The determination of small amounts of vanadium in the presence of large amounts of uranium

To eliminate the color interference of large amounts of uranium in the determination of vanadium by the Hamner method, the vanadium was separated prior to titration by the extraction of vanadium cupferrate with chloroform. The chloroform extract was evaporated with sulfuric acid and the excess cupferron removed by oxidation with nitric acid and perchloric acid. The vanadium was reduced with ferrous ammonium, sulfate solution, the excess ferrous ion oxidized with ammonium persulfate, and the vanadium (IV) titrated with 0.02 N potassium permanganate. As little as 1.02 mg of vanadium in the presence of 5 g of uranium oxide was determined accurately by this method.     

Sites of reaction of pilocarpine

Analysis of the sites of reaction of a biologically important compound, pilocarpine, a molecule with imidazole and butyrolactone rings connected by a methylene bridge, has been accomplished in a quadrupole ion trap with the aim of characterizing its structure/reactivity relationships. Ion-molecule reactions of pilocarpine with chemical ionizing agents, dimethyl ether (DME), 2-methoxyethanol, and trimethyl borate (TMB), along with collision-activated dissociation elucidated the reaction sites of pilocarpine and made possible the comparison of structural features that affect sites of reaction. Based on MS/MS experiments, methylation occurs on the imidazole ring upon reactions with CH3OCH2+ or (CH3OCH2CH2OH)H+ ions but methylation occurs on the lactone ring for reactions with (CH3O)2B+ ions. Bracketing experiments with two model compounds, alpha-methyl-gamma-butyrolactone and N-methyl imidazole, show the imidazole ring to have a greater gas-phase basicity and methyl cation affinity than the lactone ring. The contrast of methylation by TMB ions on the lactone ring is explained by initial addition of the dimethoxyborinium ion, (CH3O)2B+, on the imidazole ring with subsequent collisional activation promoting an intramolecular transfer of a methyl group to the lactone ring with concurrent loss of CH3OBO. Semiempirical molecular orbital calculations are undertaken to further address the favored reaction sites.     

Investigation of the halocyclization of S- and N-allyl derivatives of 2-benzothiazolethione

3-Allyl-2-benzothiazolethione reacts with iodine regiospecifically with annelation of the five-membered ring, while with bromine a mixture of the five- and six-membered rings are formed. 2-Allylthioben- zothiazole reacts with halogens with annelation of the five- and six-membered rings, while 2-(2-methyl-2-propenyl)thiobenzothiazole is annelated at the five-membered ring.     

Investigation of the mechanism of catalytic recyclization of furan to thiophene

Investigation of the formation of thiophene from furan and hydrogen sulfide at various catalysts showed that the activity of the catalysts increases with increase in the strength and concentration of Lewis acid centers. It was found by IR spectroscopy that if the degree of coverage of the aluminum oxide surface with hydrogen sulfide is higher than monolayer its dissociative chemisorption does not occur. Mechanism was postulated wich assume that the reaction takes place through stage with the formation of a surface intermediate, including coordination of the α-carbon atoms of the furan ring with the Lewis acid center and with the sulfur atom of molecular hydrogen sulfide.     

Study of methods of preparation of 1,4-diglycidyltetrazolone. New synthesis of triglycidylisocyanurate

1,4-Digtycidyltetrazolone was synthesized for the first time by the reaction of tetrazolone and epichlorohydrin with subsequent treatment of the products of addition with a base. The basic directions of the reaction of carbamoyl azide with epichlorohydrin, which yields triglycidylisocyanurate and diglycidylcarbamoyl dude, were investigated. The features of the synthesis and properties of the substances obtained were described.     

Investigation of Kinetics of Solid-Phase Synthesis of Lithium Orthosilicate

The kinetics of the interaction between lithium carbonate and silica with various degrees of dispersion was investigated by TG and DTA methods. It was found that the utilization of pyrogenic silica with a specific surface area of about 300 m²g^-1 instead of aerosil with one of 175 m²g^-1 leads to an increase of the reaction rate between lithium carbonate and silica, which depends on the formation and growth of lithium orthosilicate crystals in the first stage, and is conditioned by the diffusion of lithium and oxygen ions through the lithium orthosilicate layer formed at temperatures above 800 K. This supposition is supported by the kinetic analysis results obtained with the use of the different models. The optimal regime of heating is recommended. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Hybridization of DNA at the surface of phospholipid monolayers. Effect of orientation of oligonucleotide chains

We studied the properties of lipid monolayers formed at the air-water interface composed of dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC) with incorporated short (19-mer) oligonucleotides. These oligonucleotides were modified by oleylamine at both (3' and 5') terminals or only at one (3') terminal. Interaction of single-stranded (19-mer) oligonucleotides without oleylamine with DOPC monolayers resulted only in slight increase of surface pressure and the area per phospholipid molecule, while more substantial and significant increase of these values were observed following incorporation of oligonucelotides modified by oleylamine. This influence is similar for both types of oligonucleotide modifications. However, considerable differences in changes of monolayer properties took place after hybridization with complementary oligonucleotides. The hybridization of oligonucleotides with the DNA modified by oleic acid at both 3' and 5' terminals at the surface of lipid monolayer resulted in further increase of surface pressure and in the increase of the area per phospholipid molecule, while decrease of both the surface pressure and the area per phospholipid molecules were observed for hybridization with DNA modified by oleic acid at 3' terminal. It is possible that in latter case, the hybridization caused the loss of hybridized molecules from monolayers. Interaction of noncomplementary chains with DOPC monolayers with incorporated oleyl acid-modified DNA also influenced the properties of monolayers, but the effect was weaker in comparison with that observed for complementary chains.     

Enthalpy of formation of thiophene derivatives

The enthalpy of formation in the gas phase has been calculated for 21 carbonyl compounds of the thiophene series with the aid of the PM3, MINDO, AM1, and MNDO semiempirical quantum-chemical methods. Comparison of them with experimental data showed that the best linear correlation was achieved with the PM3 method. The latter in conjunction with a developed linear regression equation has been used to predict the enthalpy of formation of 22 carboxylic acids and ketones of the thiophene series.     

On the mechanism of the formation of ozonides of the alkali metals

Conclusions A mechanism of the formation of ozonides of alkali metals was proposed on the basis of data obtained in an investigation of the reaction of oxygen-labeled KOH with ozone, the reaction of KOH with atomic oxygen, and the reaction of KOH with ozone; this mechanism is based upon: the catalytic decomposition of ozone on the surface of the solid alkalies into molecular and atomic oxygen, the interaction of the latter with the hydroxide, forming a superperoxide, and an interaction of the superperoxide with ozone, forming the ozonide.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1183–1187, June, 1967.     

Dependence of the viscosity coefficients of magnetic fluids on parameters of state

Dependences of the viscosity coefficients of magnetic fluids on parameters of state were investigated numerically using previously derived dynamic equations. It was shown that the volume viscosity and shear viscosity coefficients of a magnetic fluid based on kerosene increase with increasing density and concentration and decrease with increasing temperature; the coefficients increase with an increase in the magnetic field gradient. The results obtained are in satisfactory agreement with the experimental data.     

Preparation of complexes of sulfoxides of petroleum origin and tributyl phosphate with chlorides of rare-earth elements

Conclusions Conditions were found for obtaining the complexes of petroleum sulfoxides and tributyl phosphate with the chlorides of the rare-earth elements with a coordination number of 9, 7, and 6. It was established that anhydrous trisolvates are obtained by the azeotropic distillation of the water with toluene and subsequent drying of the complexes with zeolites.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2790–2792, December, 1977.     

Thermodynamics of interactions of vancomycin and synthetic surrogates of bacterial cell wall

Glycopeptide antibiotics, including vancomycin, form complexes via a set of five hydrogen bonds with the acyl-l-Lys-d-Ala-d-Ala portion of the peptidyl stems of the bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan. This complexation deprives the organism from the ability to cross-link peptidyl stems of the peptidoglycan, leading to bacterial cell death. Four synthetic fragments as surrogates of the components of the bacterial cell wall have been prepared in our lab in multistep syntheses. These synthetic samples were used in investigations of the thermodynamics properties (DeltaG degrees , DeltaH degrees , and TDeltaS degrees ) for the complexation with vancomycin by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). Complexation with the glycopeptide analogues is largely enthalpy-driven (formation of five hydrogen bonds), and in the analogues with a single peptidyl stem, the complexation is 1:1. The complexation is more complicated with an approximately 2 kDa cell wall surrogate (compound 4), which possesses two peptidyl stems. The data were suggestive of interactions between the two vancomycin molecules, with an entropic penalty attributable to restriction of molecular movements within the complex due to restriction of motion of the highly mobile acyl-d-Ala-d-Ala moiety of the peptidyl stems. These data were reconciled with the recently determined NMR solution structure for the peptidoglycan fragment 4 and its implications for the larger cell wall.     

合成聚芳酯树状分子的新方法

以３，５－二羟基 苯甲酸为起始原料，经甲醇酯化保护羧基，与苯甲酰氯反应，得到３，５－二苯甲酰氧基苯甲酸甲酯用ＡｌＣｌ３．ＮａＩ去掉保护基甲基，以高收率得到３，５－二苯甲酰氧基苯甲酸。其结构均是由ＩＲ，＾１ＨＮＭＲ，ＥＡ等方法证实。     

Calculation of the number of atoms displaced during the irradiation of monolayer graphene

The irradiation of monolayer graphene, combined with chemical functionalization, could be an effective method for modifying its electronic structure and for achieving specific physical properties adjusted to different applications. A difficulty arising during planning and studying the irradiation in this system is that many of the models of interaction of the radiation with the substance cannot be applied to the two-dimensional structure of graphene. In particular, the mathematical expressions available to calculate the number of atoms displaced during the bombardment with particles can be applied only to 3D isotropic solids. In the present work, an alternative analytic expression is presented for the irradiation of graphene with heavy ions or with protons and other light charged particles. The expression was obtained on the basis of the classic theory of dispersion, using a Coulomb potential for the light charged particles and one of Inverse Square for heavy ions. For medium values of the energy of the incident particle a decreasing dependence of the number of displaced atoms with energy is obtained. This behavior, related with the two-dimensional structure of the target, had been observed in other authors’ works using computational simulation.     

Ionometric Study of the Kinetics of Acid Decomposition of Fluorapatite

A procedure is proposed for studying acid decomposition of solid materials with the use of ion-selective electrodes, with the experimental data recorded and processed with a personal computer. Variation of the H₃O⁺, F^-, and Ca^{2 +} concentrations in reaction of fluorapatite concentrate with nitric, sulfuric, and orthophosphoric acids and also the effect of particle size on the rate of solid phase decomposition were studied.     

环糊精与新型表面活性剂的主客体相互作用

在298.15 K下用微量热法结合核磁共振法研究了α-环糊精, β-环糊精与十二烷基多氧乙烯磺酸钠C12EnS(n=1, 3)在水溶液中的包结作用. 实验结果表明, β-环糊精与客体的包合是焓、熵共驱的过程, α-环糊精与客体的包合则是焓驱动过程. β-环糊精与两种客体包合的化学计量比随客体中氧乙烯链的不同而不同, 而α-环糊精与两种客体包合的化学计量比则无差别. 1H NMR数据表明, C12EnS的存在使两种环糊精上各质子的化学位移向高场移动, 从微观上证明了包结作用的发生.     

几种抗结核药的应用

论述了四类抗结核药物的应用，着重讨论了利福平、氧氟沙星、力排肺疾等的应用。     

A calorimetric evaluation of the interaction of amphiphilic prodrugs of idebenone with a biomembrane model

Lipoamino acids (LAA) are useful promoieties to modify physicochemical properties of drugs, namely lipophilicity and amphiphilicity. The resulting membrane-like character of drug-LAA conjugates can increase the absorption profile of drugs through cell membranes and biological barriers. To show the role of amphiphilicity with respect to lipophilicity in the interaction of drugs with biomembranes, in the present study we evaluated the mode of such an interaction of lipophilic conjugates of LAA with the antioxidant drug idebenone (IDE). DSC analysis and transfer kinetic studies were carried out using dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) multilamellar liposomes (MLVs) as a model. For comparison, two esters of IDE with alkanoic acids were synthesized and included in the analysis. The experimental results indicate that based on their different structure, IDE-LAA conjugates interacted at different levels with respect to pure IDE with DMPC bilayers. In particular, a progressive penetration inside the vesicles was observed upon incubation of IDE-LAA compounds with empty liposomes. The enhanced amphiphilicity of the drug due to the LAA moieties caused more complex interactions with DMPC bilayers, compared to those registered with the native drug or IDE alkanoate esters.     

A collaborative study of four methods of assay of benzylpenicillin

The assay of benzylpenicillin by iodimetric titration, spectrophotometry with a mercury(II) chloride—imidazole reagent, titration with mercury(II) nitrate in acetate buffer solution, and titration with mercury(II) perchlorate in aqueous pyridine solution, was examined in four laboratories. The first two methods were applied to two samples (the third one being the reference sample), the mercury(II) nitrate titration to three, and the mercury(II) perchlorate method to two samples. The four methods gave very similar results, but the purity obtained with the mercury(II) perchlorate method was slightly lower, and this procedure is less desirable because pyridine is used as solvent. There were no great differences in the relative standard deviations of the four methods. The titration with mercury(II) nitrate is preferred because it is an absolute method.     

Control of stereoselective protonation of enols1,2

A decalyl framework with a siloxy enolic moiety and proximate proton transferring groups was synthesized. On enolate generation with fluoride two competitive reaction modes were possible: (a) intermolecular protonation, and (b) intramolecular proton transfer by the proximate group. Control of the protonation stereochemistry proved possible by varying the proximate group and by changing the acidity of the medium. With the groups -CH2OH, -CH=O, and -CH2OCH2OCH3 as the proximate groups, only intermolecular proton transfer was observed with no dependence on acidity. In contrast, with -COO- and COOH, only intramolecular protonation resulted but again with no dependence on acidity of the medium. In contrast, with -CH2NH2 as the proximate group, intramolecular proton transfer predominated with a dependence on the effective pH of the medium. A kinetic analysis provided a linear-log relationship of the ratio of the two stereoisomers with the medium acidity. The analysis revealed that two acetic acid molecules are involved in providing the proton to the enolate moiety. A theoretical analysis was developed paralleling the experimental results. In the ketonization transition state, the hybridization was shown to be close to sp2 hybridized at the alpha-enolate carbon.