SYNTHESIS OF SILICON MONOMERS AND OLIGOMERS CONTAINING CYCLOHEXYLENE RING

1,3-Bis(trichlorosilyl) cyclohexane was obtained by addition of HSiCl_3, to cyclohexadiene-1,3in the presence of H_2PtCl_6.6H_2O in isopropyl alcohol. The new compound was ethanolysed andmethylated to form di-methyl tetra-ethoxy disilyl, tri-methyl tri-ethoxy disilyl and terta-methyldi-ethoxy disilyl cyclohexanes. These di-to tetra-functional monomers were hydrolyzed by hydrochloric acid in ether. The di-functional monomer yielded cyclic dimer similar to octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane and the tri-functionalmonomer, a cyclic tetramer, while in the case of tetra-functional monomer a cyclic octamer wasobtained. These compounds have not been reported in literature.     

THE CATALYTIC EFFECTS OF OXYGEN AND AMINES IN THE REDOX-INITIATED DIMERIZATION OF N-VINYLCARBAZOLE*

The redox reaction between N-vinylcarbazole (NVC) and various oxidants including Ce(Ⅳ), Fe(Ⅲ)and benzoylperoxide in methanol proceeds via the initial formation of the NVC N-cation radical which in turn leads to the formation of the NVC cyclic dimer, trans-1,2-dicarbazylcyclobutane. Molecular oxygen and a few arylamines are able to accelerate the rate of the formation and increase the yield of the dimer. The mechanism of this process and the functions of oxygen and arylamines are presented as follows: The participation of molecular oxygen is to facilitate the dissociation of the resulting reduced metal ion and the NVC N-cation radical ion pair or charge transfer complex, thereby releasing the free NVC N-cation radical and increase the rate of the formation and yield of the dimer. The arylamine in this reaction between NVC and oxidants can be viewed as electron transfer agent between NVC and the oxidant. Because the amines are present in small amount relative to the oxidants and can be regenerated in pr     

THE STUDY OF PHYCOBILIPROTEINS IN Porphyra yezoensis——THE PHYSICAL AND IMMUNO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF R-PHYCOERYTHRIN~*

There are two kinds of phycoerythrin of different physical properties in Porphyra yezoensis. Their molecular weights are different. They are both composed of a-subunit and β-subunit. Their polymeric forms are (αβ)n. The absorption bands and fluorescence emission bands of the smaller molecules show hypsochromic shifts of several rims relative to that of the polymeric molecules. The isoelectric point of the former is lower than that of the latter. It is worthy of note that the smaller molecules display binding activities with guinea pig antisera. Through using radioimmunoassay, when the depression of the biuding activity of ~(125)I-insulin reaches 50%, the required quantity of the smaller molecules of R-phycoerythrin would be ca. 0.1mg, corresponding to ca. 8μ units of insulin used in a parallel experiment (26 units corresponding to 1 mg of insulin).     

Density functional theory (DFT) and ab initio investigations of the electronic and molecular structures of the monomer and the dimer of trimethylaluminium

The electronic and molecular structures of the monomer and dimer of trimethylalu-minium have been studied using density functional theory and ab initio MP2 method. The optimized geometry of the monomer Al(CH3)3 is of C3h symmetry, whereas that of the dimer [A1(CH3)3]2 contains a carbon-bridged four-membered ring structure with C2h symmetry. The hydrogen-bridged six-membered ring structure is found to be unstable. The calculated dimerization energy for the four-membered ring structure is 78 kJ/mol, in close proximity to the experimental value of 85.27 kJ/mol.     

THE INTERACTION OF ETHYL BENZOATE AND TRIFLUOROACETIC ACID IN EXCITED STATE

This paper is concerned with the interaction of ethyl benzoate (EBA) and trifluoroaceticacid (TFA) molecules in the excited state by measurements of steady--state and transient fluo-rescence spectra at room and low temperatures. The results show that not only the 1:1 exci-plex but also the 2:1 triplex between EBA and TFA was formed. The formation pathway ofthe triplex is that the exciplex formed at first, then by the interaction with the EBA mole-cule it transformed into triplex. But it could not be formed by the dimer of EBA by interac-tion with TFA. The dimer of EBA is confirmed in the concentrated solution. So there arefour components in EBA/TFA--concentrated solution and their fluorescence lifetimes aremeasured respectively.     

THE OVERALL KINETICS OF FREE RADICAL (CO)POLYMERIZATION WITH HIGHLY DIFFUSION CONTROLLED TERMINATION

The overall reaction rate kinetics of polymerization of diethyleneglycol dimethacrylate and copolymerization of it with styrene in bulk and in the presence of inert diluents were investigated. Theresults indicated that these reactions can be treated as free radical polymerization with highly diffu-sion controlled termination reaction in which the termination rate constant is an empirically derivedfunction of monomer conversion: K_t=K_(to)(1-c ln[M]/ [M_0])~(-1) in which K_(to) is the initial terminationrate constant and c is a factor related to the magnitude of diffusion co?re The following equationof monomer conversion as a function of time could then be derived: U=1-exp {1/c [1-(1+ckt/2)~2]}in which k=K_P(R_i/2K_(to))~(1/2) and t is the time of reaction. Excellent agreement between the theoreticaland experimental overall reaction kinetic curves was obtained. The equation is valid for crosslinkingand noncrosslinking free radical polymerizations in which the self-acceleration effcct is effective fromthe very beginning of the reaction. The equation can be expressed in a more generally applicableform: U=1--exp{1/e[1--(1+?t/n)~n] in which n≥0.     

STUDY OF THE REACTION MECHANISM OF CYCLOHEXENE HYDROGENATION CATALYZED BY RhCl(PPh_3)_3

The hydrogenation rate of styrene in benzene using RhCI(PPh_3)_3 as catalyst increases with the concentration of styrene. But the hydrogenation rate of cyclohexene is rather different, It shows a maximum. So we inquire into the reaction mechanism of cyclohexene hydrogenation catalyzed by RhCI(PPh_3)_3. The rate of hydrogenation was measured at 25±0.15℃, as a function. of catalyst concentration, olefin concentration, triphenylphosphine concentration and hydrogen pressure. The maximum of the reaction rate is interpreted by the formation of RhClL_2S_2. The rate determining step is considered to be the reaction of olefin insertion into one of the Rh-H bonds formed by hydrogenation of RhClL3 to H_2RhClL_3. The hydrogenation rate of the substrate can be described by a third order equation in terms of concentration of H_2RhClL_3. Average error between the results evaluated by this equation and experimental results is about 4.9％. The quantum chemistry calculation gives support to the present mechanism.     

MICROENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF THE HELICAL CONFORMATIONS OF AMYLOSE AND ITS DERIVATIVES——THE FORMATION OF INCLUSION COMPLEXES WITH A SUBSTRATE BY AMYLOSE IN THE DMSO-H_2O MIXED-SOLVENT SYSTEM

The conformational behavior of amylose and the formation of helical inclusion complexesof amylose with a substrate, N-ethyl-4-hexadecyloxycarbonyl pyridinium iodide (1) -- asolvent-polarity probe, have been investigated in the DMSO--H_2O mixed-solvent system bymeans of surface tension, viscosity, UV, electrical conductance and ORD measurements. Thedecrease of the volume-fraction of DMSO, Φ_(DMSO) of the mixed-solvent system inducesconformational changes of the amylose from tight helices to loose and extended helicesinterrupted by short disordered regions. Such a transition is accompanied by abrupt changesof the viscosity and ORD curves. The mechanism of interaction between amylose and the substrate 1 also depends on thesolvent composition. When Φ_(DMSO) is larger than 0.70, the interaction of amylose with 1is apparently similar to those cases in which superhelices are formed between a macromo-lecule and some azo dyes; the latter are known to be bound exteriorly around the macro-molecular helices by oriented association. However, when Φ_(DMSO) begins to drop below0.70, the substrate molecules start to be bound in the helical cavities of the host and thussupramolecular inclusion complexes are formed. At Φ_(DMSO)<0.70, ORD shows a new nega-tive Cotton peak at a wavelength which coincides with the λ_(max) of 1 (276 nm). This implicatesinduced asymmetry for the achiral substrate 1 in a chiral microenvironment. Intrinsicdissociation constants (K_(d~*)) for the inclusion complexes can be obtained from the surface ten-sion- substrate concentration (σ-[1]) curves and the largest number of binding sites isfound to be below 30. The K_(d~*) values decrease with decreasing Φ_(DMSO), apparently inagreement with the results from conductance measurements. Presumably, the driving forcefor the transfer of the substrate molecules from the solvent-mixture bulk phase to the non-polar cavities of the host molecules comes from hydrophobic-lipophilic interactions.     

STUDIES ON THE KINETICS OF VINYL PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION INITIATED BY CONDENSED AROMATIC HYDROCARBON-ANILINE SYSTEMS

The photopolymerization of acrylonitrile and methyl methacrylate initiated by condensed aro-matic hydrocarbon-aniline systenis was studied at 25℃under irradiation of 365 nm wavelengthlight. From kinetic data the monomer exponent has been measured to be 1.1. Within the concen-tration of 10~(-4)--10~(-3)M, the aromatic hydrocarbon exponents changrd from 0.30 to 0.40, depedingon the values of molar extinction coefficient of the hydrocarbons at 365 nm (ε_(365)). The greater theε_(365), the Iower the exponents. The aniline exponents were measured to be in the range of 0.30--0.45. The aromatic hydrocarbon-aniline systems with the lower aniline exponent showed a lower ratioof the fiuorescence quenching of the hydrocarbon by aniline and by the monomer.     

REFINED CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF INSULIN AT 1.8A RESOLUTION——HYDROGEN BONDS AND BOUND WATER

The hydrogen bonds in insulin fall into three cases: the helical hydrogen bonds in α- or 3_(10)helices, the non-helical one formed by polar groups of insulin itself, and the hydrogen bondsformed between insulin and water. By using the information obtained, the results of a seriesof biochemical investigations on insulin analogs related to B-chain C-terminal peptide can beinterpreted and it can also be inferred that the complex behaviours of the aggregation ofinsulin may play a protective role for the unique conformation of the molecule. Water structure also appears in the refined model. About one third of the water in anasymmetric unit is hydrogen-bonded to insulin molecules or each other, which are referred toas bound water. The polar and charged groups of insulin all show the tendencies to bind towater molecules as many as possible, which is a significant factor for the stabilization of theunique conformation of the molecule. The binding way of water molecules to insulin mole-cules is also analysed.     

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF POLYMERS BY THE ADDITION OF GRAFTED NANO-INORGANIC PARTICLES

An irradiation grafting method was applied for the modification of nanoparticles so that the latter can be added topolymeric materials for improving their mechanical performance using existing compounding techniques. The followingitems are discussed in this paper: (a) chemical interaction between the grafting monomers and the nanoparticles duringirradiation, (b) properties including modulus, yield strength, impact strength and fracture toughness of the resultantcomposites, and (c) possible morphological changes induced by the addition of nanoparticles. Though irradiation graftingpolymerization, nanoparticle agglomerates turn into a nano-composite microstructure (comprised of the nanoparticles and thegrafted, homopolymerized secondary polymer), which in turn builds up a strong interfacial interaction with the surrounding,primary polymeric matrix during the subsequent mixing procedure. Due to the fact that different grafting polymers broughtabout different nanoparticle/matrix interfacial features, microstructures and properties of the ultimate composites could thusbe tailored. It was found that the reinforcing and toughening effects of the nanoparticles on the polymer matrix can be fullybrought into play at a rather low filler loading in comparison to conventional particulate filled composites.     

Probing the Subunit-Subunit Interaction of the Tetramer of E. coli KDO8P Synthase by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Escherichia coli 3-Deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate 8-phosphate (KDO8P) synthase catalyzes the condensation reaction between D-arabinose 5-phosphate (A5P) and phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to form KDO8P and inorganic phosphate (Pi). This enzyme exists as a tetramer in solution, which is important for catalysis. Two different states of the enzyme were obtained: i) PEP-bound and ii) PEP-unbound. The effect of the substrates and products on the overall structure of KDO8P synthase in both PEP-bound and unbound states was examined using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. The analysis of our data showed that the complexes of the PEP-unbound enzyme with PEP (or Pi) favored the formation of monomers, while the complexes with A5P (or KDO8P) mainly favored dimers. The PEP-bound enzyme was found to exist in the monomer and dimer with a small amount of the tetramer, whereas the PEP-unbound form primarily exists in the monomer and dimer, and no tetramer was observed, suggesting that the bound PEP have a role in stabilization of the tetrameric structure. Taken together, the results imply that the addition of the substrates or products to the unbound enzyme may alter the subunit-subunit interactions and/or conformational change of the protein at the active site, and this study also demonstrates that the electrospray ionization mass spectrometric method may be a powerful tool in probing the subunit-subunit interactions and/or conformational change of multi-subunit protein upon binding to ligand.     

THE CONTROL OF POLYMETHACRYLATE MOLECULAR STRUCTURE BY GROUP TRANSFER POLYMERIZATION

INTRODUCTION Group transfer polymerization (GTP) is a method for controlling the structure of acrylic polymers in which reactive chain ends are covalentiy bound to a trimethylsilyl group. In the presence of a catalyst, monomer inserts into these chain ends between the silyl group and the last monomer unit. The process is illustrated by equation (1) for methyl methacrylate. GTP is a living polymerization, i. e., there is little or no chain termination and no chain transfer. A significant advantage of GTP is that it     

R-PHYCOERYTHRIN FROM Porphyra yezoensis UEDA AND ITS PRELIMINARY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY STUDY

Native R-phycoerythrin from Porphyra yezoensis has a molecular weight of 230, 000±23,000 dalton in 0.05 mol/L potassium phosphate at pH 7.5 and an absorption spectrum with the maxima at 565 and 498 nm and a shoulder at 540 nm, Its fluorescence emission maximum is at 578 nm in the above buffer. Single crystal X-ray diffraction investigation is in progress from R-phycoerythrin. It is crystallized in the rhombohedral space group R_3 with a=b=187.5±2.5, c=60.0±3,0. The densities measured on the crystals and its mother liquor are 1.215 g/cm~3 and 1.070 g/cm~3 respectively. The fraction of the crystal volume occupied by the protein is 51.5%.It has been estimated that the ctystallographic asymmetric unit in rhombohedral lattice might contain (αβ)_2 with a total molecular mass of less than 8×10~4 dalton. The hexagonal unit cell could accommodate three cylindrical molecules 108 in diameter and 60 in height, which is dictated by the space group symmetry for packing into the unit cell.     

STUDIES ON ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS OF TITANIUM,ZIRCONIUM AND HAFNIUM——THE CRYSTAL AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURES OF OXO-BRIDGED TETRAKIS(CYCLOPENTADIENYL)BIS (o.TOLYL)AND TETRAKIS(METYLCYCLOPEN-TADIENYL) BIS(p-TOLYL)BINUCLEATED ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS

This paper reports the crystal and molecular structures of tetrakis (cyclopentadienyl) bis(o-tolyl)-μ-oxo-dizirconium [dimer (Ⅰ)] and tetrakis (methylcyclopentadienyl) bis (p-tolyl)-μ-oxo-dizirconium [dimer (II)]. Both of them belong to monoclinic system and possess the same spacegroup C_2~5h- 2_1/a. The cell dimer (Ⅰ) containing four molecules is defined by a=19.122A,b=16.319A, c = 9.296A, β= 92°1′; the cell dimer (Ⅱ) containing two molecules is defined bya = 20.076A, b = 8.205A, c = 10.016A, β= 104°41′. The important difference of molecular configurations between the two dimers lies in thatthe dimer (Ⅰ) has no symmetry center and its Zn-O-Zr oxo-bridge presents a slightly bentconfiguration while the dimer (Ⅱ) takes the oxgen atom as a symmetry center and its oxo-bridge present linear linkage. In accordance with the above-mentioned molecular configuration, steric effect and elec-tronic structure have been further discussed.     

Preparation of sulphonate-containing polymer particles <Emphasis Type="Italic">via</Emphasis> semi-continuous emulsion copolymerizaion of styrene and sodium styrene sulphonate

Submicron-sized P(St-NaSS) latexes were prepared via a semi-continuous emulsion copolymerization of styrene (St) and sodium styrene sulphonate(NaSS) in the presence of anionic surfactant,in which NaSS aqueous solution and St were separately dropwise charged into the polymerization system at the same time.The hydrodynamic diameter of the latex particles was measured by dynamic light scattering(DSL) method,and the NaSS unit content of the purified copolymer by water extraction was calculated based on the elementary analysis.Results showed that the copolymerization could be performed smoothly with the monomer conversion more than 96%in the absence of crosslinker,and PNaSS homopolymer could be removed from the latex product by water extraction for 28 h.The weight loss in the water extraction tended to decrease and the NaSS unit content of the purified copolymer tended to increase with the increase of monomer feeding time, and both of them increased with the increase of NaSS/St mole ratio in the charge.The introduction of divinyl benzene (DVB) could decrease the weight loss in the water extraction and increase the NaSS unit content of the purified copolymer. When 25/75 mole ratio of NaSS/St and 11 mol%DVB of total NaSS and St were used in the recipe,and the monomer feeding time was 3 h in copolymerization,the NaSS unit content of the purified copolymer reached 7.31 mol%.     

THE EFFECT OF MONOMERS FEEDING METHODS ON EMULSION COPOLYMERIZATION OF VINYLIDENE CHLORIDE AND ACRYLATES

The emulsion copolymerization of vinylidene chloride (VDC) with methyl-methacrylate(MMA) and acrylonitrile (AN) was carried out by batch, seeded batch and semicontinuous pro-cesses,respectively. Significant differences were found in the physical and mechanical propertiesof the latexes and films, depending on the methods of monomer feeding. The results both intheory and experiments demonstrated that the copolymer composition and the length of the VDC sequences in the copolymer could be controlled by the modes of monomer feeding process.     

A comparative study of assembly and disassembly process of dimeric and monomeric cyanine dyes with DNA templates

H-aggregates of dimeric cyanine dyes (TC-P4) formed in PBS could be disassembled by G-quadruplex into dimer and/or monomer, resulting in higher fluorescent selectivity than its corresponding monomer (TC).     

STUDIES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IR SPECTRA AND STRUCTURE OF SOME LINEAR Mo—Fe—S CLUSTERS.Ⅱ.LINEAR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOME STRETCHING VIBRATION FREQUENCIES AND BOND DISTANCES

<正> The relationships between stretching vibration frequencies (v) and distances (r) of the bonds Mo-S and Fe-Cl in ten compounds have been investigated- It is found that vMO-S is linearly related to rMo-s. This provides a convenient method to obtained bond distance data for some cluster compounds whose molecular structures could not be determined by X-ray analyses, The linear relationship between vFe-cl and rFe-cl is also discussed. The near-linear relationships of vvs. rFe-Mo and vFe-sb vs. rFe-Mo demons-trate that the formation of Fe-Sb bond has an important influence on the formation of Fe-Mo bond and the Fe-Mo distance may be estimated from v values.     

THE CHARACTERISTICS AND MOTION MODEL OF INSULIN MONOMER

The extensive conformational comparisons among the determined structures of the differeat species and crystal forms of insulin and the varied insulin derivatives were performed by using the least-squares superimposition technique and the graphics technique. The results of the investigation showed that the structure of molecule I in 2Zn insulin was closer to that of the natural monomer; the conformational difference between two molecules of a dimer came out during dimerization and it was further improved and stabilized during the hexamerization and packing of hexamers in crystal; through the hinge peptides, such as A10, B4, B8, B24, B20 and B23, there was a flexible relative motion among the structural segments in the insulin molecule, and the residues at the B-chain C-terminal might have a shift of more than 10; the mobility for each residue side-chain was very different due to the different surroundings.