Heat capacities of a series of terminal linear alkyldiamides determined by DSC

Molar heat capacities of twelve linear alkane-α,ω-diamides H₂NOC-(CH₂)_(n-2)-CONH₂, (n=2 to 12 and n=14) were measured by differential scanning calorimetry at T=183 to 323 K. Heat flow rate calibration of the Mettler DSC 30 calorimeter was carried out by using benzoic acid as reference material. The calibration was checked by determining the molar heat capacity of urea in the same temperature range as that of measurements. The molar heat capacities of alkane-α,ω-diamides increased in function of temperature and fitted into linear equations. Smoothed values of C _p,m at 298.15 K displayed a linear increase with the number of carbon atoms. The C _p,m contribution of CH₂ group was (22.6±0.4) J K⁻¹ mol⁻¹, in agreement with our previous results concerning linear alkane-a,ω-diols and primary alkylamides as well as the literature data on various series of linear alkyl compounds. On leave from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Craiova, Calea Bucureşti 165, Craiova 1100, Romania     

Heat capacities and thermodynamic properties of chrysanthemic acid

The heat capacities of chrysanthemic acid in the temperature range from 80 to 400 K were measured with a precise automatic adiabatic calorimeter. The chrysanthemic acid sample was prepared with the purity of 0.9855 mole fraction. A solid-liquid fusion phase transition was observed in the experimental temperature range. The melting point, T _m, enthalpy and entropy of fusion, Δ_fus H _m, Δ_fus S _m, were determined to be 390.741±0.002 K, 14.51±0.13 kJ mol^-1, 37.13±0.34 J mol^-1 K^-1, respectively. The thermodynamic functions of chrysanthemic acid, H _(T)-H_(298.15), S _(T)-S_(298.15) and G _(T)-G ₍₂₉₈.₁₅₎ were reported with a temperature interval of 5 K. The TG analysis under the heating rate of 10 K min^-1 confirmed that the thermal decomposition of the sample starts at ca. 410 K and terminates at ca. 471 K. The maximum decomposition rate was obtained at 466 K. The purity of the sample was determined by a fractional melting method. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Heat capacities of poly(amino acid)s and proteins

In an ongoing effort to understand the thermodynamic properties of proteins, solid-state heat capacities of poly(amino acid)s of all 20 naturally occurring amino acids and 4 copoly(amino acid)s have been previously reported on and were analyzed using our Advanced THermal Analysis System (ATHAS). We extend the heat capacities of poly(L-methionine) (PLMFT) and poly(L-phenylalanine) (PLPHEA) with new low temperature measurements from 10 to 340 K. In addition, analyses were performed on literature data of a first protein, zinc bovine insulin dimer C₅₀₈H₇₅₂O₁₅₀N₁₃₀S₁₂Zn, using both the ATHAS empirical addition scheme and computation with an approximate vibrational spectrum for the protein. For the solid state, agreement with the measurement could be accomplished to ±1.6% for PLMET, ±3.5% for PLPHEA, and ±3.2% for insulin, linking the macroscopic heat capacity to its microscopic cause, the group and skeletal vibrational motion. For each polymer, one set of parameters, Θ₁ and Θ₃, of the Tarasov function representing the skeletal vibrational contribution to the heat capacity are obtained from a new optimization procedure [PLMET: 542 K and 83 K (number of skeletal vibrations N_s = 15); PLPHEA: 396 K and 67 K (N_s = 11); and insulin monomer: 599 K and 79 K (N_s = 628), respectively]. Enthalpy, entropy, and Gibbs free energy have been derived for the solid state. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Molecular characteristics of water-soluble fullerene derivatives of amino acids and peptides

The diffusion of fullerene derivatives of amino acids and peptides in dilute aqueous solutions has been studied. These derivatives can exist in solution both as separate molecules and as associates. The degree of association depends both on the nature of the amino acid or peptide residue and on the concentration of the solution.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 879–882, April, 1996.     

Amino acid and peptide derivatives of fullerene

A general method for the synthesis of amino acid and peptide derivatives of fullerene (ADF) was developed, and the physicochemical properties of the compounds obtained were studied. ADF were shown to penetrate into liposomes and to exhibit adjuvant properties and antiviral activity. Deceased Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1050–1054, May, 1998.     

Investigation of structures of micelles of a fullerene derivative of alanine in aqueous solutions by tunneling scanning microscopy

Structures of micelles ofN-(monohydrofullerenyl)-l-alanine and their associates were studied by tunneling scanning microscopy in the regime of a profilometer with a 10-nm resolution along the vertical line. The data obtained show that the micelles of the compound studied are anisodiametric particles 0.5–10 m in size containing negligible amounts of water. The thickness of the micelles depends on their lengths.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 876–878, April, 1996.     

Effect of rapid solidification on heat capacities of Al-Sr alloys

Heat capacities of both the ingot-like and melt-spun Al-Sr alloys have been measured through the temperature range 373 to 1060 K using differential scanning calorimetry. The experimental results show that rapid solidification has a slight effect on the temperature dependence of the heat capacities of the Al-Sr alloys. The heat capacities of the melt-spun Al-Sr alloys increase more slowly than those of the ingot-like alloys with increasing temperature from 373 to 900 K. Furthermore, the effect of rapid solidification on the heat capacities becomes more obvious with increasing Sr concentration in the Al-Sr alloys. The data of the heat capacities between 373 and 900 K have been fitted with the least square method and a linear dependence on temperature was assumed for that temperature range. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

苯氧威 (C17H19NO4) 的热容和热力学性质

通过小样品精密自动绝热量热计测定了自己合成并提纯的苯氧威 (C₁₇H₁₉NO₄) 在79 ～ 360 K温区的低温摩尔热容。量热实验发现, 该化合物在320 ~ 330 K温区, 有一固 - 液熔化相变过程, 其熔化温度为（326.31±0.14）K, 摩尔熔化焓、摩尔熔化熵及化合物的纯度分别为：(26.98±0.04) kJ• mol^-1和（82.69 0.09）J•mol^-1•K^-1和 (99.53±0.01 )%。并计算出了80-360 K的热力学参数。用分步熔化法得到绝对纯化和物的熔点为326.60±0.06 K。用差示扫描量热 (DSC) 技术对该物质的固-液熔化过程作了进一步研究，结果与绝热量热法一致。     

苯并异硒唑酮氨基酸衍生物的合成及抗脂质过氧化作用

在已知具有氧化作用的2-苯基-1,2-苯并异硒唑-3(2H)-酮(Ebselen)的基础上, 将其2-位苯环更换成氨基酸乙酯, 设计并合成了9个苯并异硒酮的氨基酸衍生物3～11. 这类化合物的抗氧化作用药理研究表明,它们对Fe^2^+/半胱氨酸及维生素C诱发的大鼠肝微粒体脂质过氧化有抑制活性, 部分化合物活性比母体化合物Ebselen更优.     

Thermodynamic properties of peptide solutions 4. Partial molar volumes and heat capacities of aqueous solutions of some glycyl dipeptides

Partial molar volumes, V ₂ ^o and partial molar heat capacities C _p,2 ^o have been determined in aqueous solution at 25°C for the dipeptides glycyl-L-asparagine, glycyl-DL-threonine, glycyl-DL-serine and glycyl-DL-phenylalanine. These results, along with those for some other dipeptides of sequence Gly-X, were used to estimate side chain contributions to V ₂ ^o and C _p,2 ^o . For these dipeptides both V ₂ ^o and C _p,2 ^o were found to be a linear function of the respective thermodynamic property for the amino acid X. The contributions of the glycyl units to V ₂ ^o and C _p,2 ^o of the dipeptide are discussed.     

Dependence of the degree of association of mono- and disubstituted biologically active derivatives of fullerene C<Subscript>60</Subscript> in aqueous solutions on the concentration and nature of substituents

The degree of association of biologically active mono-and disubstituted fullerene derivatives in aqueous solutions was studied using the diffusion method. The degree of association, which exerts a strong effect on the biological activity of the fullerene derivatives, depends mainly on the nature of the substituents and, to a less extent, on the concentration of the substance in solution. Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 12, pp. 2307–2311, December, 2007.     

Heat capacities of perfluoropolyethers

The heat capacities at constant pressure of liquid perfluoropolyethers with different chain structures were determined above the glass transition temperature up to 480 K by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The group contributions of the  O , CF₂ , and  CF(CF₃) were calculated as a function of the temperature. Anomalous behavior of ethereal oxygen in a perfluorinated chain, as previously found for group contributions to the glass transition and to the vaporization energy, was observed also for heat capacity where the oxygen contribution is consistently lower for perfluorinated polyoxides in comparison to the hydrogenated homologous. The jump in c_p at the glass transition follows a regular behavior in the sense that ΔC_p/beadmole is within the average range found by Wunderlich for the majority of polymers. Moreover, data obtained in the present work allow the prediction of c_p of perfluoropolyethers of whatever structure between T_g and 480 K. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci B: Polym Phys 35: 2073–2082, 1997     

Heat capacities, order-disorder transitions, and thermodynamic properties of rare-earth orthoferrites and rare-earth iron garnets

Rare-earth orthoferrites, RFeO₃, and rare-earth iron garnets (RIGs) R₃Fe₅O₁₂ (R=rare-earth elements) were prepared by citrate-nitrate gel combustion method and characterized by X-ray diffraction method. Isobaric molar heat capacities of these oxides were determined by using differential scanning calorimetry from 130 to 860 K. Order-disorder transition temperatures were determined from the heat capacity measurements. The Néel temperatures (T_N) due to antiferromagentic to paramagnetic transitions in orthoferrites and the Curie temperatures (T_C) due to ferrimagnetic to paramagnetic transitions in garnets were determined from the heat capacity data. Both T_N and T_C systematically decrease with increasing atomic number of R across the series. Lattice, electronic and magnetic contributions to the total heat capacity were calculated. Debye temperatures as a function of absolute temperature were calculated for these compounds. Thermodynamic functions like , , H^o, G^o, , , , , and have been generated for the compounds RFeO₃(s) and R₃Fe₅O₁₂(s) based on the experimental data obtained in this study and the available data in the literature.     

Heat capacities of butanol and pentanol in aqueous dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide solutions

Heat capacities of the ternary systems water-dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB)-butanol and water-DTAB-pentanol were measured at 25°C. The standard partial molar heat capacities of pentanol in micellar solutions show a maximum at about 0.35 mol-kg^–1 DTAB that has been attributed to a micellar structural transition. This maximum tends to vanish by increasing the alcohol concentration and by decreasing the alcohol alkyl chain length; in the case of butanol it was not detected. The behavior of the standard partial molar heat capacities of alcohols in micellar solutions in the region above the cmc and below the structural transition was explained using a previously reported mass-action model for the alcohol distribution between the aqueous and the micellar phase and the pseudophase transition model for micellization. In the resulting equation the contributions due to the temperature effect on the shift of both the micellization equilibrium and the distribution are shown to be negligible so that only the distribution effect and the shift of the micellization equilibrium due to the added alcohol remain. The distribution constant and the partial molar heat capacities of alcohols in the aqueous and micellar phases have been derived by linear regression. The distribution constant for both alcohols agree well with those previously obtained using different techniques. Since the best fit below the structural transition correlates as well with the experimental points above the structural transition, it seems that no difference exists in the standard partial molar heat capacities of alcohols in the two shapes of the micelles. Also, from the present data and those for alkanols in sodium dodecylsulfate reported in the literature it seems that the standard heat capacity of alcohols in the micellar phase does not depend on both the alcohol alkyl chain length and the nature of the hydrophilic moiety of the head group of the micelles.     

Heat-capacity changes and partial molal heat capacities of several amino acids in water

Integral enthalpies of solution of several amino acids in water at low concentrations have been determined at 25 and 35°C. These data have been used to derive the heat-capacity change C _p ^o on dissolution at 30°C. Partial molal heat capacities C _p2 ^o have been obtained by combining C _p ^o with C _p2 ^o (heat capacity of pure solid amino acids). The results indicate that the increments in C _p ^o and C _p2 ^o values per CH₂ group increment in the homologous series of -amino acids are constant and in agreement with those found for other homologous series of compounds containing monofunctional groups. However, this is not the case with amino acids having the NH ₃ ⁺ group at the terminal position. The present work also indicates that, as the NH ₃ ⁺ group is shifted away from the COO^– group, hydrophobic hydration decreases, as indicated by a decrease in C _p ^o and C _p2 ^o . the results on various isomers of amino acids show that branching of alkyl groups has no effect on C _p ^o and C _p2 ^o , indicating that hydrophobic hydration is unaffected by branching. The effect of substitution of H by OH and of CH₃ by groups in some amino acids has also been studied and discussed.     

The Measurement of Heat Capacity Differences Due to the Change of Water Structure in Aqueous Solutions of Organic Compounds

In order to observe more directly the structural organization of water molecules around a non-polar molecule in an aqueous solution, heat capacity differences between two kinds of solutions (solution I and II) of quaternary ammonium salts were measured. In the solution I stable water structure was retained as much as possible and in the solution II water structure was destroyed either by heating to high temperatures or by irradiating with ultrasonic waves. It was found that the heat capacity differences ((C_p)_II-(C_p)_I) were slightly positive and its maximum values corresponded to 7-8 percent of the heat capacity of pure water itself. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Heat capacities of concentrated multicomponent aqueous electrolyte solutions at various temperatures

The specific heat capacities of the aqueous multicomponent system NaCl +KCl+MgCl₂+CaCl₂ with ionic strength between 8.3 and 9.6 (resembling Dead Sea waters) were measured between 15°C and 45°C. The obtained data were fitted to an empirical equation as a function of concentration and temperature. The thermodynamic functions of the studied multicomponent system were found to be strongly influenced by changes in MgCl₂ concentrations. The application of Young's rule to such concentrated systems was checked at 25°C. The calculated (by Young's rule) specific heat capacitiesC _p and apparent molar heat capacities C_p, of these multicomponent electrolyte solutions were in reasonable agreement with the measured values (–0.008 J-g^–1-K^–1 and –2.6 J-mol^–1-K^–1, respectively).     

Heat capacities of a networked system of single-molecule magnet with three-dimensional structure

A magnetic-fields dependence of heat capacity of [Mn₅(hmp)₄(OH)₂{N(CN)₂}₆]2MeCN·2THF (hmp=hydroxymethylpyridinate) is investigated by the thermal relaxation calorimetry technique. This compound is a three-dimensional system consisting of Mn₄ single-molecule magnet (SMM) units and Mn²⁺ ions, which are linked by the dicyanamide ligands to form a coordination network structure. A sharp peak of C _p being associated with the formation of three-dimensional long-range order is observed around 1.96 K. The thermodynamic discussion based on the magnetic entropy suggests that both SMMs and Mn²⁺ ions are involved in the formation of the anitiferromagnetic spin ordering. However, this long-range ordering is very sensitive to the external magnetic fields which work to change the magnitude of the Zeeman splitting of the SMM levels. The behavior under magnetic fields is similar to that of the two-dimensional Mn₄-network system studied previously.     

Heat capacity of poly(butylene terephthalate)

The low‐temperature heat capacity of poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT) was measured from 5 to 330 K. The experimental heat capacity of solid PBT, below the glass transition, was linked to its approximate group and skeletal vibrational spectrum. The 21 skeletal vibrations were estimated with a general Tarasov equation with the parameters Θ₁ = 530 K and Θ₂ = Θ₃ = 55 K. The calculated and experimental heat capacities of solid PBT agreed within better than ±3% between 5 and 200 K. The newly calculated vibrational heat capacity of the solid from this study and the liquid heat capacity from the ATHAS Data Bank were applied as reference values for a quantitative thermal analysis of the apparent heat capacity of semicrystalline PBT between the glass and melting transitions as obtained by differential scanning calorimetry. From these results, the integral thermodynamic functions (enthalpy, entropy, and Gibbs function) of crystalline and amorphous PBT were calculated. Finally, the changes in the crystallinity with the temperature were analyzed. With the crystallinity, a baseline was constructed that separated the thermodynamic heat capacity from cold crystallization, reorganization, annealing, and melting effects contained in the apparent heat capacity. For semicrystalline PBT samples, the mobile‐amorphous and rigid‐amorphous fractions were estimated to complete the thermal analysis. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 42: 4401–4411, 2004     

微波辐射在合成沙利度胺的铵盐类衍生物中的应用

沙利度胺(Thalidomide)又名反应停,化学名称为N-2-(2,6-二氧-3-哌啶基)-邻苯二甲酰亚胺[N-2-(2,6-dioxo-3-piperidinyl)-phthalidomide],是一种合成类谷氨酸衍生物,曾因致畸副作用而一度停止对其的研究[1].但上个世纪末期,Sampaio[2]等曾报道,沙利度胺可抑制体外LPS刺激原代人体单核细胞生成TNF-α,Kenyon[3]等的研究表明(S)-沙利度胺有着很强的抑制血管生成作用,再度引发了科学界对沙利度胺及其相关衍生物的研究兴趣.