Author: Simon Parsons

Reports of the AAAI 2009 Fall Symposia

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence was pleased to present the 2009 Fall Symposium Series, held Thursday through Saturday, November 5–7, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia. The Symposium Series was preceded on Wednesday, November 4 by a one-day AI funding seminar. The titles of the seven symposia were as follows: (1) Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, (2) Cognitive and Metacognitive Educational Systems, (3) Complex Adaptive Systems and the Threshold Effect: Views from the Natural and Social Sciences, (4) Manifold Learning and Its Applications, (5) Multirepresentational Architectures for Human-Level Intelligence, (6) The Uses of Comp…

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Bis(dichlorosilyl)methylamine - Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Conformational Analysis in the Gas Phase

A straightforward preparation has been found for bis(dichlorosilyl)methylamine, (SiHCl2)2NMe (1), involving reaction between H2NMe and an excess of SiHCl3, dissolved either in pentane or THF at 253 K. 1 and a side-product, 1,3,5-trichloro-2,4,6-trimethylcyclotrisilazane, (–SiHCl–NMe–)3 (2), were identified by elemental analysis, mass spectrometry and 1H-NMR-spectroscopy. Some physical, NMR- and IR spectroscopical properties of 1 were determined. The molecular and crystal structure of 1 was investigated by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Selected structural parameters: r(Si–N) 169.7(5), r(Si–Cl) 203.1(2)–204.4(2), r(C–N) 150.0(8) pm; a(SiNSi) 123.6(3), a(SiNC) 118.3(4)/118.0(4)°. Ab initio…

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Copper(II) complexes of 1,4,5,8,9,12-hexaazatriphenylene with oxalate, squarate, perchlorate as auxiliary ligands or counter ion

Abstract The crystal structures of [Cu(hat)(H2O)(ox)]·H2O (I), [Cu(hat)(H2O)3(sq)]·3H2O (II) and [Cu(hat)(H2O)2](ClO4)2·4H2O (III) have been determined from X-ray single crystal diffraction data (hat=1,4,5,8,9,12-hexaazatriphenylene, ox=oxalate, sq=squarate=dianion of 3,4-dihydroxy-cyclobut-3-ene-1,2-dione). Compound I crystallises in the triclinic system, space group P 1 with a=6.6626(10), b=9.2001(14), c=12.9954(19) A , α=103.301(15), β=91.414(21), γ=105.523(13)°, Z=2; compound II in the orthorhombic system, space group P212121 with a=6.9274(2), b=8.4327(3), c=34.0577(14) A , Z=4; and compound III in the monoclinic system, space group C2/c with a=22.6652(10), b=9.2220(10), c=16.1400(10) A…

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Eremophilane Derivatives with a Novel Carbon Skeleton from Ligularia veitchiana

Abstract Ligulaverin A 1, an eremophilane derivative with a novel carbon skeleton, was isolated from the medicinal plant Ligularia veitchiana, along with four analogues (ligulaverin B 2, ligulaverin C 3, ligulaverin D 4 and ligulaverin E 5). Their structures were elucidated by NMR techniques and X-ray diffraction. The biosynthetic route to this nineteen-carbon skeleton is discussed. © 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.

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Single-Crystal X-Ray Diffraction Study of Pressure and Temperature-Induced Spin Trapping in a Bistable Iron(II) Hofmann Framework.

High-pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction has been used to trap both the low-spin (LS) and high-spin (HS) states of the iron(II) Hofmann spin crossover framework, [FeII (pdm)(H2 O)[Ag(CN)2 ]2 ⋅H2 O, under identical experimental conditions, allowing the structural changes arising from the spin-transition to be deconvoluted from previously reported thermal effects.

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Pressure induced enhancement of the magnetic ordering temperature in rhenium(IV) monomers

Materials that demonstrate long-range magnetic order are synonymous with information storage and the electronics industry, with the phenomenon commonly associated with metals, metal alloys or metal oxides and sulfides. A lesser known family of magnetically ordered complexes are the monometallic compounds of highly anisotropic d-block transition metals; the ‘transformation' from isolated zero-dimensional molecule to ordered, spin-canted, three-dimensional lattice being the result of through-space interactions arising from the combination of large magnetic anisotropy and spin-delocalization from metal to ligand which induces important intermolecular contacts. Here we report the effect of pres…

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