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Phosphorus-sulfur heterocycles incorporating an O-P(S)-O or O-P(S)-S-S-P(S)-O scaffold : one-pot synthesis and crystal structure study
The authors are grateful to the University of St Andrews for financial support.A new one-pot preparative route was developed to synthesize novel organophosphorus sulfur heterocycles via the reaction of the four-membered ring thionation reagent [2,4-diferrocenyl 1,3,2,4-diathiadiphosphetane 2,4-disulfide (FcLR, a ferrocene analogue of Lawesson’s reagent)] and alkenyl/aryl-diols and I2 (or SOCl2) in the presence of triethylamine. Therefore, a series of five- to ten-membered heterocycles bearing an O-P(S)-O or an O-P(S)-S-S-P(S)-O linkage were synthesized. The synthesis features a novel application of the multicomponent reaction, providing an efficient and environmentally benign method for the preparation of the unusual phosphorus-sulfur heterocycles. Seven representative X-ray structures confirm the formation of these heterocycles.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe
Influence of s,p-d and s-p exchange couplings on exciton splitting in (Zn,Mn)O
This work presents results of near-band gap magnetooptical studies on
(Zn,Mn)O epitaxial layers. We observe excitonic transitions in reflectivity and
photoluminescence, that shift towards higher energies when the Mn concentration
increases and split nonlinearly under the magnetic field. Excitonic shifts are
determined by the s,p-d exchange coupling to magnetic ions, by the
electron-hole s-p exchange, and the spin-orbit interactions. A quantitative
description of the magnetoreflectivity findings indicates that the free
excitons A and B are associated with the Gamma_7 and Gamma_9 valence bands,
respectively, the order reversed as compared to wurtzite GaN. Furthermore, our
results show that the magnitude of the giant exciton splittings, specific to
dilute magnetic semiconductors, is unusual: the magnetoreflectivity data is
described by an effective exchange energy N_0(beta-alpha)=+0.2+/-0.1 eV, what
points to small and positive N_0 beta. It is shown that both the increase of
the gap with x and the small positive value of the exchange energy N_0 beta
corroborate recent theory describing the exchange splitting of the valence band
in a non-perturbative way, suitable for the case of a strong p-d hybridization.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure
A tight Erd\H{o}s-P\'osa function for wheel minors
Let denote the wheel on vertices. We prove that for every integer
there is a constant such that for every integer
and every graph , either has vertex-disjoint subgraphs each
containing as minor, or there is a subset of at most
vertices such that has no minor. This is best possible, up to the
value of . We conjecture that the result remains true more generally if we
replace with any fixed planar graph .Comment: 15 pages, 1 figur
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