We describe UCFTAC, a trading agent based on control based principles, which has participated with success in 2006 Supply Chain Management Trading Agent Competition. The UCFTAC approach uses a sophisticated procurement strategy and an aggressive price control feature. It achieved competitive results in the TAC-SCM 2006 qualification round. Our design consists of a loosely coupled set of agent-m...

Photoredox catalysis has experienced a revitalized interest from the synthesis community during the past decade. For example, photoredox/Ni dual catalysis protocols have been developed to overcome several inherent limitations of palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings by invoking a single-electron transmetalation pathway. This Perspective highlights advances made by our laboratory since the incepti...

Imidazo[1,2-a] pyridine-based two probes with different substituents containing oxime and hydroxyl functional groups were synthesised evaluated for detection of tabun nerve agent simulant diethylcyanophosphonate (DCNP). The nucleophile group present on both the can be rapidly phosphorylated by DCNP through a nucleophilic substitution reaction. fluorescent reacting underwent fluorescence OFF, wh...

Methylrhenium trioxide (MTO) has the rare ability to stoichiometrically generate methanol at room temperature with an external oxidant (H2O2) under basic conditions. In order to use this transformation as a model for nonredox oxidative C-O coupling, the mechanisms have been elucidated using density functional theory (DFT). Our studies show several possible reaction pathways to form methanol, wi...

Benzyltriphenylphosphonium bromide (BTPB) has been applied as an efficient catalyst for the preparation of bis(indolyl)methanes (BIMs) via electrophilic substitution of indoles with aldehydes in the absence of solvent.

A combination of charge density studies and solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) 1JNC coupling measurements supported by periodic functional theory (DFT) calculations is used to characterise the transition from an n–π* interaction bond formation between a nucleophilic nitrogen atom electrophilic sp2 carbon in series crystalline peri-substituted naphthalenes. As N⋅⋅⋅C distance reduces th...

We developed a rapid kinetic bioassay demonstrating the inhibition of glutathione peroxidase 1 (GPx-1) by organic electrophilic pollutants, such as acrolein, crotonaldehyde, and p-benzoquinone, that are frequently found as components of tobacco smoke, diesel exhaust, and other combustion sources. In a complementary approach, we applied a high-resolution proton-transfer reaction time-of-flight m...

To increase the bond strength of CAD/CAM-fabricated, leucite-reinforced glass ceramics with a resin cement, the effects of the following were investigated: surface modification by tribochemical (TBC) treatment, followed by combined application of a silane coupling agent and a functional monomer as a primer. Bond strength was evaluated by a shear bond test. It was found that a silane coupling ag...

The objective of this study was to investigate the rebonding effect of a new silane coupling agent on various ceramic brackets bonded to ceramic specimen. Different ceramic brackets (Fascination 2, Clarity SL, and In-OvationC) were assigned to three groups: rebonding with new silane coupling agent, rebonding with conventional silane coupling agent, or regular bonding as control (n = 16). Bracke...