Optical biosensor for pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, hormones, endocrine disrupting chemicals and pesticides in water: Assay optimization process for estrone as example

Certain contaminants at trace concentrations in surface waters can have dramatic effects on the hormonal system of organisms in the aquatic environment. Therefore, immunoanalytical methods at a very low limit of detection (LOD) and a low limit of quantification (LOQ) are becoming more and more important for environmental analysis and especially for monitoring drinking water quality. Environmental monitoring of antibiotics, hormones, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and pesticides in real water samples (e.g. surface, ground or drinking water) with difficult matrices places high demands on chemical analysis. Biosensors have suitable characteristics such as efficiency in allowing very fast, sensitive, and cost-effective detection. Here we describe an assay optimization process with a fully automated immunoassay for estrone which resulted in a LOD below 0.20 ng L⁻¹ and a LOQ below 1.40 ng L⁻¹. In contrast to common analytical methods such as GC-MS or HPLC-MS, the biosensor used requires no sample pre-treatment and pre-concentration. The very low validation parameters for estrone are the result of the continuous optimization of the immunoassay. The basis of our sensitive assay is the antibody with a high affinity constant towards estrone. During the optimization process, we reduced the amount of antibody per sample and improved the chip surface modification. Finally, this proceeding led to a calibration routine with an amount of antibody of only 3.0 ng per sample (sample volume: 1.0 mL). The reduction of the amount of antibody per sample results in better validation parameters (LOD, LOQ, and IC₅₀), but this reduction leads to the current device-related limitation of the River Analyser (RIANA).For some endocrine disrupting compounds, no effect levels (NOELs) in the lower nanogram per liter range are reported. This defines the challenge, which analytical methods have to compete with and our RIANA instrument with its improved sensitivity for the detection of a single hormone in the lower nanogram per liter range is a powerful tool in aquatic analytics in addition to the common analytical methods.     

磺酰脲类除草剂的三维药效团模型

磺酰脲类除草剂是七十年代末期[1，2]开发的一类超高效除草剂，杀草谱广，用量极低．它通过抑制植物体内乙酰乳酸合成酶（ALS，acetolactatesynthase）的活性[3]，破坏支链氨基酸缬氨酸、亮氨酸和异亮氨酸的合成，造成杂草的死亡．本文从三维角度出发，利用先进的三维分子设计软件APEX（ActivityPredictionExpertSystem）－3D[4]，建立破酸豚类除草剂药效团模型（biophoremodel），辅助设计、筛选活性化合物；再由药效团构造出模拟ALS酶活性位点（activesites）的空间结构，以该模拟结构为基点，以期设计出全新结构的ALS酶抑制剂的…     

氯化1-乙基-3-甲基烷基咪唑分子结构及其氢键作用能的密度泛函研究

采用量子化学密度范函方法计算研究了氯化1-乙基-3-甲基咪唑盐（[EMIM]C1）正负离子间相互作用的平衡构型和Cl^-离子从不同方位与咪唑阳离子的结合能．计算发现Cl^-可在咪唑环平面上结合形成离子键，其结合能为．368．97kJ／mol，还可与环上的三个H原子形成氢键，其氢键键长和结合能分别为0．2000nm／-378．03kJ／mol、0．2339nm／-344，69kJ／mol和0．2301nm／-346，01kJ／mol．结合能包括氢键作用能和正负离子的静电作用能，后者为主要贡献．从理论上展示了该离子液体的氢键结构．     

Computation of equilibrium oxidation and reduction potentials for reversible and dissociative electron-transfer reactions in solution

Equilibrium free-energy cycles relating oxidation and reduction potentials in solution to ionization potentials and electron affinities in the gas phase are constructed and the utilities of various levels of theory for computing particular free-energy changes within these cycles are discussed within the context of several examples. Emphasis is placed on the use of quantum-mechanical continuum solvation models to compute free energies of solvation. Key systems discussed include quinones, substituted anilines, substituted phenols, and reductive dechlorination reactions.Dedicated to Prof. Jean-Louis Rivail, whose pioneering efforts in developing and exploiting continuum solvent models were critical in making quantum chemistry more applicable to solution phenomenaProceedings of the 11th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry satellite meeting in honor of Jean-Louis Rivail     

Changes in peak width and concentration at the inlet and outlet of a chromatographic column

The original plate model of chromatography is extended to the sorption process occurring at the column inlet and the desorption process at the column exit. At the column inlet it is shown that sufficiently wide feed bands undergo no change in concentration but a fall in band width, i.e., the volume of mobile phase occupied by the solute band is reduced. The reduction factor is (1 + k) where k is the mass distribution ratio (capacity factor). Narrower bands suffer partial reduction in both band width and concentration. On desorption at the outlet, however, the change is always in band width and not concentration. A perfect detector registers the true concentration-time profile of the band in the column if the solute mass fraction in the stationary phase is below 10^?3 at the column outlet. The risks of stripping the stationary phase at high solute concentrations in analytical and preparative or production gas chromatography are compared.     

Concentration profiles and breakthrough curves in non-linear chromatography

The treatment of the non-linear isotherm in chromatography by one of the authors [1] is extended to other cases of practical interest. The original paper dealt with the case of an initially thin zone resulting in a Poisson distribution the asymmetry of which is a function of the plate number and the non-linearity constant. The present work shows that the same relations apply to initially thick zones and to the cases of washing and deposition leading to simple relations for breakthrough curves. For significantly non-linear isotherms other quasi-Gaussian distributions can give a better fit.     

SiO2·(CO)n(n=1～2)结构和属性的理论研究

用密度泛函理论详细地研究了SiO2·(CO)n(n=1～2)的结构和属性.研究表明,SiO2·CO是一个T形的具有C2v对称性的分子,SiO2·(CO)2具有C2对称性的分子;频率计算结果与实验值一致,CO在与SiO2成键过程中,C-O伸缩振动频率有所增加,说明静电势在复合过程中起了重要作用;基组重叠误差(BSSE)修正在计算相互作用能时不可忽视,相互作用能和解离能的计算以及NBO分析表明,SiO2·(CO)2中的SiO2与CO之间的作用相对SiO2·CO来说较弱;SiO2和CO2与CO的成键特点不同,主要是缘于SiO2与CO2的能隙不同.     

光敏聚合中含二苯酮基高聚物的引发作用

合成了多种不同分子量和不同二苯酮侧基含量的高分子敏化剂PVB,从紫外吸收光谱及发射光谱的测定结果表明,PVB基本保持小分子二苯酮(BP)的光化学特性。采用PVB与叔胺组成光敏引发体系引发MMA光聚合时,聚合速度(R_ο)与小分子相比增加二倍以上。而且R_p随PVB分子中二苯酮基含量的增加而增加,当PVB分子量提高时引发聚合能力加强,这和高分子敏化剂分子链中高效率的能量传递以及色基的密集分布特性有关。     

Improved quantification limits in chiral capillary electrochromatography by peak compression effects

The peak compression effect has been applied to improve quantification limits in chiral capillary electrochromatography (CEC). A stationary phase based on the chiral selector vancomycin (Chirobiotic V) was used for separations of the enantiomers of mianserin. By adding solvents with a low dielectric constant, e.g. 2-propanol or tetrahydrofuran, to the sample solution, peak compression could be induced. The plate numbers for the minor enantiomer increased from approximately 100,000 to 1.4-1.6 million plates/m, when the composition of the mobile phase was adjusted so that the analyte eluted within either one of two system zones originating from the sample solution. A 10-fold improvement in the quantification limit for the minor enantiomer was obtained compared to elution under non-focused conditions.     

Density Functional Theory Study on the Adsorption of Dioxygen on Small Pt-Pd Clusters

1 INTRODUCTION The bimetallic nanoclusters are of standing inte- rest since they can exhibit catalytic, electronic and optical properties distinct from those of corre- sponding pure nanoclusters[1～4]. Palladium and pla- tinum, well known for their catalytic properties, are often used as the catalyst in different fuel cells[5～8]. Several experimental results illustrate that for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), which is one of the primary reactions taking place in many fuel cells and…