A comparative study of chiral separation of proton pump inhibitors by supercritical fluid chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography

A comparative study of chiral separation of pantoprazole and rabeprazole is carried out using supercritical fluid chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography. The columns used were Chiralpak IA and Chiralpak IE. The best mobile phase in supercritical fluid chromatography was carbon dioxide-0.2% triethylamine in methanol (60:40) and 0.1% triethylamine in n-hexane-ethanol (50:50) in high-performance liquid chromatography. For supercritical fluid chromatography, values of the retention factor of pantoprazole enantiomers were 3.97 and 4.88. These values for rabeprazole enantiomers were 6.10 and 7.52. The values of separation and resolution factor for pantoprazole and rabeprazole were 1.23 and 1.23 and 2.20 and 3.36, respectively. Similarly, for high-performance liquid chromatography, the values of retention factor for enantiomers of pantoprazole were 4.02 and 7.32. These values for rabeprazole enantiomers were 5.32 and 7.88, respectively. The values of separation and resolution factor for pantoprazole and rabeprazole were 1.82 and 1.48 and 9.22 and 6.58, respectively. A comparison was carried out, which confirmed supercritical fluid chromatography as the best method due to its fastness, eco-friendly, and inexpensiveness. The reported methods are effective, efficient, and reproducible and may be used to separate and identify pantoprazole and rabeprazole in any unknown samples.     

近红外光谱快速分析青贮饲料pH值和发酵产物

采用近红外光谱技术,结合偏最小二乘回归法,研究了142个不同种类的秸秆青贮饲料样品的pH值和发酵产物(乳酸、乙酸、丙酸、丁酸和氨态氮),建立了干燥粉碎和新鲜样品的近红外漫反射光谱定量分析模型以及浸提液样品的近红外透射光谱定量分析模型。研究发现,pH值的近红外漫反射光谱和透射光谱的分析效果均较好,校正模型决定系数R2和验证集样品预测值与化学值的相关关系决定系数r2都大于0.80,并且干燥粉碎、新鲜和浸提液样品的RPD值分别为3.44、2.50和2.27;3种状态样品的乳酸、乙酸、丁酸和氨态氮的定量分析模型精度需进一步提高;R2在0.64~0.85之间;RPD值在1.38~1.93之间;丙酸含量的测定结果较差。方差分析显示,3种状态样品的测定结果之间均无显著性差异(P>0.05)。     

Metabolism of 2,4-dinitrotoluene and 2,6-dinitrotoluene, and their dinitrobenzyl alcohols and dinitrobenzaldehydes by Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rat liver microsomal and cytosol fractions

The metabolism of 2,4-dinitrotoluene (2,4-DNT), 2,4-dinitrobenzyl alcohol (2,4-DNB), 2,4-dinitrobenzaldehyde (2,4-DNBAl), 2,6-DNT, 2,6-DNB and 2,6-DNBAl in the microsomal and cytosol fractions prepared from unfortified male Wistar and male Sprague-Dawley (S.D.) rat livers was investigated. Data obtained by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) indicated that the products of dinitrotoluenes (2,4-DNT and 2,6-DNT), dinitrobenzyl alcohols (2,4-DNB and 2,6-DNB), and dinitrobenzaldehydes (2,4-DNBAl and 2,6-DNBAl) in the microsomal and cytosol preparations containing nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAD(P] and reduced NAD(P)(NAD(P)H) were dinitrobenzyl alcohols (2,4-DNB and 2,6-DNB), dinitrobenzaldehydes (2,4-DNBAl and 2,6-DNBAl), and dinitrobenzoic acids (2,4-DNBA and 2,6-DNBA), and dinitrobenzyl alcohols (2,4-DNB and 2,6-DNB), respectively. From these results, it was concluded that the dinitrobenzaldehydes (2,4-DNBAl and 2,6-DNBAl) were intermediates in the oxidations of dinitrobenzyl alchols (2,4-DNB and 2,6-DNB) to dinitrobenzoic acids (2,4-DNBA and 2,6-DNBA), and that the oxidations of dinitrobenzyl alcohols (2,4-DNB and 2,6-DNB) to dinitrobenzaldehydes (2,4-DNBAl and 2,6-DNBAl) and the reductions of dinitrobenzaldehydes to dinitrobenzyl alcohols (2,4-DNB and 2,6-DNB) were reversible.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

Nature spermidine and spermine alkaloids: Occurrence and pharmacological effects

Spermidine and spermine are special polyamines in organisms, and produced in vivo by putrescine and S-adenosylmethionine catalyzed by a variety of enzymes. Spermidine and spermine possess multiple amino groups, and are closely related to cell division, growth and survival. Spermidine and spermine alkaloids are widely distributed in plants, bacteria and marine organisms, and can be divided into macrocyclic and open chain according to the skeletons. Spermidine and spermine alkaloids exhibited numerous pharmacological effects such as anti-inflammatory, antibiotics, anti-tumor, anti-Alzheimer and anti-virus. However, up to now, there are few systematic reviews on spermidine and spermine alkaloids. In this review, based on the number of atoms in the ring, we summarized the distributions and pharmacological effects of spermidine and spermine alkaloids. Spermidine and spermine alkaloids have special chemophenetic significances in the plant kingdom, especially the macrocyclic spermidine and spermine alkaloids. Spermidine alkaloids are much more abundant in nature than spermine alkaloids. The pharmacological activities of the open chain spermidine and spermine alkaloids are studied in depth. Polycyclic guanidine spermidine alkaloids, isolated from marine sponge, exhibit great potential in various cancer cells. However, pharmacological studies of macrocyclic spermidine and spermine alkaloids are scarce. Synthesis is an effective way to get more spermidine and spermine alkaloids and their analogues for further study.     

Bioanalysis in single cells: current advances and challenges

Cells, basic units of living structures and functions, build up a complicated small world, and their order and complexity resemble a small universe. The detailed understanding and elucidation of the matter transport and energy conversion mechanisms within a single cell will expand our knowledge about the origin and evolution of life, the disease mechanisms and much more. In past decades, single-cell analysis has been rapidly and significantly improved and various methodologies have been developed to reveal the complexity of mass, energy, and information within single cells. In this review, we focused on the methods developed in recent years for single-cell analysis, including electrochemical method, optical method, and mass spectrometry method. We reviewed the recent advances and representative studies in this research field, and also discussed the strengths and limitations of each method. Finally, we presented the existing technical challenges and further directions for single-cell analysis.     

Carbenes and Nitrenes: Recent Developments in Fundamental Chemistry

Carbenes and nitrenes can exist in both singlet and triplet states, sometimes equally stable and interconverting either thermally or photochemically. Many carbene and nitrene reactions proceed via tunneling at low temperatures. Numerous singlet and triplet states have been characterized spectroscopically, and a detailed understanding of the chemical and physical properties of carbenes and nitrenes is emerging. There has been significant progress in the direct observation of carbenes, nitrenes, and many other reactive intermediates in recent years through the application of matrix photolysis and flash vacuum pyrolysis linked with matrix isolation at cryogenic temperatures. Our understanding of singlet and triplet states has improved through the interplay of spectroscopy and computations. Bistable carbenes and nitrenes as well as many examples of tunneling have been discovered and numerous rearrangements and fragmentations have been documented. The correlation of the zero‐field splitting parameter D with calculated spin densities on nitrenes and carbenes is discussed. This Minireview gives an overview of some of these developments.     

吸电子基团对席夫碱及其钯配合在抑菌及催化活性方面的影响

报道了2, 6-二异丙基苯胺缩苯甲醛或2, 4-二氯苯甲醛席夫碱(L1和L2)及其钯配合物(1和2)的合成, 并通过元素分析、红外光谱、X-射线单晶衍射等方法对席夫碱配体及配合物进行了表征。通过与已报道的席夫碱L1及其钯配合物1结构相比较, 发现引入吸电子取代基合成的一个新的席夫碱及其钯配合(L2和2)对抑菌及催化活性有较大影响。抑菌活性试验表明, 配体及配合物均具有良好的抑菌活性, 配合物相对于配体具有更好的抑菌效果, 配体苯环上的吸电子取代基能有效提高抑菌活性。研究了两组配合物(1和2)对溴代苯和丙烯酸Heck交叉偶联生成苯丙烯酸的催化性能, 考察了不同反应因素(缚酸剂种类、反应温度及溶剂)对该反应的影响, 确定了反应的最佳条件;催化实验结果显示吸电子基团的引入增加了钯配合物的空间位阻效应进而降低其催化活性。     

A Festschrift in honor of Akira Imamura��s 77th birthday, his recent retirement, and his many contributions to theoretical chemistry

The Imamura Festschrift Issue of Theoretical Chemistry Accounts is a special multifocus international issue commemorating the 77th birthday of Professor Akira Imamura and his many contributions to the fields of theoretical chemistry, polymer science, molecular biophysics, chemical physics, and molecular biology. This issue has contributions in theoretical developments of methods applicable to larger polymeric systems, for example, the elongation method pioneered by Professor Imamura and his group, and more recently by the groups of Professor Yuriko Aoki at Kyushu University and Professor Feng Long Gu at South China Normal University, supported by several funds from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). In addition, there are contributions from top experimental and theoretical groups in the areas of nanotechnology, bionanotechnology, quantum transport theory, molecular biophysics, molecular electronics, and even molecular medicine and medical diagnostics, where the marriage between theory and experiment is very important to be able to fully understand, interpret, and utilize the wealth of new and exciting experimental data. The development of new and refined methods, and the extension of older more conventional methods, will be required for these fields to continue to evolve/co-evolve and develop, as they have in the last 60?years. But to evolve in a guided fashion (guided evolution), that is, to meet the needs and functions of not only the individual scientists and research groups but also of society in general, will require a concerted effort from not only experimentalists and theoreticians in each individual subdiscipline but also for them to work together and share their accumulated knowledge and experience, as is now being done in various research networks around the world, including the one originally initiated/formed by Professor Imamura and Professor Janos Ladik at the Third International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC) in Kyoto, Japan. Through this network, Professor Imamura has been able to pass on a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and experience to the current and future generations of scientists in Germany, the United States, and China, as Professor Imamura is still doing with his lectures both in Japan at Kyushu University and in China at South China Normal University, and previously in Erlangen at the University of Erlangen, in Heidelberg at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Germany, and in Ithaca, New York at Cornell University in the United States. He has been a real example of the modern protean research scientist and professor who has continued to be in research and teaching, active well beyond the formerly set retirement age of 63 or 65 set by society. The idea that researchers and professors cannot be active in their 60s, 70s, and 80s has now also been shown to be a misconception that needs to be corrected at the funding and institutional levels. Too many very active, knowledgeable, and experienced researchers and professors have been forced to stand on the sidelines, while those who have replaced them have very little practical knowledge, expertise, and more importantly, life experience. A whole generation of young academics are being hired who have never worked a day in industry, never visited an industrial laboratory and/or research group, and hence are unable, (don??t know) and in many cases, unwilling to train and educate their students with the skills they need to not only work in industry but also to create new and exciting new industries. The idea that the large chemical and pharmaceutical companies and government laboartories will hire all of the ever increasing numbers of undergraduate and graduate (MSc and PhD) students no longer applies. The university mission is no longer just to teach, give knowledge, and to do research, but also to innovate, that is, to train the students to take their acquired knowledge from their text books and apply it with the newly acquired knowledge in the research laboratories to start and develop new industries and companies. But this means that the students need to be trained in the fields of engineering economics, finance, and scientific and international law, so that they are able to undertake such projects, in addition to understanding and applying their scientific knowledge. It will also require a concerted effort by funding agencies, state, local, federal, and even international bodies that seek to create and sustain strong economies and infrastructure, which will support and be supported by the highly motivated, trained, and educated work forces. The third pillar is now being established, but it needs to now be totally and completely integrated with the other establishments and infrastructure.     

基于新工科理念的应用化学专业创新创业能力培养体系建设

To adapt to the needs of the development of new technology and new business forms, enhance the students' ability of innovation knowledge transformation and innovation and entrepreneurship, and promote the technological development and industrial upgrading of Liaoning Province and fine chemical industry, our university has established an innovation and entrepreneurship training system to meet the requirements of emerging engineering talents training, according to the professional advantages, regional characteristics and the social needs. The orientation of applied chemistry major, personnel training objectives, teaching mode, platform construction, innovation and entrepreneurship education have been systematically designed and comprehensively reformed, and some achievements and experiences have been achieved.     

宝日希勒褐煤在合成气与复合溶剂系统下的液化性能研究

在合成气（CO+H₂）与复合溶剂（水+有机溶剂）液化系统下研究了气氛、温度、催化剂类型对宝日希勒褐煤转化率、油气水产率和CO转化率等液化特征的影响,从而探讨其液化性能。结果表明,在高含水复合溶剂系统中,合成气气氛、反应温度430-450℃适宜宝日希勒褐煤液化转化,转化率可达到81.15%,油气水产率达到71.53%。该液化系统下,含铁、碱和硫复合型催化剂能有效地提高液化转化率和油气水产率,在430℃催化液化下褐煤转化率达92.27%,油气水产率达79.39%。该催化剂有效促进了煤中大分子的裂解和系统中水煤气变换反应进程,沥青质减少,油含量增多。液化油中多环芳烃衍生物在催化液化过程中向单环芳烃衍生物和烷烯烃转化,分子量降低,提高了油品质量。     

Development and validation of a method for determination of caffeine in diuretic tablets and capsules by high-performance thin-layer chromatography on silica gel plates with a concentration zone using manual spotting and ultraviolet absorption densitometry

A new quantitative method using silica gel high-performance thin-layer chromatography plates with channels and a concentration zone, manual application of standards and samples, development with methanol-ethyl acetate (15 + 85) mobile phase, and ultraviolet absorption densitometry is reported for the determination of caffeine in diuretic pharmaceutical preparations. Tablet and capsule products containing potassium salicylate, acetaminophen, and salicylamide as active ingredients were analyzed to test the applicability of the new method, and precision, accuracy, linearity, limits of detection and quantitation, and selectivity were validated. The milligrams of caffeine in each tablet ranged from 48.0 to 51.0, and the milligrams in each capsule from 37.9 to 40.3. Within-day precision was 1.48 and 1.78% (n=6), and interday precision 0.723 and 1.26% (n=5) for analysis of 2 tablets and 2 capsules, respectively. Accuracy validation of the tablet and capsule results produced errors of 1.0 and 1.9% for spiked blank analyses and 2.6 and 3.5% for standard addition analyses, respectively. A comparative study using a caffeine standard solution and a multicomponent analgesic tablet solution containing caffeine, acetaminophen, and acetylsalicylic acid showed that manual application on the concentration zone, instrumental application on the concentration zone, and instrumental application on the silica gel gave quite similar results in terms of number of theoretical plates, resolution, limit of detection, and linearity.     

Effect of sample matrix on sensitivity of mercury and methylmercury quantitation in human urine,saliva, and serum using GC‐MS

A rapid and sensitive method has been developed for the simultaneous determination of monomethylmercury (MMHg) and inorganic mercury (iHg) in human body fluids. The procedure is based on in situ derivatization of MMHg and iHg with sodium tetraethylborate (NaBEt₄) directly in aqueous solutions followed by headspace solid phase microextraction (HS‐SPME). The extracted species from spiked human urine, saliva, and serum are separated by capillary gas chromatography and detected by quadrupole MS (GC‐MS). The optimization of the HS‐SPME conditions like temperature, sample volume, extraction duration, and amount of alkylation agent, was performed in urinary solutions and aqueous solutions similarly buffered. The gas chromatographic conditions like injection temperature, helium flow rate, temperature program, and pressure conditions were also optimized. The recovery was ranged between 85 and 96% for MMHg and 88 and 98% for iHg. The LODs achieved were 10 and 15 ng/L for iHg and MMHg in urine, respectively, 54 and 60 ng/L for iHg and MMHg in saliva, respectively, and 61 and 81 ng/L for iHg and MMHg in serum, respectively. The RSD was ranged between 6.2 and 9.2% for MMHg and 5.0 and 8.2% for iHg.     

理化分析测试实验室仪器设备的管理

仪器设备是实验室的重要资产,仪器设备管理是实验室正常运行的重要组成部分。从仪器设备的管理架构以及仪器设备的采购、验收、量值溯源、维护维修、报废等方面讨论了理化分析测试实验室仪器设备管理工作的重点和注意事项。     

基于非接触式拉曼光谱分析人血与犬血的PCA-LDA鉴别方法

将拉曼光谱分析法与数理统计方法有机结合,构建人血与犬血种属判别模型,实现了不同种属血液样本的高效无损鉴别.采用拉曼光谱的无损测试模式对血液样本进行测试,考察了抗凝管管材、聚焦位置及曝光时间等对血液样本拉曼光谱的影响,在激发波长为632.8 nm,光谱扫描范围为200~1800 cm-1,功率衰减率50%,曝光时间5 s及累加次数为2次的优化条件下,获得了无损检测条件下的血液样本拉曼光谱图.针对血液样本组分复杂、拉曼光谱信号基底背景高等问题,提出了基于小波变换去噪,进行分段多项式基线校正的预处理方法,有效解决了血液样本拉曼光谱谱图的高噪音和基线漂移问题.实验选择30例正常人血和33例比格犬血为样本训练集,5例正常人血和5例比格犬血为测试集,基于主成分分析法(PCA)联合线性判别法(LDA)模型,训练集分类正确率达到95.23%,盲测集分类正确率达90.00%.这种基于非接触式血液样本拉曼光谱和PCA-LDA判断模型的测试方法在进出口检验检疫等涉及血液无损鉴别的领域具有广泛的应用价值和前景.     

防伪印刷技术与化学

随着科技进步与假冒伪劣产品对名优商品的冲击,防伪技术引起印刷与包装行业越来越多的关注,与人们的日常生活也休戚相关。从防伪油墨、防伪纸张与防伪印刷工艺3个角度,对涉及包装和印刷方面的防伪技术及相关化学知识进行了扼要的分析与论述。     

IOn-exchange behaviour of several elements in mixed solvents

The distribution coefficients between the cation- and anion-exchangers Dowex 50 and Dowex 1, and aqueous solutions containing nitric or hydrochloric acid and organic solvents with or without amines or complexing agents, have been obtained for a number of metals including uranium, thorium, cerium, iron, copper, and nickel. The organic solvents were methanol, acetone and dimethylformamide; the amines were tributylamine and tribenzylamine, and the complexing agents EDTA and citric acid. Both batch and column methods were used.     

Countercurrent extraction separation of some platinum group metals

Distribution coefficients were determined for the partitioning of the chloro-complexes of platinum, palladium, rhodium, and iridium between tributyl phosphate and various concentrations of hydrochloriic acid. Theoretical calculations based on the experimentally determined distribution coefficients indicated that a seventeen stage countercurrent extraction apparatus would resolve mixtures of platinum and palladium, platinum and rhodium, and rhodium and iridium.Mixtures of platinum and palladium, and platinum and rhodium were resolved in a fashion predicted by theory. Mixtures of rhodium and iridium were not completely resolved.     

亚麻的化学组成和微观结构对染色性能的影响

本文通过X衍射法、纤维化学成分分析法测试了亚麻纤维的微观结构、化学成分，通过对亚麻进行液氨整理改变其结晶度和取向度，从而测得亚麻的结晶度和取向度对染色性能的影响，利用碱煮、H2O2和NaOCl漂白处理降低了亚麻中木质素和半纤维素的含量，从而测量得木质素和半纤维素含量对亚麻上染率的影响。结果表明亚麻的上染率随着结晶度的降低呈线性上升，随着取向度的降低而上升；随着木质素和半纤维素含量的降低而呈上升趋势。     

Structure and stability of the organo-noble gas molecules XNgCCX and XNgCCNgX (Ng = Kr, Ar; X = F, Cl)

Density functional theory (B3LYP) and ab initio theory [second-order M?ller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) and coupled-cluster theory including single, double, and quasiperturbative triple excitations (CCSD(T))] have been used in combination with the standard and augmented correlation consistent basis sets (cc-pVnZ and aug-cc-pVnZ, where n = D, T, and Q) to investigate potential new noble gas compounds. Two classes of molecules were studied: XNgCCNgX and XNgCCX, where Ng = Kr and Ar and X = F and Cl. These molecules were characterized by finding the ground-state structures and calculating the relative energies, charge distributions, and vibrational frequencies. In addition, transition-state structures were also determined and decomposition pathways were identified through intrinsic reaction coordinate calculations.