Advances in the field of the synthesis of amino derivatives of terpenoids

Information on the synthesis of amino derivatives of monoterpenes by the reduction of oximes by the Leuckart reaction, and by the reductive amination of ketones by amines and nitriles is generalized. The stereochemistry of the amines formed as the result of the above-mentioned reactions is discussed.     

Application of a time-concentration model of adsorption for determination of the nature of adsorbent-adsorbate interaction

A time-concentration model of chemisorption and hydrophobic adsorption by derivatized cellulose beads allowed discrimination between adsorption processes dominated by stoichiometry and those characterized by nonstoichiometric interactions. This discrimination procedure was applied in estimating the type of interaction in the adsorption process of lactate dehydrogenase by cellulose beads, derivatized with C. I. Reactive Blue 2 or C.I. Reactive Blue 19.     

丹曲林钠杂质B的合成

以5-对硝基苯胺为原料,与糠醛经重氮化反应制得5-对硝基苯基糠醛(1);1与1-氨基乙内酰脲盐酸盐经缩合、精制得丹曲林(2);2与甲醇钠成盐制得丹曲林钠(3);3在氢氧化钠水溶液中加热条件下,经开环水解制得丹曲林钠杂质B钠盐,再经盐酸酸化、精制合成了丹曲林钠杂质B,总收率16.9%,纯度99.9%,其结构经1H NMR,IR和MS(ESI)确证。     

Isoelectric focusing of basic proteins: the problem of oxidation of cysteines

Isoelectric focusing of human globin chains in polyacrylamide gels dried in the ambient atmosphere and rehydrated in the presence of 8 mol/L urea produces artefactual doublets of zones as a result of oxidation by the gel. This oxidation can be avoided in separations of short duration by adding a reducing agent (e.g. 2-mercaptoethanol or dithiothreitol to the rehydration solution (Altland, K. and Rossmann, U., Electrophoresis 1985, 6, 314-325). We now demonstrate that the observed zone doublets can be explained by assuming neutralization of the contribution of dissociated sulfhydryl group of cysteine to pI by partial and reversible formation of globin dimers held together by disulfide bridges. Long time separations, requiring e.g. more than 4 h at greater than or equal to 500 V/cm, in pH gradients exceeding pH 7.5, are accompanied by artefactual oxidation from both the atmosphere and the gel matrix. Oxidation from the atmosphere as well as the effect of carbon dioxide can be eliminated by overlayering the gel with paraffin oil. Oxidation from the gel matrix can only partially be inhibited by rehydration of gels in the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol or dithiothreitol. Nearly complete protection against oxidation by the gel matrix was achieved by adding a permanent supply of 2-ME to the gel or by adding DTT to the cathodic wick towards the end of the experiment. Alkylation with iodoacetamide or iodoacetic acid resulted in stable globin patterns, which, however, displayed additional artefactual zones. Our experimental data indicate that the polyacrylamide gels function as an electron acceptor for dissociated sulfhydryl groups in proteins, even after pretreatment with strong reducing agents for proteins.     

系列甘露糖醛酸寡糖的制备与鉴定

用酸降解法制备了系列甘露糖醛酸寡糖(聚合度2～8),并分析测定了寡糖的结构. 褐藻胶经部分酸水解,于pH=2.85处分级获得聚甘露糖醛酸. 继续用酸降解法降解聚甘露糖醛酸,经凝胶柱层析分离纯化,获得系列甘露糖醛酸寡糖. 用荧光标记糖电泳(FACE)对寡糖进行了分析,并用电喷雾离子化质谱(ESI-MS)、 核磁共振波谱(NMR)及红外光谱(FTIR)进行了结构表征. 本研究用酸降解法制备饱和甘露糖醛酸寡糖,用凝胶柱层析法分离获得系列聚合度的寡糖,为褐藻胶大分子构效关系研究和药物的筛选与发现提供了重要的基础资料.     

近红外光谱法测定端羟基环氧乙烷-四氢呋喃共聚醚的羟值

提出了用近红外光谱测定端羟基环氧乙烷-四氢呋喃共聚醚(PET)的羟值,结合主成分回归和偏最小二乘法建立了PET羟值与其近红外光谱之间的关联模型。结果表明,近红外光谱法与化学分析法的测定结果一致;近红外光谱法测定PET羟值的相对误差在5%以内;利用遗传算法选择部分波长建立校正可以降低模型的预测误差。     

Comparison of cryoscopic determinations of purity of benzene by thermometric and calorimetric procedures

Workers at the National Bureau of Standards and elsewhere have been conscious of the discordant results sometimes yielded by two methods for determining purity employing the same physical principle. A comparison was made on samples of benzene by the thermometeric method, by which a stirred sample is frozen at nearly constant rate, and by the calorimetric method, by which a frozen sample is melted in stages by the addition of accurately controlled increments of energy under adiabatic conditions.Benzene, purified by single crystal formation and of very high purity, was contaminated in known amounts by n-heptane and samples of the same level of purity determined by both procedures. Great care was taken to submit samples of the same composition to the different groups employing the two different methods. Further, the actual degree of contamination of the benzene was unknown to both groups until final values of the purity were submitted. Results of this comparison showed that the large divergence between the two methods that had characterized earlier comparisons is not displayed. The differences between the analyses on all three samples are roughly of the order of the statistically estimated uncertainties of the averages and less than deviations between individual experiments by one method. Comparison of the methods with absolute values of purity could not be made because of contamination of the highly purified sample of benzene with supposedly chemically adsorbed water from the borosilicate glass walls.     

Stabilisation of the Secondary Structure of Chitosan Gels during the Preparation of Composites

Summary: Zeolite-chitosan composites have been prepared by encapsulation of zeolites by a gelling solution of chitosan or by in-situ synthesis of zeolites inside a chitosan gel. The preparation of the composite implies modifications of both components. Zeolites are dealuminated by the acid solution in which chitosan is dissolved and the morphology of the chitosan fibrils is stabilized by iniorganic species issued from the dealumination of the zeolites or from their synthesis medium. Zeolite-bearing chitosan xerogels present surface area and porosity similar to the textural properties of chitosan aerogels.     

The influence of the addition of electrolytes on the degree of dispersion of silver iodide hydrosol

The changes in the degree of dispersion of AgI hydrosols produced by reaction of AgNO₃ and KI with the addition of other electrolytes (1–60 min after addition of AgNO₃ to KI) were investigated by photometric methods. The results obtained suggest that in the process of rapid condensation (caused by a sudden increase in concentration to a value considerably higher than the critical one) colloidal particles do not form by continuous growth of individual nuclei but through disaggregation of loose and amorphous, i. e. thermodynamically unstable clusters of previously formed embryos. This disaggregation process, termed protopeptization by the authors in order to underline its analogy with the peptization process, increases in magnitude with the strengthening adsorption of potential-determining ions (protopeptizing agents) by the particles formed in the precipitation process.     

Effect of the addition of polyelectrolytes on monolayers of carboxybetaines

We have studied the effect of the addition of sodium poly(styrene sulfonate) polymers on the properties of monolayers formed by the adsorption of two carboxybetaines with different number of separation methylenes between their charged groups. Fluorescence and surface tension measurements indicate that above the critical aggregation concentration a surfactant-polymer complex of electrostatic origin is formed in bulk. The complexes have a negative charge that is repelled by the negative charge of the surfactant adsorbed at the interface; consequently, the monolayer seems to be exclusively formed by surfactant carboxybetaines. The high-frequency surface viscoelasticity of the monolayers was studied by surface dynamic light-scattering measurements. The behavior of the dilational elasticity and viscosity is explained by relaxation involving molecular reorientation within the adsorbed layer.     

Proofs of macrocyclization of gable porphyrins as mimics of photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes

Porphyrin macrocycles composed of five and six units of m-gable imidazolylporphyrinatozinc (1-Zn) were synthesized by self-assembled cyclization followed by ring-closing metathesis linkings. Each porphyrin macrocycle was isolated by GPC chromatography, and their molecular weights were determined by MALDI-TOF mass spectroscopy. These structures represent mimics of light-harvesting complexes in photosynthetic bacteria. [structure: see text]     

Determination of the purity of methyl nitrite

The purity of methyl nitrite prepared by the esterification of methanol with aqueous nitrous acid was determined by absorbing gaseous samples in solutions of acidic potassium permanganate and hydriodic acid. Nitrate formed in the oxidation reaction was determined by steam distillation, and iodomethane formed in hydriodic acid was determined by gas-liquid chromatography. The method was used to evaluate purification procedures.     

Dependence of chiral recognition on the degree of substitution of cellulose benzoate

A series of cellulose benzoates with different degrees of substitution (DS) were prepared by aminolysis under homogeneous conditions. Using them as a stationary phase, the dependence of the chromatographic chiral recognition of cellulose benzoate (CB) on its DS was studied under normal phase conditions. For most enantiomeric pairs, chiral recognition decreased along with the decrease in DS. However, some enantiomeric pairs were resolved only by CBs carrying unsubstituted hydroxyl groups. Many of the compounds were quite strongly retained by cellulose benzoate with a DS of 2.8. A study of the retention behaviors of simple achiral compounds led us to the conclusion that the change in the retention behaviors by introducing free hydroxyl groups into tribenzoate is not caused by hydrogen bonding including the hydroxyl groups, but by a specific unidentified change.     

Synthesis of syn and anti isomers of trans-cyclopropyl arginine

There is currently considerable interest in arginine and its structural analogues in the context of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) substrates and inhibitors. Of particular interest are conformationally constrained arginine analogues used to probe the active sites of the three NOS isoforms. A simple procedure is described for the preparation of syn- and anti-trans-cyclopropyl arginine starting from the alpha-OBO-protected Cbz-dehydroglutamate. Cyclopropanation is effected by diazomethane addition followed by irradiation of the resulting pyrazoline and gives a 3:1 mixture of syn:anti isomers that can be separated by crystallization. Reduction of the ester to the alcohol followed by guanylation gives the fully protected cyclopropyl arginine analogues. The CBZ protecting groups are removed by hydrogenolysis and the OBO by mild acid treatment followed by base hydrolysis.     

Acid hydrolysis of carboxymethylcellulose of low degree of substitution

Cotton cellulose was swollen in a sodium hydroxide solution and carboxymethylated by a two-bath method for different periods of time for each process. The kinetics of acid hydrolysis and the crystallinity of the swollen and carboxymethylated samples were measured. The proportion of broken bonds, rate constants for hydrolysis, and permeability of cellulose to hydrolyzing agents were calculated. The susceptibility of glycosidic linkages to acid hydrolysis was improved by carboxymethylation more than by swelling in alkali. The increased accessibility of carboxymethylcellulose to acid was regarded as a consequence of increased intra-and intercrystalline swelling and of the glycosidic bonds' weakness caused by the electron-attracting carboxymethyl group on the C-6 position.     

Synthesis of Neoglycolipid Analogues of the Oligosaccharide Portion of Ganglioside GM3

In order to elucidate the molecular specificity of the antimelanoma response induce by GM3 included in proteoliposome preparation, we designed syntheses of a series of neoglycolipids containing the trisaccharide portion of GM3 or its fragment. In the present paper, we synthesized two neoglicolipids containing as a lipid, a racemic glycerol unit substituted by two aliphatic octadecyl ether chains. The di‐ and trisaccharide derivatives were prepared as glycosides of the spacer by a sequence of isopropilidenation‐benzylation‐hydrolysis followed by sialylation. The condensation between the oligosaccharides and the lipid was performed by an amidation reaction.     

Lineshape studies of deconvoluted spectra of annihilation radiation in neopentane solutions of some organic iodides

The inhibition of positronium formation in neopentane caused by the addition of some organic iodides through the measurements of the energy spectra of Doppler-broadened annihilation radiation has been studied by using a deconvolution technique. The observed results could be interpreted by the reaction or the selective interaction of the positrons or the hot positronium atoms with the solute molecules. The observed change of the momentum distribution curve by the addition of the organic iodides can be explained consistently by these interpretations.     

Kinetics of thermal decomposition of polymers. II

The rate equations for the thermal decomposition of a polymer by a random scission reaction followed by rapid depolymerization of a constant number of monomer units from both fragments together with rapid evaporation of low molecular weight species are solved by using a different approach from that used by previous workers. The results obtained are more specific and differ slightly from previous treatments.     

2,6-二甲基二苯并噻吩加氢脱硫中间体的合成

以2-溴代-3-甲基环己酮和2-溴代-5-甲基环己酮混合物及2-甲基苯硫酚为原料,经耦合、环化及纯化制得1,2,3,4-四氢-2,6-二甲基二苯并噻吩(3);3在三氟乙酸中经锌粉还原合成了1,2,3,4,4a,9b-六氢-2,6-二甲基二苯并噻吩(4).3和4的结构经1H NMR,13C NMR和GC-MS确证.     

Mechanistic model of disproportionation of nitrogen monoxide on CaHY-type zeolite

Infrared spectra produced by adsorbing, by evacuating and by readsorbing NO on CaHY-type zeolite were examined. The absorption peaks were identified by comparing the spectra produced by adsorbing and by evacuating N₂O and NO₂. Based upon the experimental evidence, an eight-step mechanism was proposed for the behavior of NO on CaHY-type zeolite. A mechanistic model of the disproportionation reaction of NO was deduced from the variation of the spectra with time.