Desymmetrizing Electron‐Deficient Diboranes(4): Diverse Products and Their Reactivity

A comprehensive study of the reactivity of Lewis bases with dihalodiboranes(4) is presented. Diaryldihalodiboranes provide rearranged monoadducts when treated with cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbenes, but halide‐bridged adducts when treated with a range of pyridyl bases. Alternatively, the combination of diaminodihalodiboranes with strong carbene donors leads to boraborenium salts. The reduction and halide‐abstraction reactivity of these adducts was also explored, leading to intramolecular C?H activation and the first 1,2‐bis(borenium) dication.     

Quantitation of a PEGylated protein in monkey serum by UHPLC-HRMS using a surrogate disulfide-containing peptide: A new approach to bioanalysis and in vivo stability evaluation of disulfide-rich protein therapeutics

To quantify a therapeutic PEGylated protein in monkey serum as well as to monitor its potential in vivo instability and methionine oxidation, a novel ultra high performance liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometric (UHPLC-HRMS) assay was developed using a surrogate disulfide-containing peptide, DCP(SS), and a confirmatory peptide, CP, a disulfide-free peptide. DCP(SS) was obtained by eliminating the step of reduction/alkylation before trypsin digestion. It contains an intact disulfide linkage between two peptide sequences that are essential for drug function but susceptible to potential in vivo cleavages. HRMS-based single ion monitoring (SIM) on a Q Exactive™ mass spectrometer was employed to improve assay specificity and sensitivity for DCP(SS) due to its poor fragmentation and low sensitivity with SRM detection. The assay has been validated for the protein drug in monkey serum using both surrogate peptides with excellent accuracy (within ±4.4%Dev) and precision (within 7.5%CV) with a lower limit of quantitation (LLOQ) at 10 ng mL⁻¹. The protein concentrations in monkey serum obtained from the DCP(SS)-based assay not only provided important pharmacokinetic parameters, but also confirmed in vivo stability of the peptide regions of interest by comparing drug concentrations with those obtained from the CP-based assay or from a ligand-binding assay (LBA). Furthermore, UHPLC-HRMS allowed simultaneous monitoring of the oxidized forms of both surrogate peptides to evaluate potential ex vivo/in vivo oxidation of one methionine present in each of both surrogate peptides. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of using a surrogate disulfide-containing peptide for LC-MS bioanalysis of a therapeutic protein.     

Intracrystalline diffusivities and surface permeabilities deduced from transient concentration profiles: methanol in MOF manganese formate

The intracrystalline concentration profiles during molecular uptake of methanol by an initially empty, single crystal of microporous manganese(II) formate (Mn(HCO2)2), representing an ionic inorganic-organic hybrid within the MOF family, are monitored by interference microscopy. Within these profiles, a crystal section could be detected where over the total of its extension ( approximately 2 microm x 50 microm x 30 microm) molecular uptake ideally followed the pattern of one-dimensional diffusion. Analysis of the evolution of intracrystalline concentration in this section directly yields the permeability of the crystal surface and the intracrystalline diffusivity as a function of the concentration of the total range of 0 相似文献   

Translation of pseudo-cross-conjugation into chemistry: cycloadditions of mesomeric betaines to the new ring system spiro[indazole-3,3'-pyrrole

Indazolium-3-amidates (X-ray analysis), readily available on trapping the N-heterocyclic carbene indazol-3-ylidene with isocyanates, underwent [3+2]-cycloadditions with activated triple bonds to spiro[indazole-3,3'-pyrroles]. A combination of NMR techniques such as heteronuclear single quantum coherence (HSQC), heteronuclear multiple bond correlation (HMBC), nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy (NOESY), and 1H/15N correlations were applied to elucidate the structures of the cycloadducts.     

Diversification of catalytic function in a synthetic family of chimeric cytochrome p450s

We report initial characterization of a synthetic family of more than 3000 cytochrome P450s made by SCHEMA recombination of 3 bacterial CYP102s. A total of 16 heme domains and their holoenzyme fusions with each of the 3 parental reductase domains were tested for activity on 11 different substrates. The results show that the chimeric enzymes have acquired significant functional diversity, including the ability to accept substrates not accepted by the parent enzymes. K-means clustering analysis of the activity data allowed the enzymes to be classified into five distinct groups based on substrate specificity. The substrates can also be grouped such that one can be a "surrogate" for others in the group. Fusion of a functional chimeric heme domain with a parental reductase domain always reconstituted a functional holoenzyme, indicating that key interdomain interactions are conserved upon reductase swapping.     

The perimeter of words

We define $\left[k\right]=\{1,2,\dots ,k\}$ to be a (totally ordered) alphabet on $k$ letters. A word $w$ of length $n$ on the alphabet $\left[k\right]$ is an element of ${\left[k\right]}^n$. A word can be represented by a bargraph (i.e., by a column-convex polyomino whose lower edges lie on the $x$-axis) in which the height of the $i$th column equals the size of the $i$th part of the word. Thus these bargraphs have heights which are less than or equal to $k$. We consider the perimeter, which is the number of edges on the boundary of the bargraph. By way of Cramer’s method and the kernel method, we obtain the generating function that counts the perimeter of words. Using these generating functions we find the average perimeter of words of length $n$ over the alphabet $\left[k\right]$. We also show how the mean and variance can be obtained using a direct counting method.     

A robust approach for finding all well-separated solutions of sparse systems of nonlinear equations

Tearing is a long-established decomposition technique, widely adapted across many engineering fields. It reduces the task of solving a large and sparse nonlinear system of equations to that of solving a sequence of low-dimensional ones. The most serious weakness of this approach is well-known: It may suffer from severe numerical instability. The present paper resolves this flaw for the first time. The new approach requires reasonable bound constraints on the variables. The worst-case time complexity of the algorithm is exponential in the size of the largest subproblem of the decomposed system. Although there is no theoretical guarantee that all solutions will be found in the general case, increasing the so-called sample size parameter of the method improves robustness. This is demonstrated on two particularly challenging problems. Our first example is the steady-state simulation a challenging distillation column, belonging to an infamous class of problems where tearing often fails due to numerical instability. This column has three solutions, one of which is missed using tearing, but even with problem-specific methods that are not based on tearing. The other example is the Stewart–Gough platform with 40 real solutions, an extensively studied benchmark in the field of numerical algebraic geometry. For both examples, all solutions are found with a fairly small amount of sampling.     

Synthesis,Crystal Structure,and Characterization of Two Novel One‐ and Two‐Dimensionally Polymeric Copper(II) Phosphonoacetates

Blue single crystals of Cu[μ₂‐OOC(CH₂)PO₃H] · 2H₂O ( 1 ) and Cu_1.5[μ₃‐OOC(CH₂)PO₃] · 5H₂O ( 2 ) were prepared in aqueous solution. In compound 1 [space group C2/c (no. 15) with a = 1623.3(2), b = 624.0(1), c = 1495.5(2) pm, β = 122.45(1)°], Cu is coordinated by three oxygen atoms stemming from the hydrogenphosphonoacetate dianion and three water molecules to form a distorted octahedron. The Cu–O bonds range from 190.4(3) to 278.5(3) pm. The connection between the Cu²⁺ cations and the hydrogenphosphonoacetate dianions leads to a two‐dimensional structure with layers parallel to (101). The layers are linked by hydrogen bonds. In compound 2 [space group P1 (no. 2) with a = 608.2(1), b = 800.1(1), c = 1083.6(1) pm, α = 94.98(1)°, β = 105.71(1)°, γ = 109.84(1)°], two crystallographically independent Cu²⁺ cations are coordinated in a square pyramidal and an octahedral fashion, respectively. The Cu–O bonds range from 192.9(2) to 237.2(2) pm. The coordination of the phosphonoacetate trianion to Cu(1) results in infinite polyanionic chains parallel to [100] with a composition of {Cu(H₂O)[OOC(CH₂)PO₃]}_n^n–. Hydrated Cu(2) cations are accommodated between the chains as counterions. 1 and 2 show structural features of cation exchangers. Magnetic measurements reveal a paramagnetic Curie‐Weiss behavior. Compound 2 shows antiferromagnetic coupling between Cu²⁺ ions due to a super‐superexchange coupling. The UV/Vis spectra of 1 suggest three d–d transition bands at 763 nm (²B₁ → ²E), 878 nm (²B₁ → ²B₂), and 1061 nm (²B₁ → ²A₁). Thermoanalytical investigations in air show that compound 1 is stable up to 165 °C, whereas decomposition of 2 begins at 63 °C.