Neutron Scattering Techniques and Complementary Methods for Structural and Functional Studies of Biological Macromolecules and Large Macromolecular Complexes

Crystallography Reports - The review describes the application of small-angle scattering (SAS) of neutrons and complementary methods to study the structures of biomacromolecules. Here we cover SAS...     

Preparative method of obtaining L- and D-2-hydroxy-3-methylbutyric acids

Summary A preparative method was developed for obtaining L-and D-2-hydroxy-3-methylbutyric acids by the separation of racemic 2-hydroxy-3-methylbutyric acid with the aid of D-and L-threo-2-amino-1-p-nitrophenyl-1,3-propanediols.     

Sarkomycin and its analogs

Summary Racemic sarkomycin was synthesized. It was obtained in the form of its semicarbazone.     

Synthesis and properties of pyrimidinylalkylphosphonic acids

Conclusions Some esters of -(oxodihydro-N-pyrimidinyl)butyl- and -(oxodihydro-N-pyrimidinyi)pentylphosphonic acids, and also some diphenyl -(2,4-dioxo-6-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-N-pyrimidinyl)alkyl phosphates, were synthesized.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1397–1401, June, 1975.     

Viscoelastic Nanocomposites of Wormlike Micelles of Surfactant and Aluminosilicate Clay Nanoplates

Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute - Viscoelastic nanocomposites based on a matrix of semidilute aqueous solutions of entangled wormlike (polymer-like) micelles of a cationic surfactant and...     

A prototype of a high-voltage platform for the KRION ion source

A high-voltage platform that has been developed for the KRION ion source is described. The platform design concept is explained. The calculations that have been performed of the influence of the design and materials on the source magnetic field make it possible to define a range of materials suitable for manufacturing the platform. The major components of the high-voltage platform, such as a high-voltage power supplier, and decoupling insulators of the high-voltage power source, and the main and supplementary platforms, are chosen and described. It is determined that, to exclude electric breakdowns and corona discharges, one should use an electrically shielded channel with a cryocooler and power supplies for the KRION-source coupling cables.     

Orientational optical torque in a nematic liquid crystal,caused by trans- and cis-isomers of low- and high-molecular compounds

The effect of light on the conformational composition of low- and high-molecular (fifth-generation dendrimer) azobenzene dyes in a nematic host is studied. The orientational optical response of the nematic liquid crystal (NLC), caused by the presence of these compounds in the nematic host, is measured. The contributions of isomers to the orientational optical torque affecting the NLC director are determined. The results obtained suggest that the increase in the optical orientation efficiency in NLCs when using high-molecular dopants instead of low-molecular ones is unrelated to the difference in their conformational composition in the light field, but is caused by deceleration of orientational motion of chromophores.