Indirect Methods For Determination of The Protective Effects of Coating Films on The Surface of Crystals

The extents of the protective effects of coating films on the surface of crystals were determined. Three different samples were made with different quantities of coating fluid (Sepifilm LP 010 in 10% aqueous solution). Since the atomizing rate was constant, the coating time increased in parallel with the volume of coating fluid applied. The direct measurement of film thickness and smoothness is very difficult, and therefore indirect methods were used. Dimenhydrinate was chosen as model drug; this is a heat-sensitive antihistamine with a low melting point. This temperature can be reached during the tableting process. The behaviour of samples on exposure to heat was examined by differential scanning calorimetry. The water uptakes of the samples were determined with an Enslin apparatus. Plasticity was studied with an instrumented tablet machine. These indirect methods (thermal conductivity, water uptake and plasticity measurements) revealed connections between the results of the various experiments. An overlong coating time decreased the protective effect of the coating film. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Fluorescence-based active site probes for profiling deubiquitinating enzymes

Novel ubiquitin-based active site probes including a fluorescent tag have been developed and evaluated. A new, functionalizable electrophilic trap is utilized allowing for late stage diversification of the probe. Attachment of fluorescent dyes allowed direct detection of endogenous deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB) activities in cell extracts by in-gel fluorescence imaging.     

Dimethylacetylene: the theory required to analyse the infrared and Raman perpendicular bands

In this paper we give a detailed account of the theory required to simulate and analyse the infrared and Raman perpendicular fundamental bands of the dimethylacetylene molecule at high resolution. A summary of this theory has appeared in a previous paper (P.R. Bunker, J.W.C. Johns, A.R.W. McKellar and C. di Lauro, J. Mol. Spectry. 162 (1993) 142) in which an analysis of the infrared methyl rocking fundamental band was given. As well as detailing the effect of various terms in the Hamiltonian we also discuss the Raman selection rules and show that the analysis of the ΔK = 2 component of the perpendicular fundamental bands will lead to a determination of the sign of the torsional barrier. The sign of the barrier (i.e. whether the minimum energy conformation is staggered or eclipsed) cannot be determined from the analysis of the infrared perpendicular bands.     

Oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butenes: Product effect in the reactions over tin-antimony mixed oxides

The addition of possible oxidation and/or isomerization products (butadiene, water, isomeric n-butenes) resulted in neither promotion nor inhibition in the oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butenes over tin-antimony mixed oxide catalysts. On the basis of these and other information on the influence of products an interpretation has been given to complete the reaction mechanism more realistic than those based on previous experimental results.

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高质量AlPO4-5分子筛单晶的螯合剂法合成与表征

考察了几种螯合剂对AlPO4-5分子筛单晶合成的影响，结果表明，用邻苯二酚，乙酰丙酮，水杨醛为螯合剂可以得到高质量的，尺寸较大的分子筛单晶，其作用机理可能与它们加入到分子筛合成体系中，改变了溶胶中铝的配位数或产生了铝的螯合物有关。     

Cr(III) and Cr(VI) on-line preconcentration and determination with high performance flow flame emission spectrometry in natural samples

Methods for the on-line chromatographic preconcentration of Cr(III) and Cr(VI) have been developed. Cr(VI) has been preconcentrated on an RP C18 silica based column with tetrabutylammonium-bromide (TBABr) as ion-pairing agent. Specially for Cr(III) a new and effective preconcentration technique based on the sorption of Cr(III)-ions in a C18 column in presence of KH-phthalate has been developed. The efficiency of sample introduction into the atomic emission spectrometer could be improved by hydraulic high pressure nebulization. For the detection of chromium the acetylene/N(2)O flame has been used as a powerful emission spectrometric source. Applying these steps the detection limit (3sigma) could be improved to 25 pg/mL for Cr(III) and to 20 pg/mL for Cr(VI). The method has been applied for the chromium speciation in natural water samples.     

Colour pigments of Trichoderma harzianum. Preliminary investigations with thin-layer chromatography-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and high-performance liquid chromatography with diode array and mass spectrometric detection

The colour pigments of Trichoderma harzianum fermentation broth were separated and the main fractions were tentatively identified by reversed-phase thin-layer chromatography-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (RP-TLC-FT-IR), RP-HPLC-diode array detection and RP-HPLC-MS. It was established that the multistep gradient elution developed for RP-TLC separation of pigments can be successfully used as a pilot method for the rational design of gradient elution in RP-HPLC for the separation of the same pigments. FT-IR and MS measurements were unable to identify the exact chemical structures of the main pigment fractions, the presence of OH, =CH and C=O (RP-TLC-FT-IR) and OH and NH, substructures (RP-HPLC-MS) was confirmed. It was assumed that the main pigment fractions are oxidation polymers originating from monomer molecules containing polar substructures and double bonds in the alkyl chain which are liable for oxidation during the aerobic fermentation process.     

A neutral zwitterionic molecular solid

We report on the acid ethylenedithiotetrathiafulvaleneamidoglycine (EDT-TTF-CO-NH-CH(2)-CO(2)H; 1; EDT-TTF=ethylenedithiotetrathiafulvalene) and the 1:1 adduct [(EDT-TTF)(·+)-CO-NH-CH(2)-(CO(2))(-)][(EDT-TTF)-CO-NH-CH(2)-(CO(2)H)]·CH(3)OH (2), a new type of hydrogen-bonded, 1:1 acid/zwitterion hybrid embrace of redox peptidics into a two-dimensional architecture, an example of a system deliberately fashioned so that oxidation of π-conjugated cores toward the radical-cation form would interfere with the activity of the appended ionizable residues in the presence of a templating base during crystal growth. First-principles calculations demonstrate that, notwithstanding preconceived ideas, a metallic state is more stable than the hole-localized alternatives for a neat 1:1 neutral acid/zwitterion hybrid. The inhomogeneous Coulomb field associated with proton-shared, interstacks O-H···O hydrogen bonds between the ionizable residues distributed on both sides of the two-dimensional π-conjugated framework leads, however, to a weak hole localization responsible for the activated but high conductivity of 1 S cm(-1). This situation is reminiscent of the role of the environment on electron transfer in tetraheme cytochrome c, in which the protonation state of a heme propionate becomes paramount, or ion-gated transport phenomena in biology. These observations open rather intriguing opportunities for the construction of electronic systems at the interface of chemistry and biology.     

Enantioselective synthesis of 3(S)-hydroxy polygodial derivatives and evaluation of their vanilloid activity

The enantioselective synthesis of 3(S)-hydroxy polygodial and its acetyl derivative is described. The construction of the 3-hydroxy drimane skeleton was based on the titanium-catalyzed radical cyclization of (10S)-10, 11-epoxy-farnesyl acetate. Only underivatized 3(S)-hydroxy polygodial showed activity in assays on VR1 vanilloid receptor in HEK cells transfected with the human VR1.     

Phase separation and disorder in half metallic ferromagnetic manganite thin films: A theoretical study looking forward low noise nano-devices

The resistivity of thin La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ films was first investigated in a wide temperature (T) range (10–750 K). Films grown by different techniques and on several substrates enabled to analyze samples with different amounts of disorder. The aim of this work was to elucidate the nature of the metal–insulator (M–I) transition occurring at T = T_p in these films and its relation with the different kinds of inhomogeneities they could present like intrinsic electric disorder and co-existence of two different electrical and/or magnetic phases. The low-temperature resistivity state was described mostly by a law which scales as T with  ≈ 2.5. This supports the theoretical proposal of single magnon scattering in presence of minority spin states localized by the disorder. In the whole range of temperatures the experimental data are found to be consistent with a phase separation (PS) scenario. In order to go through the origin of the characteristic length scale of inhomogeneity found, preliminarily low frequency noise measurements as a function of T in a range of temperature around the M–I transition were made. The samples used were patterned using photolithography into bridges with various widths and lengths. No clear sign of separation phase dynamic has been observed in our noise measurements. Unexpectedly the normalized Hooge parameter _H/n was found not to be volume (Ω) independent. The LSMO electrical properties may strongly be driven by disorder and new design for magnetoresistance sensors may have to take into account their intrinsic PS.