There is increasing interest in the concept of using nanopores as the sensing elements in biosensors. The nanopore most often used is the alpha-hemolysin protein channel, and the sensor consists of a single channel embedded within a lipid bilayer membrane. An ionic current is passed through the channel, and analyte species are detected as transient blocks in this current associated with translocation of the analyte through the channel-stochastic sensing. While this is an extremely promising sensing paradigm, it would be advantageous to eliminate the very fragile lipid bilayer membrane and perhaps to replace the biological nanopore with an abiotic equivalent. We describe here a new family of protein biosensors that are based on conically shaped gold nanotubes embedded within a mechanical and chemically robust polymeric membrane. While these sensors also function by passing an ion current through the nanotube, the sensing paradigm is different from the previous devices in that a transient change in the current is not observed. Instead, the protein analyte binds to a biochemical molecular-recognition agent at the mouth of the conical nanotube, resulting in complete blockage of the ion current. Three different molecular-recognition agents, and correspondingly three different protein analytes, were investigated: (i) biotin/streptavidin, (ii) protein-G/immunoglobulin, and (iii) an antibody to the protein ricin with ricin as the analyte. 相似文献
The reaction of iso-cinnamyl acetate with NaC(Me)(CO2Me)2, catalysed by Pd-‘MOP’ (MOP=2-methoxy-2′-diphenylphosphino-1,1′-binaphthalene) is known to proceed with a regiochemical memory effect that results in the predominant generation of the branched alkylation product. The analogous reaction employing ‘MAP’ as ligand (MAP=2-N,N-dimethylamino-2′-diphenylphosphino-1,1′-binaphthalene) proceeds with ‘normal’ regioselectivity to generate predominantly the linear isomer of product. A 2H-NMR based analysis, employing quadrupolar coupling in a chiral liquid crystal matrix, has been developed to facilitate the simultaneous study of the regiochemical and stereochemical outcome of the reaction of both enantiomers of iso-cinnamyl ester substrates in 2H-labelled but racemic samples. The analysis allows the comparison of relative rates of two competing isomerisation processes occurring in the π-allyl intermediates in the Pd-catalysed reaction, one of which facilitates asymmetric induction, the other resulting in loss of regiochemical memory. It is demonstrated that the two processes are partially coupled and that this then limits the attainment of high global enantiomeric excess in the branched product to reactions that proceed with low regiochemical retention. A key factor for the observation of high regiochemical memory is found to be the nucleophilicity of the malonate anion and the electrophilicity of the Pd-π-allyl intermediate with reduction in the reactivity of either partner resulting in the onset of substantial loss of memory. 相似文献
The complex Co(C14H13NO)2Cl2 with the protonated N‐salicylidene‐p‐toluidine ligand was synthesized from an ethanolic solution of CoCl2·6H2O and N‐salicylidene‐p‐toluidine. The crystal structure was determined from X‐ray single crystal data (monoclinic, space group Cc, a = 1496.2(3) pm, b = 1257.4(4) pm, c = 1544.6(3) pm, β = 115.01(1)°, Z = 4). Co2+ adopts a distorted tetrahedral geometry. The UV‐Vis and IR spectra of the complex are discussed. 相似文献
Geometries and stabilization energies of various simple H-bonded complexes (water dimer, hydrogen fluoride dimer, formamide
dimer, formic acid dimer) have been determined by a gradient optimization that eliminates the basis set superposition error
(BSSE) by the counterpoise (CP) method in each gradient cycle as well as by the standard gradient optimization. Both optimization
methods lead to different potential energy surfaces (PES). The difference depends on the theoretical level used and is larger
if correlation energy is considered. Intermolecular distances from the CP-corrected PES are consistently longer, and this
difference might be significant (∼0.1 ?); also angular characteristics determined from both surfaces differ significantly.
Different geometries were obtained even when passing to larger basis sets (aug-cc-pVDZ). The standard optimization procedure
can result in a completely wrong structure. For example, the “quasi-linear” structure of the (HF)2 (global minimum) does not exist at the standard MP2/ 6-31G** PES (where only cyclic structure was detected) and is found
only at the CP-corrected PES. Stabilization energies obtained from the CP-corrected PES are always larger than these from
the standard PES where the BSSE is added only a posteriori for the final optimized structure; both energies converge only
when passing to a larger basis set (aug-cc-pVDZ).
Received: 11 March 1998 / Accepted: 19 June 1998 / Published online: 4 September 1998
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ID=" <E6>Acknowledgements.</E6> The project was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (Grant No. 203/98/1166).
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ID=" <E5>Correspondence to</E5>: P. Hobza 相似文献
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