Penicillin biosynthesis: Retention of configuration at c-3 of valine during its incorporation into the arnstein tripeptide

[3-³H]-valine was efficiently synthesised from sodium α-ketoisovalerate. With a β-lactam negative mutant of C. acremonium, l-[1-¹⁴C-3-³H]-valine and dl-[1-¹⁴C-3-³H]-valine were independently incorporated into the Arnstein tripeptide dimer, i.e. Bis-δ-(l-α-aminodipyl)-l-cystinyl-bis-d-valine, with full retention of trieium at C-3 of the d-valine residue. This result strongly suggested retention of configuration at C-3 of valine when the tripeptide was biosynthesised, and further limited the number of possible mechanisms for the biosynthesis of penicillins.     

Direct STM investigation of cinchona alkaloid adsorption on Cu(III)

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) combined with cyclic voltammetry has been employed to investigate the adsorption of cinchonine on Cu(111). Similar to cinchonidine, cinchonine forms a long-range ordered adlayer with (4 x 4) symmetry on the substrate. The structural details on molecular adsorption were obtained by high-resolution STM images. On the basis of the previous results and obtained STM images, the quinoline ring is proposed to lie parallel to Cu(111) and serve as an anchoring group. The chiral quinuclidine moiety extends out of the surface to facilitate the interaction with the prochiral reactants.     

Non-covalent reconfigurable microgel colloidosomes with a well-defined bilayer shell

Microgels are extremely interfacially active and are widely used to stabilize emulsions. However, they are commonly used to stabilize oil-in-water emulsions due to their intrinsic hydrophilicity and initially dispersed in water. In addition, there have been no attempts to control microgel structural layers that are formed at the interface and as a result it limits applications of microgel in advanced materials. Here, we show that by introducing octanol into poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-methacrylic acid) (PNIPAM-co-MAA) microgels, octanol-swollen microgels can rapidly diffuse from the initially dispersed oil phase onto the water droplet surface. This facilitates the formation of microgel-laden interfacial layers with strong elastic responses and also generates stable inverse water-in-oil Pickering emulsions. These emulsions can be used as templates to produce microgel colloidosomes, herein termed ‘microgelsomes’, with shells that can be fine-tuned from a particle monolayer to a well-defined bilayer. The microgelsomes can then be used to encapsulate and/or anchor nanoparticles, proteins, vitamin C, bio-based nanocrystals or enzymes. Moreover, the programmed release of these substances can be achieved by using ethanol as a trigger to mediate shell permeability. Thus, these reconfigurable microgelsomes with a microgel-bilayer shell can respond to external stimuli and demonstrate tailored properties, which offers novel insights into microgels and promise wider application of Pickering emulsions stabilized by soft colloids.

Inverse W/O Pickering emulsions and reconfigurable microgelsomes with a well-defined bilayer structure are prepared from octanol-swollen PNIPAM-co-MAA microgels and the combination of binary microgels, which promise wider application of soft colloids.     

Level Statistics Crossover of Chiral Surface States in a Three-Dimensional Quantum Hall System

Recent experiments have demonstrated the realization of the three-dimensional quantum Hall effect in highly anisotropic crystalline materials, such as ZrTe|_5 and BaMnSb_2. Such a system supports chiral surface states in the presence of a strong magnetic field, which exhibit a one-dimensional metal-insulator crossover due to suppression of surface diffusion by disorder potential. We study the nontrivial surface states in a lattice model and find a wide crossover of the level-spacing distribution through a semi-Poisson distribution. We also discover a nonmonotonic evolution of the level statistics due to the disorder-induced mixture of surface and bulk states.     

国家治理的家户逻辑：基于田野政治学的分析进路

家户是中国社会的细胞,也是国家治理的基本单元。从历史上看,家户单元以独立的个体家庭的产生为基础,并经由“编户齐民”制度而成熟定型。与其他治理单元不同,家户具有极强的自主性,并从中汲取动能与活力。家户自主性是基于家户自身生存和发展需要而产生的内在能动性,包括意识自主性、目标自主性和行动自主性。中国国家治理的重要特征,不是对家户单元的控制与形塑,而是对家户自主性的认同与调适。家户自主性的产生,主要源于家户单元的自组织特性,包括联结方式的血缘性、个体需求的内生性、组织形态的灵活性以及国家权力的外在性。从历史上看,正是家户单元的自主性治理,为“集家为国”的中国国家治理提供了动力,其不仅创造了灿烂的农业文明,也实现了国家的长治久安。进入近代以后,家户作为国家治理单元的功能不断弱化甚至一度被取代,但其内在价值并未因此消解,反而在改革实践中展现独特魅力与光芒。在推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的进程中,应当高度重视家户单元及其蕴含的自主性价值,并赋予其新的时代意义。     

Quantum mechanics in Dirac's front form

In 1949 Dirac published a paper in which he proposed various ways to combine special relativity with the Hamiltonian formulation of dynamics; these were referred toas forms and three differentforms, theinstant, thepoint, and thefront forms, were discussed. Dirac considered thefront form to be mathematically the most interesting. Despite this, thefront form appears to have been the least explored. This paper presents the results of a study of quantum mechanics in thefront form.     

Ab initio方法研究~(40)Ca~(35)Cl分子的自旋轨道耦合效应和跃迁性质

本文研究了~(40)Ca~(35)Cl分子低态的自旋轨道耦合分裂以及获得更精确的光谱常数和更高的激发态.以从头算理论为基础,使用多参考组态相互作用方法获得了该分子的势能曲线和自旋轨道分裂,之后求解径向一维薛定谔方程获得光谱常数.得到了~(40)Ca~(35)Cl分子7个Λ-S低电子态的势能曲线和永久偶极矩,以及A~2Π→~2Σ~+,1~2Δ和C~2Π→~2Σ~+,1~2Δ跃迁的跃迁偶极矩,得到的光谱常数(不管是考虑了自旋轨道耦合(SOC)还是没有考虑SOC)与实验值非常符合,且要好于之前的理论计算结果 .值得注意的是,目前的计算还首次得到了C~2Π→~2Σ+,1~2Δ跃迁的跃迁性质,为之后实验观察~(40)Ca~(35)Cl分子的高激发态光谱和跃迁性质提供有益的理论参考.     

用正交试验法探索交沙霉素片剂处方

新药交沙霉素能否制成片剂，取决于能否找到最佳的片剂处方．本文运用正交试验法成功地解决了这一问题．     

Local spatial transformations and local observables

Traditionally spatial transformations such as translations and rotations are formulated in terms of transformations of the entire spatial space. In other words, transformations are taken automatically to be of a global nature. This paper investigates a local approach to spatial transformations; local transformations lead naturally to local observables in quantum mechanics.