Potentiometric Determination of Ascorbic Acid: Estimation of Its Contribution to the Total Antioxidant Capacity of Plant Materials

It was found that an iodine-modified platinum electrode gives a linear potentiometric response to 1.0 × 10^–5 to 1.0 × 10^–3 M ascorbic acid in model solutions. Ascorbic acid in some preparations was determined by potentiometry. The contribution of ascorbic acid to the total antioxidant capacity of aqueous extracts of hips, hop cones, and lemon juice was estimated.     

Entangled polymers in condensed phases

We present Monte Carlo results on a model of polymers in a condensed phase, over a range of monomer densities. We imagine cutting a cube out of the system. This cube will typically have several polymer molecules running through its interior, and starting and ending on the boundary. These subchains will be mutually entangled and we present a way to assess the extent of entanglement complexity as a function of the monomer density and the number of subchains in the cube. The model is a set of k self-avoiding and mutually avoiding walks, properly embedded in the cube.     

New aspects of thermal analysis,Part I. Resolution of DSC and means for its optimization

The definitions of the temperature resolution, the so-called resolution of DSC instruments given in literature are discussed. A new definition of the resolution for DSC instruments is presented and outlined. The main characteristic introduced in this new definition is a minimum between two caloric events as a prerequisite of an existing resolution. Possible candidates of test substances have been evaluated. The oligomer n-hexatriacontane is revealing an interesting phenomenon, namely a lambda transition which is in the peak temperature only 2 K lower than the melting temperature of 76°C. The substance was selected as an ideal test substance for the quantification of the resolution of DSC instruments. The lambda transition is a second order process which may reach under certain conditions the saturation of the occurring molecular dislocation within 0.2 K, and after saturation the heat flow rate drops sharply down. Investigations concerning the main characteristics of n-hexatriacontane in respect to the temperatures of transition (lambda transition and melting), to the involved enthalpies, and to the resolution factors were performed as functions of the sample mass and the heating rate. The importance of relevant evaluation procedures increasing the resolution factors of DSC curves are discussed and these procedures are integrated into the testing of the resolution. The necessity for widening the experimental scope from instruments to evaluation procedures is forced by the existence of instruments with built-in signal treatments based on electronic devices and software procedures. A comparison with literature data is outlined for all of the mentioned characteristic values of n-hexatriacontane. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Second virial coefficients of asymmetric top molecules

A short self-contained derivation is given for the second virial coefficient B2(T) of a gas consisting of identical interacting asymmetric rigid rotors. The resulting expression is correct through variant Planck's over h2. First, the canonical partition function is derived by means of an variant Planck's over h expansion of exp[-H/(k(B)T)] due to Friedmann [Adv. Chem. Phys. 4, 225 (1962)]. The present work applies angular momentum operators and known facts from angular momentum theory. It is considerably more accessible than Friedmann's exposition, which is not based on angular momentum operators, but instead on explicit derivatives with respect to Euler angles. The partition function obtained from the variant Planck's over h expansion is applied to the derivation of an expression for B2(T) that is identical in appearance to the expression for symmetric rotors of T Pack [J. Chem. Phys. 78, 7217 (1983)]. The final equation in this work is valid for rigid rotors of any symmetry.     

Acetylenic amides. 3. The synthesis of 5-methylene-2,4-imidazolidinediones from 2-propynamides and isocyanates

2-Propynamides react with aryl isocyanates in the presence of triethylamine to give 5-methylene-2,4-imidazolidinediones 5 in good yields. If the propynamide contains a terminal trimethylsilyl group, Z-trimethylsilylidenehydantoin ( 7 ) is produced.     

Analysis of inter-ring coupling effects in N-heterobicyclic π-systems using a structural definition of aromaticity

A purely structural definition of aromaticity based on the average ring bond length and -bond order is proposed. The definition is illustrated for N-heterocycles by reference to theoretical STO-3G and 3-21G geometries and charges for some pteridine derivatives. The treatment focuses on the gross structural changes (i.e., ring size, overall degree of π-electron delocalization, and net ring charges), accompanying chemical changes, such as substitution, tautomerization, ring reduction, and deazination, as well as the structural interdependence of the two rings in a bicyclic ring system.     

Organolithium and organosodium compounds of n-substituted 2-alkylbenzimidazoles

Organolithium and organosodium compounds of 1,2-dimethyl-, 1-methyl-2-ethyl-, 1-methyl-2-propyl-, and 1-phenyl-2-methylbenzimidazole, containing the metal in the alkyl group at position C(₂), were obtained by metallation. It was found that metallation can be complicated by the addition of the metalling reagent at the C=N bond of the heterocycle. It was shown that the obtained organometallic compounds can be used for the synthesis of various derivatives of benzimidazole.The calculation was performed with the standard bond lengths. A planar model was used for the carbanion.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 8, pp. 1073–1077, August, 1986.     

INVESTIGATION OF THE ANTIVIRAL ACTION OF THE PHOTOACTIVE COMPOUND PHENYLHEPTATRIYNE

Abstract— Murine cytomegalovirus, a herpes virus, was used as a model virus to investigate the mechanism of the anti-viral action of phenylheptatriyne in long wave ultraviolet light. The genome and proteins of the inactivated virus penetrated the nuclei of susceptible cells normally. Furthermore, the viral genome did not contain extra single strand breaks or cross-links. However, cells infected with the treated virus did not synthesize late viral proteins, as determined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. nor did they synthesize late viral RNA and viral DNA according to nucleic acid hybridization tests. Thus the compound may interfere with an early viral function so that the replication cycle cannot proceed.     

Isolation of nonprotamine proteins from the nuclei of the gonad cells of the Russian sturgeonAcipenser güldenstadti

Eight nonprotamine proteins have extracted from the nuclei of the cells of the gonads of the Russian sturgeon with 0.35 M sodium chloride solution followed by fractionation of carboxymethyl-Sephadex G-25 and desalting on Bio-Gel P-2, and their amino acid compositions have been determined.