The title compound, C(15)H(14)N(2)O(4), was prepared from 3,4-dihy-droxy-benzaldehyde and 2-meth-oxy-benzhydrazide in absolute methanol. An intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bond makes an S(6) ring motif and the dihedral angle between the aromatic rings is 3.2 (3)°. The meta-O atom is disordered over two positions in a 0.809 (6):0.191 (6) ratio. The crystal structure features O-H⋯N and O-H⋯O hydro...

meta-C-H arylation and methylation of 3-phenylpropanoic acid and phenolic derivatives were developed using an easily removable nitrile template. The combination of a weakly coordinating U-shaped template and mono-protected amino acid ligand was crucial for the cross-coupling of C-H bonds with organoborons.

Approximations to the exact density functional for the exchange-correlation energy of a many-electron ground state can be constructed by satisfying constraints that are universal, i.e., valid for all electron densities. Gedanken densities are designed for the purpose of this construction, but need not be realistic. The uniform electron gas is an old gedanken density. Here, we propose a spherica...

The synthesis of new boron-containing acenes (meta-B-entacenes) is reported. These compounds exhibit slightly non-planar core geometries with blue-shifted spectral properties and more negative electrochemical reduction potentials relative to known para isomers. Polarizable π-extended architectures were realized via cross-coupling procedures with chloro-functionalized precursors.

This perspective describes research, carried out in the authors' labs over the past forty years, aimed at understanding, predicting, and measuring the singlet-triplet energy differences (ΔE(ST)) in diradicals. A theory for qualitatively predicting the ground states of diradicals and the use of Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy (NIPES) for measuring ΔE(ST) are described. The application of...

We demonstrate bistable attractor dynamics in a spiking neural network implemented with neuromorphic VLSI hardware. The on-chip network consists of three interacting populations (two excitatory, one inhibitory) of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons. One excitatory population is distinguished by strong synaptic self-excitation, which sustains meta-stable states of "high" and "low"-firing act...

The recent formalization of the semantics of Message Sequence Charts enables the derivation of tools for MSCs directly from this formal deenition. We use the Asf+Sdf Meta-environment to make a straightforward implementation of tools for transformation, simulation and requirements testing.

BACKGROUND As microarray technology has become mature and popular, the selection and use of a small number of relevant genes for accurate classification of samples has arisen as a hot topic in the circles of biostatistics and bioinformatics. However, most of the developed algorithms lack the ability to handle multiple classes, arguably a common application. Here, we propose an extension to an e...

In the title compound, C14H12N2O5S, the dihedral angle between the aromatic rings is 86.29 (1)° and the conformation between the C=O bond of the amide group and the meta-NO2 group is syn. The C-S-N-C torsion angle is -65.87 (19)° and the mol-ecule has an L-shaped conformation. In the crystal, the mol-ecules are connected into inversion dimers through pairs of N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds and C-H⋯O inte...