Publications related to Rings of Jupiter

Alignment & stability challenges for FCC-ee

In order to achieve its ultra-low vertical emittance (1 pm) and high luminosity (of up to 230 x 10(34) cm(-2) s(-1) per collision point), the e(+)e(-) Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) requires a well-informed alignment strategy, powerful correction method ...

SPRINGER2023

Semipinacol Rearrangement of Cyclopropenylcarbinols for the Synthesis of Highly Substituted Cyclopropanes

Jérôme Waser, Vladyslav Smyrnov

An electrophile-induced semipinacol rearrangement of cyclopropenylcarbinols is reported. This transformation gives access to various polyfunctionalized cyclopropanes under mild metal-free conditions. The scope of the reaction includes iodine, sulfur and se ...

2023

Synthesis of polycyclic aminal heterocycles via decarboxylative cyclisation of dipeptide derivatives

Jérôme Waser, Eliott Hugo Joran Le Du, Emma Gabrielle Louise Robert

An oxidative-decarboxylative intramolecular cyclisation of dipeptide derivatives is reported. This transformation is promoted by phenyl iodine(iii) diacetate (PIDA) in combination with BF3 center dot OEt2. The reaction gives access to a variety of valuable ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

Three-membered cyclic digermylenes stabilised by an N-heterocyclic carbene dagger

Zhaowen Dong

Treatment of potassium salts of silole dianions with donor stabilised germanium dichlorides gave the anticipated silagermafulvenylidenes R2Si = Ge(Do) (R2Si = 1-silacyclopentadiendiyl, Do = N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)) only as transient intermediates in a ...

2021

Slip Ring Test Assembly With Increased Breakdown Voltage Limit for High-Voltage Bus Satellites

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Fabio Avino

In this article, a setup including a passive gas breakdown mitigation technique for satellite slip ring assemblies (SRAs) is introduced and tested. The setup features a central conducting ring, separated from two external conducting limiting discs (LDs) by ...

2020

Heterotetracenes: Flexible Synthesis and in Silico Assessment of the Hole Transport Properties

Jérôme Waser, Kevin Sivula, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Felipe Andres Saenz Padilla, Xavier Adrian Jeanbourquin, Ganna Gryn'ova, Yifan Li

Thienoacenes and furoacenes are among the most frequent molecular units found in organic materials. The efficient synthesis of morphologically different heteroacenes and the rapid determination of their solid-state and electronic properties are still chall ...

2017

Structure of Herbig AeBe Disks at the milliarcsecond Scale—A Statistical Survey in the H Band Using PIONIER-VLTI

Ferréol Arnaud Marie Soulez

Context. It is now generally accepted that the near-infrared excess of Herbig AeBe stars originates in the dust of a circumstellar disk. Aims. The aims of this article are to infer the radial and vertical structure of these disks at scales of order 1 au, a ...

ESO2017

An adaptive GNSS-based reduced dynamic approach for real time autonomous navigation from the Earth to the Moon

Pierre-André Farine, Cyril Botteron, Vincenzo Capuano, Paul David Blunt, Endrit Shehaj

In this research study we describe our last effort in further improving the achievable Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) based navigation performance in an Earth-Moon Transfer Orbit (MTO). The GNSS-based orbital filter we implemented previously wit ...

2017

Reaction between propargyl radical and 1,3-butadiene to form five to seven membered rings. Theoretical study

Daniela Trogolo

Propargyl radical addition to 1,3-butadiene seems to be a promising channel to form 5-, 6-, and 7-membered rings. These are important steps in the growth of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and soot platelets. The reaction mechanism, involving 97 intermedi ...

Elsevier Science Inc2016

Lewis acid Catalyzed Annulations of Donor-Acceptor Aminocyclopropanes and Aminocyclobutanes

Sophie Lucie Racine

Organic molecules are indispensable have greatly contributed to the confort of our modern life. Nevertheless, humanity is facing now new challenges such as environmental issues and emerging drug resistances. In order to solve these major concerns, chemists ...

EPFL2016

Catalytic C-C Bond Activations via Oxidative Addition to Transition Metals

Nicolai Cramer, Laetitia Marie Mélanie Souillart

Selective cleavages of carbon-carbon bonds catalyzed by transition-metal complexes have been shown to be increasingly versatile tools for organic synthesis allowing for complementary synthetic strategies. Numerous examples of transition-metal catalyzed C-C ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Ligand-Controlled Regiodivergent Nickel-Catalyzed Annulation of Pyridones

Nicolai Cramer, Pavel Alexandrovich Donets

The 1,6-annulated 2-pyridone motif is found in many biologically active compounds and its close relation to the indolizidine and quinolizidine alkaloid core makes it an attractive building block. A nickel-catalyzed CH functionalization of 2-pyridones and s ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2015

Regiodivergent Cyclobutanone Cleavage: Switching Selectivity with Different Lewis Acids

Nicolai Cramer, Laetitia Marie Mélanie Souillart

The exploitation of strain release in small rings as driving force to enable complex transformations is a powerful synthetic tool. Among them, cyclobutanones are particularly versatile substrates that can be elaborated in a wide variety of structurally div ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Redox couple for electrochemical and optoelectronic devices

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Aswani Yella, Hoi Nok Tsao

The present invention provides an improved redox couple for electrochemical and optoelectronic devices. The redox couple is based on a complex of a first row transition metal, said complex containing at least one mono-, bi-, or tridentate ligand comprising ...

2014

Planck 2013 results. IV. Low Frequency Instrument beams and window functions

Julien Lesgourgues, Fabio Finelli

This paper presents the characterization of the in-flight beams, the beam window functions, and the associated uncertainties for the Planck Low Frequency Instrument (LFI). Knowledge of the beam profiles is necessary for determining the transfer function to ...

Edp Sciences S A2014

Improved redox couple for electrochemical and optoelectronic devices

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Jun Ho Yum, Aswani Yella, Hoi Nok Tsao

The present invention provides an improved redox couple for electrochemical and optoelectronic devices. The redox couple is based on a complex of a first row transition metal, said complex containing at least one mono-, bi-, or tridentate ligand comprising ...

2012

How are small endohedral silicon clusters stabilized?

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Fabrice Avaltroni

Clusters in the (Be, B, C)@Si-n((0,1,2+)) (n = 6-10) series, isoelectronic to Si-n(2-), present multiple symmetric structures, including rings, cages and open structures, which the doping atom stabilizes using contrasting bonding mechanisms. The most strik ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Preparation of 5-Membered Rings via Radical Addition-Translocation-Cyclization (RATC) Processes Mediated by Diethyl Thiophosphites

Philippe Renaud, Kurt Schenk

A practical method for the formation of thiophosphonates bearing functionalized monocyclic, fused bicyclic and spirocyclic residues is presented. The procedure requires the easily available terminal alkynes as starting materials as well as commercially and ...

Wiley2011

Cationic P-S-X cages (X=Br, I)

The first condensed-phase preparation of ternary P-Ch-X cations (Ch=O-Te, X=F-I) is reported: [P5S3X2]+, [P5S2X2]+, and [P4S4X]+ (X=Br, I). [P5S3X2]+ is formed from the reaction of the Ag+/PX3 reagent with P4S3. The [P5S3X2]+ ions have a structure that is ...

2006

Fabrication of magnetic ring structures for Lorentz electron microscopy

Robin Schäublin, Christian David

We have fabricated three-quarter ring structures on silicon nitride membranes for magnetic domain imaging using Lorentz electron microscopy. The ring structures have linewidths of 100, 250, 350 and 700 nm, and outer diameters of 1.65 mu m. Using the Foucau ...

2005