毛细管区带电泳测定D1蛋白酶的活性及其抑制剂先导化合物的筛选

建立了毛细管区带电泳技术快速测定D1蛋白酶活性及其抑制剂先导化合物的筛选方法。实验选用未涂层熔融石英毛细管(43 cm 5mm)和磷酸盐缓冲溶液(50 mmol/L, pH 3.0)作为分离介质,运行电压18 kV,测定了D1蛋白酶的活性并对部分抑制剂先导化合物进行了筛选。结果表明, ITP26和ITP21两种异噁唑噻唑哌啶类先导化合物对蛋白酶活性具有抑制作用,抑制率分别为26%和13%。     

An evaluation of thermodynamic models for the prediction of drug and drug-like molecule solubility in organic solvents

Prediction of solubility of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) in different solvents is one of the main issue for crystallization process design. Experimental determination is not always possible because of the small amount of product available in the early stages of a drug development. Thus, one interesting perspective is the use of thermodynamic models, which are usually employed for predicting the activity coefficients in case of Vapour-Liquid equilibria or Liquid-Liquid equilibria (VLE or LLE). The choice of the best thermodynamic model for Solid-Liquid equilibria (SLE) is not an easy task as most of them are not meant particularly for this. In this paper, several models are tested for the solubility prediction of five drugs or drug-like molecules: Ibuprofen, Acetaminophen, Benzoic acid, Salicylic acid and 4-aminobenzoic acid, and another molecule, anthracene, a rather simple molecule. The performance of predictive (UNIFAC, UNIFAC mod., COSMO-SAC) and semi-predictive (NRTL-SAC) models are compared and discussed according to the functional groups of the molecules and the selected solvents. Moreover, the model errors caused by solid state property uncertainties are taken into account. These errors are indeed not negligible when accurate quantitative predictions want to be performed. It was found that UNIFAC models give the best results and could be an useful method for rapid solubility estimations of an API in various solvents. This model achieves the order of magnitude of the experimental solubility and can predict in which solvents the drug will be very soluble, soluble or not soluble. In addition, predictions obtained with NRTL-SAC model are also in good agreement with the experiments, but in that case the relevance of the results is strongly dependent on the model parameters regressed from solubility data in single and mixed solvents. However, this is a very interesting model for quick estimations like UNIFAC models. Finally, COSMO-SAC needs more developments to increase its accuracy especially when hydrogen bonding is involved. In that case, the predicted solubility is always overestimated from two to three orders of magnitude. Considering the use of the most accurate equilibrium equation involving the ΔC_p term, no benefits were found for drug predictions as the models are still too inaccurate. However, in function of the molecules and their solid thermodynamic properties, the ΔC_p term can be neglected and will not have a great impact on the results.     

Effect of mono-, di- and tri-ethanolammonium tetrafluoroborate protonic ionic liquids on the volatility of water, ethanol, and methanol

Vapor pressure data were measured for nine binary systems containing water, ethanol, or methanol with one of three protonic ionic liquids (PILs), viz. mono-, di- and tri-ethanolammonium tetrafluoroborate ([HMEA][BF₄], [HDEA][BF₄], and [HTEA][BF₄]), at varying temperatures and PIL-contents using a quasi-static ebulliometer. The vapor pressure data were correlated by NRTL model with an overall average absolute relative deviation (AARD) of 0.0175. It is showed that the effect of PILs on the vapor pressure lowering of solvents follows the order of [HMEA][BF₄] > [HDEA][BF₄] > [HTEA][BF₄], and the vapor pressure lowering degree follows the order of water > methanol > ethanol. Besides, the activity coefficients of solvent for binary system {solvent + PIL} at fixed PIL mole fraction of 0.10 were calculated using the regressed NRTL parameters. The results indicate that three PILs can give rise to a negative deviation from the Raoult's law for water and methanol and a positive deviation for ethanol to a varying degree, leading to the variation of relative volatility of a solvent.     

汶川地震地质灾害后效应分析

汶川地震过去3a了。3a来,大量的国内外学者对地震灾区地震地质灾害的发育分布规律、形成机理及防治对策给予了高度关注,发表了大量的研究成果。人们在关注同震地质灾害的同时,更对地震灾区今后地质灾害的发生规律及演化趋势、持续时间倾注了极大的关心,因为震后连续3a,尤其是2010年,灾区地质灾害的频率和规模均出现较震前显著增大的现象。本文收集整理了震前和震后灾区地质灾害的数据资料,尤其研究了震后3a灾区重大地质灾害的特点和发生规律,在此基础上,分析了震后灾区地质灾害可能的持续时间、演化趋势以及高风险区的范围。分析和研究结果认为,震后汶川地震灾区的地质灾害将持续20~25a; 在这段时间内,地质灾害将以4~5a一个高峰为周期,呈震荡式的衰减下降,并最终恢复到震前的水平。震后地质灾害的高风险区将出现在耿达-映秀、小鱼洞、红白-茶坪、擂鼓-陈家坝和青川东河口-窝前这5个地段上。     

Modelling of electrolyte mixtures with application to chemical equilibria in mixtures—prototypes of blood''s plasma and calcification of soft tissues

Modelling of the biologic solutions has a great importance for basic physicochemical backgrounds of the living processes, mechanism of the diseases and drugs action, etc. The modelling of the chemical equilibria in solution that served as a prototype of the blood plasma with application to calcification of the tissues is performed. The concentrations of molecular–ionic forms containing calcium and hydrogen cations and phosphate anions in the range of ionized-calcium and total phosphorus concentrations from 0.5 to 3.0 mM and at the solution pH of 7.1–7.8 were calculated. The activities of the ionized species were described in approach to Debye–Hückel's theory. The full set of the equilibria taking into consideration dissociation of the water, phosphoric acid, formation of both inert and ionic calcium phosphates was considered. The states of calcium hydrophosphate dihydrate CaHPO₄·2H₂O (CHPD), calcium phosphate Ca₃(PO₄)₂ (CP), calcium hydrophosphate-phosphate dihydrate Ca₄H(PO₄)₃·2H₂O (CHPPD) and hydroxyapatite Ca₃OH(PO₄)₃ (HA) with respect to the boundary of the region in which they crystallise were determined. A criterion has been introduced to characterize the degree of salt supersaturation with respect to crystallisation, which is based on the concentration distance between the states of a salt in solution and at the boundary of its crystallisation. This criterion is used to provide a quantitative characteristic of the supersaturation of the phosphates and their tendency to crystallise in blood's plasma. It was established that the most soluble of the phosphates, CaHPO₄·2H₂O, is undersaturated and the other phosphates are supersaturated with respect to crystallisation. Thus, this phosphate does not take part in the calcification, and this is the source for ionized calcium in a blood plasma from the soft tissues. The role of the other phosphates in calcification of the soft tissues is decreased in the series HA>CP>CHPPD. The dependencies of the supersaturation of the solution on the pH and on the concentrations of calcium and phosphorus in a mixture are discussed.     

Activity coefficients at infinite dilution for surfactants

A new alternative is presented for activity coefficients at infinite dilution determination via surface tension data of low vapour pressure substances. It was found that experimental data for surfactants follows Volmer's surface equation of state behaviour over the diluted region until the critical micelle concentration. The key operations are: the choice of the same standard conditions for the bulk and the surface phases, the combination of Gibbs and Volmer equations and the use of the symmetric activity coefficients convention. An exact relation between the activity coefficient at infinite dilution and the reciprocal of the critical micelle mole fraction was found which allowed us the verification of the model.     

The form of the rate constant for elementary reactions at equilibrium from MD: framework and proposals for thermokinetics

The rates of formation and concentration distributions of a dimer reaction showing hysteresis behavior are examined in an ab initio chemical reaction designed as elementary and where the hysteresis structure precludes the formation of transition states (TS) with pre-equilibrium and internal sub-reactions. It was discovered that the the reactivity coefficients, defined as a measure of departure from the zero density rate constant for the forward and backward steps had a ratio that was equal to the activity coefficient ratio for the product and reactant species. This surprising result, never formally incorporated in elementary rate expressions over approximately one and a half centuries of quantitative chemical kinetics measurement and calculation is accepted axiomatically and leads to an outline of a theory for the form of the rate constant, in any one given substrate—here the vacuum state. A major deduction is that the long-standing definition of the rate constant for elementary reactions is not complete and is nonlinear, where previous works almost always implicitly refer to the zero density limit for strictly irreducible elementary reactions without any attending concatenation of side-reactions. This is shown directly from MD simulation, where for specially designed elementary reactions without any transition states, density dependence of reactants and products always feature, in contrast to current practice of writing rate equations. It is argued that the rate constant expression without reactant and product dependence is due to historical conventions used for strictly elementary reactions. From the above observations, a theory is developed with the aid of some proven elementary theorems in thermodynamics, and expressions under different state conditions are derived whereby a feasible experimental and computational method for determining the activity coefficients from the rate constants may be obtained under various approximations and conditions. Elementary relations for subspecies equilibria and its relation to the bulk activity coefficient are discussed. From one choice of reaction conditions, estimates of activity coefficients are given which are in at least semi-quantitative agreement with the data for non-reacting Lennard-Jones (LJ) particles for the atomic component. The theory developed is applied to ionic reactions where the standard Brönsted-Bjerrum rate equation and exceptions to this are rationalized.     

Thermodynamics of mixed electrolyte solutions. X. An isopiestic study of the quaternary system NaCl−KCl−MgCl2−H2O at 25°C

Activity coefficients in the aqueous quaternary system sodium chloridepotassium chloride-magnesium chloride were derived from isopiestic measurements at 25°C. The isopiestic data were treated by the various procedures of Scatchard, Friedman, and Reilly, Wood, and Robinson, and results obtained agreed fairly well with those obtained by pseudoternary transforms. Interaction parameters obtained indicated the preponderance of pairwise interactions. Excess Gibbs free energies of mixing were calculated.     

Variations of activity coefficients in concentrated electrolyte solutions at constant lonic strength

Measurements of different types on various (trace) electrolytes in HClO₄–Na(Li)ClO₄ solutions at several (constant) values of the ionic strength have been used to determine the variation of their activity coefficients with changing amount of perchloric acid in the solution. These variations (with respect to the hydrogen ion) differ considerably among different cations and anions. The results for the alkali metal ions and the anions are interpreted in the light of the recent work of Pitzer on short-range ionic interactions. The results for the cations with outerd-electrons and the alkaline earth metal ions are interpreted in terms of ion-solvent interactions. It is concluded that the use of HClO₄–NaClO₄ solutions of high ionic strength (rather than the use of HClO₄–LiClO₄ solutions) is advisable in studies where the variation in activity coefficients must be accounted for. Finally, it is shown that the usual interpretation of the influence of the salt medium in studies of complex equilibria and reaction kinetics is sometimes questionable.     

Ionic interactions in aqueous electrolyte-polyelectrolyte mixtures: Comparisons with mixtures of sodium chloride with the model electrolyte sodiumpara-ethylbenzenesulfonate at 25°C

Osmotic coefficients for aqueous mixtures of sodium chloride with sodiumpara-ethylbenzenesulfonate NapEBS and lithiumpara-ethylbenzenesulfonate LipEBS with NapEBS obtained by the gravimetric isopiestic vapor pressure comparison method are interpreted with the Scatchard neutral-component and with the Pitzer ion-component equations. Ionic and mean ionic activity coefficients for Na⁺ and Cl^– ions and for NaCl, respectively, were also determined with an electrochemical cell. The ±(NaCl) values at constant unit ionic strength,I=1.00, were compared with those computed from osmotic-coefficient measurements. Strong anion-anion interactions were observed in the NaCl-NapEBS mixtures.