化学生物学新前沿——化学蛋白质组学

随着包括人类在内的主要模式生物的基因组计划的完成,生命科学的研究重心转向蛋白质组的研究--在对应基因组的整体蛋白质水平上系统研究调控细胞生命活动的蛋白质.化学蛋白质组学是化学生物学在后基因组时代的最新发展:化学蛋白质组学利用化学小分子为工具和手段,以基于靶蛋白质功能的新战略探测体内蛋白质组,是新一代的功能蛋白质组学.本文综述了化学蛋白质组学的最新进展、有关技术及其在生物医学和药物研发等方面的应用,并对化学蛋白质组学的发展趋势和前景进行了讨论.     

Temperature-dependent approach to chemical reactivity concepts in density functional theory

The chemical reactivity concepts of density functional theory are studied through a unified view in the temperature-dependent approach provided by the grand canonical ensemble. This procedure leads to a more general perspective that enriches our understanding of the behavior of the average energy and its derivatives with respect to the average number of electrons, provides alternative definitions for those quantities that are “ill defined” at zero temperature, and allows one to determine the relationships among reactivity concepts at any temperature. In particular, it has been found that at high temperatures the parabolic model for reactivity indicators may be justified through the electronic entropy term in the Helmholtz free energy, and that at nonzero temperatures there is an electronic heat capacity contribution to the average energy. In summary, the unified view of the temperature-dependent approach is an important complement to the zero-temperature formulation that clarifies fundamental issues therein.     

The current state of analytical control in Lithuania

In Lithuania research and development in chemical analysis are concentrated in scientific institutes and universities. The main fields of interest focus on biosensors, electrochemical sensors, sampling techniques and methods, study of atomization processes in spectrochemical analysis and noise evaluation in analytical measurements. Some laboratories also take part in international environmental monitoring programmes. There are about 50 researchers at the Ph.D. level engaged in analytical chemistry and several hundred technicians specialized in the field of analytical control. About one hundred chemical laboratories are active in scientific institutes, universities and factories. Specialized laboratories of chemical analysis are at the disposal of Environmental Control and Health Protection Departments and forensic investigation organizations. So far no laboratories are accredited according to the ISO 9000 norms. Special courses on analytical chemistry are offered at a few schools of higher education in the country. Only at the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the University of Vilnius specialized programmes are available to postgraduate students working towards a Ph.D. to improve their skills in current techniques of analytical chemistry. Recently the Technical Committee TC-16 for Chemical Analysis was formed within the standardization system of Lithuania. Its main activities are centered on issues such as national terminology, certified reference materials (CRMs), analytical methods and analytical quality assurance. There are numerous problems related to national terminology, the preparation of special documents in the field of analytical control and the production of regional environmental CRMs. Problems, also arise in obtaining and using CRMs for analytical instrument calibration and validation.     

中学化学教学中的追求简便

以化学用语、化学计算的发展为例,论述了追求简便是化学学科发展的重要推动力。如果教师给予正确的引导,合理追求简便将成为学生创新的不竭动力。以化学教学中2个简化不当的例子说明,过度追求简便会束缚学生的思维,阻碍教学研究的发展与兴盛。     

美国AP课程中化学概念的引导式探究教学*——以“化学方程式”为例

在美国《AP化学课堂中的引导式探究活动》中,明确了概念性知识采用探究式教学方式的必要性,并根据学习圈理论依次划分出概念探究、概念形成、概念应用及概念评估4个连续的教学活动阶段,使学生能够全程参与到科学概念的形成过程中。以“化学方程式”教学内容为例,介绍了相关教学理论及在此基础上形成的探究式教学闭环,以期对国内中学有关化学概念的探究式教学改革起到一定的借鉴与参考作用。     

Statistics of the Popularity of Chemical Compounds in Relation to the Non-Target Analysis

The idea of popularity/abundance of chemical compounds is widely used in non-target chemical analysis involving environmental studies. To have a clear quantitative basis for this idea, frequency distributions of chemical compounds over indicators of their popularity/abundance are obtained and discussed. Popularity indicators are the number of information sources, the number of chemical vendors, counts of data records, and other variables assessed from two large databases, namely ChemSpider and PubChem. Distributions are approximated by power functions, special cases of Zipf distributions, which are characteristic of the results of human/social activity. Relatively small group of the most popular compounds has been denoted, conventionally accounting for a few percent (several million) of compounds. These compounds are most often explored in scientific research and are practically used. Accordingly, popular compounds have been taken into account as first analyte candidates for identification in non-target analysis.     

中学化学实验教学发展历程回顾及启示(中)

按照时间脉络将我国中学化学实验教学划分为4个主要阶段。第3个阶段是“拨乱反正”、快速发展期,伴随着“文革”结束和中国共产党十一届三中全会的召开,我国的教育事业迎来了发展的新时代。在这一历史时期,中学化学实验教学围绕国家的中心工作,育人功能不断拓展,教学质量不断提升,在教学实践中产生了一些新的教学理念和教学方法,教师素质不断提高,实验教学理论也得到了发展。     

Mass Variables and Chemical Potentials in the Gibbs and De Donder Formulations of Chemical Equilibrium

The classical thermodynamic treatment of chemical equilibria in closed systems is founded on theoretical formulations by J.W. Gibbs and Th. De Donder. These two theories represent mathematically equivalent energy variation problems, related to each other through a mass variable transformation analogous to coordinate transformations in mechanics. Associated with the change in mass variables, chemical potentials of reactive substances are defined differently in the two theories, and are subject to different sets of constraints. Traditionally, the two sets of constraints have been merged into one, by assuming that the chemical potential represents the same variable in both theories, an assumption that is formally inconsistent with the difference in chemical potential definitions. Merging of constraints is still possible if chemical potentials remain invariant in value as a manifestation of symmetry under a Gibbs – De Donder mass transformation, but such symmetry has not been investigated. Here we demonstrate chemical potential invariance by reformulating De Donder’s theory using Lagrange multipliers, and combining the resulting constraints on chemical potentials with the classical Gibbs constraints, in a phase equilibration thought experiment. A new form of the Gibbs–Duhem (GD) relation is derived in the De Donder mass system. Comparing this relation to the classical GD equation in Gibbs’ component framework, subject to chemical potential invariance, directly yields the linear operator mapping the De Donder mass variables onto the set of Gibbs component masses. Results are illustrated for a simple ion exchange reaction, in the process solving the longstanding problem of determining solid exchanger activities in ion exchanging mixtures. It is pointed out that, even though the Gibbs and De Donder formulations are mathematically equivalent, the formal structure of De Donder’s theory allows a more explicit and systematic treatment of constraints, and also defines chemical masses in a form more naturally adapted to typical experimental measurements.     

中学化学教学中的科学思维与逻辑辨析

化学是一门具有创造性的基础科学,是环境、生命、医药、材料等科学的基础,在思维逻辑上彰显和蕴含了丰富的科学思维方法。系统总结化学科学思维方法,可以有效破解中学化学学习中的“繁,难,乱”。在多年的教学实践中,提出了化学科学多向思维方法体系,强调多层次思维过程中对多因素的立体逻辑思维辨析。重点介绍了与中学化学教学相关的零阶、初阶、中阶和高阶逻辑思维辨析的内涵,期望化学教学中重视化学思维逻辑过程,实现化学教与学在思维模式上的深层次发展与提升。     

Selenium and Selenocysteine in Protein Chemistry

Selenocysteine, the selenium‐containing analogue of cysteine, is the twenty‐first proteinogenic amino acid. Since its discovery almost fifty years ago, it has been exploited in unnatural systems even more often than in natural systems. Selenocysteine chemistry has attracted the attention of many chemists in the field of chemical biology owing to its high reactivity and resulting potential for various applications such as chemical modification, chemical protein (semi)synthesis, and protein folding, to name a few. In this Minireview, we will focus on the chemistry of selenium and selenocysteine and their utility in protein chemistry.     

无机化学中的一题多解

无机化学计算中采取一题多解可开拓学生的思维,加深对化学基本原理的理解和掌握,有利于巩固和提高所学知识,并加以灵活运用,做到触类旁通。文章以无机化学教学中化学平衡、电极电势2类问题的计算给予说明。     

化学计量在产品质量保证中的重要作用

阐述在化学分析中,由于增强了化学计量意识,满意地解决了粘胶基碳布质量问题,显示出化学计量在产品质量保证中的重要作用。     

不同产地中药赤芍在振荡体系中的化学指纹图谱研究

采用H2 SO4 - CH2 (COOH)2 - Ce2( SO4)3- KBrO3化学振荡体系,研究了中药赤芍的化学指纹图谱,并对温度、赤芍用量进行了考察,确定体系的最佳实验条件为12 mL 3.0 mol/L H2SO4溶液、6 mL 0.4 mol/LCH2( COOH)2溶液、3 mL 0.005 mol/L ...     

简析化学文化与化学教育

从文化的角度看待化学,分析了化学文化的内涵,阐明了化学文化的教育功能,并根据化学文化的研究,论述了化学文化观下的化学教育,以及在化学教育中体现化学文化的途径。     

Electronic structure and chemical bond in carbides crystallizing in the Fe-W-C system

The electronic energy structure of MC, M₆C, and M₁₂C carbide systems and iron martensite in the absence of spin polarization was studied by the local coherent potential method using the cluster version of the MT approximation in terms of multiple scattering theory. The local partial density of the electronic states of atoms in crystals was calculated and their electronic structures were compared. The peculiarities of chemical bonding in crystals are discussed.     

Concentration Fluctuations and Chemical Complexes in the Zn-Au Liquid Alloy

Abstract

The concentration-concentration fluctuations in the long wavelength limit S _cc(0) and the Warren-Cowley short range order parameters (SRO) α₁ have been calculated for the Zn-Au liquid alloy at 1173 K by applying the Quasi Chemical Approximation (QCA). The results of the calculations show that Zn-Au liquid alloy manifest hetero-coordination throughout its whole concentration range. There exist evidence for the presence of two complexes Zn₄AU₃ and Zn₄Au₆. The Zn₄Au₃ complex which manifests dominance in the thermodynamic properties of the liquid alloy yielded a minimum short range order value of about α^min ₁ ≈ ?0.26 while Zn₄Au₆ has its minimum as α^min ₁ ≈ ?0.34. Studies from the S _cc(0) indicate that these complexes are weak and hence cannot encourage glass formation in the liquid alloy.     

富勒烯的化学研究进展

本文评述了富勒烯化学研究的新进展, 从[ 60 ]、[ 70 ]富勒烯的化学修饰、富勒烯金属包合物、掺杂富勒烯、碳纳米管以及富勒烯的化学合成等几个方面着重介绍了国际上富勒烯研究的热点, 对进一步研究的方向进行了讨论。     

Ab initio study of molecular structures and excited states in anthocyanidins

The structural and electronic characters of four types of hydroxyl group-substituted anthocyanidins (pelargonidin, cyanidin, delphinidin, and aurantinidin) were examined using quantum chemical calculations. For these cationic molecules, both the planar and non-planar structures in the electronic ground state were determined at the B3LYP/D95 level of theory. We revealed that the planar structure is slightly more stable than the non-planar structure for each molecule. For the optimized planar structures, single excitation-configuration interaction (SE-CI) based on the restricted Hartree-Fock (RHF) wave function was evaluated and the electronic character in the low-excited states was discussed in terms of the MO theory. Symmetry adapted cluster (SAC)/SAC-CI calculations were also carried out to estimate the excitation energies precisely. The results showed that hydroxylation of the phenyl group causes a change in the excitation energies without taking the solvent effects into account. The results are in agreement with spectral experiments and previous MO calculations.     

Recent Development in Ligation Methods for Glycopeptide and Glycoprotein Synthesis

Glycoproteins are produced by the post‐translational modification process of proteins and they play an important role in mediating various biological processes. Our understanding towards biochemical functions of individual glycoproteins has been seriously hampered due to the heterogeneous expression of carbohydrate parts in glycoproteins. Despite the advancement in recombinant expression and chromatographic techniques, the isolation of pure glycoforms remains nearly impossible. To obtain homogenous glycoproteins, tremendous efforts hves been spent in developing various ligation and glycosylation techniques. This minireview discusses selected methods for the preparation and ligation of glycopeptides. The importance of the development of new chemical synthesis method for glycoproteins has also been discussed, which would be one of the next directions in this field.