Great efforts of the scientific community are focused on the development of catalysts for the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) to useful molecules such as carbon monoxide, formic acid, methanol, ethanol, methane, ethylene, or acetate. Various metal...
The ability of earth-abundant metals to serve as catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction is of increasing importance given the prominence of this reaction in several emerging technologies. It is now recognized that both the primary and secondary...
As part of a systematic study on the structures of the mixed halide isothiocyanates, SnIIHal(NCS), their single crystals were grown and structurally characterized. For Hal = F (1), the SnClF structure type was confirmed, while with Hal = Cl (2), Br (...
A theoretical framework is presented for calculating the polarization, electro-rotation, travelling-wave dielectrophoresis, electro-hydrodynamics and induced-charge electroosmotic flow fields around a freely suspended conducting dimer (two touching s...
Thermal treatment is important in the solid-state chemistry of metal organic materials (MOMs) because it can create unexpected new structures with unique properties and applications that otherwise in the solution state are very difficult or impossibl...
Hoveyda–Grubbs-type complexes, ruthenium catalysts for olefin metathesis, have gained increased interest as a research target in the interdisciplinary research fields of chemistry and biology because of their high functional group selectivity in olef...
For solving the problem of polar performance of the inertial navigation system (INS) at mid-low latitudes, the simulation test system constructed by the “attitude and velocity invariant method of trajectory transfer rule based on the transverse...
Two novel coordination compounds containing heterocyclic bidentate N,N-donor ligand 2-(furan-2-yl)-5-(pyridin-2-yl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole (fpo) were synthesized. A general formula for compounds originating from perchlorates of iron, cobalt, and fpo can be...
Thermal decomposition of [Co(NH3)6][Fe(C2O4)3]∙3H2O in argon atmosphere, at a low heating rate (3°/min), and in large amounts of the initial complex (~0.1 mole), has been studied. It was possible to distinguish four decomposition steps upon heati...
Although CH…O hydrogen bonds are generally very weak, here investigated CH…O interactions of coordinated 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) are very frequent and quite strong. In the crystal structures from the Cambridge Structural Database, 83...
Azurin is a small blue copper protein that participates in redox reactions during anaerobic respiration in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and there are a significant number of studies employing this model to investigate the electron transfer (ET) processes...
The behaviour of platinum(II) and palladium(0) complexes coordinated by various hydrosoluble monodentate phosphane ligands has been investigated by 31P{1H} NMR spectroscopy in the presence of randomly methylated β-cyclodextrin (RAME-β-CD). This molec...
Upon the interaction of the hydrated lanthanide(III) salts found in acetonitrile solution with a tripodal paramagnetic compound, 4,4-dimethyl-2,2-bis(pyridin-2-yl)-1,3-oxazolidine-3-oxyl (Rad), functionalized by two pyridyl groups, three neutral, str...
To ascertain the role of Zn(II) as an allosteric modulator on P2X4R, QM/MM molecular dynamic simulations were performed on the WT and two P2X4R mutants suggested by previous electrophysiological data to affect Zn(II) binding. The Gibbs free energy fo...
Zinc complexes were synthesized as catalysts that mimic the ability of carbonic anhydrase (CA) for the CO2 hydration reaction (H2O + CO2 → H+ + HCO3−). For these complexes, a tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine (TPA) ligand mimicking only the activ...
The role of ligands in the regulation of the catalytic activity of Ni-complexes (Ni(acac)2) in green process-selective ethylbenzene oxidation with O2 into α-phenyl ethyl hydroperoxide is considered in this article. The dual function of phenol (...
Zinc is an essential metal to life. This transition metal is a structural component of many proteins and is actively involved in the catalytic activity of cell enzymes. In either case, these zinc-containing proteins are metalloproteins. However, the...
In the periodic table of the elements, ruthenium occupies an excellent position, just below iron. And like iron, it possesses several oxidation states, with +2 and +3 being the most common. Accordingly, ruthenium chemistry is extremely rich and well...
The aim of this paper is to study, from a topological and geometrical point of view, the iteration map obtained by the application of iterative methods (Newton or relaxed Newton’s method) to a polynomial equation. In fact, we present a collection of...
A self-diffusiophoretic problem is considered for a chemically active dimer consisting of two equal touching spherical colloids that are exposed to different fixed-flux and fixed-rate surface reactions. A new analytic solution for the autophoretic mo...
The hand–eye calibration of laser profilers and industrial robots is a critical component of the laser vision system in welding applications. To improve calibration accuracy and efficiency, this study proposes a position-constrained calibration...
We extend Bloch sphere formalism to pure two-qubit systems. Combining insights from Geometric Algebra and the analysis of entanglement in different conjugate bases we identify two Bloch sphere geometry that is suitable for representing maximally enta...
In order to determine how lanthanide ions (La, Nd, Eu, Gd, Ho, Tb, Lu) coordinate in ternary systems with alpha-hydroxy acids (glycolic acid—GA; or tartaric acid—Tar) and spermine (Spm), potentiometric studies were conducted. In addition,...
This study presents a general method which can be used for the synthesis of mononuclear complexes with europium(III) and organic ligands with carboxylic groups. It describes the procedure for preparing a new mononuclear coordination complex with euro...
In Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the isotropic chemical shift δiso is a measure of the electron density around the observed nuclide. For characterization of solid materials and compounds, it is desirable to find correlations be...
Binary systems of lanthanide ions (La, Nd, Gd, Ho, Tb, and Lu) with L-malic acid in molar ratios of 1:1 and 1:2 were studied. This study was carried out in aqueous solutions, and the composition of the formed complexes was confirmed using computer da...
The two complexes, [Ni(DPPT)2](NO3)2*1.5H2O (1) and [Ni(DPPT)(NO3)Cl].EtOH (2), were synthesized using the self-assembly of (E)-2,4-di(piperidin-1-yl)-6-(2-(1-(pyridin-2-yl)ethylidene)hydrazinyl)-1,3,5-triazine (DPPT) with Ni(NO3)2*6H2O in the absenc...
Point cloud data can accurately and intuitively reflect the spatial relationship between the coal wall and underground fully mechanized mining equipment. However, the indirect method of point cloud feature extraction based on deep neural networks wil...
The phenyltetrel pyridine-2-olates PhE(pyO)3 (E = Si, Ge, Sn; pyO = pyridine-2-olate) were synthesized from the respective chlorides PhECl3 and 2-hydroxypyridine (2-pyridone) with the aid of a sacrificial base (triethylamine). Their solid-state struc...
Herein we report the synthesis and detailed structural characterization of two new centrosymmetric dinuclear coordination compounds of Pb(II) [Pb2L2(NCS)4] (1) and [Pb2L2(NO3)4]∙2MeOH (2), using the organic ligand 1,2-diphenyl-1,2-bis((methyl(pyridin...
Two diradical complexes of the formula [LnRad2(CF3SO3)3] c (Ln(III) = Dy, Eu, Rad = 4,4-dimethyl-2,2-bis(pyridin-2-yl)-1,3-oxazolidine-3-oxyl) were obtained in air conditions. These are the first examples of diradical compounds of lanthanides and oxa...
Based on the image method and addition theorem of spherical vector wave functions, an analytical solution of the multiple scattering by a buried medium-coated conducting sphere is proposed in this paper. An iterative process to obtain the scattered e...
The time-fractional diffusion equation with mass absorption in a sphere is considered under harmonic impact on the surface of a sphere. The Caputo time-fractional derivative is used. The Laplace transform with respect to time and the finite sin-Fouri...
Failure of air gap insulation is one of the prominent issues in insulation coordination for outdoor applications. Though uniform electric field distribution is desirable, the difficulty in achieving it often makes insulation engineers settle for weak...
Metal ions, including Mg(II), Ca(II), Sr(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Nd(III), Eu(III), and Tb(III), were investigated in binary systems alongside ampicillin at molar ratios of 1:1 and 1:2. These investigations were carried out in aqueous solutions,...
The reaction of thorium nitrate hydrate with 2,6-dipicolinoylbis(N,N-diethylthiourea), H2Lpic, results in the hydrolysis of the organic ligand and the formation of [Th(2,6-dipicolinolate)2(H2O)4] (1). Hydrolysis can be avoided by the use of [ThCl4(DM...
The creeping flow of a viscous fluid around a soft colloidal sphere rotating about a diameter normal to two planar walls at an arbitrary position between them is theoretically investigated in the steady limit of small Reynolds numbers. The fluid velo...
Many books on polarization give tables of Mueller matrices. The coherency matrix has been found useful for interpretetion of the Mueller matrix. Here we give a table of Mueller matrices M, coherency matrices C, and coherency matrix factors F for diff...
In this paper, we propose a novel extrinsic calibration method for camera networks using a sphere as the calibration object. First of all, we propose an easy and accurate method to estimate the 3D positions of the sphere center w.r.t. the local camer...
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We report here the synthesis of a series of nine coordinated mononuclear LnIII complexes [LnL1Cl2(DMF)]Cl·2.5DMF and [LnL1(L2)2]Cl·4CH3OH (LnIII = GdIII, DyIII, ErIII and YbIII, HL2 = 9-anthracenecarboxylic acid), where L1 is a hexadent...
The environmental and health impacts of sulfur compounds in fuel oil have prompted considerable research interest in oxidative desulfurization (ODS) technology. Tetrahedrally coordinated titanium has been demonstrated to exhibit excellent activity in...
Spherical targets are widely used in coordinate unification of large-scale combined measurements. Through its central coordinates, scanned point cloud data from different locations can be converted into a unified coordinate reference system. However,...
Irradiation of the Keggin-type [PW11O39{Ru(NO)}]4− (Ru-NO) polyoxometalate in CH3CN results in rapid NO ligand elimination with the formation of [PW11O39{RuIII(CH3CN)}]4− (Ru-CH3CN). This complex offers an easy entry into the Ru-based che...
Structural parameter calibration for the binocular stereo vision sensor (BSVS) is an important guarantee for high-precision measurements. We propose a method to calibrate the structural parameters of BSVS based on a double-sphere target. The target,...
In three-dimensional measurement using a microprobing system with a micrometric spherical tip, a deviation in the diameter of the probe tip sphere causes measurement errors. In a typical probing system calibration, the effective diameter of the probe...
The reactivities of transition metal coordination compounds are often controlled by the environment around the coordination sphere. For ruthenium(II) complexes, differences in polypyridyl supporting ligands affect some types of reactivity despite ide...
In this paper, an analytical method for studying the radiation force (RF) of chiral spheres generated by dual laser beams is presented under the framework of generalized Lorenz–Mie theory (GLMT). According to the coordinate transformation relat...
A geodesic or geodetic line on a sphere is called the orthodrome. Research has shown that the orthodrome can be defined in a large number of ways. This article provides an overview of various definitions of the orthodrome. We recall the definitions o...
In this paper, we present an approach that makes it possible to describe, from unified physical considerations, the influence of rotation-angle and concentration disorder on the density of electronic states of two-layer twisted graphene. The electron...
Currently, the bike frame quality check (QC) mostly relies on human operation in industry. However, some drawbacks such as it being time-consuming, having low accuracy and involving non-computerized processes are still unavoidable. Apart from these p...
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