Polymeric composites of 1,2,4-thiadiazole: solubility,dissolution and permeability assay

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The derivative of 1,2,4-thiadiazole (TDZ) can be considered as a perspective agent for the Alzheimer’s disease prevention. Due to a highly...     

Thermal analysis methods to study the reservoir bitumens

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The bitumen-containing reservoir rocks taken from Devonian terrigenous formation of Romashkino and Bavly oil fields (Russia) were sampled and...     

Molecular Characteristics and Antioxidant Activity of Spruce (Picea abies) Hemicelluloses Isolated by Catalytic Oxidative Delignification

Spruce (Picea abies) wood hemicelluloses have been obtained by the noncatalytic and catalytic oxidative delignification in the acetic acid-water-hydrogen peroxide medium in a processing time of 3–4 h and temperatures of 90–100 °C. In the catalytic process, the H₂SO₄, MnSO₄, TiO₂, and (NH₄)₆Mo₇O₂₄ catalysts have been used. A polysaccharide yield of up to 11.7 wt% has been found. The hemicellulose composition and structure have been studied by a complex of physicochemical methods, including gas and gel permeation chromatography, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, and thermogravimetric analysis. The galactose:mannose:glucose:arabinose:xylose monomeric units in a ratio of 5:3:2:1:1 have been identified in the hemicelluloses by gas chromatography. Using gel permeation chromatography, the weight average molar mass M_w of hemicelluloses has been found to attain 47,654 g/mol in noncatalytic delignification and up to 42,793 g/mol in catalytic delignification. Based on the same technique, a method for determining the α and k parameters of the Mark–Kuhn–Houwink equation for hemicelluloses has been developed; it has been established that these parameters change between 0.33–1.01 and 1.57–472.17, respectively, depending on the catalyst concentration and process temperature and time. Moreover, the FTIR spectra of the hemicellulose samples contain all the bands characteristic of heteropolysaccharides, specifically, 1069 cm⁻¹ (C–O–C and C–O–H), 1738 cm⁻¹ (ester C=O), 1375 cm⁻¹ (–C–CH₃), 1243 cm⁻¹ (–C–O–), etc. It has been determined by the thermogravimetric analysis that the hemicelluloses isolated from spruce wood are resistant to heating to temperatures of up to ~100 °C and, upon further heating, start destructing at an increasing rate. The antioxidant activity of the hemicelluloses has been examined using the compounds simulating the 2,2-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl free radicals.     

Oligomeric oxidation products of the flavonoid quercetin

Some of the main oxidation products of quercetin were shown to be compounds formed by oligomerization of the starting flavonoid. Conditions for the preparative synthesis of these compounds were developed. Their structures were established using HPLC-MS and NMR methods. Quercetin oligomers in the natural sample, outer leaves of modified runners of Allium cepa L., were found using chromatographic procedures. The use of quercetin oligomers as indicators of its oxidation was proposed. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 344–347, July–August, 2008.     

Fluorescence of an eosine probe in solutions of human serum albumin with organic and inorganic ligands

The fluorescence of an eosine molecular probe in solutions of human serum albumin (HSA) in the presence of an inorganic (CsCl) and organic (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS) ligand was studied. The interaction of HSA molecules with these ligands was analyzed. It was demonstrated that the presence of CsCl, a low-molecular-weight salt, in the solutions influences the efficiency of the complexation of eosine with HSA. Data on the dynamics of the conformation rearrangement of HSA during denaturation under the action of SDS were obtained.