Preparation of novel antimicrobial-modified starch and its adsorption on cellulose fibers: Part I. Optimization of synthetic conditions and antimicrobial activities

Antimicrobial-modified starch was synthesized by covalently bonding guanidine polymer (PHGH) with potato starch via coupling reaction. Orthogonal tests were applied to optimize the reaction conditions. The coupling efficiency could reach 90.21% at the optimal conditions: temperature, 70 °C; time, 2 h; PHGH/starch, 120 wt.%; GDE/starch, 8 wt.%; pH, 11. PHGH modified starches exhibited high antimicrobial activities against both E. coli and S. aureus. Shaking flask method was more suitable for current non-released modified starches than diffusion method to evaluate the antimicrobial activities. In the presence of 1.0 wt.% PHGH in wood fibers, the growth inhibition reached almost 100%. The AFM results also demonstrated that the antimicrobial mechanism of PHGH was to destroy the membrane of the cells.     

Synthesis and characterization of fluorescent starch using fluorescein as fluorophore: potential polymeric temperature/pH indicators

A convenient method for attaching fluorescein (via its epoxy derivate) to natural starch and its temperature/pH‐sensitive qualities of fluorescence were investigated. 3‐epoxypropoxy fluorescein (EPF) was first synthesized through the reaction between fluorescein and epichlorohydrin, and starch‐bearing fluorescein (ST‐EPF) was prepared via ring‐opening reaction with EPF in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solution, in the presence of NaH as a catalyst. Both of them were characterized by the methods of ¹H NMR, MS, IR, XRD, UV–Vis, and luminescence spectra, respectively. The chemiluminescent and photophysical behaviors of the dye fluorescein derivative and the polymer‐containing fluorescein were studied. The results indicated that ST‐EPF could still provide temperature and pH sensitivity similar to that of fluorescein and could achieve better long‐term stability and fast equilibrium response. ST‐EPF had an excellent linear response between relative fluorescence intensity and temperature in the range of 0–60°C and a nonlinear relationship between relative fluorescence intensity and pH in the wide range of 0.0–12.0, and so it has promise as an optical transducer for temperature and pH value determinations. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Structure elucidation and NMR spectral assignments of three new lignan glycosides from Akebia trifoliata

Three new lignan glycosides (1-3) were isolated from the stems of Akebia trifoliata. Their structures were elucidated as (7R,8R,7'R,8'R)3,3',5,5'tetramethoxy-4,4'dihydroxy-7,9':7',9-diepoxylignan-4-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (1), (7S,8S,8'R)-4,4',9-trihydroxy-3,3',5,5'-tetramethoxy-7,9'-epoxylignan-7'-one 9-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (2), (7R,8R,8'S)-4,4',9-trihydroxy3,3',5,5'-tetramethoxy-7,9'-epoxylignan-7'-one 9-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside (3) by spectral analyses, primarily NMR, MS and CD. The NMR assignments for the compounds were carried out using 1H, 13C, DEPT, COSY, HSQC, HMBC and ROESY NMR experiments.     

湛江市几种蔬菜的营养成分分析

对湛江产芥菜,芫荽和麦菜的微量元素,氨基酸进行了定量分析。结果表明营养元素如Ｃｕ、Ｚｎ、Ｆｅ、Ｃａ、Ｍｇ、Ｋ、Ｍｎ、Ｎａ等的含量较丰富,也含有多种人体必需的氨基酸,但共同的特征是均缺乏赖氨酸。     

V2O5电致变色薄膜的Raman光谱

近年来,通过向过渡金属氧化物薄膜注入Ｌｉ 制作可调节光透过率的电变色器件已越来越引起广泛的重视[1、2].由于Ｖ2Ｏ5薄膜的稳定性差,限制了它在实际中的应用.因此,为了获得变色效率高、稳定性和可逆性能好的Ｖ2Ｏ5薄膜,使用了多种制备方法,如磁控溅射法[3、6]、电化学沉积法[7、8]、溶胶凝胶法[9、10]、旋涂法[11、12]、真空蒸镀法[13、14]等.但是,无论那种方法都要解决Ｖ2Ｏ5本身在Ｈ2Ｏ或醇等的电解质溶液中电致变色时的溶解问题,通常采用控制薄膜的沉积温度或者退火处理来提高薄膜的电致变色性能[3、4、11].为了探明薄膜结构与电致变色…     

Reversible redox-switchable second-order optical nonlinearity in polyoxometalate: a quantum chemical study of [PW11O39(ReN)]n- (n = 3-7)

In this paper, the relationship between the reversible redox properties and the second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) responses for the title series of complexes has been systematically investigated by using the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) method combined with the sum-over-states (SOS) formalism. The results reveal that the successive reduction processes of five PW11ReN redox states should be PW11ReVII (1) --> PW11ReVI (2) --> PW11ReV (3) --> PW11ReV1e ( 4) --> PW 11ReV2e (5). Furthermore, their electrochemical properties have been reproduced successfully. It is noteworthy that the second-order NLO behaviors can be switched by reversible redox for the present studied complexes. Full oxidation constitutes a convenient way to switch off the second-order polarizability (system 1). The incorporation of extra electrons causes significant enhancement in the second-order NLO activity, especially for the third reduced state (system 4), whose static second-order polarizability (betavec) is about 144 times larger than that of fully oxidized 1. The characteristic of the charge-transfer transition corresponding to the dominant contributions to the betavec values indicates that metal-centered redox processes influence the intramolecular donor or acceptor character. Therefore, these kinds of complexes with the facile and reversible redox states could become excellent switchable NLO materials.     

MALDI linear-field reflectron TOF post-source decay analysis of underivatized oligosaccharides: Determination of glycosidic linkages and anomeric configurations using anion attachment

Six different anionic species (fluoride, chloride, bromide, iodide, nitrate, and acetate) are tested for their abilities to form anionic adducts with neutral oligosaccharides that are detectable by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Fluoride and acetate cannot form anionic adducts with the oligosaccharides in significant yields. However, bromide, iodide, and nitrate anionic adducts consistently appear in higher abundances relative to [M - H](-), just like the highly stable chloride adducts. Post-source decay (PSD) decompositions of Br(-), I(-), and NO(3)(-) adducts of oligosaccharides provide no structural information, i.e., they yield the respective anions as the main product ions. However, determination of linkage types is achieved by analysis of structurally-informative diagnostic peaks offered by negative ion PSD spectra of chloride adducts of oligosaccharides, whereas the relative peak intensities of pairs of diagnostic fragment ions allow differentiation of anomeric configurations of glycosidic bonds. Thus, simultaneous identification of the linkage types and anomeric configurations of glycosidic bonds is achieved. Our data indicate that negative ion PSD fragmentation patterns of chloride adducts of oligosaccharides are mainly determined by the linkage types. Correlation may exist between the linkage positions and fragmentation mechanisms and/or steric requirements for both cross-ring and glycosidic bond fragmentations. PSD of the chloride adducts of saccharides containing a terminal Glcalpha1-2Fru linkage also yields chlorine-containing fragment ions which appear to be specifically diagnostic for a fructose linked at the 2-position on the reducing end. This also allows differentiation from saccharides with a 1-1 linked pyranose on the same position.     

Analysis of fatty acids in sputum from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry preceded by solid-phase microextraction and post-derivatization on the fiber

A method based on solid-phase microextraction (SPME) and post-derivatization on the fiber coupled to gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) was developed for the analysis of fatty acids in sputum from patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. The sputum specimens were digested, hydrolyzed, extracted, derivertized, injected and analyzed without cultivation or isolation of the microorganism. Under optimized conditions, the relative standard deviations (RSD, n = 5) for all analytes were below 17% and the limits of detection varied from 1.68 (C_24:0) to 150.4 μg L⁻¹ (C_12:0). Good linearity was observed for all the fatty acids studied except for C_12:0 within a wide concentration range of three orders of magnitudes with the correlation coefficients ranging from 0.91 (C_24:0) to 0.99 (C_14:0). Fatty acids in sputum specimens from 21 persons were directly analyzed using the proposed method. The results show that in all the sputum specimens from patients, who were clinically diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB), tuberculosis stearic acid (TBSA) was detected, while in all the sputum samples from persons without TB, TBSA was not found. The possibility of using the proposed method to detect mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) via the identification of TBSA in sputum was discussed. The comparison with other methods including sputum culture and microscopy of direct smears indicated that the proposed method is fast and sensitive for the analysis of fatty acids in sputum and offers an alternative for the detection of MTB in sputum.     

混凝-水解-接触氧化处理造纸漂白废水的研究

本文研究了混凝,厌氧酸化,生物接触氧化一体化反应器处理造纸制浆含氯漂白废水,在水力停留时间为15h时,整个系数CODcr总去除率达88．1％,BOD5去除率达81％,AOX去除率达98．4％,毒性值去除了92％,絮凝单元去除的主要是大分子氯代有机物,厌氧单元通过还原脱氯及酸性水解,氯代有机物得到了基本的去除;好氧单元对COD有较高的去除率,红外光谱的分析结果表明：废水中既有木素又有纤维素和半纤维素,虽然漂白废水厌氧处理效果不如好氧处理,但厌氧,好氧联合处理可有效地提高其处理效果。     

冻融疲劳作用下高强混凝土劣化特征点的分析

为了提供一定的高强混凝土抗冻性定量化设计评估标准,本文定义了初劣点与陡劣点,并且为了确定这些点分别提出了P值检验法、拟合曲率法;同时展开了高强混凝土的冻融试验;在试验的基础上,分析了高强混凝土的初劣点与陡劣点以及它们的规律。结果表明通过初劣点、陡劣点、最大曲率三指标能够比较全面地反映高强混凝土的抗冻性能;高强混凝土的初劣点值与陡劣点值呈线性关系。