Capillary Electrophoresis of the Active Ingredients of Dioscorea bulbifera L. and its Medicinal Preparations

A method based on capillary electrophoresis with electrochemical detection has been developed for the separation and determination of epicatechin, isovanillic acid, vanillic acid and myricetin in Dioscorea bulbifera L. and its medicinal preparations. The effects of working electrode potential, pH and concentration of running buffer, separation voltage and injection time were investigated. Under optimum conditions, the analytes could be separated in a 40 mmol L^?1 borate buffer (pH 8.7) within 15 min. A 300 μm diameter carbon disk electrode has a good response at + 0.95 V (vs. SCE) for all analytes. The response was linear over three orders of magnitude with detection limits (S/N = 3) ranging from 3.0 × 10^?8 g mL^?1 to 1.0 × 10^?7 g mL^?1. The method has been successfully applied to the analysis of real samples.     

Rapid determination of acetone in human blood by derivatization with pentafluorobenzyl hydroxylamine followed by headspace liquid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry

In the current work, a simple, rapid, accurate and inexpensive method was developed for the determination of acetone in human blood. The proposed method is based on derivatization with O-(2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorobenzyl)hydroxylamine hydrochloride (PFBHA), followed by headspace liquid-phase microextraction (HS-LPME) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). In the present method, acetone in blood samples was derivatized with PFBHA and acetone oxime formed in several seconds. The formed oxime was enriched by HS-LPME using the organic solvent film (OSF) formed in a microsyringe barrel as extraction interface. Finally, the enriched oxime was analyzed by GC/MS in electron ionization (EI) mode. HS-LPME parameters including solvent, syringe plunger withdrawal rate, sampling volume, and extraction cycle were optimized and the method reproducibility, linearity, recovery and detection limit were studied. The proposed method was applied to determination of acetone in diabetes blood and normal blood. It has been shown that derivatization with HS-LPME and GC/MS is an alternative method for determination of the diabetes biomarker, acetone, in blood samples.     

A mesoporous Pt/TiO2 nanoarchitecture with catalytic and photocatalytic functions

A novel metal/semiconductor nanocomposite with catalytic and photocatalytic functions has been prepared. The new material consists of highly dispersed platinum (Pt) nanoparticles embedded in a cubic mesoporous nanocrystalline anatase (meso-nc-TiO2) thin film. The porous thin film possesses a narrow pore-size distribution and a large surface area. The diameter of the Pt cluster can be controlled to below 5 nm, and the high dispersion of these clusters gives rise to catalytic activity for the oxidation of carbon monoxide, an important reaction for automobile exhaust treatment. This novel ordered mesoporous Pt/TiO2 nanoarchitecture is also a promising photochemical material, as demonstrated by the photo-driven killing of Micrococcus lylae cells on the film.     

有机-无机杂化凝胶法合成YAG∶Ce~(3+)荧光粉的包膜及其稳定性

本文以金属硝酸盐为原料,柠檬酸为配位剂的有机-无机杂化凝胶法来合成掺杂三价铈离子的钇铝石榴石荧光粉,采用X-射线衍射法研究了杂化凝胶在煅烧过程中的相转变机制。结果表明:杂化凝胶在煅烧过程中可以通过两条途径形成Y3Al5O12(YAG)相:一是由无定形Y2O3和Al2O3直接向YAG相的一步相转变;二是由无定型Y2O3和Al2O3经由YAlO3(YAP)和γ-Al2O3向YAG相的两阶段相转变,在900℃得到结晶性好的纯YAG∶Ce3 荧光粉,其最大激发波长为459nm,最大发射峰波长为550nm;在荧光粉表面包覆氧化铝和氧化镧,将使荧光粉的荧光强度稍有降低,但对荧光粉的稳定性有很好的改进作用。     

常见饮料中痕量铝的分光光度法研究

新试剂5-溴水杨基荧光酮可在pH5.5～6.8的六次甲基四胺缓冲溶液中,与铝,溴化十六烷基吡啶形成稳定的红色三元配合物。最大吸收波长约为568nm,摩尔吸光系数高达1.7×10~5L mol~(-1)·cm~1,常见金属离子很少干扰。据此,建立了测定微量铝的方法。其线性范围为0～6μg/25ml回收率在96％～103％之间。本文测定了常见饮茶,饮料及饮水中的微量铝。     

壳聚糖／聚丙烯酸聚电解质复合物膜对水／有机液体系的渗透汽化性能

以壳聚糖和聚丙烯酸为原料制备了聚电解质复合物膜，并对其分离水／乙醇体系的渗透汽化特性和浓度，温度，化学组成等因素的影响进行了研究，发现后处理方法对复合物膜的分离性能影响很大。同时对其它水／有机液体系，该膜也具备优异的分离性能。     

Thermal and mechanical properties of PE/organoclay nanocomposites

Polyethylene/montmorillonite clay nanocomposites were obtained via direct melt intercalation. The clay was organically modified with four different types of quaternary ammonium salts. The objective of this work is to study the use of montmorillonite clay in the production of nanocomposites by means on rheological, mechanical and crystallization properties of nanocomposites and to compare to the properties of the matrix and PE/unmodified clay nanocomposites. In general, the tensile test showed that the yield strength and modulus of the nanocomposites are close to the pure PE. Apparently, the mixture with Dodigen salt seems to be more stable than the pure PE and PE/unmodified clay.     

Density Functional Theory and Low-Temperature Matrix Investigations of CO-Loss Photochemistry from [(C<Subscript>5</Subscript>R<Subscript>5</Subscript>)Ru(CO)<Subscript>2</Subscript>]<Subscript>2</Subscript> (R = H,Me) Complexes

The photochemical CO-loss products of the diruthenium complexes [CpRu(CO) ₂]₂ (5; Cp = ⁵-C₅H₅), [Cp*Ru(CO)₂]₂ (5*; Cp* = ⁵-C₅(CH₃)₅) and CpCp*[Ru(CO)₂]₂ (5) have been studied experimentally in low-temperature (96 K) matrices in 3-methylpentane by using IR spectroscopy. It is proposed that all three complexes undergo single-CO-loss chemistry but that the products have different structures. The single-CO-loss product from 5 is proposed to have one bridging and two terminal carbonyl ligands, whereas 5* and 5 generate triply bridged CO-loss products similar to that observed from [CpFe(CO)₂]₂ and [Cp*Fe(CO)₂]₂. Double-CO-loss from 5* and 5* 9 is also apparently observed. Relativistic DFT calculations have been carried out on various isomers of the starting materials and on potential CO-loss products from 5. The calculations suggest that the triply bridged product Cp₂Ru₂(-CO)₃ (6) might have a singlet ground state in contrast to the corresponding diiron complex Cp₂Fe₂(-CO)₃ (3), which has a triplet ground state.     

Mechanism and control of molecular energy flow: a modeling perspective

 Vibrational energy flow in organic molecules occurs by a multiple-time-scale mechanism that can be modeled by a single exponential only in its initial stages. The mechanism is a consequence of the hierarchical structure of the vibrational Hamiltonian, which leads to diffusion of vibrational wavepackets on a manifold with far fewer than the 3N−6 dimensions of the full vibrational state space. The dynamics are controlled by a local density of states, which does not keep increasing with molecular size. In addition, the number of vibrational coordinates severely perturbed during chemical reaction is small, leading to preservation of the hierarchical structure at chemically interesting energies. This regularity opens up the possibility of controlling chemical reactions by controlling the vibrational energy flow. Computationally, laser control of intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution can be modeled by quantum-classical, or by purely quantum-mechanical models of the molecule and control field. Received: 26 July 2002 / Accepted: 30 September 2002 / Published online: 2 December 2002 Electronic Supplementary Material to this paper can be obtained by using the Springer Link server located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00214-002-0394-2. Acknowledgements. This work was supported by NSF grant CHE 9986670. Correspondence to: M. Gruebele e-mail: gruebele@scs.uiuc.edu     

Evaluation of molecular structure in Langmuir monolayers of zinc stearate and zinc 12-hydroxystearate by IR external reflection spectroscopy

 In situ polarized Fourier transform IR external reflection spectra of Langmuir monolayers of zinc stearate and zinc 12-hydroxystearate on a water surface were recorded for various surface areas, and their molecular structures were estimated. In the zinc stearate monolayer, the wavenumbers and the absorbances of the antisymmetric and symmetric methylene stretching bands did not change during monolayer compression, which means that orientational and conformational changes of the hydrocarbon chain did not occur. However, wavenumber changes of the antisymmetric and symmetric carboxylate stretching bands were observed during surface compression. The change in the binding nature of the zinc cation to the carboxylate group was speculated. Moreover, it was elucidated that the structure of the hydrocarbon chain in the zinc 12-hydroxystearate monolayer was different from that in the zinc stearate monolayer. Received: 21 March 2001 Accepted: 6 July 2001