Nanosensors based on responsive polymer brushes and gold nanoparticle enhanced transmission surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy

Swelling (and shrinking) of poly(2-vinylpyridine), P2VP, polymer brushes, caused by pH changes, could be readily monitored by transmission surface plasmon resonance, T-SPR, spectroscopy. Gold nanoparticles attached to the P2VP polymer brushes dramatically enhanced the pH-induced shift in the T-SPR absorption spectra. (A 50 nm shift of the absorption maximum of the T-SPR spectrum of the supporting gold nanoislands was observed upon changing the pH from 5.0 to 2.0, corresponding to a swelling of the polymer brushes from 8.1 +/- 0.7 to 24.0 +/- 2.0 nm. Same shift in the opposite direction was observed upon changing the pH from 2.0 to 5.0.)     

Beitr?ge zur titrimetrischen Bestimmung von dimeren Hydroxyaldehyden

Zusammenfassung Es wurden die Möglichkeiten für die titrimetrische Bestimmung von dimerem Glykolaldehyd (Fp: 94–96° C) und dl-Glycerinaldehyd (Fp: 138–141° C) untersucht. Die systematischen Fehler der auf Grund verschiedener funktioneller Gruppen durchführbaren Messungen sind von der Stabilität ihrer cyclischen Halbacetale sowie von den ihrer Depolymerisation folgenden weiteren Gleichgewichten bestimmt. Das aus dem dl-Glycerinaldehyd gebildete Halbacetal besitzt höhere Stabilität als dasjenige aus dem Glykolaldehyd.Mit der Hydrogensulfit-Methode werden 95–96%, mit der Hydroxylamin-Methode dagegen 98–99% vom wahren Wert gefunden.In Wasser gelöst zersetzt sich der Glykolaldehyd verhältnismäßig rasch, und das Gleichgewicht kann durch beide Aldehydreaktionen quantitativ gegen die Monomerenform verschoben werden.Unsere Untersuchungen ergaben, daß die Hydroxylamin-Methode zur Bestimmung der in Form cyclischer Halbacetale kristallisierenden, dimeren Hydroxyaldehyde Vorteile gegenüber der Hydrogensulfit-Methode bietet.Frau Dipl.-Ing. Eva Varsányi-Kiss danken wir für die derivatographischen Aufnahmen und deren Auswertung.     

Umwandlung von 6-Methylen-tricyclo[3.2.1.02,7]oct-3-en-8-onen in Polymethyltropyliumsalze

When dissolved in trifluoroacetic or fluorosulfonic acid, 6-methylene-tricyclo[3.2.1.0^2,7]oct-3-ene-8-one derivatives of type 2 (;scheme 1); give polymethyltropylium salts in moderate to good yields by CO-extrusion. These tropylium salts can be isolated pure as hexachloroplatinates. Thus the tricyclic compound 6 gives 1,2,4-trimethyltropylium trifluoroacetate 19 in trifluoroacetic acid (;scheme 3);. This salt in CDCl₃ is in equilibrium with its covalent cycloheptatriene (;tropilidene); form 20 , the ratio of the two forms being 1.5–2.1/1. The tropylium salt 19 is reduced by lithium aluminium hydride to a mixture of 1,2,4-trimethylcycloheptatrienes, isomeric with respect to the double bonds, which on hydride abstraction with trityl-tetrafluoroborate gives again the 1,2,4-trimethyltropylium salt 19 (;scheme 3);. From the trimethyl-substituted tricyclic compounds 7 and 8 , in trifluoroacetic acid, are obtained respectively the 1,2,4,6- and 1,2,3,4-tetramethyltropylium ions (; 22 and 24 ); (;schemes 4 and 5);. In this way the 1,2,3,5,6-pentamethyl-tropylium ion (; 26 ); was obtained from 9 (;scheme 6);. With the higher substituted tropylium trifluoroacetates in CDCl₃ the equilibrium tropylium trifluoroacetate ? trifluoroacetoxycycloheptatrienes lies well to the left. The hexamethylated tricyclic compound 10 gives a small quantity of heptamethyltropylium trifluoroacetate (; 27 ); and as the main product the C(;3);-protonated species 28 (;scheme 7);, which when treated with aqueous sodium hydrogencarbonate yielded unchanged educt 10 . - The heptamethyltropylium ion (; 27 ); was, apart from polymeric species, the only product from the treatment of starting material 10 with fluorosulfonic acid (;50%);; its salts have as yet not been isolated in their pure form, however. The mechanism for the rearrangement of the tricyclic compounds of type 2 into tropylium salts is presented for compound 6 in scheme 8: The first step is the protonation at C(;9);. Ring opening of the cyclopropane of the tertiary carbenium ion 29 gives the allylic ion 30 , which then yields the aromatic tropylium salt 19 by carbon monoxide extrusion in a linear cheletropic reaction. The smooth conversion with strong acids of the easily accessible tricyclic compounds of type 2 to the corresponding polymethylated tropylium salts, presents a new and useful method for the synthesis of the latter compounds.     

A new boundary treatment: HF surface potential model applied to solid-state cluster calculations

A new boundary treatment, a Hartree–Fock (HF ) surface potential model, is proposed to deal with the surface effect in the solid-state cluster calculations using the LCAO –MO –SCF ab initio method. The surface potential arises from one or more atoms, which have no basis function and are added to the calculated cluster system. These atoms are placed in such sites so that the HF potential field of the calculated system should possess a point-group symmetry. The surface potential could be found by the corresponding HF potential using a symmetry operator. The fact that a rather symmetric electronic structure of the asymmetric cluster YBa₂CuZn₂O₇ is obtained using the HF surface potential shows that the surface effect in the cluster calculations could be neutralized to a great extent. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

Säurekatalysierte Umlagerungen von 1,5-Dimethyl-6-methyliden-tricyclo[3.2.1.02,7]oct-3-en-8endo-olen

Acid Catalysed Rearrangement of 1,5-Dimethyl-6-methyliden-tricyclo[3.2.1.0^2,7]oct-3-en-8endo-ols The tricyclic alcohols 2,3,4 and 6 (Scheme 1) are synthesized by the reaction of the tricyclic ketone 1 with sodiumborohydrid or metalloorganic reagents. Their configuration at C(8) is determined by NMR. in the presence of Eu(fod)₃. The exo-attack of 1 by the nucleophil forming the endo-alcohol is favored, the π-electrons of C(3) = C(4) hindering the endo-attack. On treatment with sulfuric acid in dioxane/water at 25° the tertiary alcohols yield aryl-substituted ketones. 3 gives in 78.5% yield a mixture of the 3-(dimethylphenyl)-2-butanones 12 and 13 , in addition to 16.5% of (2,3,4-trimethylphenyl)-2-propanon ( 14 ) (Scheme 2). The alcohols 4 and 6 yield mixtures of the 2-(dimethylphenyl)-3-pentanones 19 and 20 (72%), and 2-(dimethylphenyl)-propiophenones 21 and 22 (68%), respectively (Scheme 2). In the case of the secondary alcohol 2 mainly products derived from hydration at the C(6), C(9) double bond are formed, namely the mixture of diols 23 and 24 (21%), and the mixture of the isomeric 2-(dimethylphenyl)propanals 25, 26 and 27 (3%) (Scheme 3). - The structures of 12–14, 19/20, 21/22, 23/24 and 25/26/27 were established by spectroscopic data. In the case of 12 and 13 the degradation of their mixture to the known 1-(dimethylphenyl)ethanols 17/18 confirmed the assignment. - The most probable mechanism for the rearrangement of 3 is shown in Schemes 4 and 5. The reaction proceeds from 3 through a, b and g to 12 and 13; 14 is formed via e, f and i . In the case of 4 and 6 only the reaction analogue to 3 → a → b → g ?12/13 takes place. The isomeric aldehyds 25–27 formed from 2 could have the structures s, t , and v . The former two could be generated in a similar way as 12/13 from 3 , the latter one as shown in Scheme 8.     

Kinetics of formation and dissociation of lanthanide(III) complexes with the 13-membered macrocyclic ligand TRITA4-

The tetraazamacrocyclic ligand TRITA(4-) is intermediate in size between the widely studied and medically used 12-membered DOTA(4-) and the 14-membered TETA(4-). The kinetic inertness of GdTRITA(-) was characterized by the rates of exchange reactions with Zn(2+) and Eu(3+). In the Zn(2+) exchange, a second order [H(+)] dependence was found for the pseudo-first-order rate constant (k(0)=(4.2 +/- 0.5) x 10(-7) s(-1); k'=(3.5 +/- 0.3) x 10(-1) M(-1)s(-1), k" =(1.4 +/- 0.4) x 10(3) M(-2)s(-1)). In the Eu(3+) exchange, at pH <5 the rate decreases with increasing concentration of the exchanging ion, which can be accounted for by the transitional formation of dinuclear GdTRITAEu(2+) species. At physiological pH, the kinetic inertness of GdTRITA(-) is considerably lower than that of GdDOTA(-)(t(1/2)= 444 h (25 degrees C) vs. 3.8 x 10(5) h (37 degrees C), respectively). However, GdTRITA(-) is still kinetically more inert than GdDTPA(2-), the most commonly used MRI contrast agent (t(1/2)= 127 h). The formation reactions of LnTRITA(-) complexes (Ln = Ce, Gd and Yb) proceed via the rapid formation of a diprotonated intermediate and its subsequent deprotonation and rearrangement in a slow, OH(-) catalyzed process. The stability of the LnH(2)TRITA* intermediates (log K(LnH2L*)= 3.1-3.9) is lower than that of the DOTA-analogues. The rate constants of the OH(-) catalyzed step increase with decreasing lanthanide ion size, and are about twice as high as for DOTA-complexes.     

Chromatographic developments in low flow delivery for liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

A method has been demonstrated for producing accurate, reproducible gradients at low microliter per minute flow-rates suitable for liquid chromatographic-mass spectrometric (LC-MS) applications using capillary chromatography columns. The technique employs a low-cost, well characterized balance-column flow-splitter which can be simply added to a high-performance LC-MS solvent delivery system. Performance of the pump for LC-MS techniques at higher flow-rates is preserved.