Alkaloids ofAnabasis aphylla and their cholinergic activities

A comparative study has been made of the anticholinesterase activities of the methiodides and hydrochlorides of anabasine, lupinine, anabasamine, and methyl aphyllinate, which have proved to be reversible inhibitors of two types of cholinesterases.The materials of this paper were presented at the IInd International Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Compounds, Eskiehir, Turkey, 1996.A. S. Sadykov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, fax (371) 162 70 71. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 327–330, May–June, 1998.     

Separation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by micellar electrokinetic chromatography with aqueous short-chain alcohol solvent

Micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography (MEKC) with aqueous organic solvent has been developed to separate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Methanol, ethanol or propanol as an organic modifier was added to sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) micellar solution in order to increase the solubility of very hydrophobic solutes in mobile phase. Both methanol and ethanol can be used as co-solvents for the separation of PAHs. Use of ethanol resulted in a shorter analysis time than use of methanol. The separations of some PAHs were unsatisfactory using propanol although the analysis time was much shorter than with ethanol. The influence of ethanol content, SDS concentration and temperature on the separations was studied. Benzene and nine polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were successfully separated using 50 mM SDS-20 mM phosphate-5 mM borate, containing 40% (v/v) ethanol at 35 degrees C. The relative standard deviation (R.S.D.) of t(R) ranged from 0.5 to 1.5% for six repeat injections.     

Synthesis of substituted 2-amino-1-arylidenaminoimidazoles and 1-arylidenaminoimidazo[1,2-a]imidazoles

A new method is proposed for the preparation of 2-amino-l-arylidenaminoimidazoles, which react with-haloketones to give a series of 1-arylidenamino-3-acylmethyl-2-iminoimidazolines and 1-arylidenaminoimidazo [1, 2-a]imidazoles depending on the conditions.Institute of Chemistry of the Republic of Moldova, 277028 Kishinev.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 9, pp. 1209–1213, September, 1996. Original article submitted May 24, 1946.     

TheΛ b →Λ c decay form factors

The recently measured cross-sections for diffractive dissociation of nuclei in high-energy proton nucleus (pA) collisions show a strikingA ^1/3 dependence on the target massA. Such a dependence emerges from an optical model which incorporates a simple mechanism to produce the absorption fluctuations required for inelastic diffraction. The observed momentum transfer (t) dependence of the differential cross-section, dσ/dt∝ exp(?B|t|), is described in terms of a correlation length \(R_F = \sqrt {2B} \) of the absorption fluctuations which turns out to be of the size of a nucleon. The excitation massM dependence, dσ/dM ²∝M ^?2, is explained by a bremsstrahlung mechanism.     

A perturbation bound for the generalized polar decomposition

LetA be anm×n complex matrix. A decompositionA=QH is termed ageneralized polar decomposition ofA ifQ is anm×n subunitary matrix (sometimes also called a partial isometry) andH a positive semidefinite Hermitian matrix. It was proved that a nonzero matrixA ^m×n has a unique generalized polar decompositionA=QH with the property (Q ^H )=(H), whereQ ^H denotes the conjugate transpose ofQ and (H) the column space ofH. The main result of this note is a perturbation bound forQ whenA is perturbed.