1. A cyclopalladated compound, which is an organometallic compound comprising palladium, a Sigma C\u2014Pd bond and a coordination bond Y\u2192Pd, originating an organic cycle with formula corresponding to the structure below:
wherein:
X represents an element chosen from the group consisting of: halogen;
pseudo-halogen and acetate; and
Y is a nitrogen atom (N) within a moiety selected from the group consisting of N,N-dimethyl-1-phenethylamine (dmpa), pyridinyl-phenyl-ethyne, 1-phenyl-3-N,N-dimethylamine-propyne;
C is selected from the group consisting of a carbon atom at the ortho position of the dmpa, a carbon atom within the pyridinyl-phenyl-ethyne, a carbon atom within the 1-phenyl-3-N,N-dimethylamine-propyne; and the carbon atom is covalently bonded to the atom of palladium; the ring containing C, Y and Pd can be constituted of three to eight atoms;
between C and Y, represented by a curved line, there is a succession of atoms designated as a cyclopalladated ring;
L represents a coordinated ligand which is a donating atom from group V of the Periodic Table (N, P, As, Sb, Bi) within a bis-diphenylphosphine-ferrocene compound as detailed by Scheme 2 below, with the schematic representation L-L indicating the presence of two linkers L within the structure of said bis-diphenylphosphine-ferrocene compound, while R1 and R2 are each phenyl groups, and R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11 and R12 are individually selected from the group consisting of the following radicals, which can be present in any order: hydrogen (H), alkyl, aryl, dienyl, alkoxy, siloxy, hydroxy (OH), amine (\u2014NH2), imide, halogen (F, Cl, Br, I), imine, and nitro (\u2014NO2);
or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or adduct of the cyclopalladated compound.
2. The cyclopalladated compound of claim 1 wherein X is selected from the group consisting of Cl, F, Br, I, N3, NCO, NCS, an SCN.
3. The cyclopalladated compound of claim 1 wherein X is Cl.
4. The cyclopalladated compound of claim 1 wherein Y is the nitrogen atom within the dmpa and C is the carbon atom at the ortho position of the dmpa.
5. The cyclopalladated compound of claim 1 wherein L is P.
6. The cyclopalladated compound of claim 1 wherein R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, and R12 are each a hydrogen.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An imaging apparatus comprising:
a power supply;
a first voltage converter which produces a first voltage and a second voltage which are different from each other, based on an output of the power supply, and outputs them to a first output system and a second output system, respectively;
a second voltage converter which produces the first voltage based on the second voltage produced by the first voltage converter and outputted to the second output system, and outputs the first voltage to a third output system;
an imaging element which is operated by the first voltage as a power supply voltage, and photoelectrically-converts an optical image of a photographic subject and obtains image data;
at least one circuit element which is operated by at least one of the first voltage and the second voltage as a power supply voltage;
a sensitivity setting section which sets an input sensitivity of the imaging element based on at least one of a user’s operation and information of the photographic subject; and
a power supply switching section which switches to supply the first voltage of the first output system to the imaging element in the case where the input sensitivity set by the sensitivity setting section is lower than a predetermined sensitivity, and switches to supply the first voltage which is from the third output system to the imaging element in the case where the input sensitivity set by the sensitivity setting section is higher than the predetermined sensitivity, wherein in the case where the input sensitivity set by the sensitivity setting section is low, the imaging element is driven by the first voltage from the first output system, and in the case where the input sensitivity set by the sensitivity setting section is high, the imaging element is driven by the first voltage from the third output system.
2. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first voltage converter sets the second voltage higher than the first voltage, and the second voltage converter is a step-down regulator which steps down and stabilizes the second voltage to obtain the first voltage.
3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a power supply line of the first voltage from the second voltage converter to the imaging element is placed and formed to have a length shorter than a power supply line of the first voltage from the first voltage converter to the imaging element.
4. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a remaining amount determining section which determines a remaining amount of the power supply,
wherein the power supply is a battery, and in a case where the remaining amount determining section determines that the remaining amount of the battery is smaller than a predetermined value, the predetermined sensitivity is set low and the power supply switching section switches a power supply system which drives the imaging element.
5. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a shooting mode selector which selects a proper shooting mode based on a photographic subject condition when shooting from a plurality of shooting modes which are set based on a shooting condition beforehand, and an input sensitivity of the imaging element is set for each of the plurality of shooting modes.
6. The imaging apparatus according to claim 5, wherein in a case where at least one of a portrait mode for performing a portrait shooting of a person and a face mode for recognizing a face of a photographic subject to shoot is set by the shooting mode selector, the predetermined sensitivity is set low and the power supply switching section switches a power supply system which drives the imaging element.
7. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sensitivity setting section includes an ISO (international organization for standardization) sensitivity setting section which sets the input sensitivity of the imaging element corresponding to ISO sensitivity.
8. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the imaging element is a CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) image sensor.
9. An imaging apparatus comprising:
a power supply including a battery;
a first voltage converter which produces a first voltage and a second voltage higher than the first voltage which are different from each other, based on an output of the power supply, and outputs them to a first output system and a second output system, respectively;
a second voltage converter including a step-down regulator which steps down and stabilizes the second voltage produced by the first voltage converter and outputted to the second output system to produce the first voltage, and outputs the first voltage to a third output system;
an imaging element which is operated by the first voltage as a power supply voltage, and photoelectrically-converts an optical image of a photographic subject to obtain image data;
at least one circuit element which is operated by at least one of the first voltage and the second voltage as a power supply voltage; and
a power supply switching section which selectively switches to supply the first voltage of the first output system to the imaging element, or to supply the first voltage from the third output system to the imaging element, based on at least one of a state of the imaging apparatus and a shooting condition of a photographic subject,
wherein the first voltage from the first output system and the first voltage from the third output system are selectively switched to drive the imaging element.
10. The imaging apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the power supply switching section selectively switches to supply the first voltage of the first output system to the imaging element, or to supply the first voltage from the third output system to the imaging element, depending on a setting of an input sensitivity of the imaging element.
11. The imaging apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:
a shooting mode selector which selects a proper shooting mode based on a photographic subject condition when shooting from a plurality of shooting modes which are set based on a shooting condition beforehand,
wherein the power supply switching section selectively switches to supply the first voltage of the first output system to the imaging element, or to supply the first voltage from the third output system to the imaging element, depending on a shooting mode which is selected by the shooting mode selector.
12. The imaging apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:
a remaining amount determining section which determines a remaining amount of a battery as the power supply,
wherein the power supply switching section selectively switches to supply the first voltage of the first output system to the imaging element, or to supply the first voltage from the third output system to the imaging element, depending on the remaining amount of the battery which is determined by the remaining amount determining section.