Spectroscopic characterization of charge-transfer complexes of morpholine with chloranilic and picric acids in organic media: Crystal structure of bis(morpholinium 2,4,6-trinitrocyclohexanolate)

Electron donor–acceptor interaction of morpholine (morp) with chloranilic acid (cla) and picric acid (pa) as π-acceptors was investigated spectrophotometrically and found to form stable charge-transfer (CT) complexes (n–π*) of [(Hmorp)₂(cla)] and [(Hmorp)(pa)]₂. The donor site involved in CT interaction is morpholine nitrogen. These complexes are easily synthesized from the reaction of morp with cla and pa within MeOH and CHCl₃ solvents, respectively. ¹HNMR, IR, elemental analyses, and UV–vis techniques characterize the two morpholinium charge-transfer complexes. Benesi–Hildebrand and its modification methods were applied to the determination of association constant (K), molar extinction coefficient (?). The X-ray crystal structure was carried out for the interpretation the predict structure of the [(Hmorp)(pa)]₂ complex.     

新型吡咯类衍生物的合成

2,5-己二酮和胺(氨基硫脲、硫脲、苯胺、氨基酸)经过Paal-Knorr反应合成6个2,5-二甲基-N-取代吡咯衍生物;分别以新合成的N-吡咯甘氨酸、N-苯基吡咯化合物为原料,进行酯化反应和Mannich,Friedel-Craft反应,合成3个N-(2,5-二甲基吡咯)甘氨酸酯类化合物和2个N-苯基-2,5-二甲基吡咯衍生物.所有化合物都通过IR,1HNMR,13CNMR,HRMS波谱方法对其结构进行了确证.     

同位素内标超高效液相色谱-串联质谱法检测大鼠血清中丙烯酰胺和环氧丙酰胺

建立了检测大鼠血清中丙烯酰胺和环氧丙酰胺的超高效液相色谱-串联质谱法(UPLC-MS/MS).血清样品中加入乙腈沉淀蛋白质,超高速离心取上清液,离心浓缩后,采用ACQUITY UPLC T3 C18色谱柱(50 mm×2.1 mm, 1.7 μm),以0.1%甲酸溶液和甲醇为流动相进行梯度洗脱,经UPLC分离,电喷雾离子化四级杆串联质谱以正离子多反应监测方式(MRM)检测,用同位素内标法定量.丙烯酰胺和环氧丙酰胺在0.5～20.0 mg/L浓度范围内线性良好,相关系数r均大于0.999;检出限均为0.1 mg/L;在3个浓度水平(2.0, 8.0, 和15.0 mg/L)进行添加实验,样品的加标回收率分别为98.0%～108.3%和99.6%～106.7%;日内精密度(RSD)为0.54%～5.8%和1.1%～5.8%;每个样品测试时间仅为6 min.本方法测定大鼠血清中的丙烯酰胺和环氧丙酰胺操作简单快速, 重现性好, 灵敏度高.     

Construction of two fluorescence‐labeled non‐combined DNA index system miniSTR multiplex systems to analyze degraded DNA samples in the Chinese Han Population

MiniSTR loci have been demonstrated to be an effective approach in recovering genetic information from degraded specimens, because of the reduced PCR amplicon sizes which improved the PCR efficiency. Eight non‐combined DNA index system miniSTR loci suitable for the Chinese Han Population were analyzed in 300 unrelated Chinese Han individuals using two novel five fluorescence‐labeled miniSTR multiplex systems(multiplex I: D10S1248, D2S441, D1S1677 and D9S2157; multiplex II: D9S1122, D10S1435, D12ATA63, D2S1776 and Amelogenin). The allele frequency distribution and forensic parameters in the Chinese Han Population were reported in this article. The Exact Test demonstrated that all loci surveyed here were found to be no deviation from Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. The accumulated power of discrimination and power of exclusion for the eight loci were 0.999999992 and 0.98, respectively. The highly degraded DNA from artificially degraded samples and the degraded forensic case work samples was assessed with the two miniSTR multiplex systems, and the results showed that the systems were quite effective.     

Mapping of phosphorylation sites in human MSK1 activated by a novel interaction with MRK‐β

The desire to map reliable phosphorylation signaling network has motivated the development of high‐performance techniques. Targeted biochemical studies and updated methods employing MS techniques are most used in mapping the phosphorylation sites and verifying novel interactions of kinases. Previously, we have established a novel method to efficiently facilitate more comprehensive, accurate phosphorylation site mapping of individual phosphoproteins by using combination of multiple stage MS analysis with target‐decoy database search against the much smaller targeted database. In this study, by applying this method, we have identified the phosphorylation sites in human MSK1 mitogen‐ and stress‐activated protein kinase 1), which has been proved to be a multi‐phosphorylated kinase that plays key roles in various cell functions, activated by a novel interaction with MRK‐β. The results show that this method can find out not only those previously identified active sites in MSK1, but also some novel phosphorylated sites, which correlates with biochemical evidence that, besides p38 and extracellular signal‐regulated kinase, MRK‐β could also activate MSK1 through direct interaction. Hence, we conclude this method is sensitive and reliable as expected and it can be further combined with automated screening and biochemical study in efficiently building up a more comprehensive phosphoprotein network.     

Molecularly imprinted polymer coated on stainless steel fiber for solid-phase microextraction of chloroacetanilide herbicides in soybean and corn

A molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) with metolachlor as template was firstly coated on stainless steel fiber through chemical bonding strategy to solve the fragility problem of silica fiber substrate for solid-phase microextraction. The surface pretreatment of stainless steel fiber and the polymerization conditions were investigated systematically to enhance the preparation feasibility and MIP coating performance, and then a porous and highly cross-linked MIP coating with 14.8-μm thickness was obtained with over 200 times re-usability which was supported by non-fragile stainless steel fiber adoption. The MIP coating possessed specific selectivities to metolachlor, its metabolites and other chloroacetanilide herbicides with the factors of 1.1–4.6. Good extraction capacities of metolachlor, propisochlor and butachlor were found with MIP coating under quick adsorption and desorption kinetics, and the detection limits of 3.0, 9.6 and 38 μg L⁻¹ were achieved, respectively. Moreover, the MIP-coated stainless steel fiber was evaluated for trace metolachlor, propisochlor and butachlor extraction in the spiked soybean and corn samples, and the enrichment factors of 54–60, 27–31 and 15–20 were obtained, respectively.     

Identification of chemicals and their metabolites from PHY906, a Chinese medicine formulation,in the plasma of a patient treated with irinotecan and PHY906 using liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS)

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is increasingly being used in combination with Western medicine. In general, TCM is comprised of multiple components in sharp contrast to Western medicine, where a single active chemical is used. Presently, there are no well-established standards for most of the chemical compounds of TCM and their respective metabolites. Moreover, there are no formal analytical methods for the identification of these chemicals, especially in trace amounts. The ability to measure the pharmacokinetic behaviors of chemicals and their metabolites from these herbal formulations are critical in understanding of the action of TCM. This paper describes the use of LC/MS/MS along with enzyme treatments and n-octanol/water partition coefficient, to investigate the chemical components of PHY906 and their metabolites in the plasma of a patient with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) treated with irinotecan and PHY906. The chemicals from an aqueous extract of PHY906 and the plasma from a patient was prepared and separated on an Agilent ZORBAX-SB C₁₈ column, and eluted with acetonitrile/0.05% (v/v) formic acid. From the PHY906 aqueous extract, a total of 57 compounds and 27 metabolites were identified and tentatively assigned structures based on their identified mass spectrometry, enzyme digestion and n-octanol/water partition coefficient. In contrast, analysis of patient plasma identified only 33 chemicals and new metabolites. These findings demonstrated that LC/MS/MS was and effective and reliable method for studying the parent chemicals of the Chinese herbal medicine PHY906 and their metabolites in a patient with metastatic colorectal cancer.     

“Clickable” affinity ligands for effective separation of glycoproteins

In this paper, we present a new modular approach to immobilize boronic acid ligands that can offer effective separation of glycoproteins. A new “clickable” boronic acid ligand was synthesized by introducing a terminal acetylene group into commercially available 3-aminophenyl boronic acid. The clickable ligand, 3-(prop-2-ynyloxycarbonylamino)phenylboronic acid (2) could be easily coupled to azide-functionalized hydrophilic Sepharose using Cu(I)-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction under mild condition. Compared to other boronic acid affinity gels, the new affinity gel displayed superior effectiveness in separating model glycoproteins (ovalbumin and RNase B) from closely related bovine serum albumin and RNase A in the presence of crude Escherichia coli proteins. Because of the simplicity of the immobilization through “click chemistry”, the new ligand 2 is expected to not only offer improved glycoprotein separation in other formats, but also act as a useful building block to develop new chemical sensors for analysis of other glycan compounds.     

水滑石负载钯催化剂上的醇无氧脱氢反应

 研究了多种载体负载 Pd 催化剂上苯甲醇无氧脱氢反应. 结果发现, 以兼具较强酸性和碱性的水滑石 (HT) 为载体时, Pd 催化剂具有优异的苯甲醇转化活性和苯甲醛选择性, 当 Pd 含量为 0.32%~0.55% 时催化性能最佳. Pd/HT 催化剂可重复使用, 且对于含推电子取代基的芳香醇、2-噻吩甲醇、α,β-不饱和醇与环状脂肪醇等的直接脱氢反应均具有较好催化性能. HT 表面的 Pd(II) 物种反应后转变为平均粒径为 2.0~2.5 nm 的 Pd 纳米粒子或纳米簇. 具有较高分散度的 Pd(II) 物种易转变为较小的 Pd 纳米粒子, 从而具有较佳的催化性能. 本文推测, 催化剂表面的碱性位可促进苯甲醇 O–H 键的活化, 形成 Pd-苯甲氧基中间体, 该中间体进一步脱氢生成苯甲醛和 Pd-H 物种; 而催化剂表面的质子酸位可与 Pd-H 作用, 促进 H2 的脱除.     

气相色谱-质谱法测定玩具中的4种阻燃剂

建立了玩具中三(2-氯乙基)磷酸酯、磷酸三邻甲苯酯、2,2′,4,4′,5-五溴联苯醚、2,2′,3,3′,4,4′,6,6′-八溴联苯醚等4种阻燃剂的气相色谱-质谱分析方法。玩具样品以V(正己烷):V(二氯甲烷)=1:1混合溶液为提取溶剂,超声提取30min,提取液以DB-5HT石英毛细管色谱柱(15m×0.25mm×0.10μm)分离后进行选择离子监测模式下的定性及定量分析。4种阻燃剂的定量限为0.1mg/kg,在低、中、高3个添加水平范围内,4种阻燃剂的平均回收率为93.5%～97.3%,相对标准偏差在2.4%～4.1%之间。