Sesquiterpenoids (+)-trans-dracuncuflifoliol (1) and (+)-4-hydroxyoppositan-7-one (2) were prepared stereoselectively from enantiomerically pure (7aR)-7a-methyl-1,2,5,6,7,7a-hexahydro-4H-inden-4-one ((−)-6), whose synthesis was described herein. Conjugate addition of the organocopper (I) reagent 10 to (−)-6, followed by epimerization of the ring junction, generated 3 of the 4 contiguous chiral centers of both natural products. 相似文献
Aluminium (iii) is one of the most abundant metal ions found in soil. Typically, Al(+3) is bound to minerals, but its bioavailability and toxicity toward vascular plants increases with increasing soil acidity. Ectomycorrhizal fungi, which live symbiotically on the roots of numerous woody plants, often confer Al(+3) resistance to host plants by reducing metal availability to the plant by unknown mechanisms. A potential mechanism of detoxification is binding of the Al(+3) by organic compounds that are exuded by the fungi into the surrounding soil and solution. A novel method has been developed to purify and characterize Al(+3) binding ligands from Pisolithus tinctorius exudate solutions using Al(+3) immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC), reversed phase chromatography, and mass spectrometry. Fungal exudates produced by P. tinctorius exhibit a strong binding capacity for Al(+3), allowing their selective enrichment and collection using this IMAC method. Elution of the ligands requires the use of high pH. RP-HPLC separation and elemental analysis of the IMAC elutent indicates that the Al(+3) and the exudate ligands both elute from the column but are not bound in a complex. Thus, reversed phase HPLC at pH 10 is used for separation of the ligands and Al(+3) prior to MS analysis. The strongest binding IMAC fraction is analyzed by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry in positive and negative ion modes. This report provides new methods for the direct purification and analysis of naturally occurring ligands that bind hard metal ions. 相似文献
We use an effective lagrangian previously derived from a long-distance self-consistent solution of the Schwinger-Dyson equations of Yang-Mills theory to study some long-distance problems in QCD. In particular we show: (i) the long-distance contribution to the energy of a system containing a net color electric charge is infinite and hence there are no such states in the physical spectrum; (ii) the long-distance contribution to the energy of a system containing a net color magnetic charge is completely screened at distances r > 1/ΛrmQCD. 相似文献
Reaction of 2,3-dialkylindoles with o-nitrophenylsulfenyl chloride in the presence of triethylamine gives good yields of previously unknown 3-o-nitrophenylsulfenyl-2,3-dialkylindolenines which decompose thermally to give the corresponding 2,3-dialkylindole and N1-o-nitrophenylsulfenyl indoles. 相似文献
Constant mode ambient mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) of tissue sections with high lateral resolution of better than 10 μm was performed by combining shear force microscopy with nanospray desorption electrospray ionization (nano-DESI). Shear force microscopy enabled precise control of the distance between the sample and nano-DESI probe during MSI experiments and provided information on sample topography. Proof-of-concept experiments were performed using lung and brain tissue sections representing spongy and dense tissues, respectively. Topography images obtained using shear force microscopy were comparable to the results obtained using contact profilometry over the same region of the tissue section. Variations in tissue height were found to be dependent on the tissue type and were in the range of 0–5 μm for lung tissue and 0–3 μm for brain tissue sections. Ion images of phospholipids obtained in this study are in good agreement with literature data. Normalization of nano-DESI MSI images to the signal of the internal standard added to the extraction solvent allowed us to construct high-resolution ion images free of matrix effects.
