The globulins of cotton seeds XI. The structure of the chymotryptic peptides of the 7S globulin

Summary The amino-acid sequences of the chymotryptic peptides of the 7S globulin of cotton seeds have been determined.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 682–687, September–October, 1977.     

X-ray natural circular dichroism in copper metaborate

The local electronic structure of copper ions in a copper metaborate CuB₂O₄ crystal is studied on the ESRF synchrotron using X-ray absorption polarization-dependent spectroscopy. The X-ray natural circular dichroism near the K absorption edge of copper is measured in the direction that is perpendicular to crystal axis c. The data obtained indicate the presence of hybridized p–d electronic states of copper. Theoretical calculations are used to separate the contributions of the two crystallographically nonequivalent positions of copper atoms in the unit cell of CuB₂O₄ to the absorption and X-ray circular dichroism spectra of the crystal.     

An ab initio study of ion-pair states of the Br<Subscript>2</Subscript> molecule

This contribution reports an ab initio study of 18 ion-pair states of the Br₂ molecule correlating with the Br⁺(³P_J=2,1,0,¹D₂) +Br^–(¹S₀) dissociation asymptotes. Calculations were performed on the CASSCF/CASPT2 level of theory taking into account electron correlations and with inclusion of the spinorbit coupling. Ab initio results are compared with the experiment. For gerade and ungerade ion-pair potentials, the difference between calculated and experimental values of the equilibrium internuclear distance does not exceed ΔR_e = ±0.01 and ±0.05 Å, respectively. For the states correlating to the lowest dissociation asymptote Br⁺(³P₂) + Br^–(¹S₀), the accuracy of relative energies is postilions ΔT_e ± 0.02 eV. The dipole moment functions for some transitions between the ion-pair and valence states were calculated as well.     

Full structure of the carbohydrate chain of the lipopolysaccharide of Providencia rustigianii O34

A lipopolysaccharide isolated from an opportunistic pathogen of the Enterobacteriaceae family Providencia rustigianii O34 was found to be a mixture of R-, SR-, and S-forms consisting of a lipid moiety (lipid A) that bears a core oligosaccharide, a core with one O-polysaccharide repeating unit attached, and a long-chain O-polysaccharide, respectively. The corresponding carbohydrate moieties were released from the lipopolysaccharide by mild acid hydrolysis and studied by sugar and methylation analyses along with one- and two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy and high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry. As a result, the structures of the core and the O-polysaccharide were established, including the structure of the biological repeating unit (an oligosaccharide that is preassembled and polymerized in biosynthesis of the O-polysaccharide), as well as the mode of the linkage between the O-polysaccharide and the core. Combining the structure of the carbohydrate moiety thus determined and the known structure of lipid A enabled determination of the full lipopolysaccharide structure of P. rustigianii O34.     

Kinetics of the β-picoline oxidation to nicotinic acid over vanadia-titania catalyst. 2. Effect of dioxygen and β-picoline

The effect of the dioxygen and β-picoline concentrations on the oxidation of β-picoline to nicotinic acid was studied at 270°C over a 20% V₂O₅-80% TiO₂ (wt. %) catalyst. The study was performed in a differential reactor at constant concentrations of water and nicotinic acid. A considerable excess of dioxygen was shown to be necessary for the formation of nicotinic acid. It was found that the rates of β-picoline transformation into nicotinic acid, pyridine-3-carbaldehyde, pyridine-3-nitrile, pyridine and carbon oxides as well as selectivities to products and the catalyst state depend strongly on the ratio of dioxygen to β-picoline concentrations. The minimum admissible ratio of these concentrations under industrial conditions was determined.     

Nonresonant case of intersection of bifurcation curves in the Couette-Taylor problem

The nonresonant case (Res 0) of the motion of a viscous incompressible fluid between rotating coaxial cylinders in a small neighborhood of a bifurcation point of codimension 2 is considered, where the amplitude system has only essential resonant terms. Existence and stability conditions are obtained for its solutions which correspond to various periodic and quasiperiodic solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. In a small neighborhood of some points of the resonance Res 0, the regions of existence and stability of these solutions are determined.     

Spin susceptibilities for the Hubbard model in a band approach

The properties of spin excitations superposed on a uniform ground state with antiferromagnetic (or spiral) spin structure are studied in a 2D Hubbard model. Expressions are derived for the spin susceptibility in the random phase approximation (RPA) using split Hubbard bands as a zeroth approximation. The calculated collective modes with dispersion ω(Q)=c|Q−(π, π)| near Q∼(π, π) reproduce well the characteristics of the spin excitations observed in undoped cuprates. For doped systems with an antiferromagnetic structure of the ground state, calculating X″(Q,ω→0) gives the same mode with a peak at Q∼(π, π), regardless of the type of Fermi surface. It is shown that in doped systems with a spiral ground state spin structure, X″(Q,ω→0) peaks occur with incommensurate quasimomenta Q that are coupled to the spirality vector. Zh. éksp. Teor. Fiz. 116, 1058–1080 (September 1999)     

Investigation of X-ray natural circular dichroism in a CsCuCl<Subscript>3</Subscript> single crystal: Theory and experiment

X-ray natural circular dichroism in the near-Cu K edge in a CsCuCl₃ single crystal, caused by dipole-quadrupole (E1E2) transitions between electronic states of different parity, has been experimentally and theoretically investigated. Numerical simulation of the experimental X-ray absorption spectrum and circular dichroism has been performed. It is established that a circular dichroism signal is observed in the pre-edge spectral region; therefore, it is mainly due to the localized electronic p-d states.