Metasurfaces could be very beneficial when elaborating solar cells to succeed in balancing between cost and efficiency. Thus, thin absorbers achieving high performance are attainable with the possibility use any material. In this work, a perfect absorber based on tungsten (W) metal-insulator-metal (MIM) metasurface is proposed. The MIM array consists of rectangular double split ring resonator (...

The azomethine double-bond in the title Schiff base, C(20)H(22)N(4)O, has an E-configuration. The aromatic ring of the benzyl-idene portion (r.m.s. deviation 0.011 Å) and the five-membered pyrazolyl ring (r.m.s. deviation 0.033 Å) form a dihedral angle of 19.0 (1)°. The phenyl substituent is twisted by 55.0 (1)° with respect to the five-membered ring.

A novel stereocontrolled approach has been developed for the syntheses of tashiromine and epitashiromine alkaloids from cyclooctene β-amino acids. The synthetic concept is based on the azetidinone opening of a bicyclic β-lactam, followed by oxidative ring opening through ring C-C double bond and reductive ring-closure reactions of the cis- or trans-cyclooctene β-amino acids.