A rapid and specific derivatization procedure to identify acyl‐glucuronides by mass spectrometry

A simple procedure is described to identify acyl‐glucuronides by coupled liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry after derivatization to a hydroxamic acid with hydroxylamine. The reaction specificity obviates the need for isolation of the acyl‐glucuronide from an extract. Glucuronides derived from carbamic acids, and alkyl‐ and aromatic amines, are inert to the derivatization reaction conditions, making the hydroxamic acid derivative a fingerprint for acyl‐glucuronides. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Synthesis,characterization, and star polymer assembly of boronic acid end‐functionalized polycaprolactone

Boronic acid end‐functionalized polycaprolactone (PCL) polymers were synthesized by ring‐opening polymerization using a pinacol boronate ester‐containing (Bpin) initiator. The polymerization provides access to boron‐terminated polymers (i.e. Bpin‐PCL‐OH) with narrow molecular weight distributions (PDI = 1.09). Postsynthetic manipulation of the polymer's terminal hydroxyl group by copper‐catalyzed azide‐alkyne cycloaddition chemistry provides a series of bis end‐functionalized polymers with significant structural diversity at the termini. Deprotection of the boronate ester end group was accomplished with an acidic solid phase DOWEX resin. The boronate ester deprotection methodology does not result in hydrolysis of the polymeric backbone. The boronic acid‐tipped polymers were converted into star polymer assemblies using thermal dehydration and ligand‐facilitated trimerization. Thermal dehydration of (HO)₂B‐PCL‐OAc to the corresponding boroxine‐based star polymer assembly was inefficient and lead to degradation products. Ligand‐facilitated trimerization using either pyridine or 7‐azaindole as the Lewis base was efficient and mild. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2010     

Diffusivity of adatoms on plasma-exposed surfaces determined from the ionization energy approximation and ionic polarizability

Microscopic surface diffusivity theory based on atomic ionization energy concept is developed to explain the variations of the atomic and displacement polarizations with respect to the surface diffusion activation energy of adatoms in the process of self-assembly of quantum dots on plasma-exposed surfaces. These polarizations are derived classically, while the atomic polarization is quantized to obtain the microscopic atomic polarizability. The surface diffusivity equation is derived as a function of the ionization energy. The results of this work can be used to fine-tune the delivery rates of different adatoms onto nanostructure growth surfaces and optimize the low-temperature plasma based nanoscale synthesis processes.     

Crystallographic report: Dimeric tetraphenyl‐1‐hydroxo‐3‐trifluoromethanesulfonatodistannoxane, [Ph2(HO)SnOSn(O3SCF3)Ph2]2

The molecular structure of the title compound, obtained by an adventitious phenyl group cleavage of Ph₃SnOSnPh₃ with triflic acid, reveals discrete centrosymmetric units of [Ph₂(HO)SnOSn(O₃SCF₃)Ph₂]₂ that are loosely associated via hydrogen bonding. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Time shifted aliasing error upper bounds for truncated sampling cardinal series

Time shifted aliasing error upper bound extremals for the sampling reconstruction procedure are fully characterized. Sharp upper bounds are found on the aliasing error of truncated cardinal series and the corresponding extremals are described for entire functions from certain specific Lp, p>1, classes. Analogous results are obtained in multidimensional regular sampling. Truncation error analysis is provided in all cases considered. Moreover, sharpness of bounding inequalities, convergence rates and various sufficient conditions are discussed.     

Minimax kernels for density estimation with biased data

This paper considers the asymptotic properties of two kernel estimates % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXafv3ySLgzGmvETj2BSbqefm0B1jxALjhiov2D% aebbfv3ySLgzGueE0jxyaibaiGc9yrFr0xXdbba91rFfpec8Eeeu0x% Xdbba9frFj0-OqFfea0dXdd9vqaq-JfrVkFHe9pgea0dXdar-Jb9hs% 0dXdbPYxe9vr0-vr0-vqpWqaaeaabiGaciaacaqabeaadaqaaqGaaO% qaaGqaciqa-zgagaacamaaBaaaleaadaWgaaadbaGaa8NBaaqabaaa% leqaaaaa!3E82!\[\tilde f_{_n }\]and % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXafv3ySLgzGmvETj2BSbqefm0B1jxALjhiov2D% aebbfv3ySLgzGueE0jxyaibaiGc9yrFr0xXdbba91rFfpec8Eeeu0x% Xdbba9frFj0-OqFfea0dXdd9vqaq-JfrVkFHe9pgea0dXdar-Jb9hs% 0dXdbPYxe9vr0-vr0-vqpWqaaeaabiGaciaacaqabeaadaqaaqGaaO% qaaGqaciqa-zgagaqcamaaBaaaleaadaWgaaadbaGaa8NBaaqabaaa% leqaaaaa!3E83!\[\hat f_{_n }\], which have been proposed by Bhattacharyya et al. (1988, Comm. Statist. Theory Methods, A17, 3629–3644) and Jones (1991, Biometrika, 78, 511–519), respectively, for estimating the underlying density f at a point under a general selection biased model. The asymptotic optimality of % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXafv3ySLgzGmvETj2BSbqefm0B1jxALjhiov2D% aebbfv3ySLgzGueE0jxyaibaiGc9yrFr0xXdbba91rFfpec8Eeeu0x% Xdbba9frFj0-OqFfea0dXdd9vqaq-JfrVkFHe9pgea0dXdar-Jb9hs% 0dXdbPYxe9vr0-vr0-vqpWqaaeaabiGaciaacaqabeaadaqaaqGaaO% qaaGqaciqa-zgagaqcamaaBaaaleaadaWgaaadbaGaa8NBaaqabaaa% leqaaaaa!3E83!\[\hat f_{_n }\]and % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXafv3ySLgzGmvETj2BSbqefm0B1jxALjhiov2D% aebbfv3ySLgzGueE0jxyaibaiGc9yrFr0xXdbba91rFfpec8Eeeu0x% Xdbba9frFj0-OqFfea0dXdd9vqaq-JfrVkFHe9pgea0dXdar-Jb9hs% 0dXdbPYxe9vr0-vr0-vqpWqaaeaabiGaciaacaqabeaadaqaaqGaaO% qaaGqaciqa-zgagaacamaaBaaaleaadaWgaaadbaGaa8NBaaqabaaa% leqaaaaa!3E82!\[\tilde f_{_n }\]is measured by the corresponding asymptotic minimax mean squared errors under a compactly supported Lipschitz continuous family of the underlying densities. It is shown that, in general, % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXafv3ySLgzGmvETj2BSbqefm0B1jxALjhiov2D% aebbfv3ySLgzGueE0jxyaibaiGc9yrFr0xXdbba91rFfpec8Eeeu0x% Xdbba9frFj0-OqFfea0dXdd9vqaq-JfrVkFHe9pgea0dXdar-Jb9hs% 0dXdbPYxe9vr0-vr0-vqpWqaaeaabiGaciaacaqabeaadaqaaqGaaO% qaaGqaciqa-zgagaqcamaaBaaaleaadaWgaaadbaGaa8NBaaqabaaa% leqaaaaa!3E83!\[\hat f_{_n }\]is a superior local estimate than % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXafv3ySLgzGmvETj2BSbqefm0B1jxALjhiov2D% aebbfv3ySLgzGueE0jxyaibaiGc9yrFr0xXdbba91rFfpec8Eeeu0x% Xdbba9frFj0-OqFfea0dXdd9vqaq-JfrVkFHe9pgea0dXdar-Jb9hs% 0dXdbPYxe9vr0-vr0-vqpWqaaeaabiGaciaacaqabeaadaqaaqGaaO% qaaGqaciqa-zgagaacamaaBaaaleaadaWgaaadbaGaa8NBaaqabaaa% leqaaaaa!3E82!\[\tilde f_{_n }\]in the sense that the asymptotic minimax risk of % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXafv3ySLgzGmvETj2BSbqefm0B1jxALjhiov2D% aebbfv3ySLgzGueE0jxyaibaiGc9yrFr0xXdbba91rFfpec8Eeeu0x% Xdbba9frFj0-OqFfea0dXdd9vqaq-JfrVkFHe9pgea0dXdar-Jb9hs% 0dXdbPYxe9vr0-vr0-vqpWqaaeaabiGaciaacaqabeaadaqaaqGaaO% qaaGqaciqa-zgagaqcamaaBaaaleaadaWgaaadbaGaa8NBaaqabaaa% leqaaaaa!3E83!\[\hat f_{_n }\]is lower than that of % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXafv3ySLgzGmvETj2BSbqefm0B1jxALjhiov2D% aebbfv3ySLgzGueE0jxyaibaiGc9yrFr0xXdbba91rFfpec8Eeeu0x% Xdbba9frFj0-OqFfea0dXdd9vqaq-JfrVkFHe9pgea0dXdar-Jb9hs% 0dXdbPYxe9vr0-vr0-vqpWqaaeaabiGaciaacaqabeaadaqaaqGaaO% qaaGqaciqa-zgagaacamaaBaaaleaadaWgaaadbaGaa8NBaaqabaaa% leqaaaaa!3E82!\[\tilde f_{_n }\]. The minimax kernels and bandwidths of % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-% feaafeart1ev1aaatCvAUfeBSjuyZL2yd9gzLbvyNv2CaerbuLwBLn% hiov2DGi1BTfMBaeXafv3ySLgzGmvETj2BSbqefm0B1jxALjhiov2D% aebbfv3ySLgzGueE0jxyaibaiGc9yrFr0xXdbba91rFfpec8Eeeu0x% Xdbba9frFj0-OqFfea0dXdd9vqaq-JfrVkFHe9pgea0dXdar-Jb9hs% 0dXdbPYxe9vr0-vr0-vqpWqaaeaabiGaciaacaqabeaadaqaaqGaaO% qaaGqaciqa-zgagaqcamaaBaaaleaadaWgaaadbaGaa8NBaaqabaaa% leqaaaaa!3E83!\[\hat f_{_n }\]are computed explicity and shown to have simple forms and depend on the weight functions of the model.     

Conductivity rules in the Fermi and charge-spin separated liquid

Ioffe–Larkin rule applies for the pure charge-spin separation regardless of its dimensionality. Here, an extension to this rule as a result of the coexistence of spinon, holon and electron as a single entity in the 2-dimensional (2D) system is derived, which is also in accordance with the original rule.     

Emission spectrum of hot HDO below 4000 cm

Fourier transform emission spectra were recorded using a mixture of H₂O and D₂O at a temperature of 1500 °C. The spectra were recorded in three overlapping sections and cover the wavenumber range 1800-3932 cm⁻¹. This spectrum is analyzed together with a previously reported one spanning the 380-2190 cm⁻¹ range [Parekunnel et al., J. Mol. Spectrosc. 2001 (28) 101]. This analysis leads to 4409 newly assigned HDO emission lines. This work particularly extends data on the (200) and (120) states of HDO for which newly determined energy levels are presented.