Experimental determination of human erythrocyte membrane permeability coefficients for a series of amides

Erythrocyte membrane permeability coefficients have been determined for a series of amides by a method based on the physical and mathematical modelling of hypotonic haemolysis process. The results show that penetration of the substances occurs by two alternative ways through aqueous pores formed by proteins and by the direct dissolving of the molecules in membrane lipids. This conclusion can be confirmed by the correlation analysis between permeability coefficients of native erythrocytes and those pre-incubated with the monosodium salt of p-chloromercuribenzenesulfonic acid (pCMBS), and the partition coefficients of the substances in hydrophilic-hydrophobic phases. Penetration of substances through hydrophilic channels is limited by the sterical factor and diameter in particular. Permeability coefficients for erythrocytes pre-incubated with pCMBS increase in an accordance with the rise of the partition coefficients with correlation coefficient of 0.94, thereby indicating a lipid route of permeation of molecules through erythrocyte membranes.     

Dopant-modulated pair interaction in cuprate superconductors

A comparison of recent experimental STM data with single-impurity and many-impurity Bogoliubov-de Gennes calculations strongly suggests that random out-of-plane dopant atoms in cuprates modulate the pair interaction locally. This type of disorder is crucial to understanding the nanoscale electronic inhomogeneity observed in BSCCO-2212, and can reproduce observed correlations between the positions of impurity atoms and various aspects of the local density of states such as the gap magnitude and the height of the coherence peaks. Our results imply that each dopant atom modulates the pair interaction on a length scale of order one lattice constant.     

Design of two-dimensional random surfaces with specified scattering properties

A method is proposed for designing a two-dimensional randomly rough Dirichlet surface that, when illuminated at normal incidence, scatters a scalar plane wave with a specified angular distribution of its intensity. The method is validated by computer simulation calculations.     

Thermal properties of volatile ruthenium(III) complexes

Complexes of ruthenium(III) with the following beta-diketone derivatives: 2,4-pentanedione (Ru(acac)₃), 1,1,1,6,6,6-hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedione (Ru(hfac)₃), and 2-methoxy-2,6-dimethyl-3,5-heptanedione (Ru(mdhd)₃) were synthesized, purified, and identified by chemical analysis and melting points. By difference-scanning calorimetry (DSC) in vacuum the thermodynamic characteristics of melting processes were defined. Using the static method with quartz membrane zero-manometer, the temperature dependencies of saturated and unsaturated vapor pressure were obtained for Ru(hfac)₃. The standard thermodynamic characteristics of vaporization processes enthalpy ?H _T* and entropy ?S° _T* were determined.     

Formation of Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Nanocomposites

Hybrid inorganic/organic nanocomposites were produced by the exposure of spun films of octa-(benzo-15-crown-5)-substituted phthalocyanine of Cd(II) to an environment of hydrogen sulfide gas. The formation of cadmium sulfide (CdS) quantum dots in the metal free phthalocyanine matrix was identified in the phthalocyanine matrix from atomic force microscopy images. The mean size of CdS quantum dots was estimated to be 2–3 nm, from optical absorption and Raman spectra for the nanocomposites.     

Reactions of 2-phenylpyrrole with bromobenzoylacetylene on metal oxides active surfaces

The solvent-free interaction of 2-phenylpyrrole with bromobenzoylacetylene (room temperature) upon their grinding with solid metal oxides (MgO, CaO, ZnO, BaO, Al₂O₃, TiO₂, ZrO₂) and salts (CaCO₃, ZrSiO₄) leads to either the cross-coupling product or the adduct of pyrrole addition to the riple bond of acetylene. The ethynylation is accompanied by the formation of intermediate and side products: E-2-(1-bromo-2-benzoylethenyl)-5-phenylpyrrole and 1,1-di(5-phenylpyrrol-2-yl)-2-benzoylethene. The activity of the metal oxides in the ethynylation reaction falls in the order (in the brackets, the content of 2-benzoylethynyl-5-phenylpyrrole in the reaction mixture is given): ZnO (81%), BaO (73%), Al₂O₃ (71%), MgO (69%), CaO (50%). The oxides, SiO₂, TiO₂, ZrO₂, and the salts, CaCO₃ and ZrSiO₄, are inactive in the ethynylation reaction affording only the intermediate adduct, with ZrO₂ the isolated yield of the bromoethenylpyrrole reaching 60%. ESR monitoring shows the reaction to start from one electron transfer from pyrrole to acetylene mediated by the oxide surface. The adduct is readily converted on Al₂O₃ to 2-(benzoylethynyl)-5-phenylpyrrole crystallized mostly as cis-rotamer (X-ray data).     

Amination of octafluoronaphthalene in liquid ammonia: 2,6- and 2,7-Diaminohexafluoronaphthalenes selective preparation

Monoamination of octafluoronaphthalene by liquid ammonia affords 2-aminoheptafluoronaphthalene mainly (isolated yield 85-90%). Diamination of octafluoronaphthalene or amination of 2-aminoheptafluoronaphthalene affords a mixture of isomeric 1,6-, 1,7-, 2,6-, and 2,7-diaminohexafluoronaphthalenes with considerable prevalence of the 2,7-isomer (∼70%), thus being the first example of the predominant substitution at position 7 in 2-substituted polyfluoronaphthalenes. The 2,7/2,6 ratio of 2-X-heptafluoronaphthalene (X = ⁻NH, NH₂ and NHAc) amination diminishes with the decrease of electron-donating effect of the substituent; 2,7-diaminohexafluoronaphthalene forms in the reactions of 2-aminoheptafluoronaphthalene or octafluoronaphthalene with excess of NaNH₂ in liquid ammonia and 2,6-diaminohexafluoronaphthalene—in the reaction of 2-acetylamidoheptafluoronaphthalene with liquid ammonia followed by acetylamido group hydrolysis. The method of the selective preparation of these diamines based on the reversible transformation of amino group and a convenient technique of their high purity isolation by complexation with crown ether have been elaborated.