Vibronic structure of jet-cooled 2,6-dimethylbenzyl radical: revisited

We reexamined the vibronic structure of the jet-cooled 2,6-dimethylbenzyl radical that was generated from 1,2,3-trimethylbenzene seeded in a large amount of inert carrier gas helium using a pinhole-type glass nozzle in a corona excited supersonic expansion, from which the vibronically resolved emission spectrum was recorded with a long path double monochromator in the visible region. The spectrum exhibited bands arising from not only the D1 --> D0 transition but also the D2 --> D0 transition, in which transitions the accurate electronic energies of the D2 and D1 states and the revised vibrational mode frequencies in the ground electronic state were obtained by comparison with those from the known data of the precursor and an ab initio calculation.     

A Novel Fluorescence Quenching Method for the Determination of Aloe Polysaccharide

Alizarin red (AR) can bind with aloe polysaccharide (APS) in doubly de‐ionized water to form a red complex resulting in fluorescence quenching of it. The maximum fluorescence quenching wavelength is 572 nm. The chromogenic reaction is rapid and the fluorescence intensity remains stable for at least 2 h at room temperature. The quenched fluorescence intensity (ΔF) is directly proportional to APS concentration. Based on this interaction, a sensitive and selective fluorophotometric method is proposed for the determination of APS. The optimal experiment conditions were established. The corresponding linear equation is (F=0.8807C+1.8132, R²=0.9999. The quantification and detection limits are 0.4752 and 0.1425 µg·mL^?1, respectively. The linear range is 0.444–16.65 µg·mL^?1 for APS and the mean recovery (100.2±2)%, RSD?3%. The effect of various substances on the determination of APS was also investigated in detail, and the results show that most of the studied coexistent substances can be tolerated in considerable amounts. The proposed method is sensitive, simple, fast and suitable for routine assay.     

A revisited auditing of the analytical abstracts database

This paper is a follow-up of a previous one dealing with the "Image of Analytical Chemistry as Reflected in the Analytical Abstracts Database: Journal Coverage, Concentration and Dispersion of the Analytical Literature" (J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1993, 33, 164-173). It deals with revisiting these topics. The results have shown that the database has substantially improved its coverage by editorial reorganizations in 1994. The only open problem which has been revealed is a somewhat excessive emphasis given to the coverage of the journals on the lower tail of the journal distribution. The suggestion is made to reduce this emphasis in favor of an even more complete coverage of some "titled" analytical journals.     

Gamma irradiation improves the antioxidant activity of Aloe vera (Aloe barbadensis miller) extracts

Aloe has been widely used in food products, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics because of its aromatic and therapeutic properties. In the present study, the ethanolic extracts of aloe gel were gamma-irradiated from 10 to 100 kGy. After gamma irradiation, the color of the ethanolic extracts of aloe gel changed to red; this color persisted up to 40 kGy but disappeared above 50 kGy. Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry analysis demonstrated the production of a new, unknown compound (m/z=132) after gamma irradiation of the ethanolic extracts of aloe gel. The amount of this unknown compound increased with increasing irradiation up to 80 kGy, and it was degraded at 100 kGy. Interestingly, it was found that gamma irradiation significantly increased the antioxidant activity, as measured by the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl-radical scavenging capacity. The antioxidant activity of aloe extract was dramatically increased from 53.9% in the non-irradiated sample to 92.8% in the sample irradiated at 40 kGy. This strong antioxidant activity was retained even at 100 kGy. These results indicate that gamma irradiation of aloe extract can enhance its antioxidant activity through the formation of a new compound. Based on these results, increased antioxidant activity of aloe extracts by gamma rays can be applied to various industries, especially cosmetics, foodstuffs, and pharmaceuticals.     

气相色谱法测定芦荟及芦荟干粉中的多糖

提取芦荟及芦荟干粉样品中的多糖，将多糖水解为单糖之后衍生化反应，用气相色谱法进行分析，实验选择了最佳分离条件，以木糖醇为内标物，用OV-225与OS-138为色谱柱固定液，使衍生物得到了很好的分离，结果表明：未经水解的芦荟中含有少量的单糖以葡萄糖的形式存在，水解后的单糖主要为甘露糖和葡萄糖，这与用乙醇沉淀多糖后测定结果一致，即芦荟及芦荟干粉中的多糖主要为甘露聚糖和甘露葡聚糖。     

A revisited picture of the mechanism of glycerol dehydration

The dehydration mechanism of neutral glycerol in the gas phase was investigated by means of metadynamics simulations. Structures, vibrational frequencies, Gibbs free energy barriers, and rate constants at 800 K were computed for the different steps involved in the pyrolytic process. In this article, we provide a novel mechanism for the dehydration of neutral glycerol, proceeding via formation of glycidol with a barrier of 66.8 kcal/mol. The formation of glycidol is the rate limiting step of the overall decomposition process. Once formed, glycidol converts into 3-hydroxypropanal with a barrier of 49.5 kcal/mol. 3-Hydroxypropanal can decompose further into acrolein or into formaldehyde and vinyl-alcohol with barriers of 53.9 and 35.3 kcal/mol, respectively. These findings offer new insights to available experimental data based on glycerol pyrolysis studies performed with isotopic labeling and on the interpretation of the chemistry of glycerol and sugars in pyrolytic conditions.     

Selective Solid-phase Extraction of Aloe Emodin from Aloe by Molecularly Imprinted Polymers

The extraction and separation of aloe emodin were optimized via selective molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction. Molecularly imprinted polymer was prepared from the functional monomer, methacrylic acid and a mixture of ethanol/dodecanol(90/10, volume ratio) as porogen. It overcomes the common problems of imprin-ting biological polar compounds and shows high selectivity compared favorably with those of non-imprinted polymer and commercially available C₁₈ and silica cartridges in similar aloe emodin tests. Good linearity was obtained between 0.002 and 2.5 mg/mL(r²=0.998) with relative standard deviations below 3.3%.     

气相色谱法测定芦荟及芦荟干粉中的多糖

用气相色谱法测定了芦荟及芦荟干粉样品中的多糖。实验以木糖醇为内标物,采用以OV-225与OS-138为固定液的色谱柱,使多糖水解为单糖后的衍生物得到了分离。结果表明:未经水解的芦荟中含有少量的单糖,主要为葡萄糖;水解后的单糖主要为甘露糖和葡萄糖。这与用乙醇沉淀多糖后的测定结果(即芦荟及芦荟干粉中的多糖主要为甘露聚糖和葡甘露聚糖)是一致的。     

Electronic structure of axially ligated rhodium carboxylates: π back-bonding revisited

Fenske-Hall molecular orbital calculations have been applied to a new, structurally isolable analog of the intermediate involved in catalytic rhodium carboxylate carbenoid transformations. Results from the structural characterization of axially ligated rhodium acetate phenylisonitrile complexes have been utilized in approximate molecular orbital calculations. The results from the calculations suggest that a significant degree of π back-bonding exists between the metal and isonitrile fragments which, by analogy, implies that π back-bonding should also exist in the rhodium carbenoid intermediate. Sensitivity of the Fenske-Hall method to the magnitude of π back-donation in these complexes was gauged through calculations involving different phenylisonitrile groups in which the π back-bonding ability was modulated through derivativization. The reliability of the Fenske-Hall method was evaluated through a comparison to a high-level calculation. Received: 13 December 1996 / Accepted: 18 March 1997     

Pinastric acid revisited: a complete NMR and X-ray structure assignment

Chemical investigation of a terrestrial lichen has yielded the pulvinic acid derivative pinastric acid (4). The structure of 4 was secured by detailed spectroscopic analysis as well as via a single X-ray diffraction study. This is the first report of the X-ray structure and 2D NMR assignment of pinastric acid (4). Pinastric acid (4) displayed antitumour, antiviral and antimicrobial (both antibacterial and antifungal) activities. Whilst the antiviral and antimicrobial activities are consistent with previous findings of 4 this is the first report of the antitumour properties for the compound.     

Pyridylalkylamine ligands and their palladium complexes: structure and reactivity revisited by NMR

Pyridylmethylamines or pma are versatile platforms for different catalytic transformations. Five pma‐ligands and their respective Pd complexes have been studied by liquid state NMR. By comparing ¹H, ¹³C and ¹⁵N chemical shifts for each pma/pma–Pd couple, a general trend for the metallacycle atoms concerns variations of the electronic distribution at the pendant arm, especially at the nitrogen atom of the ligand. Moreover, the increase of the chemical shift of the pendant arm nitrogen atom from primary to tertiary amine is also related to the increase of crowding within the complex. This statement is in good agreement with X‐ray data collected for several complexes. Catalytic results for the Suzuki–Miyaura reaction involving the pma–Pd complexes showed within this series that a sterically crowded and electron‐rich ligand in the metallacycle was essential to reach the coupling product with a good selectivity. In this context, NMR study of chemical shifts of all active nuclei especially in the metallacycle could give a trend of reactivity in the studied family of pma–Pd complexes. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Resonance revisited: A consideration of the calculation of cyclic conjugation energies

A homomolecular differential bond separation reaction may be defined as the difference between the conventional bond separation reactions involving the unsaturated system and its saturated counterpart. Such a reaction is homomolecular in that the basic molecular structures involved are the same on both sides of the reaction. The type of homodesmotic reaction that also conserves structure in this way may be termed a homomolecular homodesmotic reaction. Both types of homomolecular reactions are readily related to hydrogenation reactions and, more importantly, to each other. Δ B(n), the energy of the homomolecular differential bond separation reaction involving a system with n double bonds, and H(n), the corresponding homomolecular homodesmotic reaction, are related by: where h(1) and h(e) are the hydrogenation energies of the system's monoene and of ethylene, respectively. Both types of reactions yield measures of cyclic conjugation energies that for certain classifications of molecules are simply related to each other. Consideration of extra conjugation in the monoenes allows a ready interpretation of those cases in which a simple classification is not obtained. Ab initio calculations illustrating these effects have been carried out on a variety of molecules including many five- and six-membered ring systems using second order Møller-Plesset and density functional approaches. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

A Protein from Aloe vera that Inhibits the Cleavage of Human Fibrin(ogen) by Plasmin

A protease inhibitor protein with the molecular mass of 11,804.931 Da (analyzed by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry) was isolated from Aloe vera leaf gel and designated as AVPI-12. The isoelectric point of the protein is about 7.43. The first ten amino acid sequence from the N-terminal was found to be R–D–W–A–E–P–N–D–G–Y, which did not match other protease inhibitors in database searches and other publications, indicating AVPI-12 is a novel protease inhibitor. The band protein of AVPI-12 migrated further on nonreducing sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) than reducing SDS-PAGE. This result indicated that the molecule of AVPI-12 did not contain interchain disulfide bonds, but appeared to have intrachain disulfide bonds instead. AVPI-12 strongly resisted digestion by the serine proteases human plasmin and bovine trypsin. The protein could protect the γ-subunit of human fibrinogen from plasmin and trypsin digestion, similar to the natural plasma serine protease inhibitor α₂-macroglobulin. The protein also could protect the γ-subunit of fibrinogen from the cysteine protease papain. AVPI-12 also exhibited dose-dependent inhibition of the fibrinogenolytic activity of plasmin, similar to α₂-macroglobulin. The fibrinolytic inhibitory activity of AVPI-12 and the small-angle X-ray scattering showed that the protein could protect human fibrin clot from complete degradation by plasmin. The inhibition of the fibrinogenolytic and fibrinolytic activities of plasmin by AVPI-12 suggests that the inhibitor has potential for use in antifibrinolytic treatment.     

芦荟有机成分的GC-MS分析

芦荟为百合科芦荟属植物,其种类繁多,约有350余种.我国广东,广西,云南,福建,四川等都有种植.芦荟是一种药用价值很高的植物,应用范围涉及内、外、妇、儿、皮肤、五官等各科[1]被人们誉为21世纪最有希望的保健食品.国外从60年代开始对芦荟进行了较深入研究,已成为一大产业.在我国的应用基本上保留在原有病症的传统的治疗上[2,3].不同种类和不同产地芦荟组份各不相同.芦荟药理作用是多种化学成分综合起作用的结果.我们首次对库拉索芦荟的有机成分采用GC-MS联用方法进行了研究,共分离出70余种,鉴定了48种成分,并确定了主要成分的相对百分含量.为促进芦荟的研究开发和应用提供理论依据.     

Structure of the indole-benzene dimer revisited

The structure of the indole-benzene dimer has been investigated using experimental techniques, namely, UV spectroscopy and infrared-ultraviolet (IR/UV) double resonance spectroscopy, combined with quantum chemical calculations such as MP2 and dispersion corrected DFT methods. The red shift of the indole N-H stretch frequency in the dimer provides direct evidence that the experimentally observed indole-benzene dimer is an N-H···π bound hydrogen bonded complex. Theoretical investigations suggest that the potential energy surface (PES) of the complex is rather flat along the coordinate describing the tilt angle between the molecular planes of indole and benzene, with several minima of similar energies, namely, parallel displaced (PD), right-angle T-shaped (T), and other intermediate structures which can be categorized as tilted T-shaped (T') and tilted parallel displaced (PD') structures. Three different computational methods, namely, RI-MP2, RI-B97-D, and PBE1-DCP, are used to arrive at a new structural assignment after assessing their performance in predicting the structure of the pyrrole dimer, for which accurate experimental data are available. By comparing the computed IR spectra of PD, T, and T'/PD' structures with the experimental IR spectrum, the tilted T-shaped (T') structure was assigned to the indole-benzene dimer. The empirically dispersion-corrected functionals (RI-B97-D and PBE1-DCP) correctly reproduce the experimental IR spectrum whereas the popular post-Hartree-Fock, MP2 method gives disappointing results. These results are also in agreement with the experimental dissociation energy (D(0)) reported in the literature. The N-H stretch frequency of the indole-benzene dimer has been found to be a more pertinent parameter for the structural assignment than the dissociation energy (D(0)).