specific binding motif. Through single-crystal X-ray crystallography, the dynamic binding of a guest that displays a variety of covalent binding motifs in a single site of adsorption is directly o...

We propose Secure-Turtle, a secure nested virtual system based on Turtles system, which provides a secure execution environment for the L2 guest VM. In particular, Secure-Turtles system builds a trust chain from L0 host hypervisor, L1 guest hypervisor, qemu-kvm daemon to L2 guest VM. Through this security chain, Secure-Turtles can protect L2 guest VM against attacks form the L1 user mode, even ...

A new water-soluble thermoresponsive pillar[6]arene with triethylene oxide groups was synthesized. The pillar[6]arene showed lower critical solution temperature behavior in aqueous solution. Its clouding point was photoreversibly switched based on a photoresponsive host-guest system. The trans form of an azobenzene guest formed a stable 1:1 complex with the pillar[6]arene. Complexation increase...