Hydration-induced far-infrared absorption increase in myoglobin

The interaction of proteins with an aqueous environment leads to a thin region of "biological water", the molecules of which have properties that differ from those of bulk water, in particular, reduced absorption of far-infrared radiation caused by protein-induced hindrance of the water rotational and vibrational degrees of freedom. New results at terahertz (THz) frequencies, however, show that absorption per protein molecule is increased by the presence of biological water. Absorption measurements were made of the heme protein myoglobin mixed with water from 3.6 to 98 wt % in the frequency range of 0.1-1.2 THz, using THz time-domain spectroscopy. Analysis shows greater THz absorption when compared to a non-interacting protein-water model. Including the suppressed absorption of biological water leads to a substantial hydration-dependent increase in absorption per protein molecule over a wide range of concentration and frequencies, meaning that water increases the protein's polarizability.     

Potentiometric Study of the Effect of Sodium Dodecylsulfate and Dioxane on the Hydrolysis of the Aluminum(III) Ion

Hydrolytic equilibria of the aluminum(III) ion were studied in the presence of a surfactant, sodium n-dodecylsulfate (SDS) and, separately, in mixed water + dioxane and water + dioxane + surfactant media at 298.15 K, by using potentiometric measurements with a glass electrode. The concentration of SDS was between 1.25 and 25.0 mmol-dm⁻³, whereas the volume percent of dioxane was varied from 10 to 50. The supporting strong electrolyte was 0.1 mol-dm⁻³ LiCl. A general least-squares treatment of the data indicates the formation of mononuclear hydrolytic complexes of the form Al(OH)_m^{3 − m} (m = 1–3) at all studied compositions. At lower concentrations of SDS (≤ 12.5 mmol-dm⁻³) it was necessary to include polynuclear hydrolytic complexes in the hydrolytic model. On increasing the concentration of SDS, the formation of polynuclear complexes is suppressed, and at the SDS concentration of 25.0 mmol-dm⁻³, only Al(OH)²⁺ and Al(OH)₂⁺ are observed in solution. At lower volume percentages of dioxane, the speciation involved polynuclear complexes in addition to mononuclear complexes. At dioxane concentrations higher than 20 vol% only mononuclear complexes are formed. The simultaneous presence of the SDS and dioxane as ionic medium modifiers produces only the mononuclear complexes Al(OH)²⁺ and Al(OH)₂⁺, which have significantly higher stability constants than in the pure ionic medium.     

Solvent effect on the aggregation behavior of rod-coil diblock copolymers

The water-induced aggregation behavior of rod-coil diblock copolymers based on poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and poly{(+)-2,5-bis[4'-((S)-2-methylbutoxy)phenyl]styrene} (PMBPS), PEO104-b-PMBPS53, was investigated in the common solvent THF and in the selective solvent dioxane. Before adding water, PEO104-b-PMBPS53 stayed as single polymer chains no matter what conformation the PEO block took (i.e., either the random coil conformation in THF or the compact globule conformation in dioxane). The critical water content ( approximately 6 wt %) at which PEO104-b-PMBPS53 began to aggregate was also similar in both solvents, indicating that PMBPS dominated the aggregation process. However, the size, the size distribution, and the morphology of aggregates in THF/water were quite different from those in dioxane/water. Narrowly distributed spheres with Rh approximately 20 nm were observed in dioxane, whereas in THF, a bimodal distribution peaked at 3 and approximately 300 nm, was observed. The results from 2D wide-angle X-ray diffraction and polarized optical microscopy demonstrated that the PMBPS blocks packed in a parallel pattern upon aggregation in dioxane/water. The anisotropic disclike structures observed in THF/water also indicated the orientation of the PMBPS blocks upon forming aggregates in dilute solution.     

The influence of dioxane on the hydration of bovine pancreatic α-chymotrypsin according to isothermal calorimetry and IR spectroscopy data

The influence of dioxane on the thermochemical characteristics of the hydration of bovine pancreatic α-chymotrypsin enzyme over the whole range of water thermodynamic activities was studied by comparing the isothermal calorimetry data on the thermochemistry of interaction between the enzyme and water in the presence and absence of dioxane and using the IR spectral data on the adsorption of water and organic solvent vapors on the protein.     

Acylation of Aromatic Amines with Carboxymethyl Dextran in the Presence of Small Amounts of Water

Acylation of aromatic amines with carboxymethyl dextran and its ethyl ester in dioxane, ethanol, 1-propanol, and 2-propanol in the presence of small amounts of water was studied.     

Effect of dioxane on the hydration of human serum albumin as studied by isothermal calorimetry and IR spectroscopy

A comparison of isothermal calorimetry data on the interaction of human serum albumin with water in the presence and absence of dioxane and of the isotherms of adsorption of vapors of water and dioxane on HSA as measured by IR spectroscopy made it possible to suggest an experimental method for isolating the contribution from the organic solvent to the thermodynamic and sorption characteristics of hydration of the protein over the entire range of water activities.     

Thermochemistry of nonaqueous solutions of electrolytes: II. Heat of solution of sodium iodide in water-dioxane

The heats of solution of sodium iodide in water and water-dioxane (45. 95, 52. 55, and 68. 15% by wt dioxane at 25° (also for 2° for the first of these mixtures) are reported. The process becomes more exothermic as the dioxane content increases; a qualitative interpretation. The temperature coefficient of the integral heat is zero at 2–25°C for 45. 95 % by wt dioxane. The initial heats of solution of NaI at 25° in water and the mixtures are –1. 81, –4. 99, –5. 39, –6. 63 kcal/mole and bear a linear relation to the composition and dielectric constant of the solvent.     

Monte Carlo structure simulations for aqueous 1,4-dioxane solutions

Monte Carlo simulations in the NpT ensembles have been performed for the structure exploration of aqueous 1,4-dioxane solutions. Three different systems with all-atom dioxane:TIP4P water molar compositions of 2:500 (code:D2), 8:465 (D8), and 17:425 (D17) modeled solutions of 0.22, 0.88, and 1.86 mol/dm3 concentrations, respectively, at T = 298 K and p = 1 atm. The calculated solution densities increase from 0.992 to 1.002 g/cm3 with increasing dioxane concentration and approach the experimentally determined densities within 1%. This close agreement was achieved by utilizing RESP charges fitted to the in-solution IEF-PCM/B3LYP/6-31G* electrostatic potential of dioxane taken in its chair conformation and recently developed C, H steric parameters for ethers for calculations with a 12-6-1 all-atom potential. Solution structure analyses pointed out that the dioxane molecules arrange in the solutions with favorable distances of 4-8 angstroms for the ring symmetry centers. Within this range not only pairs of rings but triangular triads and tetrads have also been observed with center-center distances <8 angstroms. For the D8 system, about 25% of the sampled configurations included such a triad. In the case of the D17 model, two simulations starting from different solution configuration predicted different degrees for the dioxane aggregation in aqueous solution. In the more aggregated structure 3-21 triads are consistently maintained and 1-2 tetrads are formed in 58% of the configurations. Each dioxane oxygen forms about one hydrogen bond, on average, to a water molecule in the 0.22-1.86 molar range. The most likely O(dioxane)...H(water) hydrogen bond distance is 1.75-1.80 angstroms compared to the optimal distance of 1.72 angstroms in the isolated dimer. The optimal dioxane-water interaction energy of -5.65 kcal/mol indicates a remarkable hydrogen-bond acceptor character for dioxane.     

Bipyridyl-based diphosphine as an efficient ligand in the rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric conjugate addition of arylboronic acids to α,β-unsaturated ketones

Reactions of α,β-unsaturated ketones with excess arylboronic acids in the presence of a rhodium catalyst generated in situ from Rh(acac)(C₂H₄) and (S)-P-Phos in dioxane/water at 100°C gave high yields of the corresponding products in up to 99% ee.     

Enthalpies of transfer of sodium and potassium chlorides from water to aqueous 1,4-dioxane mixtures at 25°C

The enthalpies of transfer of potassium and sodium chlorides from water to aqueous 1,4-dioxane mixtures (up to 17 and 54 mol percent dioxane, respectively) have been measured and corrected for ion pairing. The data for the two electrolytes are remarkably similar up to 17 mol percent dioxane and decrease monotonically with increasing dioxane concentration except for a plateau at around twenty mole percent dioxane.     

2-Aryl and 2-heteroaryl indoles from 1-alkynes and o-iodotrifluoroacetanilide through a domino copper-catalyzed coupling-cyclization process

[reaction: see text] A general method for the synthesis of 2-aryl and 2-heteroaryl indoles from aryl iodides and 1-alkynes through a domino copper-catalyzed process is reported. The best results have been obtained with [Cu(phen)(PPh(3))(2)]NO(3) in the presence of K(3)PO(4) in toluene or dioxane at 110 degrees C. 2-Aryl and 2-heteroaryl indoles can also be isolated in good yields by using catalysts derived from CuI and PPh(3) in dioxane at 110 degrees C.     

渗透汽化法分离二氧六环－水混合物

研究了二氧六环一水混合物在ＰＶＡ（聚乙烯酸）－ＰＡＮ（聚丙烯腈）复合膜中的渗透汽化分离性能。结果表明透过速率Ｑ和分离系数α均随料液温度的提高而增大。α随料液中二氧六环浓度的提高而增大，Ｑ的变化趋势相反．有代表性的数据是在９０℃对９５％的二氧六环水溶液，α可达１９８１，Ｑ＝７３．８ｇ／ｍ２·ｈ．在低浓度二氧六环溶液时扩散过程对选择性起主要作用。而高浓度时溶解选择性是主要的，随着分离温度的提高，扩散或溶解均提高了选择性。     

The reduced Redlich–Kister excess molar Gibbs energy of activation of viscous flow and derived properties in 1,4-dioxane + water binary mixtures from 293.15 to 309.15 K

The excess molar volume, viscosity deviation and excess Gibbs free energy of activation of viscous flow have been investigated from the density and shear viscosity measurements of water–dioxane mixtures over the entire range of mole fractions from 293.15 to 309.15?K. The results were fitted by the Redlich–Kister equation. Partial molar volume and Gibbs energy at infinite dilution were deduced from four methods, activation parameters and partial molar Gibbs energy of activation of viscous flow against compositions were investigated. The water–dioxane interactions have principally an H-bound character and there are two principal types’ structures limited by 0.08?mole fraction in dioxane. The reduced Redlich–Kister excess properties provide an indication of the intermolecular interactions and for dioxane–water cluster formation as suggested in the literature.     

Molecular analysis of water clusters: Calculation of the cluster structures and vibrational spectrum using density functional theory

Density functional theory (DFT) is applied to obtain absorption spectra at THz frequencies for molecular clusters of H₂O. The vibrational modes of the clusters are calculated. Coupling among molecular vibrational modes explains their spectral features associated with THz excitation. THz excitation is associated with vibrational frequencies which are here calculated within the DFT approximation of electronic states. This is done for both isolated molecules and collections of molecules in a cluster. The principal result of the paper is that a crystal-like cluster of 38 water molecules together with a continuum solvent background is sufficient to replicate well the experimental vibrational frequencies.     

A copper(II)-catalyzed protocol for modified Friedländer quinoline synthesis

2-Aminobenzyl alcohol reacts with an array of ketones in dioxane at 100 °C in the presence of a catalytic amount of CuCl₂ along with KOH under O₂ atmosphere to afford the corresponding quinolines in good yields. 2-Aminobenzyl alcohol is also oxidatively coupled and cyclized with various aldehydes by step-by-step procedure, an initial treatment of 2-aminobenzyl alcohol in the presence of CuCl₂ and KOH in dioxane under O₂ atmosphere and subsequent addition of aldehyde to the mixture followed by stirring under argon atmosphere, to give 3-substituted quinolines in moderate to good yields.     

Chain elongation of aldoses by indium-mediated coupling with 3-bromopropenyl esters

[Chemical reaction: see text] A procedure is described for acyloxyallylation of unprotected aldoses with two functionalized reagents: 3-bromopropenyl acetate and 3-bromopropenyl benzoate. The reaction is performed in ethanol or a dioxane/water mixture in the presence of indium metal. The products are deesterified in the workup to afford unsaturated polyols, which are isolated as mixtures of two diastereomers. The major diastereomers are subjected to ozonolysis to afford new aldoses, which have been elongated by two carbon atoms compared to the starting materials. The new aldoses all have lyxo configuration at positions 2, 3, and 4.     

Effect of water on the palladium-catalyzed amidation of aryl bromides

The presence of water was found to have a significant impact on the conversion of some Hartwig-Buchwald reactions between amides with arylbromides. Seven amidation reactions were studied in a series of experiments containing 0-400 mol % water. When cesium carbonate is used as the base both in dioxane and toluene, water can have a beneficial effect. The experiments have also shown that for some reactions, anhydrous conditions are unnecessary and sometimes can hinder the reaction.     

Heats of dilution of polystyrenesulphonates in dioxane-water mixtures

The heats of dilution of polystyrenesulphonic acid and its sodium salt in 25, 50 and 75 wt% mixtures of dioxane and water have been measured at 25°C in the concentration range from about 0.3 to about 0.003 M in monomer units. The heat effects decrease with decreasing dielectric constant of the solvent and become negligible for the acid in about 80% dioxane and for the sodium salt in about 60% dioxane. At these two concentrations of dioxane, phase separation has been observed. The experimental results have been compared with the predictions of the cylindrical cell and infinite line charge models and a satisfactory agreement has been found.     

Glycidyl Esters of Aromatic Acids

Abstract

The reaction of substituted benzoic acids, dicarboxylic acids such as phthalic, terephthalic, and isophthalic acids, and the sodium or potassium salts of these acids with equimolar or excess epichlorohydrin in the presence of benzyltrimethylammonium chloride has been studied using various solvents such as toluene, dioxane, monochlorobenzene, and tetrachloroethylene. Use of the free carboxylic acids gave only fair to low yields of glycidyl esters, while sodium or potassium salts of the carboxylic acids gave excellent yields of materials of high oxirane content. The epoxidation of chlorohydrin esters of these acids by the dehydrochlorination was also studied using various dehydrochlorinating reagents such as NaOH, KOH, Na₂CO₃, and NaAlO₂ in such solvents as water, dichloromethane, dioxane, and monochlorobenzene at various temperatures. Reaction time, reaction temperature, and water content were found to influence the yield of glycidyl esters. It is suggested that the reaction path involves nucleophilic attack upon the terminal position of the epoxide or epichlorohydrin. The resulting alkoxide then reacts further to give either a glycidyl ester or a chlorine-containing by-product, the predominant course depending upon reaction conditions.