Using recent results on a model relativistic field theory, we find explicitly a new solitonlike solution, essentially the conventional strong polaron, in the continuum interacting electronphonon model of a Peierls-dimerized chain such as polyacetylene [(CH}„].This solution is in good agreement with recent numerical simulations in a discrete model of (CH)„. %e discuss further areas in which know...

Cytopiloyne (CP), a novel polyacetylene compound extracted from B. pilosa, shows a multi-bioactivity, including immunomodulatory and antidiabetes. Here, we investigated the anti-Listeria effect of cytopiloyne in mice by assessing mortality, clearance of L. monocytogenes, and pathology examination. The data presented herein are supplemental to our research article entitled "Cytopiloyne, a polyac...

Fifteen flavonoids, 1-7 and 9-16, and a polyacetylene, 8, were isolated from the ethanol extract of the dried whole plant of Bidens parviflora Willd. by various chromatographic techniques. Their structures have been elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic analyses and chemical studies. Compound 8 is new and was identified as 3-(R),8(E)-decene-4,6-diyne-1,3,10-triol. All the flavonoid compounds...

Novel double-stranded polyacetylene with a perylene bisimide bridge has been efficiently synthesized by metathesis cyclopolymerization of bis(1,6-heptadiyne) derivatives, and exhibited good solubility, highly thermal and oxidative stability, low LUMO energy levels, narrow bandgaps, and regular ladder-like architecture.

Both Fe3 + and Fe2 + ions occur in FeCl3-doped polyacetylene. At low dopant levels ( < 0.01 mole frac­ tion) both Fe2 + and Fe3 + io'ns are paramagnetic down to 4.2 K. At dopant levels > 0.01 mole fraction, there is evidence from Mossbauer spectroscopy that Fe2+ ions associate into aggregates which are magneti­ cally ordered below 25 K. Aggregate formation appears to correlate with high electri...

A novel way to induce ultrafast currents in molecular wires using two incident laser frequencies, omega and 2omega, is demonstrated. The mechanism relies on Stark shifts, instead of near-resonance photon absorption, to transfer population to the excited states and exploits the temporal profile of the field to generate phase-controllable transport. Calculations in a trans- polyacetylene oligomer...

We show that polarons can sustain looplike configurations in flexible biopolymers and that the size of the loops depend on both the flexural rigidity of the polymer and the electron-phonon coupling constant. In particular we show that for single stranded DNA (ssDNA) and polyacetylene such loops can have as few as seven monomers. We also show that these configurations are very stable under therm...