Synthesis and characterization of deep eutectic solvents (five hydrophilic and three hydrophobic), and hydrophobic application for microextraction of environmental water samples

Hydrophilic and hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents (DESs) as “green” solvents were applied in this study for the microextraction of environmental samples. A series of DESs (five hydrophilic and three hydrophobic) were synthesized and characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Physicochemical property parameters of eight DESs including water solubility, density, conductivity, and freezing point were assessed. Compared with the performance of five hydrophilic DESs in water phase, the three hydrophobic DESs were more suitable for application in dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction for the determination of sulfonamides in water sample. In dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction process, analytical parameters including type and volume of extraction solvent, extraction time, and pH of water sample were investigated. Under optimum conditions, 60 μL of hydrophobic DESs was used for extraction for 2 min in pH = 7.0 sample. The linear ranges were 0.05–5.0 μg/mL for the four sulfonamides with the correlation coefficients in the range of 0.9991–0.9999. The limits of detection were in the range of 0.0005–0.0009 μg/mL and the limits of quantification were in the range of 0.0019–0.0033 μg/mL. The recoveries of the analytes of the proposed method for the spiked samples were 80.17–93.5%, with the relative standard deviation less than 6.31%. The results indicated that three hydrophobic DESs showed commendable performance for extraction of sulfonamides, and hydrophobic DES-based microextraction method was successfully applied for monitoring sulfonamides in water samples.

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几种缩聚耐热聚合物单体纯度的差示扫描量热(DSC)测定

利用差示扫描量热法测定了缩聚单体的纯度。对于一种新型聚芳醚砜的单体4,4′—二氯二苯砜的纯度在99.0和99.9mol%时,所得缩聚物的比浓粘度分别可达0.36和0.62。提出了适用于缩聚单体纯度DSC测定法的试验程序。采用封闭坩埚,该法可用于升温时有少量升华(或挥发)的单体的纯度测定。     

纤维素乙醇产业化

由于能发挥缓解能源紧张、减少环境污染、促进农村发展等重要作用,利用年产量巨大的植物纤维资源,生产可再生性液体替代燃料乙醇的技术受到了巨大的关注,成为工业生物技术的研究热点。酶法生产纤维素乙醇面临多种困难:纤维素原料比重轻,收集运输不便;原料结构复杂,需要深度预处理;纤维素酶系的酶解效率有待提高;半纤维素中的木糖难以发酵转化为乙醇等。经过多年研究,新技术已经取得重大进展,开始接近实用化。紧迫的社会需求正在迫使国内外政府和企业界大量投资,开展纤维素乙醇的中试研究和试生产,力求在短时期内克服上述难点,尽快实现产业化。充分利用植物纤维资源中的多种组分,联合生产乙醇和部分高值产品的生物精练技术,是实现纤维素乙醇产业化的重要突破口和必然途径。玉米芯生物精练生产乙醇和木糖相关产品的技术正在进行产业化。本文综述了纤维素乙醇产业化的研究进展并做了展望。     

端羟基聚丁二烯和端羟基SBS遥爪聚合物的合成及表征

研究了一种以非极性烃为溶剂,α-甲基萘锂复合物为基体的双锂催化剂LM-T作为引发剂,在环已烷中使丁二烯或丁二烯/苯乙烯进行双活性阴离子聚合,用精制的环氧丙烷终止,合成了双端羟聚丁二烯(HTPB)和双端羟SBS(HTSBS)两种遥爪聚合物。研究结果表明,聚合物分子量和羟基含量可由催化剂用量调整,官能度达到或接近2。分子量分布由GPC测定,宽度指数D=1.4左右。聚合物微观结构通过IR和H-HMR测定,1.4-聚丁二烯含量达到75%左右。因此,HTPB和HTSBS是两种1.4含量较高、分子量分布较窄的离子型遥爪聚合物。     

5,10,15,20-四(对-磺酸苯基)卟啉四钠盐水溶液的稀释热和活度系数的研究

使用LKB 2107微热量计系统和等压法测量仪,分别测量了25℃时5,10,15,20-四(对-磺酸苯基)卟啉四钠盐水溶液的稀释热和活度系数,计算了相对偏摩焓。     

丙酰胺氯化稀土配合物及其氯化钕配合物催化丁二烯聚合的活性

合成了组成为ＬｎＣｌ３·３ＰＡ的丙酰胺氯化稀土配合物（Ｌｎ＝Ｐｒ，Ｎｄ，Ｅｕ，Ｄｙ；ＰＡ＝Ｃ２Ｈ５ＣＯＮＨ２）．ＩＲ表明，丙酰胺是通过酰胺基团的Ｏ与Ｎｄ进行配位．ＮｄＣｌ３·３ＰＡ配合物与烷基铝组成的二元体系，无论是三异丁基铝，二异丁基氢铝或者是三乙基铝都对丁二烯聚合具有较高的催化活性，而且所得聚丁二烯的顺式－１，４结构含量都在９８％以上．     

Effect of electrode surface microstructure on electron transfer induced conformation changes in cytochrome c monitored by in situ UV and CD spectroelectrochemistry

Electrochemical redox processes of bovine heart cytochrome c were investigated by in situ UV-vis and CD spectroelectrochemistry at bare glassy carbon electrode (GCE) and single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) modified glassy carbon electrode (SWNTs/GCE) using a long optical path thin layer cell. The spectra obtained at GCE and SWNTs/GCE reflect electrode surface microstructure-dependent changes in protein conformation during redox transition. Potential-dependent conformational distribution curves of cytochrome c obtained by analysis of in situ circular dichroism (CD) spectra using singular value decomposition least square (SVDLS) method show that SWNTs can retain conformation of cytochrome c. Some parameters of the electrochemical reduction process, i.e. the product of electron transfer coefficient and number of electrons (alpha n = 0.3), apparent formal potential (E0' = 0.04 V), were obtained by double logarithmic analysis and standard heterogeneous electron transfer rate constant k0 was obtained by electrochemistry and double logarithmic analysis, respectively.     

A preliminary study on chemical micro-machining of complex three-dimensional patterns on silicon substrates

Chemical micro-machining of complex 3-dimensional (3-D) patterns of silicon substrates was preliminarily explored by the confined etchant layer technique (CELT). Through systematic investigation, we demonstrated that cysteine as a scavenger and Br₂ as an etchant can be used to etch silicon substrates. The CELT has the potential to develop into a new means of micro-machining complex 3-D patterns on silicon substrates. However, due to the highly corrosive property of the chemicals used for the silicon etched system, great effort must be made to overcome these problems including the mold electrode with high chemical stability.Dedicated to Professor Gygy Horyi on the occasion of his 70th birthday     

Efficient and sensitive method of DNA silver staining in polyacrylamide gels

DNA silver staining is widely used to detect DNA fragment in polyacrylamide gel with high sensitivity. Conventional procedures of the silver staining involve several steps, which take about 40 min to 2 h in total. To improve the efficiency of DNA silver staining, a more efficient protocol is developed in this study. The procedure comprises only four steps including impregnating, rinsing, developing, and stopping, and could be completed within 20 min. Nitric acid and ethanol in the silver-impregnation step of the new procedure eliminates the need for prior treatment of gels with a fixing solution and following rinse prior to impregnation with silver. The procedure has high sensitivity and long storage lifetime. The minimum detectable mass of DNA is 0.44 and 3.5 ng in denaturing and nondenaturing polyacrylamide gel, respectively.     

混合型杂多化合物M_x[GaW_9M_3O_(40)]·nH_2O的合成和性质

本文报道了M_x[GaW_9M_3~′O_(40)]nH_2O(M′=Mo,V,Ti,Fe(Ⅲ),Co(Ⅱ),Ni(Ⅱ),Mn(Ⅱ);M=k,Na,Gua,Me_4N,Et_4N,Bu_4N)的合成。通过元素分析,阴离子电荷的确定,极谱、IR及UV光谱、可见光谱、ESR、磁化率测定对其进行了表征。并研究了它们在水溶液中对酸碱的稳定性及热稳定性。