Study on the interaction between urea and cellulose by combining solid-state 13C CP/MAS NMR and extended Hückel charges

In this article, solid-state ¹³C CP/MAS NMR combined with extended Hückel charges was applied to investigate the interaction between urea and cellulose in the NaOH/urea aqueous solvent system. Direct experimental evidence was provided to support the interaction between urea and cellulose. The solid-state ¹³C CP/MAS NMR results revealed that complicated complexes are formed by urea, NaOH and cellulose in the solution. Excess urea exists in a free state, which explains why 7 wt% NaOH/12 wt% urea/81 wt% H₂O is the optimal ratio selection to dissolve cellulose. Based on the correlation in which the computed extended Hückel charge on carbon of urea is approximately inversely proportional to its ¹³C chemical shift, a possible interaction model of cellulose, NaOH and urea was proposed. Interactions exist between any two of urea, NaOH and cellulose, which results in the cellulose chain being surrounded by NaOH and urea molecules. NaOH and urea may be in the same surface layer of cellulose chains.     

气相色谱法分析植物油中的脂肪酸

确定了植物油脂肪酸进行气相色谱分析前合适的样品处理步骤及条件和最佳的气相色谱分析方法,对6种食用植物油进行了处理分析。样品前处理主要步骤及条件:约0.045g样品,先加入萃取剂苯-石油醚(2:1,V/V)2mL;然后用2mL 0.4mol/L KOH-CH3OH溶液作酯化剂,于60℃酯化30 min后,再用1.5mL 15%BF3-CH3OH(w t%)溶液作酯化剂,于50℃酯化40 min。由食用植物油样品甲酯化后进行GC分析可知,各类植物油中的脂肪酸均能得以甲酯化进行准确的定性、定量分析。     

毛细管电泳-电化学发光法测定石蒜鳞茎中的石蒜碱

建立了毛细管电泳-电化学发光(CE-ECL)检测石蒜碱的方法。探讨了检测电位、分离缓冲液pH和浓度、分离电压、进样电压及进样时间等因素对石蒜碱分离检测的影响。在最佳实验条件下,石蒜碱含量在0.03~2μg/mL范围内与其峰面积呈良好的线性关系,相关系数为0.9995,检出限为0.005μg/mL(S/N=3)。对0.8μg/mL石蒜碱进行7次平行实验,其迁移时间、峰高和峰面积的RSD分别为1.7%,5.2%和5.6%。方法应用于石蒜鳞茎中石蒜碱的测定,加标回收率为92.2%~98.6%。     

Highly Active Bidirectional Electron Transfer by a Self‐Assembled Electroactive Reduced‐Graphene‐Oxide‐Hybridized Biofilm

Low extracellular electron transfer performance is often a bottleneck in developing high‐performance bioelectrochemical systems. Herein, we show that the self‐assembly of graphene oxide and Shewanella oneidensis MR‐1 formed an electroactive, reduced‐graphene‐oxide‐hybridized, three‐dimensional macroporous biofilm, which enabled highly efficient bidirectional electron transfers between Shewanella and electrodes owing to high biomass incorporation and enhanced direct contact‐based extracellular electron transfer. This 3D electroactive biofilm delivered a 25‐fold increase in the outward current (oxidation current, electron flux from bacteria to electrodes) and 74‐fold increase in the inward current (reduction current, electron flux from electrodes to bacteria) over that of the naturally occurring biofilms.     

A Protic Ionic Liquid Catalyzes CO2 Conversion at Atmospheric Pressure and Room Temperature: Synthesis of Quinazoline‐2,4(1H,3H)‐diones

The chemical fixation of CO₂ under mild reaction conditions is of significance from a sustainable chemistry viewpoint. Herein a CO₂‐reactive protic ionic liquid (PIL), [HDBU⁺][TFE^?], was designed by neutralization of the superbase 1,8‐diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec‐7‐ene (DBU) with a weak proton donor trifluoroethanol (TFE). As a bifunctional catalyst for simultaneously activating CO₂ and the substrate, this PIL displayed excellent performance in catalyzing the reactions of CO₂ with 2‐aminobenzonitriles at atmospheric pressure and room temperature, thus producing a series of quinazoline‐2,4(1H,3H)‐diones in excellent yields.     

Catalytic Ethanolysis of Kraft Lignin into High‐Value Small‐Molecular Chemicals over a Nanostructured α‐Molybdenum Carbide Catalyst

We report the complete ethanolysis of Kraft lignin over an α‐MoC_1?x/AC catalyst in pure ethanol at 280 °C to give high‐value chemicals of low molecular weight with a maximum overall yield of the 25 most abundant liquid products (LP25) of 1.64 g per gram of lignin. The LP25 products consisted of C₆–C₁₀ esters, alcohols, arenes, phenols, and benzyl alcohols with an overall heating value of 36.5 MJ kg^?1. C₆ alcohols and C₈ esters predominated and accounted for 82 wt % of the LP25 products. No oligomers or char were formed in the process. With our catalyst, ethanol is the only effective solvent for the reaction. Supercritical ethanol on its own degrades Kraft lignin into a mixture of small molecules and molecular fragments of intermediate size with molecular weights in the range 700–1400, differing in steps of 58 units, which is the weight of the branched‐chain linkage C₃H₆O in lignin. Hydrogen was found to have a negative effect on the formation of the low‐molecular‐weight products.     

Crowning Proteins: Modulating the Protein Surface Properties using Crown Ethers

Crown ethers are small, cyclic polyethers that have found wide‐spread use in phase‐transfer catalysis and, to a certain degree, in protein chemistry. Crown ethers readily bind metallic and organic cations, including positively charged amino acid side chains. We elucidated the crystal structures of several protein‐crown ether co‐crystals grown in the presence of 18‐crown‐6. We then employed biophysical methods and molecular dynamics simulations to compare these complexes with the corresponding apoproteins and with similar complexes with ring‐shaped low‐molecular‐weight polyethylene glycols. Our studies show that crown ethers can modify protein surface behavior dramatically by stabilizing either intra‐ or intermolecular interactions. Consequently, we propose that crown ethers can be used to modulate a wide variety of protein surface behaviors, such as oligomerization, domain–domain interactions, stabilization in organic solvents, and crystallization.     

Transfer of Aryl Halide to Alkyl Halide: Reductive Elimination of Alkylhalide from Alkylpalladium Halides Containing syn‐β‐Hydrogen Atoms

β‐Hydride abstraction is a well‐accepted elementary step for catalytic cycles in organometallic chemistry. It is usually anticipated that alkylpalladium halides containing syn‐β‐hydrogen atoms will undergo β‐hydride abstraction to afford the Heck‐type products. However, this study discloses that the above general knowledge is only conditionally correct. Our experimental results demonstrate that the reductive elimination of alkylhalides from alkylpalladium halides containing syn‐β‐hydrogen atoms may surpass the β‐hydride abstraction or even become exclusive in certain cases.     

Ionizable Amphiphilic Dendrimer‐Based Nanomaterials with Alkyl‐Chain‐Substituted Amines for Tunable siRNA Delivery to the Liver Endothelium In Vivo

A library of dendrimers was synthesized and optimized for targeted small interfering RNA (siRNA) delivery to different cell subpopulations within the liver. Using a combinatorial approach, a library of these nanoparticle‐forming materials was produced wherein the free amines on multigenerational poly(amido amine) and poly(propylenimine) dendrimers were substituted with alkyl chains of increasing length, and evaluated for their ability to deliver siRNA to liver cell subpopulations. Interestingly, two lead delivery materials could be formulated in a manner to alter their tissue tropism within the liver—with formulations from the same material capable of preferentially delivering siRNA to 1) endothelial cells, 2) endothelial cells and hepatocytes, or 3) endothelial cells, hepatocytes, and tumor cells in vivo. The ability to broaden or narrow the cellular destination of siRNA within the liver may provide a useful tool to address a range of liver diseases.