Thin-layer chromatographic behavior of a number of metals on carboxymethyl-cellulose in sulfuric acid and ammonium sulfate media

Summary The thin-layer chromatographic behavior of 57 metals on a weakly acidic cation exchanger, carboxymethyl (CM) cellulose, has investigated systematically in sulfuric acid (0.01–1.0 M) and the acidic ammonium sulfate media. Thin-layer plates of a microcrystalline cellulose, Avicel SF, were also used to compare with the chromatographic behavior of the metals in the acidic sulfate system. The Rf values obtained for many metals tested on CM-cellulose plates increase with increasing concentration of sulfuric acid. Most of metals tested are distributed chromatographically on the CM-cellulose in the low acid concentration. The characteristic retention of many metals, including sulfato-complexes forming metals, on the CM-cellulose can be observed in ammonium sulfate solutions of a low concentration of the acid. Useful multicomponent separations of analytical interest on CM-cellulose layers are presented to demonstrate the use of Rf measurements for predicting separations in the acid and the acidic ammonium sulfate systems.     

Maedamide,a novel chymotrypsin inhibitor from a marine cyanobacterial assemblage of Lyngbya sp.

Maedamide, a novel chymotrypsin-inhibiting depsipeptide, was isolated from a cyanobacterial assemblage that mostly consisted of Lyngbya sp. Its structure was elucidated by spectroscopic analyses and chiral HPLC analyses of hydrolysis products. Maedamide selectively inhibited chymotrypsin but not elastase and trypsin. In addition, Maedamide strongly inhibited the growth of HeLa cells and HL60 cells.     

Additive Effect of p-Substituted Phenols on the Anionic Polymerization of Acrolein Induced by Imidazole

Anionic polymerization of acrolein (AL) by imidazole in the presence of several p-substituted phenols such as phenol, p-methyl-phenol, and p-nitrophenol were kinetically carried out in tetra-hydrofuran at 0°C. The initial polymerization rate R_p was estimated from the rate of monomer consumption by means of gas chromatography. A linear correlation was obtained from Hammett's equation, log R_pX/R_p H = 0.22. Meanwhile, the polymerizabilities were found to be in the following order: p-methylphenol > phenol > p-nitrophenol. The additive effect of phenols was kinetically discussed on the basis of these results.     

Sequential Assembly of Phototunable Ferromagnetic Ultrathin Films with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy

Getting organized : Assemblies of ferromagnetic FePt nanoparticles were generated with large perpendicular magnetic anisotropy by a magnetic‐field‐assisted layer‐by‐layer method, and subsequently layer‐by‐layer films consisting of L1₀‐FePt nanoparticles and organic polymers were prepared. These films are phototunable when photochromic molecules are used as polymer layers.

     

LP narrowing: A new strategy for finding all solutions of nonlinear equations

An efficient algorithm is proposed for finding all solutions of systems of n nonlinear equations. This algorithm is based on interval analysis and a new strategy called LP narrowing. In the LP narrowing strategy, boxes (n-dimensional rectangles in the solution domain) containing no solution are excluded, and boxes containing solutions are narrowed so that no solution is lost by using linear programming techniques. Since the LP narrowing is very powerful, all solutions can be found very efficiently. By numerical examples, it is shown that the proposed algorithm could find all solutions of systems of 5000-50,000 nonlinear equations in practical computation time.     

Experimental and theoretical characterization of aluminum-based binary superatoms of AL12X and their cluster salts

The geometric and electronic structures of aluminum binary clusters, AlnX (X = Si and P), have been investigated, using mass spectrometry, anion photoelectron spectroscopy, photoionization spectroscopy, and theoretical calculations. Both experimental and theoretical results show that Al12Si has a high ionization energy and low electron affinity and Al12P has a low ionization energy, both with the icosahedral structure having a central Si or P atom, revealing that Al12Si and Al12P exhibit rare-gas-like and alkali superatoms, respectively. Experiments confirmed the possibility that the change in the total number of valence electrons on substitution could produce ionically bound binary superatom complexes, the binary cluster salts Al12P+ F- and Al12B- Cs+.     

Correlations between structure and magnetism of three N,N′-ethylene-bis(3-methoxysalicylideneimine) gadolinium complexes

Three Salen-like gadolinium complexes, namely, mononuclear (4f) complex [{H₂L}Gd(NO₃)₃] (1), heterodinuclear (3d–4f) complex [{LCu}Gd(NO₃)₃]·0.25H₂O (2) and dimeric heterotrinuclear (3d–4f–3d′) complex [{LCu}Gd(H₂O)₃{Fe(CN)₆}]₂·6H₂O (3) [H₂L = N,N′-ethylene-bis(3-methoxysalicylideneimine)] have been synthesized by stepwise reactions. X-ray diffraction analysis reveals that 1 is of a discrete structure in which H₂L coordinates to gadolinium ion through O₂O₂ moiety. Then, addition of Cu(Ac)₂·H₂O to the mononuclear lanthanide complex yields expected heterodinuclear (3d–4f) complexes [{LCu}Gd(NO₃)₃]. 3 features a unique 1D ladder-like topology structure through the intermolecular double links of Cu–N bonds. The measurement of variable-temperature magnetic susceptibility reveals that complex 1 exhibits antiferromagnetic interaction while 2 and 3 exhibit ferromagnetic interaction between spin carriers. The correlations between the structure and magnetism are described and discussed.