A new strategy for Rh(I)-catalyzed [2+2+2] cycloadditions of 1,6-diynes with potassium (Z)-(2-bromovinyl)trifluoroborate as the third two-atom unit has been realized, which provides a facile entry to polysubstituented benzene derivatives.

Hexa-substituted benzene derivatives show larger two-photon cross sections than the corresponding dipolar counterparts and the largest values of delta(max) = 2000 GM and delta(max)/MW = 2.25 GM g(-1) have been obtained with a compound having C[triple bond]C and C=C bonds in the conjugation bridge.

We have successfully developed a new synthetic approach to modulate the electrostatic potentials of metallocavitands and thus their selective recognition towards substituted benzene derivatives via integrating two metal cations of different electronegativity into a self-assembled system.

We are interested in non-singular plane curves whose number of rational points attains the Hasse-Weil upper bound. Dedicated with affection to J.W.P. Hirschfeld and G. Korchmáros

I. Schur's study of simple algebras around the turn of the century, nd subsequent investigations by R. Brauer, E. Witt and others, were later reformulated in terms of what is now called the Schur subgroup of the Brauer group. During the last twenty years this group has generated substantial interest and numerous palatable results have ensued. Among these is the discovery that elements of the Sc...

We give a self-contained proof of local class field theory, via Lubin-Tate theory and the Hasse-Arf theorem, refining the arguments of Iwasawa [4].