Amperometric flow-injection method for the assay of l-ascorbic acid based on the photochemical reduction of Methylene Blue

Ascorbic acid (AA) is determined by amperometric detection based on the photochemical reduction of Methylene Blue (MB(+)) in 0.1 M phthalate buffer at pH 3.8. In this medium, MB(+) using flow-injection analysis. The carrier stream is 1 mM MB(+) is reduced quasi-reversibly at a glassy carbon electrode at -0.34 V vs. Ag/AgCl, while AA is oxidized irreversibly at about 0.3 V. The reactor is irradiated with a 500 W halogen lamp to facilitate the development of the photochemical reaction. A laboratory-built wall-jet electrode system was used. The Leucomethylene Blue formed in the reaction is detected at +0.050 V. At 2.2 ml min(-1) and using a sample loop of 43 mul, the method allows the determination of AA in the range 5.0-90.0 mug ml(-1), with a relative standard deviation of 1.3-4.8%, a detection limit of 1.9 mug ml(-1) and a sampling frequency of 45-50 h(-1).     

Immobilization of protein on ferromagnetic Dacron

Ferromagnetic Dacron (polyethyleneterephthalate) is proposed as a matrix to immobilize proteins covalently. Dacron in powder was magnetized by reacting ferrous (Fe+2) and ferric (Fe+3) ions with its hydrazide form at pH 8.3. Ferromagnetic hydrazide Dacron was converted to ferromagnetic azide Dacron and amyloglucosidase (E.C. 3.2.1.3) was covalently bound through the latter group. The catalytic property of the enzyme was preserved (8% of the specific activity estimated for the soluble enzyme) and all the magnetic amyloglucosidase Dacron derivative was recovered by using a magnetic field. No activity was detected in the supernatant.     

New mono- and bis-carbene samarium complexes: synthesis, X-ray crystal structures and reactivity

New samarium carbene complexes have been synthesized and characterized by X-ray diffraction analysis; the carbenic nature was assessed by reactivity studies.     

Quaternarisation de l'atome d'azote de systemes tautomeres de la serie des oxo-4 thiazoles. Cycloadditions dipolaires 1,3 des thiazoles mesoioniques formes in situ

4-Hydroxythiazoles and N-acylimino 4-thiazolidinones show similar tautomeric behaviour to azlactones. However, the mechanism of their reaction with dimethylacetylenedicarboxylate or with ethyl vinyl ether differs fundamentally. In the thiazole series, the first step is the quaternization of the nitrogen atom. The mesoionic thiazole intermediate is then trapped by a second molecule of the dipolarophile.     

19F NMR chemical shifts of n-F-alkyl compounds

The examination of ¹⁹F chemical shifts for ca. 650 F-alkylated compounds of general formula CF₃(CF₂)_nCF₂X led to the following conclusions: the CF₂ groups α to X are very sensitive to the nature of X, and are spread over a range of 85 ppm. The effect of the length of the F-alkyl chain decreases rapidly, so that δCF₂(α) can already be considered as characteristic of X for n = 1 or 2 for most practical purposes. Solvent effects (in 9 different solvents having ε = 1.8 to 52.1) were found to be rather small except for the F-alkyl iodides. A chart which indicates the domain in which the CF₂(α) resonance signal is to be expected is given for 42 different series of F-alkylated compounds; it is expected to provide the synthetic chemist with a useful tool for the identification and characterization of such compounds.     

Selective Determination of Nanogram γ-Globulin in Human Blood Serum by Resonance Light Scattering of Functionalized Nano-PbS

Functionalized nano-PbS has been prepared and characterized. The functionalized nanoparticles have good dispersibility in water. Reaction of functionalized nano-PbS with γ-globulin (γ-IgG) results an enhanced resonance light scattering (RLS) around 385nm.However, when the content of HSA is lower than 0.5μg/ml^-1 the RLS enhancement is very weak and is nonlinear to concentration of HSA. Based on these results, a new direct quantitative determination method for γ-globulin in blood serum samples without separation is established.Under optimal conditions, the enhanced RLS intensity is in proportion to the γ-IgG concentration in the range 10-500ng/mL. The limit of detection is 2.75ng/mL. This method is proved to be very sensitive, rapid, simple and selective for detection of γ-IgG in blood serum.     

Structure and thermal expansion of LiGe2(PO4)3

LiGe₂(PO₄)₃ belongs to the Nasicon-type family. Room-temperature structure has been determined on a single crystal from 3D X-ray data. Thermal evolution of this structure has been established from neutron powder diffraction data between 300 and 1000 K using the Rietveld method. The thermal expansion is positive along the c-axis, whereas shrinking is observed along the a-axis below 900 K, followed by dilatation. The atomic displacements noted with increasing temperature are consistent with a model proposed for NaZr₂(PO₄)₃.     

Kinetics of the hydrogen abstraction *CH3 + alkane --> CH4 + alkyl reaction class: an application of the reaction class transition state theory

Kinetics of the hydrogen abstraction reaction (*)CH(3) + CH(4) --> CH(4) + (*)CH(3) is studied by a direct dynamics method. Thermal rate constants in the temperature range of 300-2500 K are evaluated by the canonical variational transition state theory (CVT) incorporating corrections from tunneling using the multidimensional semiclassical small-curvature tunneling (SCT) method and from the hindered rotations. These results are used in conjunction with the Reaction Class Transition State Theory/Linear Energy Relationship (RC-TST/LER) to predict thermal rate constants of any reaction in the hydrogen abstraction class of (*)CH(3) + alkanes. Our analyses indicate that less than 40% systematic errors on the average exist in the predicted rate constants using the RC-TST/LER method while comparing to explicit rate calculations the differences are less than 100% or a factor of 2 on the average.     

东太平洋深海锰结核的化学元素研究

用ICP-AES法测定了东太平洋深海锰结核样品中二十多种主，次及微量元素，结果表明，表面瘤状和表面光滑两种类型锰结核的化学元素含量有较明显的区别，如表面光滑的锰结核TiO2含较高，而表面瘤状的锰结核Mn/Fe之值较高等。