A flow-through cell for differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry

A flow-through voltammetric cell with a hanging mercury drop electrode has been developed to fit the static mercury drop electrode (PAR 303). The design has resulted in a linear increase of sensitivity with flow rate and an enhancement of sensitivity by the wall-jet effect. The cell is used in a flow injection system in which samples are introduced with a R??i?ka—Hansen injector. The mercury drop is held at plating potentials while the sample peak passes through the cell. Stripping is done under stopped flow conditions, to reduce noise, after the sample has been washed completely from the cell. The stripping thus takes place into the carrier electrolyte which always has a constant composition independent of sample constituents. Film-forming interfering species will, however, remain on the surface of the mercury drop. The effect of medium exchange on films produced by l-cysteine is reported. The flow-through medium exchange simplifies deaeration, speeds up analysis and reduces contamination.     

Time-resolved and steady-state fluorescence spectroscopic studies of the human lens with comparison to argpyrimidine,pentosidine and 3-OH-kynurenine

The intrinsic fluorescence from the human lens on excitation in the UV region, referred to as blue lens autofluorescence, increases with age or in the presence of diabetes. The present study reveals that the relative contribution of compounds responsible for the blue autofluorescence appears to be a constant with age. Three potential candidates for the blue fluorescence were also studied with respect to fluorescence spectroscopic properties. These were argpyrimidine and pentosidine, both advanced glycation end products, and 3-hydroxykynurenine (3-OH-kynurenine), a photooxidative derivative of tryptophan. It was shown that the spectral properties of argpyrimidine and pentosidine are compatible with the observed blue fluorescence of the human lens, whereas the fluorescence from 3-OH-kynurenine is negligible.     

Die Reaktion von Trithiazylchlorid mit Titantetrachlorid Die Kristallstruktur von (S4N5)2[Ti2Cl10]

Reaction of Trithiazyl Chloride with Titanium Tetrachloride. Crystal Structure of (S₄N₅)₂[Ti₂Cl₁₀] In the reaction of trithiazyl chloride with titanium tetrachloride, chlorine is abstracted and the brown-yellow adduct TiCl₄(N₂S₂) is obtained. In this compound — according to its i.r. spectrum — a N₂S₂ ring is bonded to the titanium via the N atoms, thus forming a polymer. As a by-product, brown crystalline (S₄N₅)₂[Ti₂Cl₁₀] forms. Its crystal structure was determined and refined with X-ray diffraction data (R = 0.042 for 812 reflexions). It crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2₁/c with two formula units per unit cell. The lattice constants are a = 670, b = 1 633, c = 1108 pm, β = 97.24°. The structure consists of S₄N₅^⊕ cations, which are nearly equal to those in [S₄N₅]Cl, and [Ti₂Cl₁₀]^2? anions, which are nearly identical with those in (PCl₄)₂[Ti₂Cl₁₀].     

Azines possessing strong push-pull donors/acceptors

Azines (R(2)C[double bond, length as m-dash]N-N[double bond, length as m-dash]CR(2)) are 2,3-diaza analogues of 1,3-butadiene. In this report we show that strong polarisation of the azine imparts structural features consistent with delocalization within the azine fragment; NLO properties for the azines are also reported.     

Atom transfer radical polymerization of 1-phenoxycarbonyl ethyl methacrylate monomer

Atom transfer radical polymerization conditions with copper(I) bromide/2,2^′-bipyridine (Cu/2,2^′-bpy) as the catalyst system were employed for the homopolymerization and random copolymerization of 1-phenoxycarbonyl ethyl methacrylate (PCMA) with methyl methacrylate (MMA). Temperature studies indicated that the polymerizations occurred smoothly in bulk at 110 °C. Poly(PCMA)(polydispersity index=1.27) homopolymer was characterized and then used as macroinitiator for increasing its molecular weight. The homopolymerization of PCMA was also carried out under free radical conditions using 2,2^′-azobisisobutyronitrile as an initiator.The monomer and polymers were characterized by FT-IR and ¹H and ¹³C-NMR techniques. The glass transition temperatures, the solubility parameters and average-molecular weights of the polymers were determined. Thermal stabilities of the polymers were given as compared with each other by using TGA curves. Thermal degradation products of poly(PCMA)s obtained by ATRP and free radical polymerization were compared with each other by using ¹H-NMR technique.     

13C CPMAS spectroscopy of deuterated proteins: CP dynamics, line shapes, and T1 relaxation

(13)C CPMAS NMR has been investigated in application to protein samples with a variety of deuteration patterns. Samples were prepared with protons in either all hydrogen positions, only in the exchangeable sites, or in the exchangeable sites plus select methyl groups. CP dynamics, T(1) relaxation times, and (13)C line widths have been compared. Using ubiquitin as a model system, reasonable (1)H-(13)C CP transfer is observed for the extensively deuterated samples. In the absence of deuterium decoupling, the (13)C line widths observed for the deuterated samples are identical to those observed for the perprotio samples with a MAS rate of 20 kHz. Extensive deuteration has little effect on the T(1) of the exchangeable protons. On the basis of these observations, it is clear that there are no substantive compromises accompanying the use of extensive deuteration in the design of (1)H, (15)N, or (13)C solid-state NMR methods.     

Nylon 6/polyisocyanurate interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs)

Two component interpenetrating networks (IPNs) of the SIN type (simultaneous interpenetrating networks), composed of a polyisocyanurate network and a star-shaped nylon 6, were made. The overall polymerization rates and physical properties for reaction injection molding (RIM) have been studied by the quasi-adiabatic process. In order to model the actual rapid molding conditions, time versus temperature reaction profiles were measured, and the relative rates of polymerization subsequently determined from these data.     

Assignments of carbon NMR resonances for microcrystalline ubiquitin

Solid-state NMR 2D spectroscopy was used to correlate carbon backbone and side-chain chemical shifts for uniformly (13)C,(15)N-enriched microcrystalline ubiquitin. High applied field strengths, 800 MHz for protons, moderate proton decoupling fields, 80-100 kHz, and high magic angle sample spinning frequencies, 20 kHz, were used to narrow the most of the carbon line widths to 0.5-0.8 ppm. Homonuclear magnetization transfer was effected by matching the proton RF field to the spinning frequency, the so-called dipolar-assisted rotational resonance (DARR) (Takegoshi, K.; Nakamura, S.; Terao, T. Chem. Phys. Lett. 2001, 344, 631-637), and a mixing time of 20 ms was used to maximize the intensity of one-bond transfers between carbon atoms. This polarization transfer sequence resulted in roughly 14% transfer efficiencies for directly bonded carbon pairs and 4% transfer efficiencies for carbons separated by a third carbon. With this simple procedure, the majority of the one-bond correlations was observed with moderate transfer efficiencies, and many two-bond correlations were also observed with weaker intensities. Spin systems could be identified for more than half of the amino acid side chains, and site-specific assignments were readily possible via comparison with 400 MHz (15)N-(13)C-(13)C correlation spectroscopy (described separately).     

4-bromo-5-methyl-(2H)-1,2,6-thiadiazin-3(6H)one 1,1-dioxides

The title compounds, bearing an alkyl and/or bromine substituent on nitrogen, were synthesized. Unlike 5-bromo-6-methyluracil, 4-bromo-5-methyl-(2H)-1,2,6-thiadiazin-3-(6H)one 1,1-dioxides have the ability to act as a bromonium ion source.