Quantum mechanical calculations on phosphate hydrolysis reactions

Multiple biological processes are regulated by kinases and phosphatases. This study aims to provide nonenzymatic models for phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of serine, threonine, and tyrosine phosphate using ab initio guantum mechanical calculations. We reduce the problem to methyl phosphate hydrolysis to model serine/threonine, and the hydrolysis of phenyl phosphate to model the tyrosine. HF, B3LYP, and MP2 calculations with a 6‐31+G(d) basis set were employed. The effect of water as a catalyst was also analyzed. As expected, the activation energy barrier is lowered. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Comput Chem 21: 43–51, 2000     

Designing ring-current patterns: [10,5]-coronene, a circulene with inverted rim and hub currents

In an axial magnetic field, coronene, corannulene and kekulene support disjoint paratropic-hub and diatropic-rim ring currents. Bond-order and orbital arguments suggest [10,5]-coronene, C30H10, comprising 10 fused pentagons around a central decagon, as a system that should support an inverted diatropic-hub/paratropic-rim pattern of induced currents. The proposal is verified by ipsocentric ab initio mapping of currents, reproduced with the economical pseudo-pi method, thus validating a powerful toolkit for design of (induced) molecular magnets.     

Which pi-clamped conjugated monocycles exhibit ring currents?

Quenching/survival of ring currents in pi-clamped conjugated monocycles is controlled by the match or mismatch in parity between the frontier orbitals of the central pi-conjugated 4n+2/4n monocycle and those of the clamps. Changes in ring current are not primarily caused by bond alternation or 'Mills-Nixon' effects; current and geometry changes on clamping are both consequences of electronic structure.     

Aromaticity of organic heterocyclothiazenes and analogues

Members of a series of carbon-poor sulfur-nitrogen heterocycles and polycycles are shown by direct ab initio ipsocentric calculation to support diatropic ring currents and hence to be aromatic on the basis of magnetic criteria. They include 7-cycles S(3)N(2)(CH)(2), S(3)N(3)(CH), and S(3)N(4) and 8-cycles S(2)N(4)(CH)(2) and S(2)N(2)(CH)(4), all with 10 pi electrons. The unknown trithiatetrazepine S(3)N(4) is predicted to be at least as aromatic as its known diaza and triaza homologues. Angular-momentum arguments show that the pi-electron-rich nature of (4n + 2) SN heterocycles is the key to their diatropic current. The Woodward dithiatetrazocine parent framework S(2)N(4)(CH)(2) supports a diatropic ring current, as does its analogue in which N and CH groups are formally exchanged. Formal expansion of (4n + 2)-pi carbocyclic systems by insertion of NSN motifs in every CC bond is predicted to lead to structures that support diatropic ring currents: explicit ab initio calculation of magnetic response predicts the 24-center, 30-pi-electron heterocycle S(6)N(12)(CH)(6), formally derived from benzene, to be aromatic on the basis of this criterion.     

Optimal synthesis of heat exchanger network for thermochemical S-I cycle

In this paper, a brief survey of hydrogen production methods is presented with a focus on S-I cycle. Based on heat duty data of sulfuric acid decomposition in S-I cycle, optimization models are developed to explore the minimum utility consumption and the minimum number of heat exchangers. Finally an optimal heat exchanger network for S-I thermochemical cycle is defined by a mixed integer optimization model.     

The MacLane class and complex differential equations in the unit disk

The interaction between the coefficients and solutions for linear differential equations and for Riccati differential equations is investigated in the unit disk in terms of their asymptotic values as described by the MacLane class. This interaction is further explored within the context of a meromorphic version of the MacLane class.     

The crystal structure of calcium succinate monohydrate

The crystal structure of calcium succinate monohydrate, Ca(C₄H₄O₄)·H₂O, has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. The crystals are monoclinic witha=11.952(2),b=9.691(2),c=11.606(2)Å, =108.81(1)°, space group C2/c,Z=8,V=1272.49 ų,d _m =1.80, andd _c =1.818 Mg m^–3. The structure was refined by full-matrix least-squares techniques toR=0.027,R _w =0.040, for 829 reflections with13(I). Ca is coordinated to seven oxygen atoms, and the coordination polyhedron is best described as a pentagonal bipyramid. One carboxylate group in the succinate ion is bonded to three different Ca ions, forming a four-membered chelate ring with one Ca ion is bonded to three different Ca ions, forming a four-membered chelate ring with one Ca ion and unidentate bridge bonds to two other Ca ions. The other carboxylate group is bonded to two Ca ions through unidentate bonds. The structure is highly polymeric. The general structural features are nearly identical to those of calcium adipate monohydrate.Certain commercial materials and equipment are identified in this paper to specify the experimental procedure. In no instance does such identification imply recommendation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology or the ADA Health Foundation or that the material or equipment identified is necessarily the best available for the purpose.     

Interactive evolutionary multi-objective optimization for quasi-concave preference functions

We present a new hybrid approach to interactive evolutionary multi-objective optimization that uses a partial preference order to act as the fitness function in a customized genetic algorithm. We periodically send solutions to the decision maker (DM) for her evaluation and use the resulting preference information to form preference cones consisting of inferior solutions. The cones allow us to implicitly rank solutions that the DM has not considered. This technique avoids assuming an exact form for the preference function, but does assume that the preference function is quasi-concave. This paper describes the genetic algorithm and demonstrates its performance on the multi-objective knapsack problem.