It gives me great pleasure to deliver the keynote address at the Asian Bond Conference organised jointly by the Thai Bond Dealing Centre (Thai BDC), Fixed Income Money Market Dealers Association of India (FIMMDA) and Primary Dealers Association of India (PDAI). It is a matter of significance that some of the major self-regulatory organisations (SROs) in the debt markets of Asia have taken this ...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(8)H(9)N(3)O(2)S, contains three independent mol-ecules which are stacked approximately over each other. In the crystal structure, centrosymmetric pairs of mol-ecules are formed through inter-molecular hydr-oxy-hydr-oxy O-H⋯O and hydr-oxy-sulfur O-H⋯S hydrogen bonds which are, in turn, linked into a two-dimensional network by N-H⋯O(hydr-oxy) hydrogen ...

This review article presents a survey of the utility of a new synthetic strategy for 1,3,4-thiadiazole derivatives based on reactions of nitrilimines with various functionalized sulfur dipolarophiles which proceed via tandem in situ 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and β-elimination of simple molecule from the initially formed cycloadduct. The biological activities of some of the compounds prepared by...

This paper develops a connection between the phenomenology of chemical bonding and the theory of relativity. Empirical correlations between electron numbers in atoms and chemical bond stabilities in molecules are first reviewed and extended. Quantitative chemical bond strengths are then related to ionization potentials in elements. Striking patterns in ionization potentials are revealed when th...

Heat conduction in fins and slab bodies, a traditional undergraduate topic, is treated with the Green’s function (GF) method. A variety of boundary conditions and heating conditions are included. Computer programs are described which are designed to improve student learning of the GF method. The programs are available from the author.

Improving the accuracy and thus broadening the applicability of electronic density functional theory (DFT) is crucial to many research areas, from material science, to theoretical chemistry, biophysics and biochemistry. In the last three years, the mathematical structure of the strong-interaction limit of density functional theory has been uncovered, and exact information on this limit has star...

Hydrogenovibrio sp. strain SC-1 was isolated from pyrrhotite incubated in situ in the marine surface sediment of Catalina Island, CA. Strain SC-1 has demonstrated autotrophic growth through the oxidation of thiosulfate and iron. Here, we present the 2.45-Mb genome sequence of SC-1, which contains 2,262 protein-coding genes.

The title trimethyl-tin(IV) carboxyl-ate, [Sn(CH(3))(3)(C(11)H(11)O(2))](n), is a carboxyl-ate-bridged polymer in which the Sn atom exists in a trans-C(3)SnO(2) trigonal bipyramidal coordination. One Sn-O bond is a covalent bond [2.114 (2) Å], whereas the other is a dative bond [2.607 (2) Å]. The polymeric chain propagates along the b axis of the monoclinic unit cell.

multiple adhesive coating is a controversial topic, especially in primary dentition that should be clarified. we evaluated the effect of multiple consecutive adhesive resin coatings on the microshear bond strength (μsbs) of composite resin to primary tooth dentin utilizing a filled (adper single bond plus) and an unfilled (adper single bond) adhesive resin.thirty extracted primary canines were ...

statement of the problem: self-etch adhesives can activate matrix metalloproteinase (mmp) which hydrolyzes organic matrix of demineralized dentin. epigallocatechin gallate (egcg), especially found in green tea, could inhibit the activation of mmp. purpose: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of adding epigallocatechin gallate (egcg) into two types of adhesives on dentin bond streng...