苯酚及其光催化降解中间产物的HPLC法同时测定

研究了苯酚光催化降解过程中苯酚及３种中间体（对苯二酚、对苯二醌、邻苯二酚）含量的高效液相色谱测定方法,获得了同时测定４种物质的较佳液相色谱条件：流动相Ｖ（甲醇）：Ｖ（水）＝３０：７０,流速为０．８ｍｌ／ｍｉｎ,进样体积为２０ｕＬ,检测波长为２８０ｎｍ。用外标法进行了定量,相对标准偏差和回收率分别为０．３１％～１．１３％和９７．２％～１０１．７％,该法快速、简便、准确,适合于苯酚光催化降解过程中样品     

苯酚在碳纳米管修饰玻碳电极表面的电氧化机理研究

以含有苯酚的PBS溶液为电解液,采用循环伏安法研究了苯酚在碳纳米管修饰的玻碳电极表面电化学氧化的机理。结果表明,苯酚在碳纳米管修饰电极表面的氧化机理为：苯酚先于正向扫描中不可逆氧化为苯醌后,在负向扫描中被还原为对苯二酚和邻苯二酚,对苯二酚和邻苯二酚可进一步发生可逆氧化还原反应而存在于溶液中。对苯二酚和邻苯二酚的生成对苯酚氧化形成苯醌的峰电流产生干扰,从而影响苯酚电化学测定的灵敏度和准确性。     

苯酚在多壁碳纳米管修饰的玻碳电极表面的电氧化机理研究

以含有苯酚的PBS溶液为电解液,采用循环伏安法研究了苯酚在碳纳米管修饰的玻碳电极表面电化学氧化的机理。结果表明,苯酚在碳纳米管修饰的电极表面的氧化机理为:苯酚先于正向扫描中不可逆氧化为苯醌后,在负向扫描中被还原为对苯二酚和邻苯二酚,对苯二酚和邻苯二酚可进一步发生可逆氧化还原反应而存在于溶液中。对苯二酚和邻苯二酚的生成对苯酚氧化形成苯醌的峰电流产生干扰,从而影响苯酚电化学测定的灵敏度和准确性。     

纳米La(OH)3修饰电极对邻苯二酚和对苯二酚的同时测定

研究了纳米La(OH)3修饰电极的制备及其对邻苯二酚和对苯二酚的电催化作用。讨论了支持电解质种类、酸度等对邻苯二酚和对苯二酚伏安响应的影响,获得了较为优化的实验条件。在0.1mol/LPBS(pH7.0)中,采用示差脉冲伏安测定邻苯二酚和对苯二酚,其浓度与氧化峰电流线性关系良好。共存的多种金属离子、抗坏血酸及等量的苯酚等不干扰测定。该电极用于模拟废水样中邻苯二酚和对苯二酚的测定,结果令人满意。     

银掺杂聚L-甲硫氨酸修饰电极同时测定对苯二酚和邻苯二酚

用循环伏安法制备了银掺杂聚L-甲硫氨酸修饰玻碳电极,研究了对苯二酚和邻苯二酚在该修饰电极上的电化学行为,建立了同时测定对苯二酚和邻苯二酚的新方法.研究发现,在pH=5.0的磷酸盐缓冲溶液中,扫速为100 mV/s时,对苯二酚和邻苯二酚在银掺杂聚L-甲硫氨酸修饰玻碳电极上均出现1对氧化还原峰,峰电位分别为:Epa=0.228 V、Epc =0.162 V和Epa=0.347 V、Epc =0.287 V,二者的氧化峰电位差达119 mV,还原峰差达125 mV.在最佳的条件下,用差分脉冲伏安法同时测定邻苯二酚和对苯二酚的线性范围为3.00 ×10-6～1.00 ×10-4mol/L,检出限为8.0×10-7 mol/L(对苯二酚)和5.0×10-7 mol/L(邻苯二酚).此法用于废水样中对苯二酚和邻苯二酚的测定,获得满意结果.     

褶合曲线分析法用于同步荧光光谱法同时测定苯酚和对苯二酚

采用计算机辅助褶合曲线分析法结合同步荧光光谱法对双组分体系（苯酚／对苯二酚、苯酚／邻苯二酚）同时测定。苯酚和对苯二酚的荧光光谱重叠比较严重，同步荧光光谱虽使选择性有所改善，但仍有重叠，苯酚和对苯二酚的同步荧光峰相差仅２０ｎｍ。褶合曲线分析法可很好地用来测定苯酚和对苯二酚，方法简便、准确、易于自动化，同时证明，褶合曲线分析法在荧光分析方面具有很好的应用前景。进一步试验苯酚和邻苯二酚双组分的同时测定，苯酚和邻苯二酚的同步荧光峰相差仅１０ｎｍ，结果表明，该法虽然能在苯酚存在的情况下测定邻苯二酚，但不能同时测定苯酚。     

径向基函数神经网络光度法同时测定苯酚、邻苯二酚、间苯二酚和对苯二酚

对吸收峰重叠严重的苯酚、邻苯二酚、间苯二酚和对苯二酚4组分体系进行研究,以径向基函数神经网络光度法建立校正模型,同时测定了水样中的苯酚、邻苯二酚、间苯二酚和对苯二酚的含量,回收率为95.7％～109.2％。     

硫酸钠对胰岛素淀粉样纤维化及其细胞毒性的作用

超过20种人类疾病与蛋白质或者多肽淀粉样纤维化密切相关,探究影响蛋白质的结构稳定性及其淀粉样纤维化的环境条件具有重要意义.本文采用牛胰岛素作为模型蛋白质,研究了Na2SO4对蛋白质淀粉样纤维化的作用.实验结果表明,不同浓度的Na2SO4对胰岛素淀粉样纤维化过程具有不同的影响,低浓度条件下可促进纤维化,较高浓度可明显抑制淀粉样纤维的形成,更高的浓度则使胰岛素形成非纤维状聚集体.ANS荧光分析结果表明,所有浓度的Na2SO4均可减小胰岛素聚集体的表面疏水性,并导致聚集体对细胞膜的损害作用降低.Na2SO4的上述作用可能与其改变蛋白质分子间的静电作用力及溶剂效应有关.     

钯/碳纳米纤维复合材料修饰电极同时检测邻苯二酚和对苯二酚

利用电纺丝技术制得钯/碳纳米纤维复合材料(Pd/CNFs),并将其用于修饰玻碳电极Pd/CNF-GCE/CME.Pd/CNF-GCE/CME对邻苯二酚和对苯二酚的氧化还原反应具有较高的电催化活性,显著提高了二者电化学反应的可逆性.考察了支持电解质的酸度对邻苯二酚和对苯二酚电化学响应的影响,选用0.1 mol/L PBS(pH 8.0)作为支持电解质.用微分脉冲伏安(DPV)法对邻苯二酚和对苯二酚进行选择性检测:当混合溶液中存在50 μmol/L对苯二酚时,邻苯二酚的氧化峰电流与其浓度在1～90 μmol/L范围内呈线性关系,检出限为0.3 μmol/L(S/N=3);当存在50 μmol/L邻苯二酚时,对苯二酚的氧化峰电流与其浓度在2～100 μmol/L范围内呈线性关系,检出限为1.0 μmol/L.另外,此修饰电极具有较好的重现性和较强的抗干扰能力.将此修饰电极用于模拟水样中邻苯二酚和对苯二酚的测定,结果令人满意.     

苯酚和苯胺类化合物对鲁米诺电致化学发光的增强和抑制作用

系统研究了不同pH下的NaHCO₃-Na₂CO₃和NaOH缓冲介质中, 36种苯酚和苯胺类化合物对鲁米诺电致化学发光(Electrochemiluminescence, ECL)体系的影响. 发现苯酚和苯胺类化合物的抑制和增强作用与化合物的结构、氧化电位和介质的pH有直接的关系: 具有较高氧化电位的苯酚和苯胺类化合物对鲁米诺的ECL没有影响; 而具有较低的氧化电位、苯环上有两个处于对位的-OH(或-NH₂)或苯环上有多个相邻的-OH的化合物, 在较低的pH下有增强作用, 在较高的pH下具有抑制作用; 其它的化合物则呈现抑制作用, 抑制作用的大小与化合物的结构有关. 通过研究化合物的氧化半峰电位、ECL光谱、荧光光谱等, 提出了增强和抑制作用的可能机理: 各种有机物的电氧化产物如醌、酮及具有醌、酮结构的聚合物等能够淬灭激发态3-氨基邻苯二甲酸根阴离子(3-AP^2－*)的发射, 导致了鲁米诺的ECL的降低; 同时, 反应过程中生成的半醌自由基中间体或 会促进鲁米诺的发光反应, 呈现增强作用.     

Laccase-Catalyzed Oxidative Polymerization of Phenolic Compounds

Enzymatic polymerization of phenolic compounds (catechol, resorcinol, and hydroquinone) was carried out using laccase. The mechanism of polymerization and the structures of the polymers were evaluated in terms of UV–Vis and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The molecular weights of the produced polyphenols were determined with GPC. The results showed that the phenolic monomers firstly turned into quinone intermediates by laccase catalysis. Through further oxidation, the intermediates formed covalent bonds. Finally, catechol units were linked together with ether bonds, and both resorcinol and hydroquinone units were linked together with C-C bonds. The number-average molecular weights of the polyphenols ranged from 1,000 to 1,400 Da (corresponding to the degree of polymerization that varied from 10 to 12) with a lower polydispersity value of about 1.10, showing selective polymerization of phenolic compounds catalyzed by laccase.     

Optical detection of phenolic compounds based on the surface plasmon resonance band of Au nanoparticles

An indirect colorimetric method is presented for detection of trace amounts of hydroquinone (1), catechol (2) and pyrogallol (3). The reduction of AuCl4(-) to Gold nanoparticles (Au-NPs) by these phenolic compounds in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTAC) produced very intense surface plasmon resonance peak of Au-NPs. The plasmon absorbance of Au-NPs allows the quantitative colorimetric detection of the phenolic compounds. The calibration curves derived from the changes in absorbance at lambda = 568 nm were linear with concentration of hydroquinone, catechol and pyrogallol in the range of 7.0 x 10(-7) to 1.0 x 10(-4)M, 6.0 x 10(-6) to 2.0 x 10(-4)M and 6.0 x 10(-7) to 1.0 x 10(-4)M, respectively. The detection limits were 5.3 x 10(-7), 2.5 x 10(-6) and 3.2 x 10(-7)M for the hydroquinone, catechol and pyrogallol, respectively. The method was applied satisfactorily to the determination of phenolic compounds in water samples and pharmaceutical formulations.     

The important role of quinic acid in the formation of phenolic compounds from pyrolysis of chlorogenic acid

Chlorogenic acid and its two structural components, quinic acid and caffeic acid, were pyrolyzed under reaction conditions simulating the typical pyrolysis conditions inside a burning cigarette. Major phenolic products from pyrolysis of the three acids were quantified and compared to evaluate the respective contribution of the quinic and caffeic acid moieties to the overall phenolic yield in chlorogenic acid pyrolysis. The results show that the most prominent phenolic product of chlorogenic acid is catechol, followed in order by phenol, hydroquinone, and alkylcatechols. Among these phenolics, catechol and alkylcatechols are formed mainly from the caffeic acid moiety of chlorogenic acid, while phenol and hydroquinone are produced predominantly from the quinic acid moiety. The quinic acid moiety can thus contribute more than 40 % of the overall phenolic yields in chlorogenic acid pyrolysis (0.54 mol mol^?1 chlorogenic acid pyrolyzed at 600 °C). Because considerable amounts of free quinic acid and its derivatives exist in tobacco, the results of this study indicate that quinic acid can be an important source of phenolic compounds, especially hydroquinone and phenol, in tobacco smoke.     

Direct Analysis of Phenol, Catechol and Hydroquinone in Human Urine by Coupled-Column HPLC with Fluorimetric Detection

Phenol, catechol, and hydroquinone, are urinary end-products of the metabolism of benzene, nutrients, drugs, and endogenous substances. Recent research demonstrated that phenol, catechol, and hydroquinone, may have themselves a role in the carcinogenicity of benzene and in mechanisms that lead to leukemia. In this respect there is the need of rapid, low-cost, and possibly direct methods to quantitate these phenolic metabolites. Three single-residue coupled-column HPLC methods with fluorimetric detection (LC-LC-FLD) are described for the direct quantitation of phenol, catechol, and hydroquinone, in human urine. After enzymatic hydrolysis of the corresponding beta-glucuronoconjugates and sulfates, urine was directly injected into the LC-LC analyzer. The LC-LC-FLD procedure allowed base-to-base separation of the target compounds from urine interferents and good linearity (r² = 0.998) within the ranges studied (0.5–50 mg L⁻¹ for phenol, 0.35–35 mg L⁻¹ for catechol and 0.2–10 mg L⁻¹ for hydroquinone). Despite the high background levels of these metabolites in human urine, within- and inter-session precision expressed as RSD% was better than 20% on spiked and on authentic urine samples obtained from benzene-exposed workers. Accuracy expressed as the recovery ratio between measured and nominal concentration in spiked urine was comprised between 93% and 115% for the three metabolites. The column switching system was fully automated and computer-controlled, and was applied to the determination of phenol, catechol, and hydroquinone in urine samples showing a sample throughput of at least 20–30 samples per day.Revised: 21 February and 7 April 2005     

Oxidation of Phenols and Hydroquinones by Mercury(II) Trifluoroacetate and Mercury(II) Oxide

Treatment of phenols with mercury(II) salts normally results in rapid electrophilic aromatic mercuration and formation of arylmercurial derivatives in good yield. The use of mercury(II) salts as oxidants for phenols and hydroquinones has not, however, been investigated in any detail. In 1935, Montignie reported that hydroquinone reduced mercury(II) iodide to mercury(O), but the organic reaction product was not identified.¹ A similar observation was made by Koton,² who found that reaction of hydroquinone, 4-hydroxy-aniline and pyrogallol with mercury(II) acetate did not result in mercuration but led to formation of mercury(0), while Ohno has described the “strong reducing action” of catechol and nitrohydroquinones to mercury(II) salts.³ Mercury(II) acetate has been shown to oxidise hydroquinone and 1,4-bis[β-(2,5-dihydroxyphenyl)-α-methylethylamino] anthraquinone to the corresponding quinones,^4,5 and treatment of 2,6-di-t-butyl-4-methylphenol—with mercury(II) oxide has been found to give the expected products of phenolic oxidative coupling via quinone methide formation.⁶     

Reactions of synthetic phenolic antioxidants with electrogenerated titrants and their analytical applications

Synthetic phenolic compounds (pyrogallol, catechol, hydroquinone, and their derivatives bearing heterocyclic fragments) react with electrogenerated titrants, halogens, and ferricyanide(III) ions. Stoichiometric coefficients of reactions are found. It is shown that the use of ferricyanide(III) ions as a titrant and a one-electron oxidant for the determination of this class of antioxidants offers advantages in comparison with titrants-halogens. The found amounts of pyrogallol, pyrocatechol, and hydroquinone derivatives in model solutions with the RSD 1–5% are fractions of milligrams. It is found that, in the series of the studied synthetic phenolic compounds, pyrocatechol derivatives possess the maximum antioxidant capacity (AOC).     

Ferrocenyl catechols: synthesis, oxidation chemistry and anti-proliferative effects on MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells

The synthesis and anti-tumoral properties of a series of compounds possessing a ferrocenyl group tethered to a catechol via a conjugated system is presented. On MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell lines, the catechol compounds display a similar or greater anti-proliferative potency (IC(50) values ranging from 0.48-1.21 μM) than their corresponding phenolic analogues (0.57-12.7 μM), with the highest activity found for species incorporating the [3]ferrocenophane motif. On the electrochemical timescale, phenolic compounds appear to oxidize to the quinone methide, while catechol moieties form the o-quinone by a similar mechanism. Chemical oxidation of selected compounds with Ag(2)O confirms this interpretation and demonstrates the probable involvement of such oxidative metabolites in the in vitro activity of these species.     

Flow injection chemiluminescence analysis of phenolic compounds using the NCS-luminol system

A flow injection system coupled with two simple and sensitive chemiluminescence (CL) methods is described for the determination of some phenolic compounds. The methods are based on the inhibition effects of the investigated phenols on the CL signal intensities of N-chlorosuccinimide-KI-luminol (NCS-KI-luminol) and NCS-luminol systems. The influences of the chemical and hydrodynamic parameters on the decrease in CL signal intensities of NCS-KI-luminol and NCS-luminol systems for hydroquinone, catechol, and resorcinol, serving as the model compounds of analyte, were studied in the flow injection mode of analysis. Under the selected conditions, the proposed CL systems were used for the determination of some phenolic compound and analytical characteristics of the systems including calibration equation, correlation coefficient, linear dynamic range, limit of detection, and sample throughput. The limits of detection for hydroquinone, catechol, and resorcinol were 0.002, 0.01, and 0.3 μM using the NCS-KI-luminol system; for the NCS-luminol system these were 0.01, 0.17, and 1.6 μM, respectively. The relative standard deviation for 10 repeated measurements of 0.04, 0.06, and 1 μM of hydroquinone, catechol, and resorcinol were 1.9, 1.4, and 2.0%, respectively, with the NCS-KI-luminol system; for 0.2, 0.5, and 4 μM of hydroquinone, catechol, and resorcinol these were 2.6, 2.2, and 3.7%, respectively, using the NCS-luminol system. The method was applied to the determination of catechol in known environmental water samples with a relative error of less than 6%. A possible reaction mechanism of the proposed CL system is discussed briefly.      

Inhibition of Amyloid Fibril Growth and Dissolution of Amyloid Fibrils by Curcumin–Gold Nanoparticles

Inhibition of amyloid fibrillation and clearance of amyloid fibrils/plaques are essential for the prevention and treatment of various neurodegenerative disorders involving protein aggregation. Herein, we report curcumin‐functionalized gold nanoparticles (Au‐curcumin) of hydrodynamic diameter 10–25 nm, which serve to inhibit amyloid fibrillation and disintegrate/dissolve amyloid fibrils. In nanoparticle form, curcumin is water‐soluble and can efficiently interact with amyloid protein/peptide, offering enhanced performance in inhibiting amyloid fibrillation and dissolving amyloid fibrils. Our results imply that nanoparticle‐based artificial molecular chaperones may offer a promising therapeutic approach to combat neurodegenerative disease.