A heterocyclic peptide nanotube

An open-ended hollow tubular structure is designed based on hydrogen-bond-directed self-assembly of a chimeric cyclic peptide subunit comprised of alternating alpha- and epsilon-amino acids. The design features a novel 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazole epsilon-amino acid and its utility as a peptide backbone substitute. The N-Fmoc-protected epsilon-amino acid was synthesized in high yield and optical purity in three steps from readily available starting materials and was employed in solid-phase peptide synthesis to afford the desired cyclic peptide structure. The cyclic peptide self-assembly has been studied in solution by (1)H NMR and mass spectrometry and the resulting tubular ensemble characterized in the solid state by X-ray crystallography.     

Effects of solutions used for storage of size-exclusion columns on subsequent chromatography of peptides and proteins

The effects of storage of size-exclusion column packing materials in methanolic or azide-water solutions on subsequent separations were tested. Three commercially available columns were used in these studies; the Toyo-Soda Bio-Sil TSK 125, Bio-Sil TSK 250 and the DuPont Bio-Series GF-250. Upon initial chromatography, all three columns bound up to 760 micrograms of cytochrome c tryptic peptides. Sample binding to packing material is probably a function of the positively charged basic groups on peptides or proteins interacting with silanol groups. The larger the peptide, the less the opportunity for silanol-charged group interaction, hence, less binding. Initial samples introduced to a new column occupy the binding sites. Equilibration with neat methanol removes the bound protein revealing sites which bind sample. After absorption of peptides to binding sites on the packing material, storage in neat methanol regenerates the binding sites. Storage in 10% methanol diminished the binding phenomenon, but storage in azide-water reduced binding to a range below detection at the microgram level. Our recommendation to users of size-exclusion chromatographic columns is that one satisfy the absorption capacity of a new column by injecting a sufficient quantity of a basic peptide standard or other convenient sample to reduce available binding sites before using the column for important separations. Store columns in azide-water or 10% methanol to prevent the regeneration of exposed silanol groups.     

Calculation of enthalpies of hydrogenation of hydrocarbons

Sets of hydrogen molecule equivalents have been developed which permit the calculation of hydrogenation of different types of carbon-carbon bonds from ab initio total energies (3-21G and 6-31G* basis sets, and, to a more limited extent, for MP2/6-31G* data) of reactants and products. The calculated enthalpies of hydrogenation are in good agreement with experiment for unstrained molecules, with average errors on the order of 2 kcal/mol. The 6-31G* equivalents allow the enthalpies for strained molecules to be calculated accurately, but the 3-21G equivalents do not. The equivalents for both basis sets have been tested by calculating the enthalpies of hydrogenation of carbon-carbon bonds in nitrogen- and oxygen-containing organic molecules, free radicals, and classical carbocations. The results are in good agreement with experiment in most cases.     

Almost sure invariance principles when EX 1 2 =∞

Summary Let {Y _i} be iid with EY ₁=0, EY ₁ ² =1. Let {X_i} be iid normal mean zero, variance one random variables. According to Strassen's first almost sure invariance principle {X _i} and {Y _i} can be reconstructed on a new probability space without changing the distribution of each sequence such that a.s., thus improving on the trivial bound obtainable from the law of the iterated logarithm: a.s. In this work we establish analogous improvements for symmetric {Y _i} in the domain of normal attraction to a symmetric stable law with index 0<<2. (We make this assumption of symmetry in order to avoid messy details concerning centering constants.) Let {X _i} be iid symmetric stable random variables with index 0<<2. Then, for example, hypotheses are stated which imply for a given satisfying 2> that a.s., thus improving on the trivial bound: a.s., >0.This research was supported in part by a National Science Foundation grant, USA     

Synthesis and axial chirality of an enantiopure aminodibenzazepinone

A route for the synthesis of (S,S)-7-amino-5-methyl-5H-dibenzo[b,d]azepin-6(7H)-one hydrochloride is disclosed. The synthesis includes a Friedel–Crafts alkylation to form the seven-membered ring and a highly efficient classical resolution. Additional studies on the enantiopure material showed the amine to be highly resistant to racemization, which led us to investigate the unexpected stability. We propose that the inherent axial chirality contained in the dibenzazepinone works to produce an interesting chirality transfer mechanism, which accounts for the observed robustness of the stereocenter. This previously unrecognized stereochemical element exists within this specific class of molecules, and they should be drawn in a manner which displays the axial chirality.     

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A model for the deformations and thermodynamics of liquids involving a dislocation kinetics

A model for the deformation and thermodynamics of liquids is developed that depends on dislocation kinetics. The approach uses concepts from statistical mechanics to model a stochastic evolution equation for a scalar dislocation density function. The dislocation density is used in an idealized model for the discrete discontinuous deformation due to dislocation motion and dislocation creation kinetics. The total deformation functional for a liquid is modelled as a continuum deformation of an idealized lattice structure plus the discontinuous deformation due to dislocation kinetics. This results in a thermodynamic model that has an elastic response from the continuum lattice structure and a fluid response from the dislocation kinetics.In the thermodynamics, a generalized internal energy functional is assumed to exist and to have a dependence on the functions of entropy, continuum lattice strain, scalar dislocation density, velocity, and mass density. The continuum lattice strain is termed the recoverable strain and its conjugate variable is the thermodynamic stress. The conjugate variable to the scalar dislocation density is the thermodynamic chemical potential for a dislocation configuration, somewhat analogous to Gibbs' treatment of chemical potential for various mass species.This model implies that a liquid and a crystalline solid have analogous deformation and thermodynamic responses. Their differences appear in the dislocation densities and in the dislocation chemical potentials. To illustrate the deformation response analogy, some solutions are developed for simple laminar shear flows. Also, using some concepts primarily from Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf's melting model, a definition for a specific dislocation creation heat equivalent is given. This thermodynamic formalism suggests that the melting process can be modelled as the consequence of a continuous change in the dislocation density function.Work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-ENG-48.     

Surfactant addition and alternating current electrophoretic oscillation during size fractionation of nanoparticles in channels with two or three different height segments

An array of parallel planar nanochannels containing two or three segments with varying inner heights was fabricated and used for size fractionation of inorganic and biological nanoparticles. A liquid suspension of the particles was simply drawn through the nanochannels via capillary action. Using fluorescently labeled 30 nm polyacrylonitrile beads, different trapping behaviors were compared using nanochannels with 200-45 nm and 208-54-30 nm height segments. Addition of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) surfactant to the liquid suspension and application of an AC electric field were shown to aid in the prevention of channel clogging. After initial particle trapping at the segment interfaces, significant particle redistribution occurred when applying a sinusoidal 8V peak-to-peak oscillating voltage with a frequency of 150 Hz and DC offset of 4V. Using the 208-54-30 nm channels, 30 nm hepatitis B virus (HBV) capsids were divided into three fractions. When the AC electric field was applied to this trapped sample, all of the virus particles passed through the interfaces and accumulated at the channel ends.     

Azole chemistry. V. Synthesis and spectral properties of thiazolo[3,2-d] tetrazolium salts

Thiazolo[3,2-d] tetrazolium salts were obtained by treatment of 5-mercapto-1-phenyl-1,2,3,4-tetrazole with α-bromo ketones followed by cyclodehydration. The spectral properties of the salts and the β-keto sulfide precursors were investigated.