Convenient method for the transformation of epoxide to aldehyde and acetonide mediated by Cr-PLM

Chromium-pillared montmorillonite (Cr-PLM) could be synthesized and efficiently utilized for styrene oxide transformations. The target aldehyde product could be quantitatively achieved from the isomerization of styrene oxide by using 10?wt% of Cr-PLM under reflux temperature for 15?min. The acetonide product could be achieved in excellent yield from the reaction of styrene oxide and acetone by using 10?wt% of Cr-PLM under room temperature for 20?min. The catalyst could be recovered and reused at least five times without loss of activity.     

Biotemplated Hierarchical Porous Material: The Positively Charged Leaf

Addressing the problem of pathogenic bacteria in human health remains a great challenge. We have prepared MgO, replicated from the leaf template, for efficient bacterial removal. The synthesis method perfectly inherits the advantage of the hierarchical three‐level micro‐meso‐macroporous structure from the leaf template. The final product has the integrated advantages of a positively charged property, hierarchical three‐level micro‐meso‐macroporous microstructure and sterilization property so that it could be named “the positively charged leaf”. The positively charged leaf with the microstructure, which is bestowed by Nature, could be utilized in water purification for dye removal and could be extended to pollutant removal, especially of harmful bacteria. The positively charged leaf, as the leaf shield, could be useful in protecting human health. The concept of this work could be applied to the synthesis of different functional metal oxides with hierarchical porous structures, and the products could be utilized in efficient bacterial removal.     

染料结合2μm无孔硅胶亲和填料的制备与应用

在２μｍ无孔硅胶表面键合３ 氨丙基 三乙氧基硅烷（ＡＰＳ）,并与三嗪染料活性蓝Ｆ３ＧＡ（ＣｉｂａｃｒｏｎＢｌｕｅＦ３ＧＡ,ＣＢ）反应,制得亲和色谱填料,并采用扫描电镜、元素分析、ｐＨ稳定性测试对此填料进行鉴定与表征。该填料具有良好的色谱性能,且对生物大分子有一定的亲和选择性,改变ｐＨ值及离子强度对溶菌酶的结合量有明显影响,可用于分离卵清蛋白（Ｏｖａｌ）和溶菌酶（Ｌｙｓ）,且对α ,β ,γ 球蛋白有不同的亲和作用,并可从鸡蛋清中制备少量溶菌酶。     

High-speed chiral separations on a microchip with UV detection

Fast chiral separations of a variety of basic and acidic compounds could be realized on microfluidic quartz chips. A microchip electrophoresis instrument equipped with a linear imaging UV-detector was used. The usually applied but troublesome fluorescence tagging in order to enable fluorescence detection could be omitted. Using sulfated cyclodextrins as chiral selectors baseline separation of 19 compounds could be achieved in less than 1 min with high reproducibility. The relative standard deviation of migration time was below 7%. The fastest separation could be performed in 2.5 s which is to date the fastest separation of enantiomers reported. It was possible to apply microchip electrophoresis (MCE) for the determination of high enantiomeric excess (ee) values, as exemplarily shown for pseudoephedrin where 2% of the minor enantiomer could reliably be determined beside high amount of the other isomer. Successful separation of a mixture of 3 chiral drugs could be performed in a single run in less than 11 s utilizing a separation length of only 12 mm. These results show that MCE has great potential for fast chiral analysis and high-throughput screening.     

Microfluidic Apps for off-the-shelf instruments

Within the last decade a huge increase in research activity in microfluidics could be observed. However, despite several commercial success stories, microfluidic chips are still not sold in high numbers in mass markets so far. Here we promote a new concept that could be an alternative approach to commercialization: designing microfluidic chips for existing off-the-shelf instruments. Such "Microfluidic Apps" could significantly lower market entry barriers and provide many advantages: developers of microfluidic chips make use of existing equipment or platforms and do not have to develop instruments from scratch; end-users can profit from microfluidics without the need to invest in new equipment; instrument manufacturers benefit from an expanded customer base due to the new applications that can be implemented in their instruments. Microfluidic Apps could be considered as low-cost disposables which can easily be distributed globally via web-shops. Therefore they could be a door-opener for high-volume mass markets.     

生物质热解液化与美拉德反应

对生物质热解液化和美拉德反应进行了介绍,指出美拉德反应不仅存在于生物质热解液化过程中,而且通过引入适量氨等调控措施,可以促进美拉德反应有选择性地生成吡嗪类杂环化合物等高值化学品,然后再通过分级冷凝将生物油分为化工生物油和燃料生物油,前者用于分离提取高值化学品,后者用于锅炉和窑炉的燃料.引入美拉德反应后,生物质热解液化技术经济性将会得到根本性的改善.     

基于近红外光谱技术与优化光谱预处理的陈皮产地鉴别研究

采集不同产地陈皮内侧和外侧的近红外光谱,采用不同光谱预处理方法进行预处理,筛选得到最佳光谱预处理方法,结合主成分分析法建立了陈皮产地的鉴别模型。实验发现,陈皮原始光谱中存在明显的基线漂移与背景干扰。使用单一光谱预处理可在一定程度上消除干扰的影响。经标准正态变量变换、多元散射校正、一阶导数、二阶导数与连续小波变换预处理后,陈皮内侧光谱数据可获得最优的鉴别结果,鉴别准确率为91.67%;通过最大最小归一化预处理后,陈皮外侧光谱数据可获得最优鉴别结果,鉴别准确率为70.83%;在2种预处理组合的鉴别结果中,有9个组合方式结合陈皮外侧光谱数据实现了对陈皮产地的100%鉴别分析,对于陈皮内侧光谱数据的最佳预处理组合为去趋势校正+最大最小归一化,鉴别准确率为95.83%;而3个预处理组合的鉴别准确率较2个预处理的结果低,表明采用预处理种类过多时可能会扣除有用信息。结果表明:近红外光谱技术结合光谱预处理可以实现不同产地陈皮的无损鉴别分析,其中陈皮外侧光谱数据结合优化光谱预处理方法可实现陈皮产地的100%鉴别分析。     

The influence of major components on the direct chromatographic recovery of a protein from transgenic milk

This work presents a systematic evaluation of the influence of lipids and casein on the performance of a chromatographic capture step for the recovery of a target protein from transgenic milk. Lactoperoxidase (LPO) was spiked at concentrations typical of those to be expected for transgenic proteins in commercial bovine milk and the dynamic adsorption of LPO to fixed beds of SP Sepharose FF studied in frontal analysis experiments. By removing successively selected components from whole milk, their individual influence on the dynamic adsorption behaviour of LPO could be studied. A mathematical model, fitted to the breakthrough curves of LPO, provided a quantitative measure of parameters describing mass transfer and adsorption in the column. A significant reduction in column capacity for LPO in the presence of milk or whey was recorded, which could be attributed to competing adsorption of alkaline earth metal ions to the cation exchange resin. While the high concentrations of lipids present in whole milk did strongly reduce the column permeability, no significant influence of either casein or low concentrations of lipids on the hydraulic properties of columns or on the adsorption of LPO could be detected. The results indicate that chromatography, which forms an essential part of all current large-scale processes for the recovery of proteins from transgenic milk, could potentially be moved further upstream. Alternatively, existing operations for the removal of lipid and casein could be re-designed so as to maximise product yields. This suggests that significant product losses during current pre-chromatography milk purification could be reduced or potentially even avoided.     

How to promote sluggish electrocyclization of 1,3,5-hexatrienes by captodative substitution

Hexatriene electrocyclization, if not disfavored by its harsh reaction conditions, can be highly useful for the synthesis of complex organic molecules. Herein we developed a two-layer ONIOM method which could predict the activation free energy of hexatriene electrocyclization with an accuracy of about 1.0 kcal/mol. Using this carefully benchmarked method, we calculated the activation free energies for a variety of substituted hexatrienes. It was found that extraordinarily rapid electrocyclization could occur for certain patterns of captodative substituted hexatrienes, including 2-acceptor-3-donor hexatrienes, 2-acceptor-5-donor hexatrienes, and 3-acceptor-5-donor hexatrienes. The activation free energies for these systems could be up to 10 kcal/mol lower than that of the unsubstituted hexatriene, and therefore, their electrocyclization could proceed smoothly even at room temperature. The mechanism for the captodative effect on hexatriene electrocyclization could be understood by calculating the affinity between the donor and acceptor group in the reactant state and transition state of the reaction. If the affinity was stronger in the transition state, captodative substitution would produce an extra acceleration effect. It was shown that our theoretical results were in excellent agreement with the experimental data from the recent synthetic studies of hexatriene electrocyclizations. Thus, the theoretical tools developed in the present study could be used to predict not only how to accelerate the hexatriene electrocyclization via substituent manipulation but also under what conditions each particular electrocyclization could be accomplished in the real experiment.     

Fast mixing and reaction initiation control of single-enzyme kinetics in confined volumes

A device with femtoliter-scale chambers and controlled reaction initiation was developed for single-molecule enzymology. Initially separated substrate and enzyme streams were rapidly mixed in a microfluidic device and encapsulated in an array of individual microreactors, allowing for enzyme kinetics to be monitored with millisecond dead times and single-molecule sensitivity. Because the arrays of chambers were fabricated by micromolding in PDMS, the chambers were monodisperse in size, and the chamber volume could be systematically controlled. Microreactors could be purged and replenished with fresh reactants for consecutive rounds of observation. Repeated experiments with statistically identical initial conditions could be performed rapidly, with zero cross-talk between chambers in the array.     

Increasing rewriting speed of optically driving liquid crystal display by process optimisation

Process optimisation for increasing the response speed of optical driving liquid crystal cell was investigated in this paper. It is demonstrated that by filling LC in atmosphere condition rewriting time could be decreased to 6 s with good repeatability. Increasing the spin coating speed, the rewriting time could also decrease the azimuthal anchoring energy, but it will cause non-continuous film form of alignment layer, which causes large speed dispersion that is not good for practical use. Serial experiments show that with smaller azimuthal anchoring energy the rewriting time could be smaller. The results demonstrate that with proper fabrication process of alignment layer for liquid crystal optical rewritable e-paper, azimuthal anchoring energy could be adjusted to an optimal value, which is beneficial for achieving fastest rewriting speed and at the same time strong enough to well align LC.     

Novel CuS nanofibers using organogel as a template: controlled by binding sites

A new cholesterol organogelator 1 was synthesized, which was confirmed as an effective gelator for various organic solvents and could self-assemble into network fibers in some organic solvents. Moreover, gelator 1 could act as templates for the synthesis of various CuS nanofibers with different helical pitches. For example, when H(2)S was used as the sulfur source, straight and bending helical CuS nanofibers with a pitch of 100-200 nm could be fabricated in butyl acetate and benzene-butanol gel systems, respectively, while bending CuS nanofibers with a similar helical pitch (ca. 50 nm) could be obtained when thioacetamide was used as the sulfur source in both gel systems. It was first found that the morphologies of inorganic nanofibers could be controlled by the binding sites between the inorganic precursor and the organogel.     

A novel wearable device for continuous,non-invasion blood pressure measurement

In this paper, we have developed a wearable cuffless device for daily blood pressure (BP) measurement. We incorporated the light based sensor and other hard wares in a small volume for BP detection. With optimized algorithm, the real-time BP reading could be achieved, the data could be presented in the screen and be transmitted by internet of things (IoT) for history data comparison and multi-terminal viewing. Thus, further analysis provides the probability for diet or sports suggestion and alarm. We have measured BP from more than 60 subjects, compare to traditional mercury blood pressure meter, no obvious error in both systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) are detected. Such device can be used for continues non-invasion BP detection, and further data docking and health analysis could be achieved.     

含硫化合物热解规律的研究

选择丁硫醚、叔丁硫醚、四氢噻吩、乙基苯基硫醚作为模型化合物,在模拟 催化裂化微反装置上考察了含硫化合物热解规律,在热解过程中,烷基含硫化合物转化程度与硫醚烃基结构、反应条件有关。异构含硫化合物比正构含硫化合物容易转化,反应温度升高,转化程度增大,转化产物主要为硫化氢和硫醇,只有少量四氢噻吩发生转化,反应温度升高论程度增加,大部分乙基苯基硫醚发生转化,生成苯硫酚和少量硫化氢;反应温度升高,转化程度增加。含硫化合物热解可能是通过自由基历程进行的。     

Polymer‐supported palladium complexes with C,N‐ligands as efficient recoverable catalysts for the Heck reaction

A series of new polymer‐supported palladium complexes with C,N‐ligands (1a–e and 2a–c) were easily synthesized. The synthesized catalysts could be applied as efficient heterogeneous catalysts for the Heck coupling reaction (turnover frequency up to 12 600 h^?1). Additionally, the catalysts could be recovered by a simple filtration progress and could be reused for at least five times with a slow progressive decrease in activity. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Addition of N-carbobenzyloxy-L-tryptophan as a co-template molecule to molecularly imprinted polymer monoliths for (+)-nilvadipine

Molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) monoliths for (+)-nilvadipine have been prepared using 4-vinylpyridine as a functional monomer and toluene/1-dodecanol as a porogen without or with addition of N-carbobenzyloxy-L-tryptophan (Cbz-L-Trp) as a co-template molecule. The MIP monoliths prepared with (+)-nilvadipine as a sole template molecule had no macro through-pores, while those could be formed by addition of Cbz-L-Trp as the co-template molecule. Furthermore, on the former nilvadipine enantiomers could not be separated, but on the latter they could. The presence of Cbz-L-Trp affected the polymerization process and resulted in forming macro through-pores of the MIP monoliths for (+)-nilvadipine and attaining separation of nilvadipine enantiomers. These results suggest that co-addition of Cbz-L-Trp could be effective for preparing MIP monoliths for (+)-nilvadipine, whose preparation is difficult.     

烃类晶格氧选择氧化

用催化剂的晶格氧作为烃类选择氧化的氧化剂, 按还原-氧化(Redox) 模式,采用循环流化床提升管反应器, 将烃原料和空气分开进料, 在提升管反应器中烃分子与催化剂的晶格氧反应生成氧化产物, 失去晶格氧的催化剂被输送到再生器中用空气氧化到初始高价态, 然后送入提升管反应器完成还原-再氧化循环。这种新工艺是在没有气相氧分子的条件下进行反应, 可避免气相和减少表面的深度氧化反应, 大幅度提高烃类选择氧化的选择性, 而且因不受爆炸极限的限制可提高原料浓度, 使反应产物容易分离回收, 是控制深度氧化、节约资源和保护环境的有效催化新技术。本文试图对晶格氧选择氧化的研究现状, 面临的主要挑战和应用前景进行简要评述。     

HELP法在中草药分析中的应用研究-冬虫夏草的化学成分测定

基于直观推导式演进特征投影（ＨＥＬＰ）法,对冬虫夏草子座和虫体分别进行了多组分同时定性定量测定．结果表明,ＨＥＬＰ法能减少样本提取分离的步骤,降低色谱分离条件的要求,提高检测准确度．联用色谱检测与化学计量学解析法相结合将为复杂中草药分析提供一种全新手段     

含有Alq3和Znq2的可交联聚合物的合成与表征

合成了溶解性优良、带有可聚合链段的8-羟基喹啉金属螯合物(Alq3和Znq2)单体,在室温下通过紫外光照射,形成热力学性能稳定、8-羟基喹啉金属螯合物含量高(50(wt)%以上)的交联聚合物.这种材料可以解决使用旋涂的方法制备器件带来的底层溶解的问题,从而实现大面积、多层电致发光器件的制备,还可以通过光刻手段实现器件涂层图案化,是器件实现全彩色、超像素方法之一.其光致发光和电致发光性质证明这种材料本身以及其加工性能在有机/高分子平面显示技术领域有一定应用价值.     

Alumina-supported heteropoly acid: An effi cient catalyst for the synthesis of azaarene substituted 3-hydroxy-2-oxindole derivatives via C(sp3)H bond functionalization

A method of C(sp3)-H bond functionalization of methyl azaarenes catalyzed by alumina-supported heteropoly acid and addition to isatins was developed. This transformation could be used for the synthesis of biologically important 3-hydroxy-2-oxindole derivatives in good to excellent yields and the catalyst could be reused for six times without significant decrease in activity.