Low optics

The influence of the reduced contrast sensitivity at low optical densities can be seen on the noise level, which increases with the wall thickness. 

Collins and coworkers applied the bis(tetrahydroindenyl)zirconium triflate 32, which is used as a polymerization catalyst, to the asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction [50] (Scheme 1.61). A remarkable solvent effect was observed - although only a low optical yield was obtained in CH2CI2, high optical purity (91% ee) was realized in 2-nitropropane by use of only 1 mol% of the catalyst. The catalyst is also effective for crotonoyloxazolidinone, giving the cycloadduct in 90% ee. 

It is well known that spontaneous resolution of a racemate may occur upon crystallization if a chiral molecule crystallizes as a conglomerate. With regard to sulphoxides, this phenomenon was observed for the first time in the case of methyl p-tolyl sulphoxide269. The optical rotation of a partially resolved sulphoxide (via /J-cyclodextrin inclusion complexes) was found to increase from [a]589 = + 11.5° (e.e. 8.1%) to [a]589 = +100.8 (e.e. 71.5%) after four fractional crystallizations from light petroleum ether. Later on, few optically active ketosulphoxides of low optical purity were converted into the pure enantiomers by fractional crystallization from ethyl ether-hexane270. This resolution by crystallization was also successful for racemic benzyl p-tolyl sulphoxide and t-butyl phenyl sulphoxide271. 

In contrast to the asymmetric procedures discussed above, the metal-catalyzed oxidation of alkyl aryl sulphides by t-butylhydroperoxide carried out in a chiral alcohol gives rise to chiral sulphoxides of low optical purity290 (e.e. 0.6 9.8%). Similarly, a very low asymmetric induction was noted when prochiral sulphides were oxidized by sodium metaperiodate in chiral alcohols as solvents291. 

Optically active sulphoxides were also obtained in low optical and chemical yields by the oxidation of prochiral sulphides with IV-bromocaprolactam and a chiral alcohol as a solvent321, or by treatment of sulphides with chiral N-chlorocaprolactam and water as oxidant322. 

Optically stable racemic phosphines have been oxidized with one half equivalents of optically active peracid. The remaining phosphine, oxidized with perbenzoic acid, showed low optical activity, but the phosphine oxides obtained in the asymmetric oxidation were optically inactive. ... 

Special Problems Reflection Losses Result in Low Optical Throughput Limiting Signal to Noise Highly Susceptible to Airborne Noise and Build-inq Vibrations... 

In 1960, Montanari and Balenovic and their coworkers described independently the first asymmetric oxidation of sulfides with optically active peracids. However, the sulphoxides were formed in this asymmetric reaction (equation 130) with low optical purities, generally not higher than 10%. The extensive studies of Montanari and his group on peracid oxidation indicated that the chirality of the predominantly formed sulphoxide enantiomer depends on the absolute configuration of the peracid used. According to Montanari the stereoselectivity of the sulphide oxidation is determined by the balance between one transition state (a) and a more hindered transition state (b) in which the groups and at sulphur face the moderately and least hindered regions of the peracid,... 

The first reductive kinetic resolution of racemic sulphoxides was reported by Balenovic and Bregant. They found that L-cysteine reacted with racemic sulphoxides to produce a mixture of L-cystine, sulphide and non-reduced optically active starting sulphoxide (equation 147). Mikojajczyk and Para reported that the reaction of optically active phosphonothioic acid 268 with racemic sulphoxides used in a 1 2 ratio gave the non-reduced optically active sulphoxides, however, with a low optical purity (equation 148). It is interesting to note that a clear relationship was found between the chirality of the reducing P-thioacid 268 and the recovered sulphoxide. Partial asymmetric reduction of racemic sulphoxides also occurs when a complex of LiAlH with chiral alcohols , as well as a mixture of formamidine sulphinic acid with chiral amines, are used as chiral reducing systems. ... 

A series of chiral p-hydroxysulfoximine ligands have been synthesised by Bolm et al. and further investigated for the enantioselective conjugate addition of ZnEt2 to various chalcone derivatives. The most eiScient sulfoximine, depicted in Scheme 2.33, has allowed an enantioselectivity of up to 72% ee to be obtained. These authors assumed a nonmonomeric nature of the active species in solution, as suggested by the asymmetric amplification in the catalysis with a sulfoximine of a low optical purity. 

Optically active (+)- and (—)-p-(/-propylmethylphenylstannyl) benzoic acids (56) and their methyl esters (57) were similarly prepared by Lequan four years later 38) (see Table 3). They are characterized by very low optical rotations. Furthermore, the diastereomeric brucine salts via which the acids were resolved, are characterized by almost identical NMR spectra that cannot be used to follow their separation so that no precise information is available about the optical purity of (56) and (57). 

It has already been mentioned that prochirality of the olefin is not necessary for successful enantioselective cyclopropanation with an alkyl diazoacetate in the presence of catalysts 207. What happens if a prochiral olefin and a non-prochiral diazo compound are combined Only one result provides an answer to date The cyclopropane derived from styrene and dicyanodiazomethane shows only very low optical induction (4.6 % e.e. of the (25) enantiomer, catalyst 207a) 9S). Thus, it can be concluded that with the cobalt chelate catalysts 207, enantioface selectivity at the olefin is generally unimportant and that a prochiral diazo compound is needed for efficient optical induction. As the results with chiral copper 1,3-diketonates 205 and 2-diazodi-medone show, such a statement can not be generalized, of course. 

By studying mixtures of L- and D-LA of varying composition, Spassky et al. have demonstrated that (256) yields PLA containing long isotactic sequences, with a ratio of homo cross propagation of 2.8.796 Hence, an 80/20 L D mixture when polymerized to 70% conversion displayed an optical purity of 87%. Even at the relatively low optical purity of 65/35 L D, isotactic block lengths of >12 repeat units were reported. Achiral (259) converts rac-LA into highly isotactic PLA a Tm of 192 °C indicates that the chains of P(L-LA) and P(D-LA) form a stereocomplex.792 797-799... 

A breakthrough came in 1988 when Hamada et al. demonstrated that a dye layer with a relatively low optical absorbance and high reflectance at the recording wavelength could be interposed between the substrate and reflecting layer of a CD-ROM type structure, and, with appropriate optimization of the optical properties, this would record and reproduce in accordance... 

Winter, Underhill, and co-workers have published extensively on the cubic NLO properties of complexes of DT and related ligands,411 22 particularly those containing formally Ni11 centers. For example, time-resolved 1,064 nm DFWM was used to obtain resonantly enhanced values for group 10 complexes such as (157).411 15 The smaller of (157) compared with (156) is largely due to resonance effects since the absorption maximum of (157) is somewhat removed from the laser fundamental. However, figures of merit derived from measurements of 2 and linear and two-photon absorption (TPA) coefficients show that low optical losses render complexes such as (157) superior to (156)413 for potential all-optical switching applications.411 14... 

Optical fibres were originally studied and developed for the transmission of information in telecommunications and have been used for building of long-haul as well as local networks for years. Such kinds of optical fibres have to be of ultra-low optical losses, standard size, resisting to temperature changes in a large interval or to chemical influence of their surroundings, etc. In contrast to these standard widely used fibres, the special ones are... 

Hydrogenation of silyl enol ethers with the DIOP catalyst followed by hydrolysis [Eq. (52)] has yielded a route to optically active alcohols with low optical purities, 7% ee NMDPP (12) and MePhPR (R = n-Pr, Et, benzyl) systems were less effective (299). 

The major path via a gives inactive alcohol product, but a slight contribution via b was thought to give rise to the observed low optical purity, possibly as a result of bidentate coordination. [This system is possibly a supported catalyst (see Section IV,B)]. 

Second-order nonlinear optics (NLO) has several applications in the field of optoelectronics.11 Several of these nonlinear processes are straightforward to experimentally demonstrate but their application in devices has been hampered by the lack of appropriate materials. Necessary requirements for second-order nonlinear optical materials include the absence of centrosymmetry, stability (thermal and mechanical), low optical loss, and large and fast nonlinearities.8... 

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