Equilibrium and transport properties have been investigated of ephedrines, a class of sympathomimetic amines, through cryogel membranes of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA). The effect of the PVA (10 to 18 % (w/v)) on the release properties of (1S,2R)-(+)-ephedrine hydrochloride has been discussed on the basis of partition–diffusion and power-law models. The effect of PVA concentration on the swelling degree of PVA–ephedrine matrices have been measured, allowing the estimation of the volume fraction of polymer in the gel. Ephedrine release rate constants, computed by using a first-order kinetics approach, have been modeled by using free-volume and hydrodynamic-scaling models. Differences in the release properties of the ephedrine isomers, (1S,2R)-(+)- and (1R,2S)-(?)-ephedrine as their hydrochlorides, have also been studied at different temperatures. The release kinetic constants and the corresponding activation energies show a marked discrimination between the two ephedrine isomers. This suggests that PVA cryogel membranes possess high potential for enantiomeric differentiation. 相似文献
Abstract Structures of the thermotropic mesophases of lead(II) decanoate are reassigned following optical and X-ray diffraction studies. These results, and those of D.S.C., Raman and 207Pb N.M.R. spectroscopy, indicate formation of a lower temperature mesophase involving mainly increased lateral disorder, and a higher temperature Lα (smectic A) phase resulting from chain disordering and decreased lead-carboxylate interaction. Comparison of experimental thermodynamic data for the phase transitions with theoretical data in the literature indicates that the entropy change for the lower to higher mesophase transition is dominated by the increase in chain disorder. 相似文献
Fura-2 is widely used as a fluorescent probe to monitor dynamic changes in cytosolic free calcium in cells, where Ca2+ can enter through several types of voltage-operated or ligand-gated channels. However, Fura-2 is also sensitive to other
metal ions, such as zinc, which may be involved in ionic channels and receptors. There is interest, in particular, in studying
the synapses between mossy fibers and CA3 pyramidal cells which contain both calcium and high quantities of free or loosely
bound zinc. We have found, through fluorescence probing, that endogenous zinc inhibits mossy fiber calcium transients. However,
since these results might be explained by an effect of the zinc chelator N,N,N’,N’-tetrakis(2-pyridylmethyl)ethylenediamine
(TPEN) on the spectral properties of Fura-2, we have carried out a validation of the method through fluorescence excitation
spectra of the complex Fura-2/calcium, and show that TPEN does not affect these spectra. This supports the idea that the observed
calcium enhancement is related to a zinc inhibition of presynaptic calcium mechanisms, and confirms the use of the chelator
TPEN as a general procedure for the biophysical study of Ca(II) in the presence of Zn(II) using Fura-2. 相似文献
Amino-acyl-quinoxalinone yellow dyes are cyclised analogues of the yellow azomethine dyes developed for, and still used in, silver halide colour photography. Unlike image azomethine dyes, which are rapidly deactivated in their excited states by torsion about the azomethine bond, amino-acyl-quinoxalinone dyes have an interesting photophysics because torsion is not possible due to their cyclised structure. We report results from studies on singlet and triplet state properties, and singlet oxygen yields, of the yellow dye, 7-diethylamino-3-(2,2-dimethyl-propionyl)-5-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-quinoxalin-2-one, in polar and nonpolar solvents. The dye photophysics is characterised by a weak fluorescence, with a solvent dependent emission yield (ΦF?≈?0.002–0.004), and short singlet state lifetime (τexpt?≈?20–50 ps), both increasing by a factor of ≈2 in going from polar acetonitrile to non-polar dioxane as solvent. DFT ZINDO calculations show a transition involving significant electron transfer from the diethyl-amino group into the carbonyl region of the molecule. In solution, in the presence of oxygen, the triplet state decays almost exclusively by oxygen quenching, and singlet oxygen is produced in high yield (Φ??≈?0.5–0.55). The triplet state absorbs across the 450–750 nm region with maxima around 480 and 650 nm, and moderate molar absorption coefficients (ca. 6000–8000 M?1 cm?1). In a glass at 77 K, triplet decay gives a red phosphorescence, with λmax?≈?640–650 nm, and a ?≈?0.25 s lifetime. If singlet oxygen yields are a good indication of triplet yields, then internal conversion and intersystem crossing occur with roughly equal efficiency.
KNO scaling of the multiplicity distribution in hadronic final states was originally derived as a consequence of Feynman scaling. We show that in iterative models of hadron production in jets, incorporating Feynman scaling, KNO scaling obtains only in the limit when the width of the multiplicity distribution tends to zero. Within the context of the models currently employed to describee+e? annihilation into hadrons, the apparent KNO scaling observed is an accidental consequence of effects which violate Feynman scaling. 相似文献
The 183.038 nm resonance absorption transition of I(2P3/2) has been studied using a flash photolysis set-up for gas-phase chemistry and a radio frequency powered electrodeless discharge lamp filled with iodine. The dependence of self-absorption and self-reversal on iodine partial pressure in the discharge volume was measured. The optimum iodine partial pressure, with self-absorption minimized and acceptable intensity, is determined to be approximately 2.5×10−3 mbar. A method is described to estimate the temperature of the emitting atoms using direct measurements of relative absorption at different absorber concentrations. This yields an emission temperature of 923±50 K. Using this temperature, the oscillator strength for the I(2P3/2) transition at 183.038 nm is determined to be f=(3.87±0.57)×10−3, corresponding to an absorption cross-section at the center of the line of σ=(5.42±0.8)×10−14 cm2 atom−1. This shows a difference from one of two earlier measurements, but is close to the other. The remaining difference from the latter measurement is probably due to tendencies of opposite biases inherent to the experiments. 相似文献
In heavy quark jets the quark mass acts as a regulator of collinear singularities, making the quark momentum an infra-red safe variable in perturbative QCD. This allows a direct comparison of measured heavy hadron momentum spectra with perturbative calculations. We exploit the factorisation of heavy quark fragmentation to derive QCD predictions for momentum correlations between heavy hadrons produced ine+e? annihilations. We study the practical feasibility and model sensitivity of our approach using Monte Carlo simulations. Higher order perturbative corrections and contributions from non-perturbative effects are found to be at the level of 10%. 相似文献