Synthesis and Crystal Structure of Tetraaquacopper(II) Bis(5-fluorouracil-1-acetate) Tetrahydrate

1 INTRODUCTION 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) is an antimetabolite with good antimicrobial and antitumor activities but has toxic side effects[1~4]. In order to improve the topical delivery of 5-FU and reduce the side effects, many derivatives of 5-FU have been synthesized, some of which are of improved activity. 5-Fluorou- racil-1-acetic acid is a member of the family[5~8], which belongs to the pyrimidine base and is a cyto-toxic analogue of the natural base thymine, and has proven useful in th…     

N-(2-甲氧羰基-1-甲基)-乙基-(N′-D-乙酰基吡喃型糖)硫脲类化合物的合成及生物活性

N-(2-甲氧羰基-1-甲基)-乙基-(N′-D-乙酰基吡喃型糖)硫脲类化合物的合成及生物活性;糖基硫脲;β-氨基丁酸;合成;生物活性     

以Cu(II)为光谱探针离子分光光度法测定异烟肼的新方法

以Cu(II)为光谱探针建立了一种高选择性、高灵敏度测定异烟肼的新方法。试验表明：在pH 6.0时，Cu(II)可被异烟肼还原生成Cu(I)，反应生成的Cu(I) 与SCN-反应生成CuSCN白色乳状沉淀，在硝酸钠的存在下该沉淀可被浮选至水相表面。通过测定水相中剩余Cu(II)的量，可以间接测定异烟肼的含量。已反应Cu(II) 的量与异烟肼的浓度呈良好的线性关系，线性范围为0.050-4.50 µg mL-1，检出限为0.048 µg mL-1。该法已经成功的用于药物样品和病人尿液样品中异烟肼含量的测定。     

Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a New Lanthanum(III) 4-Cyanobenzoate Complex

A new dinuclear La(III) complex [La2(4-cba)4[H(4-cba)2]2(phen)2(H2O)4] (4-Hcba = 4-cyanobenzoic acid and phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) 1 has been synthesized by solvothermal reaction in an ethanol/water mixed solution at 100 ℃ and structurally characterized by single- crystal X-ray diffraction. Crystallographic data: C88H58La2N12O20, Mr = 1881.28, triclinic P1, a = 7.518(3), b = 17.033(6), c = 17.551(6), α = 115.333(4), β = 92.9910(10), γ = 99.366(5)°, V = 1985.3(12)3, Z = 1, Dc = 1.574 g/cm3, F(000) = 944 μ = 1.145 mm–1, the final R = 0.0281 and wR = 0.0686 for 6708 reflections with I > 2σ(I). In 1, two nine-coordinated La(III) ions are connected by two 4-cba ligands in a syn-syn bidentate coordination mode, and the other six 4-cba ligands terminate the La(III) ions, resulting in an isolated dinuclear structure. Two different types of intramolecular hydrogen bonds, asymmetrical O-H…O and symmetrical O…H…O, exist in the crystal. The title complex molecules are connected through hydrogen bonds and weak π-π stacking interactions to generate a 2-D layered network. The thermogravimetric analysis of 1 has also been discussed.     

Performance evaluation of adaptive meshing algorithms for fluorescence diffuse optical tomography using experimental data

Fluorescence diffuse optical tomography (FDOT) is a computationally demanding imaging problem. The discretizations of FDOT forward and inverse problems pose a trade-off between the accuracy and the computational efficiency of the image reconstruction. To address this trade-off, we analyzed the effect of discretization on the accuracy of FDOT imaging and proposed novel adaptive meshing algorithms for FDOT in a series of studies. In this Letter, we apply these new adaptive meshing algorithms to FDOT imaging using real data from a phantom experiment to demonstrate the practical advantages of our algorithms in FDOT image reconstruction.     

Multistage high-order microring-resonator add-drop filters

We propose and demonstrate a multistage design for microphotonic add-drop filters that provides reduced drop-port loss and relaxed tolerances for achieving high in-band extinction. As a result, the first microring-resonator filters with a rectangular notch stopband in the through port (to our knowledge) are shown, with extinctions exceeding 50 dB. Reaching 30 dB beyond previous results, without postfabrication trimming, such extinction levels open the door to microphotonic notch circuits for spectroscopy, wavelength conversion, and quantum cryptography applications. Combined with a low-loss, high-index-contrast electromagnetic design in SiN and frequency-matched microring resonators, this approach led to the first demonstration of flattop microphotonic filters meeting the stringent criteria for high-spectral-efficiency integrated add-drop multiplexers. The 40 GHz wide filters show a 20 nm free spectral range, 2 dB drop loss, and suppression of adjacent channels by over 30 dB.     

Carbon tetrachloride as a thermoporometry liquid probe to study the cross-linking of styrene copolymer networks

Mesh size distributions (MSDs) of swollen cross-linked styrene copolymer networks have been measured by thermoporometry using CCl(4) as a probe liquid. All numerical relationships required for the calculation of the MSD were established for both the liquid-to-solid and the solid-to-solid thermal transitions of CCl(4) and successfully validated on test samples. It was found that the polymer network, for both thermally and photo-cross-linked materials, was completely built in about 4 h of exposure. A clear correlation was established between the average mesh size of the swollen polymer network on one hand and the benzoyl peroxide groups content and swelling ratio on the other hand.     

Comparative binding energy analysis of haloalkane dehalogenase substrates: Modelling of enzyme-substrate complexes by molecular docking and quantum mechanical calculations

We evaluate the applicability of automated molecular docking techniques and quantum mechanical calculations to the construction of a set of structures of enzyme-substrate complexes for use in Comparative binding energy (COMBINE) analysis to obtain 3D structure-activity relationships. The data set studied consists of the complexes of eighteen substrates docked within the active site of haloalkane dehalogenase (DhlA) from Xanthobacter autotrophicus GJ10. The results of the COMBINE analysis are compared with previously reported data obtained for the same dataset from modelled complexes that were based on an experimentally determined structure of the DhlA-dichloroethane complex. The quality of fit and the internal predictive power of the two COMBINE models are comparable, but better external predictions are obtained with the new approach. Both models show a similar composition of the principal components. Small differences in the relative contributions that are assigned to important residues for explaining binding affinity differences can be directly linked to structural differences in the modelled enzyme-substrate complexes: (i) rotation of all substrates in the active site about their longitudinal axis, (ii) repositioning of the ring of epihalohydrines and the halogen substituents of 1,2-dihalopropanes, and (iii) altered conformation of the long-chain molecules (halobutanes and halohexanes). For external validation, both a novel substrate not included in the training series and two different mutant proteins were used. The results obtained can be useful in the future to guide the rational engineering of substrate specificity in DhlA and other related enzymes.