Enantioselective total syntheses of manzamine a and related alkaloids

As a prelude to undertaking the total syntheses of the complex manzamine alkaloids, a series of model studies were conducted to establish the scope and limitations of intramolecular [4 + 2] cycloadditions of N-acylated vinylogous ureas with the trienic substrates 17a,b, 28a,b, and 34. These experiments clearly demonstrated that the geometry of the internal double bond and the presence of an electron-withdrawing group on the diene moiety were essential for the facile and stereoselective formation of the desired cycloadducts. The enantioselective syntheses of the manzamine alkaloids ircinol A (75), ircinal A (5), and manzamine A (1) were then completed by employing a convergent strategy that featured a novel domino Stille/Diels-Alder reaction to construct the tricyclic ABC ring core embodied in these alkaloids. Thus, the readily accessible chiral dihydropyrrole 58 was first converted in a single chemical operation into the key tricyclic intermediate 60. Two ring-closing metathesis reactions were then used to form the 13- and 8-membered rings leading to Z-72 and 74, the latter of which was quickly elaborated into ircinal A (5) via ircinol A (75). The synthetic 5 thus obtained was converted into manzamine A (1) following literature precedent. This concise synthesis of ircinal A required a total of 24 operations from commercially available starting materials with the longest linear sequence being 21 steps.     

New 2D graphical representation of DNA sequences

We consider a 2D graphical representations of DNA sequences, which avoids loss of information associated with crossing and overlapping of the corresponding curve. We outline an approach, which is based on the construction of a three-component vector whose components are the normalized leading eigenvalues of the L/L matrices associated with DNA. The examination of similarities/dissimilarities among the coding sequences of the first exon of beta-globin gene of different species illustrates the utility of the approach.     

两种胶原纤维固化单宁对La3+的吸附特性研究

以皮胶原纤维为基质,通过交联剂分别将黑荆树单宁和杨梅单宁固化在胶原纤维上制备吸附材料。实验表明,这两种吸附材料对稀土金属离子La^3＋有很好的吸附作用。在pH为4.5的条件下,当吸附剂用量为0.1 g,La^3＋初始浓度为9.952 mmol·L^-1,固化杨梅单宁的平衡吸附量为0.388 mmol·g^-1,比固化黑荆树单宁略大,其吸附平衡均符合Freundlich方程。进一步研究了固化杨梅单宁的吸附动力学、温度、pH值等对吸附平衡的影响。结果表明,温度对吸附平衡的影响不明显;pH值对吸附平衡有较大影响,在适当范围内提高pH值会增加平衡吸附量;吸附动力学可用拟二级速度方程来描述。当吸附温度为293 K时,由拟二级速率方程计算所得的平衡吸附量与实测的平衡吸附量误差在3%以内。同时固化杨梅单宁也具有良好的柱动力学特性。     

TiO2-CdS-MCM-41复合纳米材料的合成和表征

利用γ-巯丙基三甲氧基硅烷及表面预吸附水解技术在MCM-41介孔分子筛孔道内部以化学键合的形式依次引入了CdS和TiO2纳米粒子.紫外-可见吸收光谱结果表明,借助于巯基的络合能力,MCM-41能有效地从反胶束中萃取CdS纳米粒子.利用小角XRD谱图成功地跟踪观察到了MCM-41介孔分子筛随纳米粒子的引入而产生的孔径变化.     

Biosorption of americium-241 by Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The biosorption of radionuclide ²⁴¹Am from solution by Saccharomyces cerevisiae (S. cerevisiae), and the effects of experimental conditions on the adsorption were investigated. The preliminary results showed thatS. cerevisiae is a very efficient biosorbent. An average of more than 99% of the total ²⁴¹Am could be removed by S. cerevisiae of 2.1 g/l (dry weight) from ²⁴¹Am solutions of 17.54–4386.0 mg/l (2.22 MBq/l–555 MBq/l) with adsorption capacities of 7.45–1880.0 mg/g biomass (dry weight) (0.94 MBq/g–237.9 MBq/g). The adsorption equilibrium was achieved within 1 hour and the optimum pH ranged 1–3. No significant differences on ²⁴¹Am adsorption were observed at 10–45 °C, or in solutions containing Au³⁺ or Ag⁺, even 2000 times above ²⁴¹Am concentration. The relationship between concentrations and adsorption capacities of ²⁴¹Am indicated the biosorption process should be described by the Freundlich adsorption isotherm.     

Storage-Reduction of NOx over Combined Catalysts of Pt/Ba/Al2O3-Mn/Ba/Al2O3： Carbon Monoxide as Reductant

Storage-reduction of NOx by carbon monoxide was investigated over combined catalysts of Mn/Ba/Al2O3-Pt/Ba/Al2O3. Combination of Mn/Ba/Al2O3 and Pt/Ba/Al2O3 catalysts in different ways showed excellent NOx storage-reduction performance and the content of Pt could be reduced by 50%. Not only the addition of 5Mn/15Ba/Al2O3 to lPt/15Ba/Al2O3 could improve its storage ability, but also enhance the NOx conversion consequently. NOx conversion over the combined catalysts (the combined catalysts I and II) was increased under dynamic lean-rich burn conditions, the maximum NOx conversion increased from 69.4% to respectively 78.8% and 75.7% over two combined catalysts.     

Synthesis and magnetic properties of copper (II)-lanthanoid (III) binuclear complexes with N,N′-bis(3-aminopropyl) oxamido ligand

Six novel μ-oxamido binuclear complexes, namely Cu(axpn)Ln(L)₂(ClO₄)₃ (Ln: Eu, Gd, Tb, Nd, Ho, Er), where oxpn is N,N'-bis(3-aminopropyl) oxamido, L denotes 5-nitro,10-phenanthroline (abbreviated as NO₂-phen), have been synthesized and characterised. The magnetic susceptibility of complexes Cu(oxpn)Gd(NO₂-phen)2(ClO₄)₃.2H₂O was measured over the 4–300 K and the observed data were successfully simulated by equation based on spin Hamiltonian operator (H = -2J₁ · S₂), giving the exchange integral J(Cu-Gd)=-1.62 cm^?1. This indicates a weak antiferromagnetic interaction between the Cu(II) and Gd(III) ions.     

Membrane oscillator as chemical sensor

A rhythmic, sustained, stable potential oscillation was reproducibly observed for a lipid membrane supported by a micropore of a thin membrane tip micropipet. Amplitude and period of the oscillation voltage were controlled by changing the pore diameter. The smaller the hole diameter, the smaller the amplitude and the period became. We call this relationship “size effect.” We observed with an optical microscope dynamic behavior of lipids across the oil/water interface, which are formed at a micropore of 2 μm in diameter during self-excited potential oscillation. Periodical movement of a dome-shaped body on the interface is observed, and its expansion and shrinkage are quite synchronous with the potential oscillation. We also applied this self-excited potential oscillation device as a chemical sensor, and reported the effect of chemical substance added into the water phase as a model for the biological chemoreceptive membrane. The experimental results of microscopic observation show that the sensing system using the micropore can distinguish different chemical substances as well as their concentrations, suggesting its application as a chemical sensor.     

Poly(β-pinenes) carrying one,two, or three functional end groups. I. The effect of reaction conditions on the polymerization of β-pinene

β-Pinene was polymerized with H₂O/BCl₃ (protic) and p-dicumyl chloride and sym-tricumyl chloride (nonprotic) inifer systems in CH₂Cl₂ or CH₂Cl₂/n-C₆H₁₄ solvents from ?10 to ?70°C. The effect of solvent polarity, temperature, and monomer and inifer concentration on conversions and molecular weights was investigated. Low conversions and molecular weights, M?_n = 1300–2500, obtained under these conditions suggest rapid termination.     

Phenyl and Phenylethyl Glycosides from Picrorhiza scrophulariiflora

Three new phenyl glycosides, scrophenoside A ( 1 ), B ( 2 ), and C ( 3 ), and two new phenylethyl glycosides, scroside D ( 4 ) and scroside E ( 5 ), were isolated from the stem of Picrorhiza scrophulariiflora Pennell (Scrophularlaceae), besides five known compounds. On the basis of spectroscopic evidence, the structures of the new compounds were elucidated as 4‐acetyl‐2‐methoxyphenyl 6‐O‐[4‐(β‐D ‐glucopyranosyloxy)vanilloyl]‐β‐D ‐glucopyranoside ( 1 ), 4‐acetylphenyl 6‐O‐[(E)‐p‐coumaroyl]‐β‐D ‐glucopyranoside ( 2 ), 4‐[(1R)‐ and (1S)‐1‐hydroxyethyl]‐2‐methoxyphenyl β‐D ‐glucopyranoside ( 3a and 3b , resp.), 2‐(3,4‐dihydroxyphenyl)ethyl O‐β‐D ‐glucopyranosyl‐(1→3)‐4‐O‐[(E)‐feruloyl]‐β‐D ‐glucopyranoside ( 4 ), and 2‐(3,4‐dihydroxyphenyl)ethyl O‐β‐D ‐glucopyranosyl‐(1→3)‐6‐O‐[(E)‐feruloyl]‐β‐D ‐glucopyranoside ( 5 ).