Despite intense research in FLP chemistry, nothing is known about monomolecular anionic FLPs and/or complexes thereof. Herein, synthesis and reaction of the first anionic FLP complex is described using [(OC)5W{(Me3Si)2HCP(H)OLi(12-crown-4)}], Cy2BCl and subsequent deprotonation by KHMDS. The obtained anionic FLP complex reacts readily with CO2 in a concerted manner.

In recent decades, plastic-mulched farmland has expanded rapidly in China as well as in the rest of the world because it results in marked increases of crop production. However, plastic-mulched farmland significantly influences the environment and has so far been inadequately investigated. Accurately monitoring and mapping plastic-mulched farmland is crucial for agricultural production, environ...

For remote sensing missions, the fractionated functionality of CubeSats provides a potential way to reduce cost and risks while maintaining comparable operational capabilities. This paper describes two CubeSat remote sensing missions developed by The Aerospace Corporation. The CubeSat Multispectral Observation System (CUMULOS) and R3 sensors will be hosted on 3U CubeSats developed by Aerospace....

a r t i c l e i n f o Geological Survey (USGS) are developing the successor mission to Landsat 7 that is currently known as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). NASA is responsible for building and launching the LDCM satellite observatory. USGS is building the ground system and will assume responsibility for satellite operations and for collecting, archiving, and distributing data follow...

A mutant of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, cross resistant to several antibiotics, was isolated in our laboratory and subjected to genetic analysis. Tetrad analysis of diploids obtained from crosses between the resistant mutant and a sensitive wild-type strain suggest that the multiple resistance to the five agents, oligomycin (OLI), rhodamine 6G (RHG), tetracycline (TCN), chloramphenicol ...

The first examples of base free lithium-organoaluminate and the corresponding gallium compound [LM(Me)OLi]3 (M = Al (3), Ga (4); L = HC{C(Me)N-2,6-iPr2C6H3}2) have been prepared by the reaction of Li[N(SiMe3)2] with the corresponding metal hydroxides LM(Me)OH (M = Al (1), Ga(2)); the oxygen atom in the M-O-Li fragment exists as oxide ion and is involved in the central Li3O3 six-membered ring fo...