Abstract:Daily evapotranspiration from a winter wheat field on the North China Plain measured by large-scale weighing lysimeter was linearly related to that measured by the Bowen ratio energy balance (BREB) technique. Soil evaporation averaged about 23Ð6% of evapotranspiration from the post-winter dormancy revival stage to the grain ripening stage in 1999. On clear days during winter dormancy, about half of the net radiation flux R n was used to warm soil. During the revival stage, conductive heat flux G also used most of the incoming R n , but the ratio of latent heat flux E to R n increased. During the stem-extension stage, E was about 50% of R n ; thereafter, E/R n increased continually, but G remained less than 10% of R n . During the ripening stage, E was almost 90% of R n . Evaporative fraction (EF) can be expressed as a function of plant status and atmospheric boundary layer conditions. The relationship between EF and available energy under moderate air temperature and vapour pressure deficit conditions was examined for five combinations of aerodynamic and canopy conductance. Although the theoretical relationship indicates that EF should be highly correlated to soil water content, the correlation has been difficult to identify under field conditions. However, we observed that there exists a threshold value of R n G, above which EF is less than 1Ð0, and that the threshold value is lower under soil-water deficit conditions than under abundant soil-water conditions.
We developed a catalytic
aerobic method to synthesize α,α-disubstituted
α-amino acids through cross-dehydrogenative coupling of azlactones.
Combining an iron catalyst with a bisoxazolidine ligand resulted in
high catalytic performance, and cross-coupling with an indole proceeded
smoothly under aerobic conditions. A wide variety of α-aryl
and aliphatic amino acid derived azlactones were applied to the present
catalysis. In addition, a quaternary carbon could be constructed using
oxindole and benzofuranone under aerobic conditions.
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