Four Marshals’ Report

Mao-Kissinger memcon, Kissinger Transcripts, p. loo. Both Zhou s and Mao s analyses of U.S. intentions of pushing the Soviets eastward were presented by the Four Marshals in their 1969 report-see Our Views about the Current Situation, 17 September 1969, in CWIHP Bulletin ii (Winter 1998), p. 167. 

To maximize analytical precision and reproducibility, Marshall and DePaolo (1982) chose n = 42, and hence report all data in terms of Ca/ Ca ratios normalized to RJa/ Ca = 0.31221. This choice allows one to use an isotope ratio spanning two mass units ( RJa/ Ca) to make a correction (for instrumental mass discrimination) to another isotope ratio spanning two mass units ( Ca/ Ca). The only other likely choice is to use Ca/ Ca (i.e., n = 44), which spans four mass units and hence would have twice as large a correction for instrumental mass discrimination. 

Four days later, early on the evening of 2 December 1943, the air raid sirens began to wail. That same afternoon, British Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham had called a press conference to announce what he considered to be the total Allied air supremacy over southern Italy. I would regard it, he told the reporters, as a personal affront and insult if the Luftwaffe was to attempt any significant action in this area. 36 Now, at 7.30 pm, one hundred Ju 88 German bombers roared in to inflict what proved to be the worst seaport disaster suffered by the Allies since Pearl Harbor. 

In 2000, Hashmi reported the gold(III)-catalyzed cyclization of a-allenyl ketones to form substituted furans [15]. As an example, treatment of allenyl p-methoxybenzyl ketone 70 with a catalytic amount of AuCls formed a 2 1 mixture of the cycloisomerization product 71 and the cycloisomerization/hydroarylation product 72 in 91% combined yield (Eq. (12.40)). Marshall had previously demonstrated the Ag(I)-catalyzed conversion of allenyl ketones to furans [111]. The Ag(I)-catalyzed transformation was four orders of magnitude slower than was the gold(III)-catalyzed transformation, but the silver-catalyzed process forms the 2-substituted furan as the exclusive product without the competing secondary hydroarylation. The selective conversion of a-allenyl ketones to substituted furans is also catalyzed by gold(III)-porphyrin complexes [112]. 

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