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Abstract Cadmium is laser-cooled and trapped with excitations to triplet states with UVA light, first using only the 67 kHz wide 326 nm intercombination line and subsequently, for large loading rates, the 25 MHz wide 361 nm3P2→3D3transition. Eschewing the hard UV 229 nm1S0→1P1transition, only small magnetic fields gradients, less than 6 G cm−1, are required enabling a 100% transfer of atoms from the 361 nm trap to the 326 nm narrow-line trap. All 8 stable cadmium isotopes are straightforwardly trapped, including two nuclear-spin- fermions that require no additional repumping. We observe evidence of3P2collisions limiting the number of trapped metastable atoms, report isotope shifts for111Cd and113Cd of the 326 nm1S0→3P1, 480nm3P1→3S1, and 361 nm3P2→3D3transitions, and measure the114Cd 5s5p3P2→ 5s5d3D3transition frequency to be 830 096 573(15) MHz.
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1,4-Bromoboration of nitroalkenes
The selective 1,4-bromoboration of nitroalkenes occurs under mild conditions with a bromoborane featuring two 1-methyl-ortho-carborane substituents, BrBMeoCb2.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2349851
- PAR ID:
- 10674787
- Publisher / Repository:
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Chemical Communications
- ISSN:
- 1359-7345
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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