Asymmetric Organocatalytic Homologation: Access to Diverse Chiral Trifluoromethyl Organoboron Species

A broad range of aliphatic, aromatic, and heterocyclic boronic acids were successfully homologated using trifluorodiazoethane in the presence of BINOL derivatives to provide the corresponding chiral trifluoromethyl containing boronic acid derivatives in high yields and excellent enantioselectivity. The in situ conversion of the chiral transient boronic acids to the corresponding alcohols or β-CF3 carboxylates are also demonstrated.     

Stability Enhancement of a Dimeric HER2-Specific Affibody Molecule through Sortase A-Catalyzed Head-to-Tail Cyclization

Natural backbone-cyclized proteins have an increased thermostability and resistance towards proteases, characteristics that have sparked interest in head-to-tail cyclization as a method to stability-enhance proteins used in diagnostics and therapeutic applications, for example. In this proof-of principle study, we have produced and investigated a head-to-tail cyclized and HER2-specific Z_HER2:342 Affibody dimer. The sortase A-mediated cyclization reaction is highly efficient (>95%) under optimized conditions, and renders a cyclic Z_HER3:342-dimer with an apparent melting temperature, T_m, of 68 °C, which is 3 °C higher than that of its linear counterpart. Circular dichroism spectra of the linear and cyclic dimers looked very similar in the far-UV range, both before and after thermal unfolding to 90 °C, which suggests that cyclization does not negatively impact the helicity or folding of the cyclic protein. The cyclic dimer had an apparent sub-nanomolar affinity (K_d ~750 pM) to the HER2-receptor, which is a ~150-fold reduction in affinity relative to the linear dimer (K_d ~5 pM), but the anti-HER2 Affibody dimer remained a high-affinity binder even after cyclization. No apparent difference in proteolytic stability was detected in an endopeptidase degradation assay for the cyclic and linear dimers. In contrast, in an exopeptidase degradation assay, the linear dimer was shown to be completely degraded after 5 min, while the cyclic dimer showed no detectable degradation even after 60 min. We further demonstrate that a site-specifically DyLight 594-labeled cyclic dimer shows specific binding to HER2-overexpressing cells. Taken together, the results presented here demonstrate that head-to-tail cyclization can be an effective strategy to increase the stability of an Affibody dimer.     

Comparative study of DFT methods applied to small titanium/oxygen compounds

The performance of a number of different local and nonlocal density functional theory (DFT) methods has been investigated for some small titanium—oxygen systems. Equilibrium geometries, ionization potentials, dipole moments, atomization energies, and harmonic vibrational frequencies have been calculated for the TiO, TiO₂, and Ti₂ molecules, and the results are compared with experimental data and ab initio calculations. It is shown that most DFT methods perform much better than the ab initio Hartree—Fock (HF), second-order perturbation theory (MP2), and configuration interaction including single and double excitations (CISD) treatments. For good agreement with experimental data, gradient corrections to the exchange part of the DFT functional are needed, as well as some type of correction for the errors in the calculated energy splittings between different atomic states of titanium. Hybrid methods including a mixture of HF exchange with DFT exchange correlation do not perform as well as “pure” DFT methods for the studied systems. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

聚合酶链式反应微流控芯片的准分子激光制备和应用研究

摘要采用价格便宜的聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯(PMMA)代替价格昂贵的硅或玻璃作为聚合酶链式反应(PCR)微流控芯片的基片材料,采用柔性大且自动化程度高的准分子激光微加工方法代替加工工艺复杂的光刻化学腐蚀方法,在19 kV和18 mm/min的优化加工参数下,在48 mm×67 mm×1 mm的PMMA基片上制备出20个循环的PCR微流控芯片. 芯片微通道横截面呈梯形,底面光滑. 微通道宽104 μm,深56 μm,长2 060 mm,加工耗时约110 min. 该芯片和相同尺寸的盖片在160 N和105 ℃条件下通过热压经20 min键合在一起,键合强度为0.85 MPa. 键合后的芯片和温控系统集成在一起,采用比例积分微分(PID)方法得到的控温精度为±0.2 ℃,采用红外热像仪得到的相邻温区间的温度梯度分别为16.5和22.2 ℃,最后利用该芯片在对170 bp的DNA片段实现了体外扩增.     

915 nm宽条形半导体激光器输出特性

为了研究温升对915 nm宽条形应变量子阱半导体激光器输出特性的影响,搭建了基于半导体制冷片(TEC)的双向温控平台对其进行了测试。首先,改变激光器的外表面温度,测量其在不同注入电流时的光功率和波长,并利用CCD相机测量其慢轴发散角。然后,利用计算机仿真软件对激光器的工作状态进行稳态模拟,从而获得了其对应的热分布情况,通过将模拟得到的数据与实验测量的结果进行比较,获得了两者趋于一致的结论:当热功率从2.1 W升高至20.0 W时,慢轴发散角从2.6°增大至5.0°,同时波长发生红移,热透镜焦距减小;激光器波长随温度变化关系的系数约为0.4 nm/℃,器件热阻为1.5 K/W。因此,为了同时获得高的输出功率和稳定的输出波长,有必要将激光器外表面温度精确控制在某一数值,否则波长将会发生漂移;此外,在设计制作高功率半导体激光器时,通过适当增加条宽并采用散热良好的封装结构,可以减小对慢轴发散角的影响。     

茂金属聚乙烯薄膜中晶点的组成与结构

茂金属聚乙烯薄膜中晶点的组成与结构;茂金属聚乙烯;晶点;薄膜;组成;结构     

CuO-Ag2O/γ-Al2O3催化剂的TPR特性及氧化活性研究

采用程序升温还原技术(TPR)研究CuO-Ag2O/γ-Al2O3双组分及其单组分催化剂的还原特性以及热处理温度对其还原性能的影响。发现不同负载量的Cuo-Ag2O/γ-Al2O3催化剂的还原特性有明显差异, 反映出催化剂表面存在着不同种类的铜物种。Ag2O的存在, 使催化剂的TPR峰位与单组分CuO/γ-Al2O3的TPR曲线产生明显差异, 还原峰发生位移, 随Ag2O添加量的增加, 位移增大。对苯的完全氧化反应结果表明, 催化剂的氧化活性次序为:CuO-Ag2O/γ-Al2O3>CuO/γ-Al2O3>Ag2O/γ-Al2O3。热处理温度升高, 使催化剂表面铜物种分散状态及其还原性能发生变化。从500~900℃, 存在一个使铜物种达到最佳分散态的温度。讨论了负载于γ-Al2O3载体上的CuO-Ag2O双组分及其单组分催化剂在还原过程中金属与载体, 金属与金属间的相互作用以及热处理温度对其还原性能的影响。     

超高效液相色谱-串联质谱法测定牛奶和奶粉中6种聚醚类抗生素残留量

建立了用于检测牛奶和奶粉中拉沙洛菌素、莫能菌素、尼日利亚菌素、盐霉素、甲基盐霉素和马杜霉素铵6种聚醚类抗生素残留量的超高效液相色谱-串联质谱分析方法.用乙腈提取样品中的聚醚类抗生素,提取液经HLB固相萃取柱净化,采用超高效液相色谱分离,以电喷雾离子源正离子多反应监测模式进行质谱分析.6种抗生素在0.5～100.0 μg/L范围内均呈线性,相关系数r>0.99.在空白样品中添加6种聚醚类抗生素的回收率均在74.0%～98.5%之间; 精密度(RSD)4.8%～17.2%.牛奶中6种聚醚类抗生素检出限均为0.2 μg/L;奶粉中6种聚醚类抗生素检出限均为1.6 μg/kg.     

1,1-二(2,4,6-三硝基苯甲酰胺基)-2,2-硝基乙烯的合成

以1,1-二氨基-2,2-二硝基乙烯(FOX-7)和2,4,6-三硝基苯甲酰氯(TNBC)为原料反应合成得到了1,1-二(2,4,6-三硝基苯甲酰胺基)-2,2-二硝基乙烯,并通过单因素试验和正交试验方法,分别探讨了反应介质、缚酸剂、反应温度和反应时间等对产物产率的影响,得到适宜的工艺条件为:FOX-7与TNBC物质的量的比1∶2.4,以四氢呋喃(THF)为反应介质,N,N-二甲基甲酰胺(DMF)为缚酸剂,反应温度0℃,反应时间48 h,产率可达94％.采用紫外可见光谱(UV-Vis)、核磁共振氢谱(1H NMR)、核磁共振碳谱(13C NMR)、红外光谱(FT-IR)、质谱(MS)及元素分析等对产物的结构进行了表征.利用差热分析仪对产物热稳定性进行了研究,结果表明,产物在空气中分解峰值温度为167℃,理论计算爆速为7.434km· s-1,爆压为23.67 GPa.     

NiY分子筛的合成及在微生物电解池阴极的析氢性能研究

在Na₂O-Al₂O₃-SiO₂-H₂O体系中添加硝酸镍,采用导向剂法合成了NiY分子筛。利用XRD、SEM、TEM、N₂吸附-脱附等手段对合成的NiY分子筛进行了表征。结果表明,随着镍添加量的增加,结晶度和zeta电位呈先增大后减小的趋势。当Si/Ni （mol ratio）大于5时,硝酸镍对分子筛的形成具有促进作用,当Si/Ni （mol ratio）小于5时,则具有抑制作用。晶粒粒径为1.5-3 μm,形貌为凹槽结构的六方或四方柱型,且具有微孔-介孔多级孔道结构特征。通过循环伏安曲线和极化曲线测试,在Si/Ni （mol ratio）=5时,样品的氧化还原性能最强,过电势最小,电催化活性最高。在12 h内,每4 mg的Si/Ni （mol ratio）=5样品,产气总量为10.1 mL,氢气纯度达81.69%,与Pt电极相比其氢气产量提高了28%。NiY分子筛表现出良好的析氢催化活性,有望取代Pt成为MEC新型阴极材料。