The natural atomic orbital point charge model for PM3: Multipole moments and molecular electrostatic potentials

The natural atomic orbital/point (NAO-PC) model originally developed to calculate molecular electrostatic potentials (MEPs) and multiple moments based on the AM1 wave function has been extended to PM3. As for AM1, NAO-PC/PM3 reproduces dipole moments calculated by the standard PM3 method very well. There is also a surprisingly good correlation between experimental and calculated quadrupole moments. The MEPs calculated using PM3/NAO-PC are found to be in better agreement with those given by RHF/6-31G* than those obtained from the PM3 wave function using Coulson charges. On the other hand, the NAO-PC model is often slightly worse then the method implemented in MOPAC-ESP. The MEPs calculated using our model based on the PM3 wave function are often in better agreement with those given by RHF/6-31G* than those obtain with AM1. © 1994 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Testing the photocatalytic activity of cyanogen-and thiocyanogen-based inorganic polymers

The photocatalytic properties of some cyanogen-and thiocyanogen-based inorganic polymers, such as paracyanogens containing different metals (Hg, Ag, Cu), polythiocyanogens of different iodine contents, polycyanogen and poly (cyanogenthiocyanate), have been tested in two systems. Cu-containing paracyanogen and the iodine-poor polythiocyanogens catalyze the photoreduction of methylviologen under visible light, furthermore the Cu-containing paracyanogen catalyzes the photoreduction of water to hydrogen under UV irradiation.

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Studies on ABX6 Compounds. II. The BaThBr6 structure type

The compounds AThBr₆ (A: Ca, Sr, Ba) crystallize in an ordered substitution variant of the PuBr₃ type. Their syntheses and special features of the crystal structures are described.     

Observation of daunomycin and nogalamycin complexes with duplex DNA using electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry

The noncovalent binding of the antitumour drugs daunomycin and nogalamycin to duplex DNA has been studied using electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). The conditions for the preparation of drug/duplex DNA complexes and for their detection by ESI-MS have been optimised. Ions corresponding to these complexes were most abundant relative to free DNA when prepared in the pH range 8-9, and using gentle ESI interface conditions. Self-complementary oligonucleotides, 5'-d(GGCTAGCC)-3' or 5'-d(CGGCGCCG)-3', annealed in the presence of a 5-fold molar excess of either nogalamycin or daunomycin gave ESI mass spectra in which the most intense ions corresponded to three molecules of drug bound to duplex DNA, with some evidence for four drug molecules bound. For binding to 5'-d(TGAGCTAGCTCA)(2)-3', complexes containing up to four nogalamycin and six daunomycin molecules were observed. These data are consistent with the neighbour exclusion principle whereby intercalation occurs between every other base pair such that up to four bound drugs would be expected for the 8 mers and up to six for the 12 mer. Competition experiments involving a single drug in an equimolar mixture of two oligonucleotides (5'-d(TGAGCTAGCTCA)(2)-3' with either 5'-d(CGGCGCCG)(2)-3' or 5'-d(GGCTAGCC)(2)-3') showed ions arising from complexes of drug/5'-d(CGGCGCCG)(2)-3' were more intense than complexes of drug/5'-d(GGCTAGCC)(2)-3', relative to those from the 12 mer in each mixture. While this suggests ESI-MS has the potential to detect differences in sequence selectivity, more detailed experiments involving a comparison of the relative ionisation efficiency of different oligonucleotides and a wider range of intercalators are required to establish this definitively. ESI mass spectra from experiments in which both drugs were reacted with the same oligonucleotide were more complex, such that a clear preference for one drug could not be established.     

Implementation of a general multireference configuration interaction procedure with analytic gradients in a semiempirical context using the graphical unitary group approach

The graphical unitary group approach has been applied in an efficient implementation of a general multireference configuration interaction (MRCI) method for use with small active molecular orbital spaces in a semiempirical framework. Gradients can be computed analytically for molecular orbitals from a closed-shell or a half-electron open-shell Hartree-Fock calculation. CPU times for single point energy and gradient calculations are reported. The code allows MRCI geometry optimizations of large molecules, as illustrated for the singlet ground state and the four lowest triplet states of fullerene C(76).     

Mikrochemischer Nachweis von Europium in Gemischen seltener Erden

Zusammenfassung Zweiwertige Europiumsalze reduzieren Kakothelin zu einem violetten Farbstoff, analog wie die niederen Oxydationsstufen von Titan, Zinn, Vanadin, Niob, Molybdän, Wolfram, Uran und Rhenium. Man kann diese Reaktion zum spezifischen Nachweis von Europium in Gemischen seltener Erden benutzen. Die Erfassungsgrenze des Europiumnachweises beträgt 3/ccm, wenn man die Reduktion mit Zink und Salzsäure in Gegenwart von Kakothelin durchführt.

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Summary Bivalent europium salts, in analogy with the low oxidation steps of titanium, tin, vanadium, columbium, molybdene, tungsten, uranium, and rhenium, reduce cacotheline to a violet dyestuff. This reaction can be used for the specific detection of europium in mixtures of rare earths. The limit of identification of this test for europium is 3/ccm. if the reduction is carried out with the help of zinc and hydrochloric acid in the presence of cacotheline.

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Résumé Les sels d'europium bivalents réduisent la cacothéline à un principe colorant violet, de même que les premiers degrés d'oxydation du titane, de l'étain, du vanadium, du niobium, du molybdène, du tungstène, de l'urane et du rhénium. On peut employer cette réaction pour l'identification de l'europium dans un mélange de terres rares. On peut déceler 3 d'europium dans 1 ccm., si la réduction est produite par l'addition du zinc et de l'acide chlorhydrique, en présence de cacothéline.

     

Effect of metal ions forming bromide complexes on the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction

Metal ions forming stable complexes with bromide ions greatly influence both the amplitude and frequency of the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction. In case of thallium(I), redox reactions involving the metal ion should also be considered beside complex formation.

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