Fluorescent Probe ABM for Screening Gastrointestinal Patient’s Immune State

The fluorescent probe-aminoderivative of benzanthrone, ABM (developed at Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia) was used to characterize the membranes of lymphocytes of cancer patients: 46 patients with gastrointestinal diseases, 13 patients having different primary localizations with massive metastases and intoxication. Patients were divided into three groups: (1) with decreased fluorescence intensity, (2) normal fluorescence intensity, (3) increased fluorescence intensity. The lymphocytes distribution among subsets differed between groups, in correspondence to the level of florescence intensity. Surgical treatment affected the main immunological parameters and elevated the functional activity of lymphocytes. In the advanced tumors group, fluorescence intensity correlates with the survival rate. Results suggest that determination of lymphocytes functional activity by ABM can aid evaluation of the immune status in cancer patients.     

Effect of partial fluorination on the Lewis sites of microcrystalline γ-alumina studied by adsorption of pyridine as a probe molecule: A quantum chemical cluster model study

The influence of fluorination of microcrystalline γ-alumina on the acidity of Lewis sites was studied by quantum chemical cluster model approach. B3LYP and HF/6-31++G(d,p) levels of theory were employed, considering the standard and counterpoise-corrected potential energy surfaces (PESs). Explicit inclusion of dynamical electron correlation effects along with the elimination of the basis set superposition effects in geometry optimization and harmonic vibrational analysis were found to be crucial to reproduce the experimental trends in the shifts of the pyridine ν_19b and ν_8a modes upon fluorination. The acidity of surface-exposed Al-sites was found to increase upon fluorination, which is manifested as a ~ 10% increase of the interaction energies, and also in the characteristics of the electronic density and density Laplacian at the intermolecular bond critical point. Bader analysis of the electronic density has shown that pyridine adsorption on pure and fluorinated γ-alumina can be classified as non-covalent interaction.     

Off-resonance frequency filtered magnetic resonance imaging

One of the main problems with rapid magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques is the artifacts that result from off-resonance effects. The proposed off-resonance frequency filtered MRI (OFF-MRI) method focuses on the elimination of off-resonance components from the image of the observed object. To maintain imaging speed and simultaneously achieve good frequency selectivity, MRI is divided into two steps: signal acquisition and post-processing.     

Spektroskopische Untersuchungen der Metallkomplexe des 2,5-Dibenzoyl-3,4-dihydroxyselenophens

Zusammenfassung Eine Reihe von Metallkomplexen des 2,5-Dibenzoyl-3,4-dihydroxy-selenophens wurden spektroskopisch untersucht. Das Verhalten des Wismutkomplexes und die Möglichkeiten einer spektrophotometrischen Wismutbestimmung auf diesem Wege wurden eingehend studiert.

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Summary A spectroscopic examination was made of a series of metal complexes of 2,5-dibenzoyl-3,4-dihydroxyselenophen. The behavior of the bismuth complex and the possibilities of a spectrophotometric method of determining bismuth in this manner were studied thoroughly.

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Herrn Univ.-Prof. Dr.Hans Lieb zum 80. Geburtstag gewidmet.     

A trinuclear bis(dioximate)(chloro)(nitrosyl)ruthenium(II) complex containing two (2,2′-bipyridine)copper(II) groups

A trinuclear bis(cyclohexanedioximate)(chloro)(nitrosyl)ruthenium(II) complex containing two (2,2-bipyridine)-copper(II) groups has been synthesized and its electronic and electrochemical properties investigated. According to ZINDO/S calculations, the electronic structure of the ruthenium(dioximate)(nitrosyl) moiety is strongly delocalized. The electrochemical behavior has been interpreted with the aid of spectroelectrochemical measurements. In the trinuclear complex, it has been shown that the copper(II) ions can promote the oxidation of the NO species generated electrochemically, and also mediate the redox reactions of the complex, under a dioxygen atmosphere.     

Retention Behavior of Some Compounds Containing Polar Functional Groups on Perfluorophenyl Silica-Based Stationary Phase

A retention study on perfluorophenyl silica-based stationary phase was undertaken for some organic compounds containing different polar functionalities. The dependence of the retention factor on the content of organic modifier (acetonitrile, or methanol) in mobile phase was fitted by polynomial equations. The only exception was observed for adenine, which showed a sigmoidal dependence for the retention factor versus organic modifier content. The extrapolated values of retention factor for water as mobile phase (log k _w) from these dependences were well correlated with octanol–water partition constants (log K _ow), excepting the values for hexachlorocyclohexane isomers and adenine. Temperature dependences of the retention factor obeyed the van’t Hoff equation with thermodynamic parameters similar to those obtained in reversed phase on C8 or C18 stationary phases, excepting two statines whose dependences of ln k on the reciprocal value of absolute column temperature were nonlinear. Again, adenine had an atypical behavior with decrease in the retention factor with the increase in column temperature, due to possible tautomeric equilibria of this compound in presence of water, in accordance with theoretical models reported by literature. Charge modeling with MarvinSketch package program revealed charged centers from analyte molecule that could interact differently with charge centers from stationary phase.     

Synthèse des pyrido[2,3-d] el [3,2-d] -s-triazolo[3,4-f] pyrimidines el de (pyrazolyl-1')-4 pyrido[2,3-d] et [3,2-d] pyrimidines

The synthesis of two new heterocycles is described: pyrido-[2,3-d]-.s-triazolo[ 3,4-f] pyrimidine and pyrido[3,2-d]-.s-triayzolo-[3,4-f] pyrimidine. 4-[I'-Pyrazolyl]pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines and 4-[1′-pyrazoly1] pyrido[ 3,2-d] pyrimidine are obtained by the action of 4-hydrazinopyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine and 4-hydrazinopyrido-[3,2-d]pyrimidine with several β-diketones.     

Synthèse dc la pyrido[2,3-f] phtalazine et des diformyl-6,7; -4,6; -4,7; -2,4 quinoleines

This article describes the synthesis of a new heterocycle, pyrido[2,3,f]phtalazine and three new diformylquinolincs.