Synthesis and characterization of organotin(IV) compounds with Schiff base of o-vanillin-2-thiophenoylhydrazone

Seven Schiff base adducts of organotin(IV), RSnLCl₂, which L is o-vanillin-2-thiophenoylhydrazone, and R is n-C₄H₉ (1), Me (2), Ph (3), and [R₂SnL], which L is o-vanillin-2-thiophenoylhydrazone, R is n-C₄H₉ (4), Me (5), Ph (6), PhCH₂ (7) have been synthesized. Those products were characterized by elemental analysis, IR, ¹H, ¹³C and ¹¹⁹Sn NMR spectra. The crystal and molecular structures of compounds 1, 4, and 6 have been determined by X-ray single crystal diffraction. In the crystal of compound 1 the tin atom is rendered six-coordinate in a distorted octahedral configuration by coordinating with the N atom of the Schiff base ligand, in compounds 4 and 6 the central tin atoms are five-coordinate in distorted trigonal-bipyramidal geometry and the comparison of the IR spectra reveal that disappearance of the bands assigned to carboxyl unambiguously conforms the ligand coordinate with the tin atom in enol form.     

Natural product diversification using a non-natural cofactor analogue of S-adenosyl-L-methionine

Adenosine analogues bearing either 5'-aziridine or 5'-N-mustard electrophiles are methyltransferase-dependent DNA alkylating agents. We present here a novel synthetic cofactor bearing a pendant 5'-amino acid N-mustard. Unlike previously studied synthetic cofactors, this material is very efficiently used by the natural product biosynthetic enzyme rebeccamycin methyltransferase (RebM) to generate a number of new rebeccamycin analogues. These data promote the notion that natural product methyltransferases can be used with non-natural cofactors to enhance the molecular diversity of natural product analogues for drug discovery. To our knowledge, this is the first documentation of a biological methyltransferase, other than DNA methyltransferases, that can exploit such synthetic cofactors.     

Hydrogen-bonding-mediated anthranilamide homoduplexes. Increasing stability through preorganization and iterative arrangement of a simple amide binding site

This paper describes the assembly of two new series of self-complementary duplexes by making use of amide units, the simplest assembling units of hydrogen bonding, as binding sites. All the new monomers possess a rigidified anthranilamide skeleton, which is stabilized by intramolecular hydrogen bonding. Amide units are iteratively introduced to one side of the preorganized skeletons to facilitate the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonding. Compounds 2 and 3 bear two and three CONH(2) units, respectively, while 4, 6, and 7 are incorporated with two, three, and four AcNH units, respectively. For comparison, compound 5, which is similar to 4 but contains one AcNH and one CF(3)CONH unit, is also prepared. X-ray diffraction analysis of 2, 4, and 5 revealed homodimeric motifs in the solid state which are stabilized by two or more intermolecular hydrogen bonds. (1)H NMR investigations in CDCl(3) indicated that all the compounds form hydrogen-bonded homoduplexes. Duplexes 3.3, 6.6, and 7.7 are highly stable in CDCl(3), with a lower K(assoc) limit of 2.3 x 10(5) M(-1). The K(assoc) values of the three duplexes in more polar CDCl(3)/CD(3)CN (9:1, v/v) were determined with the (1)H NMR dilution method. The result opens the way for the development of new polymeric duplexes of well-ordered structures.     

Electric field enhancement in guided-mode resonance filters

Electric fields inside guided-mode resonance filters (GMRFs) may be intensified by resonance effects. The electric field enhancement is investigated in two GMRFs: one is resonant at normal incidence, the other at oblique incidence. It is shown that the two GMRFs exhibit different behaviors in their electric enhancement. Differences between the electric field distributions of the two GMRFs arise because coupling between counterpropagating modes occurs in the first case. It is also shown that the order of the electric field of maximum amplitude can be controlled by modulation of the dielectric constant of the grating.     

Generation of minimally persistent circle formation for a multi-agent system

In this paper, two methods of generating minimally persistent circle formation are presented. The proposed methods adopt a leader-follower strategy and all followers are firstly motivated to move into the leader＇s interaction range. Based on the information about relative angle and relative distance, two numbering schemes are proposed to generate minimally persistent circle formation. Distributed control laws are also designed to maintain the desired relative distance between agents. The distinctive features of the proposed methods are as follows. First, only 2n - 3 unilateral communication links for n agents are needed during the circle formation process and thus the communication complexity can be reduced. In addition, the formation topology is kept fixed for the whole motion and achieves a self-stability property. Finally, each follower keeps a regualr interval with its neighbors and the formation converges to a uniform circle formation. Simulation results are also provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.     

The effect of pre-test deformation on dough rheology

We show that the strain involved in forming a dough specimen before testing will often radically alter the measured rheological properties in shear and in elongation if these pre-strains are greater than about 0.5 (Hencky strain). It is shown that this may be accounted for by changing the G(1) value used in the damage function model to a relevant value.     

Calculation of the photoelectron spectra under the scaling transform

By solving time-dependent Schrödinger equation, the dependence of photoelectron energy spectra on the binding energy of targets, wavelength and intensity of laser pulse is exhibited and a scaling law of kinetic energy spectra of both the direct and the rescattered photoelectrons is concluded. The scaling law provides a convenient tool to determine the equivalent photoionization process of various atoms or molecules in various laser fields. The verification of the scaling law by independent methods provides an incontestable support to the validity of the scaling law.     

一种新型交替迭代算法用于农药GC-MS信号快速分析

化学计量学算法为重叠GC-MS信号解析提供了有效手段. 免疫算法(IAs)可根据标准样品的信号(色谱或质谱)对重叠GC-MS信号进行解析并得到重叠信号中各组分的信息. 但是标样信号与实际测量信号之间的差别会造成解析结果出现偏差. 针对标样信号与测量信号不一致的问题, 作者提出了一种交替迭代算法用于重叠GC-MS测量信号的直接解析. 该方法在不提供标样信号的情况下可以解析出组分的质谱和色谱信息. 计算过程中, 采用随机产生的质谱作为初始输入, 利用最小二乘和IA算法交替计算质谱和色谱, 直到满足终止条件. 采用所建立的方法对40种组分的农药混合物进行了分析, 使用快速升温程序在10 min保留时间内得到了全部组分的色谱和质谱信息.     

负载阿霉素的丝蛋白纳米微球

丝蛋白具有良好的生物相容性, 生物可降解性以及无免疫原性. 利用丝蛋白独特的亲疏水多嵌段共聚物结构特征和构象转变机制, 通过乙醇诱导和冷冻相结合的自组装方法制备得到丝蛋白纳米微球后, 再在纳米微球表面包覆阿霉素, 成功获得了负载阿霉素的丝蛋白纳米载药微球. 该载药丝蛋白纳米微球的尺寸为350～400 nm, 具有圆球形态并且分散性能良好; 其载药率为4.6%, 包封率大于90%, 在磷酸缓释溶液中的释放可达7天以上. 此外, 研究发现其缓释行为具有pH响应性, 在pH=5.0的磷酸缓冲溶液中的缓释量明显大于在pH=7.4的缓冲液中. 体外细胞培养结果显示, 纯丝蛋白纳米微球基本没有细胞毒性; 而负载有阿霉素的丝蛋白纳米微球能明显抑制癌细胞(Hela细胞)的增殖, 且24 h和48 h的培养结果表现出与单纯药物相同的药效. 因此, 该负载阿霉素的丝蛋白纳米微球在临床癌症淋巴化疗方面具有潜在的应用价值.     

Rapid Evaluation of Individual Hydrogen Bonding Energies in Linear Water Chains

A model is proposed to rapidly evaluate the individual hydrogen bonding energies in linear water chains. We regarded the two O--H bonds of a water molecule as two dipoles. The magnitude of the O--H bond dipole mo- ment can be varied due to the other water molecules＇ presence. An analytic potential energy function, which explicitly contains the permanent dipole-dipole interactions, the polarization interactions, the van der Waals interactions and the covalent interactions, was therefore established. The individual hydrogen bonding energies in a series of linear water chains were evaluated via the analytic potential energy function and compared with those obtained from the CP-corrected MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ calculations. The results show that the analytic potential energy function not only can produce the individual hydrogen bonding energies as accurately as the CP-corrected MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ method, but is very efficient as well, demonstrating the model proposed is reasonable and useful. Based on the individual hy- drogen bonding energies obtained, the hydrogen bonding cooperativity in the linear water chains was explored and the natures of the hydrogen bonding in these water chains were discussed.