Potassium hydrogen trans‐glutaconate monohydrate at 295, 245 and 40 K,and its rubidium analogue at 298 K

A centrosymmetric and short O—H?O hydrogen bond was found in isomorphic crystals of potassium hydrogen trans‐glutaconate monohydrate (potassium hydrogen trans‐pent‐2‐ene‐1,5‐dioate, K⁺·C₅H₅O₄^?·H₂O), (I), and rubidium hydrogen trans‐glutaconate monohydrate (rubidium hydrogen trans‐pent‐2‐ene‐1,5‐dioate, Rb⁺·C₅H₅O₄^?·H₂O), (II). The O?O distance at room temperature is 2.444 (3) Å in (I), and 2.417 (4) Å in (II). The O?O distance for (I) showed no significant decrease at low temperatures.     

New synthetic route of polyoxytetramethyleneglycol by use of heteropolyacids as catalyst

Polyoxytetramethyleneglycol (PTMG) can be directly prepared from tetrahydrofuran (THF) and water in the presence of heteropolyacids (HPA), without the hydrolysis step. The reaction is carried out by mixing two liquid phases: the THF phase and a heteropolyacid catalyst phase. In this reaction the molar ratio of water to a heteropolyacid (H₂O/HPA) in the catalyst phase plays an important role in the THF polymerization activity and the molecular weight of PTMG. IR spectrometric studies revealed that THF is coordinated to a heteropolyanion through either a water molecule or a proton in the catalyst phase. The latter type of coordination bings about the activation of THF capable of initiating the ring-opening polymerization even in the presence of water at a lower acid strength. The PTMG prepared by this method has a narrow molecular weight distribution (M?_w/M?_n = 1.5 or less) and a number average molecular weight of 500–2000 which are requisite for the production of polyurethane elastomers. A new polymerization mechanism named “Phase Transfer Polymerization” is proposed for elucidating a narrow molecular weight distribution.     

Structures of bulgecins,bacterial metabolites with bulge-inducing activity

The structure of bulgecin A, a bacterial metabolite with bulge-inducing activity, was determined chemically and spectrometrically to be 4-o-(2'-acetylamino-2'-deoxy-4'-o-hydroxysulfonyl-β-D-glucopyranosyl)-(2S, 4S, 5R -4-hydroxy-5-hydroxymethylprolyltaurine monosodium salt. Bulgecns B and C, the minor components, were found to be analogs of bulgecin A in which the taurine moiety was replaced as shown in Fig, 1.     

A Rayleigh light scattering study on mixing states of 2-propanol-water binary mixtures widely used as mobile phase in separation

Rayleigh light scatterings of 2-propanol-water binary mixtures at 546 nm have been measured by using a conventional fluorophotometer at 25 degrees C. Mean square concentration fluctuations and Kirkwood-Buff parameters of the mixtures in a range of 2-propanol mole fraction of 0.0/=0.4. The usage of 2-propanol as organic modifier and its effects on CE and RPLC separations are also discussed in terms of microheterogeneity in the mobile phase.     

Preparations of anthraquinone and naphthoquinone derivatives and their cytotoxic effects

Chrysophanol and 1,8-di-O-hexylchrysophanol derivatives having nucleic acid bases at position 5 were synthesized. Furthermore, derivatives of menadione substituted at position 11 (type A naphthoquinone derivatives) or methylmenadione substituted at position 7 (type B naphthoquinone derivatives) modified with nucleic acid bases, amines and thiocyano, selenocyano or thioacetyl groups were synthesized. The cytotoxic effects of these derivatives on HCT 116 cells, which poorly express P-glycoprotein (P-gp), and Hep G2 cells, which stably express P-gp, were evaluated by performing 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. Results were compared with those obtained using 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), which has been used clinically. Several of these derivatives exhibited markedly higher potent cytotoxic effects not only on HCT cancer cells but also Hep G2 cancer cells as compared with 5-FU.     

The Ricci tensor and structure Jacobi operator of real hypersurfaces in a complex projective space

Let M be a real hypersurface with almost contact metric structure ${(\phi, \xi, \eta, g)}$ in a complex projective space ${P_{n}\mathbb{C}}$ . A Real hypersurface M is said to be a Hopf hypersurface if ξ is principal. In this paper we investigate real hypersurfaces of ${P_{n}\mathbb{C}}$ whose Ricci tensors S satisfy ${\nabla_{\phi\nabla_{\xi}\xi}S = 0}$ . Under some further conditions we characterize Hopf hypersurfaces of ${P_{n}\mathbb{C}}$ .