SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF GALACTIC OPEN CLUSTER COLLINDER 394 – NEW RESULTS

Confident main-sequence (MS) members of the Collinder 394 open cluster are perfect objects to check the correctness of their distances, obtained from the GAIA GR2 (2018) catalogue. The differences in the distances to the open cluster Collinder 394, determined by photometry and from the GAIA parallaxes have raised doubts about the correctness of the latter. Therefore we used spectroscopically determined T eff and loggvalues for these stars from Usenko et al. (2019) and tried to solve the inverse problem: determine radii of these stars using the derived distances and calibrations “T eff - radius” for MS stars and compare with similar ones. For this purpose we used the calibrations from Torres et al. (2010), based on the nearest MS eclipsing binaries and compilations for MS stars from Mamajek (2018). As a result, we obtained relationships that connect T eff , logg, radii, masses, and distances for the confident Collinder 394 MS stars. We have confirmed the correctness of the GAIA DR2 (2018) distances for these stars and determined their radii and masses. The latter estimates turned out to be close to those of the evolutionary masses calculated by the PARSEC model

Precise manipulation of electron transfers in clustered five redox sites

Electron transfers in multinuclear metal complexes are the origin of their unique functionalities both in natural and artificial systems. However, electron transfers in multinuclear metal complexes are generally complicated, and predicting and controlling these electron transfers is extremely difficult. Herein, we report the precise manipulation of the electron transfers in multinuclear metal complexes. The development of a rational synthetic strategy afforded a series of pentanuclear metal complexes composed of metal ions and 3,5-bis(2-pyridyl)pyrazole (Hbpp) as a platform to probe the phenomena. Electrochemical and spectroscopic investigations clarified the overall picture of the electron transfers in the pentanuclear complexes. In addition, unique electron transfer behaviours, in which the reduction of a metal centre occurs during the oxidation of the overall complex (reduction-upon-oxidation process), were discovered. We also elucidated the two dominant factors that determine the manner of the electron transfers. Our results provide comprehensive guidelines for interpreting the complicated electron transfers in multinuclear metal complexes.