5-isobutyl-3-methyl-2-furancarbaldehyde,a new monoterpenoid from the essential oil of tagetes glandulifera schrank

The new monoterpenoid 5-isobutyl-3-methyl-2-furancarbaldehyde was isolated from Tagetes glandulifera Schrank and its structure confirmed by synthesis.     

New designer drug 1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl) piperazine (TFMPP): gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry studies on its phase I and II metabolism and on its toxicological detection in rat urine

Studies are described on the phase I and II metabolism and the toxicological analysis of the piperazine-derived designer drug 1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)piperazine (TFMPP) in rat urine using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS). The identified metabolites indicated that TFMPP was extensively metabolized, mainly by hydroxylation of the aromatic ring and by degradation of the piperazine moiety to N-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)ethylenediamine, N-(hydroxy-3-trifluoromethylphenyl)ethylenediamine, 3-trifluoromethylaniline, and hydroxy-3-trifluoromethylaniline. Phase II reactions included glucuronidation, sulfatation and acetylation of phase I metabolites. The authors' systematic toxicological analysis (STA) procedure using full-scan GC/MS after acid hydrolysis, liquid-liquid extraction and microwave-assisted acetylation allowed the detection of TFMPP and its above-mentioned metabolites in rat urine after single administration of a dose calculated from the doses commonly taken by drug users. Assuming similar metabolism, the described STA procedure should be suitable for proof of an intake of TFMPP in human urine.     

The Application of Heat Treatment in the Formation of Relief-Phase Holographic Structures on Dichromed Gelatin

Optics and Spectroscopy - A new method of formation of relief-phase holographic structure on dichromated gelatin (DCG) layers has been proposed. The method is based on two types of alternative...     

Near- and mid-infrared laser-optical sensors for gas analysis

Semiconductor diode lasers were first developed in the mid-1960s and found immediate application as much needed tunable sources for high-resolution laser spectroscopy commonly referred to as tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS). In this paper, currently available semiconductor lasers for spectroscopy in the near- and mid-infrared spectral region based upon gallium arsenide, indium phosphite, antimonides and lead-salt containing compounds will be reviewed together with the main features of TDLAS. Room-temperature measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide near 2 μm will be discussed and recent results obtained with a fast chemical sensor for methane flux measurements based on lead-salt diode lasers operating near 7.8 μm will be presented.     

Phase transitions and positive definite couplings

The method of infrared bounds is extended to a large class of nearest neighbour interactions in classical spin systems. Temperature controlled bounds on fluctuations follow whenever the coupling function is a positive definite kernel. Existence of phase transitions is demonstrated for the RP ^Nmodel for d3.     

Effective Polytropic Indices of Anisotropic Planetary Magnetosheath Plasmas with Magnetoacoustic Waves

Magnetosheath models for the planets Earth, Jupiter and Saturn are developed within the frame of the double‐adiabatic Chew‐Goldberger‐Low approximation. It is shown that in all three magnetosheaths slow and fast magnetoacoustic waves are generated, the dispersions of which considerably differ from that of isotropic systems. If slow magnetoacoustic waves exist in the magnetosheaths, then the effective polytropic coefficient of the plasma may be smaller than unity ‐ that means compression of the plasma is accompanied, in the average, by cooling. Such polytropic coefficients are not obtained when fast magnetoacoustic waves are excited (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Optical pulse broadening in long fibre waveguides

As a result of research, the propagation characteristics of optical waveguides are becoming well enough understood for system evaluation. In this paper material and structural properties of the waveguide are related to measurements made on present experimental waveguides. Among the conclusions drawn from this work are that intermodal dispersion provides the dominant pulse broadening contribution but that this has been reduced to the nanosecond region by radial index gradient control. For present source spectral bandwidths, material dispersion is not a major contribution to pulse broadening. Waveguides up to 3 km long can be made with negligible intrinsic mode coupling. This gives rise to the possibility of either internal or external control to increase the information carrying capacity of the waveguide. External control has already been demonstrated. However, additional work is required to make this practical.     

Frequency and temperature dependence of molecular and micromechanical transitions in PPO/PMMA/P(S-g-EO) blends

The frequency and temperature dependence of molecular and micromechanical transitions were studied in polymer blends with an interphase. The viscoelastic properties of poly(2,6-dimethyl-p-phenylene oxide) (PPO) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) blends that were compatibilized by a poly(styrene-graft-ethylene oxide) (P(S-g-EO)) copolymer were studied by dynamic mechanical spectroscopy (DMS) and the experimental data were compared with an interlayer model. The addition of the copolymer resulted in a micromechanical transition, and the relation between the volume fraction of interphase, the activation energy of the micromechanical transition, and the micromechanical transition temperature was studied. A qualitative agreement between experiments and theory was achieved. The quantitative difference was explained by partial mixing of PPO and/or PMMA with the copolymer in the interphase. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

A comparative theoretical study of dipeptide solvation in water

Molecular dynamics studies have been performed on the zwitterionic form of the dipeptide glycine-alanine in water, with focus on the solvation and electrostatic properties using a range of theoretical methods, from purely classical force fields, through mixed quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical simulations, to fully quantum mechanical Car-Parrinello calculations. The results of these studies show that the solvation pattern is similar for all methods used for most atoms in the dipeptide, but can differ substantially for some groups; namely the carboxy and aminoterminii, and the backbone amid NH group. This might have implications in other theoretical studies of peptides and proteins with charged -NH(3) (+) and -CO(2) (-) side chains solvated in water. Hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical simulations successfully reproduce the solvation patterns from the fully quantum mechanical simulations (PACS numbers: 87.14.Ee, 87.15.Aa, 87.15.He, 71.15.Pd).     

New designer drugs N-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)-2-ethoxyethanamine (PCEEA) and N-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)-2-methoxyethanamine (PCMEA): Studies on their metabolism and toxicological detection in rat urine using gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric techniques

Studies are described on the metabolism and the toxicological detection of the phencyclidine-derived designer drugs N-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)-2-ethoxyethanamine (PCEEA) and N-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)-2-methoxyethanamine (PCMEA) in rat urine using gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric (GC/MS) techniques. The identified metabolites indicated that PCEEA and PCMEA were transformed to the same metabolites by N-dealkylation and O-dealkylation partially followed by oxidation of the resulting alcohol to the respective carboxylic acid and hydroxylation of the cyclohexyl ring at different positions and combinations of those. Finally, aromatic hydroxylation of the O-dealkylated metabolites was partially followed by hydroxylation of the cyclohexyl ring at different positions. All metabolites were partially excreted in conjugated form. The authors' systematic toxicological analysis (STA) procedure using full-scan GC/MS after acid hydrolysis, liquid-liquid extraction and microwave-assisted acetylation allowed the detection of an intake of a common drug users' dose both of PCEEA and PCMEA in rat urine. Assuming similar metabolism in humans, the STA should be suitable for proof of an intake of PCEEA and PCMEA in human urine, although their differentiation is not possible due to common metabolites.