催化剂载体对硼氢化钠在纳米金电极上电氧化行为的影响

分别以中孔炭(MPC)和VXC-72R炭黑作载体,制备了中孔炭载纳米Au粒子(Au/MPC)和VXC-72R炭黑载纳米Au粒子(Au/CB),并将其用作直接硼氢化钠燃料电池阳极电氧化催化剂.分别用X-射线衍射(XRD)、透射电镜(TEM)等比较了不同载体催化剂的结构和形貌.结果表明,纳米Au粒子均为面心立方结构,Au/MPC中纳米Au粒子的粒径为16nm左右比Au/CB中的纳米Au粒子的更小,且均匀分散在载体的表面.用循环伏安曲线和动电位极化曲线等比较了不同载体催化剂的电化学特性.结果表明,Au/CB的电流密度为38.10mA·cm-2,而Au/MPC的电流密度达到42.88mA·cm-2,比Au/CB的电流密度提高了12.5%.     

圆盘状a-Co(OH)2的控制合成及其电化学性能

采用AAO模板及后处理方法合成了圆盘状a-Co(OH)2并研究了其电化学电容性能.在该合成方法中,先采用阳极氧化铝模板结合交流电沉积的方法获得钴纳米线,而后将其在碱液中通过溶解氧氧化生成终端产物.用红外光谱(FT-IR),X射线衍射(XRD)和场发射扫描电子显微镜(FE-SEM)表征了产物的结构和形貌;用循环伏安、恒电流充放电测试方法对其电化学性能进行了测试.此外,对圆盘状Co(OH)2的形成机理进行了初步探讨.结果表明,用此方法合成的Co(OH)2具有圆盘状形貌,属a相态,且表现出较好的电容特性.     

Humidity responsive asymmetric free-standing multilayered film

A humido-responsive free-standing film has been created using layer-by-layer assembly technique. Polyethylenimine (PEI) at high pH was assembled with poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) at low pH on a Teflon substrate to yield a micro-nanostructured surface that can be made superhydrophobic after being coated with a low surface energy compound. The resulting asymmetric free-standing film with one surface being superhydrophobic while the other is hydrophilic after detachment from the substrate can undergo reversible bending/unbending shape transitions when the environmental humidity is changed. The bending/unbending movement of the free-standing film can be ascribed to the different responses of these two surfaces to humidity.     

A Time‐Resolved Spectroscopic Study of the Bichromophoric Phototrigger 3′,5′‐Dimethoxybenzoin Diethyl Phosphate: Interaction Between the Two Chromophores Determines the Reaction Pathway

3′,5′‐Dimethoxybenzoin (DMB) is a bichromophoric system that has widespread application as a highly efficient photoremovable protecting group (PRPG) for the release of diverse functional groups. The photodeprotection of DMB phototriggers is remarkably clean, and is accompanied by the formation of a biologically benign cyclization product, 3′,5′‐dimethoxybenzofuran (DMBF). The underlying mechanism of the DMB deprotection and cyclization has, however, until now remained unclear. Femtosecond transient absorption (fs‐TA) spectroscopy and nanosecond time‐resolved resonance Raman (ns‐TR³) spectroscopy were employed to detect the transient species directly, and examine the dynamic transformations involved in the primary photoreactions for DMB diethyl phosphate (DMBDP) in acetonitrile (CH₃CN). To assess the electronic character and the role played by the individual sub‐chromophore, that is, the benzoyl, and the di‐meta‐methoxybenzylic moieties, for the DMBDP deprotection, comparative fs‐TA measurements were also carried out for the reference compounds diethyl phosphate acetophenone (DPAP), and 3′,5′‐dimethoxybenzylic diethyl phosphate (DMBnDP) in the same solvent. Comparison of the fs‐TA spectra reveals that the photoexcited DMBDP exhibits distinctly different spectral character and dynamic evolution from those of the reference compounds. This fact, combined with the related steady‐state spectral and density functional theoretical results, strongly suggests the presence in DMBDP of a significant interaction between the two sub‐chromophores, and that this interaction plays a governing role in determining the nature of the photoexcitation and the reaction channel of the subsequent photophysical and photochemical transformations. The ns‐TR³ results and their correlation with the fs‐TA spectra and dynamics provide evidence for a novel concerted deprotection–cyclization mechanism for DMBDP in CH₃CN. By monitoring the direct generation of the transient DMBF product, the cyclization time constant was determined unequivocally to be ≈1 ns. This indicates that there is little relevance for the long‐lived intermediates (>10 ns) in giving the DMBF product, and excludes the stepwise mechanism proposed in the literature as the major pathway for the DMB cyclization reaction. This work provides important new insights into the origin of the 3′,5′‐dimethoxy substitution effect for the DMB photodeprotection. It also helps to clarify the many different views presented in previous mechanistic studies of the DMB PRPGs. In addition to this, our fs‐TA results on the reference compound DMBnDP in CH₃CN provide the first direct observation (to the best of our knowledge) showing the predominance of a prompt (≈2 ps) heterolytic bond cleavage after photoexcitation of meta‐methoxybenzylic compounds. This provides insight into the long‐term controversies about the photoinitiated dissociation mode of related substituted benzylic compounds.     

Variable-weighted least-squares support vector machine for multivariate spectral analysis

Multivariate spectral analysis has been widely applied in chemistry and other fields. Spectral data consisting of measurements at hundreds and even thousands of analytical channels can now be obtained in a few seconds. It is widely accepted that before a multivariate regression model is built, a well-performed variable selection can be helpful to improve the predictive ability of the model. In this paper, the concept of traditional wavelength variable selection has been extended and the idea of variable weighting is incorporated into least-squares support vector machine (LS-SVM). A recently proposed global optimization method, particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is used to search for the weights of variables and the hyper-parameters involved in LS-SVM optimizing the training of a calibration set and the prediction of an independent validation set. All the computation process of this method is automatic. Two real data sets are investigated and the results are compared those of PLS, uninformative variable elimination-PLS (UVE-PLS) and LS-SVM models to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method.     

Quantitative analysis of levodopa, carbidopa and methyldopa in human plasma samples using HPLC-DAD combined with second-order calibration based on alternating trilinear decomposition algorithm

An HPLC method combined with second-order calibration based on alternating trilinear decomposition (ATLD) algorithm has been developed for the quantitative analysis of levodopa (LVD), carbidopa (CBD) and methyldopa (MTD) in human plasma samples. Prior to the analysis of the analytes by ATLD algorithm, three time regions of chromatograms were selected purposely for each analyte to avoid serious collinearity. Although the spectra of these analytes were similar and interferents coeluted with the analytes studied in biological samples, good recoveries of the analytes could be obtained with HPLC-DAD coupled with second-order calibration based on ATLD algorithm, additional benefits are decreasing times of analysis and less solvent consumption. The average recoveries achieved from ATLD with the factor number of 3 (N = 3) were 100.1 ± 2.1, 96.8 ± 1.7 and 104.2 ± 2.6% for LVD, CBD and MTD, respectively. In addition, elliptical joint confidence region (EJCR) tests as well as figures of merit (FOM) were employed to evaluate the accuracy of the method.     

Visual detection of melamine in milk products by label-free gold nanoparticles

A simple, rapid, field-portable colorimetric method for the detection of melamine based on melamine-induced color change of label-free gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) was developed in this study. Melamine can induced the aggregation of Au NPs and results in the color change from wine-red to purple, which provided a platform for rapid and field-portable colorimetric detection of melamine. The proposed method can be used to detect melamine in liquid milk and infant formula with a detection limit of 1.0 and 4.2 ppm, respectively, within 30 min by naked eyes observation without the aid of any advanced instrument and the need of any complex pretreatment, and detect as low as 0.15 ppm of melamine in liquid milk and 2.5 ppm of melamine in infant formula with UV-vis-spectroscopy. The proposed method is promising for on-site screening of melamine adulterant in milk products.     

Quantitative analysis of triazine herbicides in environmental samples by using high performance liquid chromatography and diode array detection combined with second-order calibration based on an alternating penalty trilinear decomposition algorithm

A novel application of second-order calibration method based on an alternating penalty trilinear decomposition (APTLD) algorithm is presented to treat the data from high performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection (HPLC-DAD). The method makes it possible to accurately and reliably analyze atrazine (ATR), ametryn (AME) and prometryne (PRO) contents in soil, river sediment and wastewater samples. Satisfactory results are obtained although the elution and spectral profiles of the analytes are heavily overlapped with the background in environmental samples. The obtained average recoveries for ATR, AME and PRO are 99.7 ± 1.5, 98.4 ± 4.7 and 97.0 ± 4.4% in soil samples, 100.1 ± 3.2, 100.7 ± 3.4 and 96.4 ± 3.8% in river sediment samples, and 100.1 ± 3.5, 101.8 ± 4.2 and 101.4 ± 3.6% in wastewater samples, respectively. Furthermore, the accuracy and precision of the proposed method are evaluated with the elliptical joint confidence region (EJCR) test. It lights a new avenue to determine quantitatively herbicides in environmental samples with a simple pretreatment procedure and provides the scientific basis for an improved environment management through a better understanding of the wastewater-soil-river sediment system as a whole.     

Three New Illudalane Sequiterpenoids from Pteris semipinnata

The chemical investigation of the aerial parts of Pteris semipinnata resulted in the isolation of three illudalane sesquiterpenoids, namely (2R)‐norpterosin B ( 1 ), (2R)‐12‐O‐β‐D ‐glucopyranosylnorpterosin B ( 2 ), and semipterosin A ( 3 ), along with three known compounds. The structures of 1 – 3 were established by spectroscopic methods, including extensive 2D‐NMR and CD analyses.     

Theoretical studies on the electronic structures and spectroscopic properties of a series of novel N?C?N‐coordinating Pt(II) complexes

The electronic structures and spectroscopic properties of the three tridentate cyclometalated Platinum(II) complexes PtL¹Cl [L¹ = 1,3‐di(2‐pyridyl)‐5‐methyl‐benzene] ( 1 ), PtL²Cl [L² = 1‐(2‐pyridyl)‐3‐(1‐pyrazolyl)‐5‐methyl‐benzene] ( 2 ), and PtL³Cl [L³ = 1,3‐bis(1‐pyrazolyl)‐5‐methyl‐benzene] ( 3 ) were calculated to explore their spectroscopic nature. The geometry structures of 1 – 3 in the ground and excited states were optimized under the density functional theory (DFT) and the single‐excitation configuration interaction (CIS) level, respectively. The absorption and emission spectra in CH₂Cl₂ solution were calculated by the time‐dependent density‐functional theory (TD‐DFT) with the polarized continuum model solvent model. As revealed from the calculations, the LUMO of 1 and 2 are localized on phenyl and pyridyl, but that of 3 has 50.3% π*(pyrazolyl) and 47.8% π*(phenyl). The energy gap of the d‐d state was much greater than that of the CT transitions. With the replacement of pyridyl by pyrazolyl, the electron‐donating ability of N atom decreases, whereas the LUMO energy level increases. The lowest‐energy absorptions and emissions are blue‐shifted in the order 1 > 2 > 3 , which are assigned as the ILCT/MLCT/LLCT and ³ILCT/³MLCT/³LLCT characters, respectively. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2010