A dual sensor spin trap for use with EPR spectroscopy

Redox active metal ions, carbon-centered radicals, and oxygen-centered radicals are important to oxidative stress. A radical detector combining a nitrone spin trap, a phenol, and a cyclopropane radical clocklike unit was prepared and used with EPR spectroscopy to detect and distinguish between hydroxyl radicals, methyl radicals, and iron(III) ions. Iron(III) reacts with the phenol unit inducing opening of the cyclopropane ring and cyclization to generate a stable nitroxyl radical.     

Electrolytic Macrocyclizations: Scalable Synthesis of a Diazonamide‐Based Drug Development Candidate

An electrochemical method to synthesize the core macrolactam of diazonamides is described. Large ring‐forming dehydrogenation is initiated by anodic oxidation at a graphite surface. The reaction requires no tailoring of the substrate and occurs at ambient temperature in aqueous DMF in an undivided cell open to air. This unique chemistry has enabled a concise, scalable preparation of DZ‐2384; a refined analog of diazonamide A slated for clinical development as a cancer therapeutic.     

Collider physics at high energies and low luminosities

While very high acceleration gradients are expected in novel accelerating schemes such as those discussed by IZEST, generating high luminosities will be extremely challenging and will likely require a separate technology revolution. It is important to determine if a low-luminosity but high energy collider would have serious interest from a particle physics perspective. We consider a process involving physics beyond the Standard Model that would be detectable at high energies without requiring the types of luminosities normally quoted for future colliders, “classicalization”. In this example, scattering cross sections grow with a power of the center-of-mass energy, thereby reducing the luminosity requirement at high energies. Another process discussed is deep-inelastic-scattering of electrons on protons, where a precision measurement of the energy dependence of the scattering cross section could yield information about physics processes at much higher scales.     

Selective uncoupling of individual mitochondria within a cell using a mitochondria-targeted photoactivated protonophore

Depolarization of an individual mitochondrion or small clusters of mitochondria within cells has been achieved using a photoactivatable probe. The probe is targeted to the matrix of the mitochondrion by an alkyltriphenylphosphonium lipophilic cation and releases the protonophore 2,4-dinitrophenol locally in predetermined regions in response to directed irradiation with UV light via a local photolysis system. This also provides a proof of principle for the general temporally and spatially controlled release of bioactive molecules, pharmacophores, or toxins to mitochondria with tissue, cell, or mitochondrion specificity.     

Rare-earth chloride seeded growth of GaN nano- and micro-crystals

A novel rare-earth chloride seed was employed as a catalyst for growth of GaN nano- and micro-crystals on c-, a- and r-plane sapphire. The ErCl₃ seed on the substrate surface enhanced the growth rate and density of the GaN crystals. Distinctive green photoluminescence was measured, confirming that Er³⁺ ions were active in the GaN matrix. This technique can be adapted to selectively grow GaN crystals with emission tailored to the particular optical transitions of the rare-earth seed.     

High-spectral-resolution rayleigh-mie lidar measurement of vertical aerosol and atmospheric profiles

A new two-channel ground-based high-spectral-resolution Rayleigh-Mie lidar and its operation is described. Upon the inversion of data collected during the night of August 14–15, 1990, with this unique lidar system (553.7 nm), vertical profiles of atmospheric parameters including temperature, potential temperature, pressure and density, as well as aerosol parameters including backscatter-ratio, extinction coefficient and backscatter phase function are determined.     

Study of temperature dependence of thermal diffusion in polystyrene/ethylbenzene by thermal field-flow fractionation

Using a special thermal field-flow fractionation apparatus capable of working over a broad temperature range, we have observed that retention in the polystyrene/ethylbenzene system decreases substantially as the cold wall temperature increases from 360 to 424 K. Polymers of four different molecular weights ranging from 20,000 to 160,000 were used to verify this conclusion. Based on our earlier work showing that thermal diffusion parameters could be calculated from retention data, we have used the present measurements along with earlier values to generate a compilation of thermal diffusion data over the temperature range from 270 to 424 K. These results are used to develop empirical expressions for the thermal diffusion factor and the thermal diffusion coefficient for polystyrene in ethylbenzene as a function of temperature and molecular weight. It is shown that these results have potential usefulness both in terms of the new physicochemical data obtained and in terms of the guidelines they provide for choosing experimental conditions for thermal field-flow fractionation experiments.     

Synthesis and X-ray crystal structure of cis-dichloro(cyclopentylamine) (dimethyl sulphoxide)platinum(II)

Summary cis-Dichlorocyclopentylamine(dimethyl sulphoxide)-platinum(II) is obtained, in addition to small quantities of the corresponding trans compound, by reaction of K₂PtCl₄ with cyclopentylamine in DMSO solution, where it is formed as the thermodynamically favoured isomer. An X-ray crystal structure analysis confirms the cis configuration. Coordination around the metal centre is square planar, and the ligand bond angles at the Pt atom are close to the expected values of 90 and 180°. The DMSO ligand is S-coordinated to Pt. The Pt-Cl bond lengths, 2.299(2) and 2.317(2) Å, are normal for structures of this type, as are the Pt-N and Pt-S bond distances, 2.059(5) and 2.191(2) Å, respectively.Author to whom all correspondence should be directed.