Concentration of sodium ion as the determining factor for the association of dansyl amino acids with the teicoplanin molecule in reversed-phase liquid chromatography

The mechanism of the binding of D,L dansyl amino acids to teicoplanin was investigated. Na+ was used as an indicator of the interactions between the solutes and teicoplanin. The number (n) of sodium ions, Na+, excluded from the solute-teicoplanin interface when analyte transfer occurred was determined. A thermodynamic study and enthalpy-entropy compensation were performed to further explore the interaction mechanism. From these results, it was shown that teicoplanin was balanced between 2 conformational states characterized by distinct enantioselective properties. This approach indicates that liquid chromatography (LC) is a useful tool to extract physicochemical and molecular information from retention data. Thus, LC can be used as a complementary technique with the conventional techniques of molecular interaction analysis.     

Activity difference between alpha-COOH and beta-COOH in N-phosphorylaspartic acids

N-phosphorylamino acids are chemically active species that have many biomimic activities. alpha-COOH in amino acids and peptides behaviors rather differently than beta-COOH in many biochemical processes and takes a more important role in the origin of life. Activity differences between alpha-COOH and beta-COOH in the peptide formation of phosphoryl amino acids are studied by 1D, 2D NMR techniques and by ab initio and density functional theory (DFT) calculations in this paper. Phosphoryl dipeptide is formed directly from phosphoryl aspartic acids without any coupling reagents. Only the alpha-dipeptide ester is observed by 1D (1)H, (13)C, and (31)P NMR and 2D NMR. In the ab initio and DFT calculations, the pentacoordinate phosphorane intermediates containing five-membered rings are predicted to be more favored than those with six-membered rings. Both the experimental results and the theoretical calculations suggest that only the alpha-COOH group is activated by N-phosphorylation in N-phosphorylaspartic acid under mild conditions.     

Z‐bpy,a New C2‐Symmetric Bipyridine Ligand and Its Application in Enantioselective Copper(I)‐Catalyzed Cyclopropanation of Olefins

A rigid C₂‐symmetric chiral bipyridine ligand Z‐bpy with a triptycene‐like backbone was designed and synthesized from simple chemicals in a scalable route. Using this new ligand, copper(I) catalyzed cyclopropanation of styrenes with commercial ethyl diazoacetate produced various corresponding cyclopropanes in high yields, diastereoselectivity and enantioselectivity up to 97% ee.     

Tuning Emission Wavelength of Polymorphous Crystal via Controllable Alkyl Chain Stacking and Its Vapor- and Thermo-Responsive Fluorescence

Tuning fluorescence colour of solid-state materials has become a topic of increasing interest for both fundamental mechanism study and practical applications such as sensors, optical recording and security printing. In this work, a fluorescent colour tuneable molecule BA-C16 is rationally designed and facilely synthesized by attaching flexible long alkyl chains to 2-hydroxybenzophenone azine ( BA ), which shows both aggregation-induced emission (AIE) and excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) characteristics. Compared to BA , the simple introduction of long alkyl chains in BA-C16 leads to an emission wavelength redshift from 542 to 558 nm. This strategy of extending emission wavelength is rarely reported, and is ascribed to the enlarged through-space π-conjugation between interplanar molecules in the aggregate of BA-C16 . Three crystals of BA-C16 are obtained with green, yellowish green and yellow emission. According to characterization by X-ray crystallography, X-ray powder diffraction and differential scanning calorimetry, alkyl chains play an important role in inducing different stacking modes of the three crystals, which further leads to polymorph-dependent fluorescence colour. BA-C16 exhibits tuneable solid-state fluorescence upon vapor fumigation, or annealing based on a transition between a “near-monomer” crystalline state and a “dimer” crystalline state. BA-C16 is further applied for rewritable fluorescence printing tuned by vapor- and thermal-treatment.     

K促进的纳米片状水滑石衍生CoAlO金属氧化物催化碳烟燃烧

采用水热法合成了负载K的纳米片状水滑石衍生CoAlO金属氧化物,其表现出优异的催化碳烟燃烧活性.氢气-程序升温还原（H₂-TPR）实验结果表明,K与Co之间的相互作用提高了催化剂的氧化还原性能.X射线光电子能谱（XPS）分析结果表明,K的负载增大了表面Co²⁺/Co³⁺的比例,促进了氧空位的产生,提高了催化剂对气相氧的吸附能力.碳烟-程序升温还原（Soot-TPR）实验结果表明,K的负载增加了表面吸附氧数量.动力学实验结果表明,K的负载增加了单位质量催化剂上的活性氧数量、反应速率和转化频率（TOF）,从而提高了催化剂的本征活性.另外,碳烟颗粒可以分散在纳米片的层间,与活性位点的接触效率得到提高,也有利于提高催化碳烟燃烧活性.     

Inhomogeneous Distribution of Cationic Surfactants around Anionic Molecular Clusters

An interesting phenomenon is reported when uranyl peroxide nanoclusters U₆₀ (Li_48+mK₁₂(OH)_m[UO₂(O₂)(OH)]₆₀ (H₂O)_n, m≈20 and n≈310) interact with a small number of cationic surfactant molecules. Cationic surfactant molecules do not distribute evenly around the U₆₀ clusters during the interaction as expected. Instead, a small fraction of U₆₀ clusters attract almost all the surfactant molecules, leading to the self-assembly into supramolecular structures by using surfactant–U₆₀ complexes as building locks, and later further aggregate and precipitate based on hydrophobic interaction, whereas the rest of the clusters remained unbounded soluble macroions in bulk dispersion. This phenomenon nicely demonstrates a unique feature of macroion solutions. Considering that Debye–Hückel approximation is no longer valid in such solutions, the competition between the local electrostatic interaction and hydrophobic interaction becomes important to regulate the solution behaviors of macroions.     

Synthesis of Functionalized Tetrahydropyridines by SnCl4-Mediated [4+2] Cycloaddition between Donor–Acceptor Cyclobutanes and Nitriles

Cycloadditions of strained carbocycles promoted by Lewis acids are powerful methods to construct heterocyclic frameworks. In fact, the formal [3+2] cycloadditions of donor–acceptor (DA) cyclopropanes with nitriles has seen particular success in synthesis. In this work, we report on the first [4+2] cycloaddition of nitriles with DA cyclobutanes by Lewis acid activation. Tetrahydropyridine derivatives were obtained in up to 91 % yield from various aryl-activated cyclobutane diesters and aliphatic or aromatic nitriles.     

气相色谱-三重四极杆质谱法同时测定巴氏杀菌乳中9种香精成分

建立了气相色谱-三重四极杆质谱（GC-MS/MS）同时检测巴氏杀菌乳中9种香精成分（二氢香豆素、香兰素、香豆素、乙基香兰素、甲基香兰素、7-甲基香豆素、7-甲氧基香豆素、7-乙氧基-4甲基香豆素和环香豆素）的分析方法。巴氏杀菌乳样品用乙醇溶液萃取,低温涡旋离心,取上清液过0.22 μm滤膜,以DB-5MS色谱柱分离,在MRM模式下测定,基质曲线外标法定量。实验结果表明,9种香精成分在1~200 μg/L范围内呈良好线性,线性相关系数（R²）均大于0.997,方法的检出限为0.002~0.1 μg/kg,定量限为0.001~2 μg/kg,平均回收率为90.3%~110.6%,日内、日间精密度均小于10%。该方法前处理简单快速,检测准确度和灵敏度高,可用于巴氏杀菌乳中9种香精成分的同时检测。     

爆炸物检测用荧光聚合物材料

作为荧光传感材料,荧光聚合物不仅具有传感单元多、荧光亮度高、光稳定性好等特点,而且方便制备荧光传感薄膜,易于实现器件化,在爆炸物荧光检测中得到了广泛的研究与应用。近年来,随着荧光聚合物从传统的线型结构向支化和多孔网络结构的拓展,以及各种功能单元的引入,大量的新型荧光聚合物有效地提升了爆炸物检测的灵敏度、选择性和响应速度等性能。本综述从线型聚合物、支化聚合物、多孔聚合物三类体系出发,总结和评述了用于爆炸物荧光检测的线型共轭与非共轭聚合物、树枝状分子与超支化聚合物、无定形与结晶型多孔聚合物等典型体系的分子结构设计策略、功能特点以及传感性能,并展望了荧光聚合物未来在爆炸物检测应用中所面临的机遇和挑战。