A combination of rectifier and DC – DC chopper is useful in feeding DC loads where the DC input to the loads needs to be stepped up or down. Both rectifier and chopper are based on power electronic switches which inject harmonics in the system. This harmonics is an undesirable effect which should be mitigated effectively. For this, passive harmonic filters are used. Passive harmonic filters are...

Various circuit technologies have been studied and developed. One of main streams concerns a soft switching technology to mitigate switching stress, leading to the reduction in switching losses or electro-magnetic noise. On the other hand, as a characterized orthodox technology, the existing chopper circuit is used for the electric vehicles, etc. Such technologies have a tendency to go out of v...

Nutrient secretagogues can increase the production of succinyl-CoA in rat pancreatic islets. When succinate esters are the secretagogue, succinyl-CoA can be generated via the succinate thiokinase reaction. Other secretagogues can increase production of succinyl-CoA secondary to increasing -ketoglutarate production by glutamate dehydrogenase or mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase followed b...

As part of our interest into the bioinorganic chemistry of gallium, gallium(III) complexes of the peptide ligand N-(2-(4-imidazolyl)ethyl)pyridine-2-carboxamide (pypepH2) resembling a fragment of the metal-binding domain of bleomycins (BLMs), have been isolated. Reaction of pypepH2 with (Et4N)[GaCl4] and Ga(acac)3 [acac- is the acetylacetonate(-1) ion] affords the mononuclear complex [Ga(pypepH...

Vibrational coherence was observed following excitation into the lowest-energy spin-allowed 4A2 / 4T2 ligand-field absorption of Cr(acac)3. The transient kinetics were fit to a rapidly damped 164 cm 1 oscillatory component, the frequency of which is not associated with the ground state of the molecule. The signal is assigned as an excited-state vibrational coherence; the timescale of the event ...

A series of Pd/SiO2 catalysts were prepared with different Pd precursors by a dry ball-milling method and used in the catalytic oxidation lean methane at low temperature. The effect on performance was investigated state most active species probed. results indicate that is simple but rather effective to prepare for oxidation, palladium acetylacetonate an ideal precursor obtain highly Pd/SiO2-Aca...

Chemical reduction of ferric acetylacetonate (Fe(acac)3) and platinum acetylacetonate (Pt(acac)2) using polyol as a reducing agent as well as an effective surfactant, has successfully yielded monodisperse FePt nanoparticles with a size of approximately 2 nm. When annealed samples were compared to FePt nanoparticles synthesized using oleic acid and oleylamine as the surfactants under identical c...

Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra were measured on the chloroform solutions of a series of mixed-ligand diamagnetic Co(III) complexes, [Co(tfac)(n)(acac)(3-n)] (n = 0-3, tfac = 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,4-pentanedionato; acac = acetylacetonato). Distinct differences were observed in the VCD spectra among the geometrical isomers of the same ligand composition. Such differentiation was hardly ...

In the title compound, [UO2(C5H7O2)2(C14H15N)], the uran-yl(VI) unit ([O=U=O](2+)) is coordinated to two acetyl-acetonate (acac) anions and one 1-phenyl-3-(pyridin-4-yl)propane (ppp) mol-ecule. The geometry around the U atom is UNO6 penta-gonal-bipyramidal; two uran-yl(VI) O atoms are located at the axial positions, whereas four O atoms from two chelating bidentate acac ligands and one N atom o...