Total syntheses of hyacinthacine A2 and 7-deoxycasuarine by cycloaddition to a carbohydrate derived nitrone

Practical syntheses of nitrone 8 by two different approaches from sugars are reported. Its use as a versatile intermediate in highly selective 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions constitutes the key step for novel total syntheses of hyacinthacine A₂ (3) and 7-deoxycasuarine (20) by simple transformations of a common isoxazolidine adduct.     

Indium-mediated propargylation of imines and imine oxides in aqueous media: propargylation of CN- centres

The indium-catalysed coupling of propargyl bromide with a variety of imines and imine oxides afforded the corresponding propargylated products in high yields under mild conditions.     

Sugar-anionic clay composite materials: intercalation of pentoses in layered double hydroxide

The intercalation of non-ionized guest pentoses (ribose and 2-deoxyribose) into the Mg-Al and Zn-Al layered double hydroxides (LDHs) was carried out at 298 K by the calcination-rehydration reaction using the Mg-Al and Zn-Al oxide precursors calcined at 773 K. The resulting solid products reconstructed the LDH structure with incorporating pentoses, and the maximum amount of ribose intercalated by the Mg-Al oxide precursor was approximately 20 times that by the Zn-Al oxide precursor. The ribose/Mg-Al LDH was observed to have the expanded LDH structure with a broad (003) spacing of 0.85 nm. As the thickness of the LDH hydroxide basal layer is 0.48 nm, the interlayer distance of the ribose/Mg-Al LDH is 0.37 nm. This value corresponds to molecular size of ribose in thickness (0.36 nm), supporting that ribose is horizontally oriented in the interlayer space of LDH. The maximum amount of ribose intercalated by the Mg-Al oxide precursor was approximately 5 times that of 2-deoxyribose. Ribose is substituted only by the hydroxyl group at C-2 position for 2-deoxyribose. Therefore, the number of hydroxyl group of sugar is essentially important for the intercalation of sugar molecule into the LDH, suggesting that the intercalation behavior of sugar for the LDH was greatly influenced by hydrogen bond between hydroxyl group of the intercalated pentose and the LDH hydroxide basal layers.     

铁氰化钾标准溶液滴定度的间接测定与试验验证

介绍一各建立在化学反应原理和数学推导基础上的间接测定铁氰化钾标准溶液（用于在）的滴定度的方法。测定铁氰化纯度（含量）并将其代入所建立的公式中,即可求出其滴定度,经试验验证,本法合乎定量分析的要求。本法与直接法相比,不仅测定速度快,而且避免了处理标准物的繁复操作,减小操作误差,提高了分析测定的精度。     

1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition of cyclic α-methoxynitrones, derivatives of 2H-imidazole 1-oxide and 4H-imidazole 3-oxide

The reactions of cyclic aldo- and -methoxynitrones of the 2H-imidazole-1-oxide and 4H-imidazole 3-oxide series with isocyanates, phenyl isothiocyanate, N-phenylmaleimide, and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate were studied. The reactions give the corresponding 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition products. 2,2-Dimethyl-4-phenyl-2H-imidazole 1-oxide does not enter into a similar reaction with isocyanates or phenyl isothiocyanate.     

An optimization model for the aggregate production planning of a Brazilian sugar and ethanol milling company

This work presents an optimization model to support decisions in the aggregate production planning of sugar and ethanol milling companies. The mixed integer programming formulation proposed is based on industrial process selection and production lot-sizing models. The aim is to help the decision makers in selecting the industrial processes used to produce sugar, ethanol and molasses, as well as in determining the quantities of sugarcane crushed, the selection of sugarcane suppliers and sugarcane transport suppliers, and the final product inventory strategy. The planning horizon is the whole sugarcane harvesting season and decisions are taken on a discrete fraction of time. A case study was developed in a Brazilian mill and the results highlight the applicability of the proposed approach.     

Ultrasonic sensor for predicting sugar concentration using multivariate calibration

This paper presents a multivariate regression method for the prediction of maltose concentration in aqueous solutions. For this purpose, time and frequency domain of ultrasonic signals are analyzed. It is shown, that the prediction of concentration at different temperatures is possible by using several multivariate regression models for individual temperature points. Combining these models by a linear approximation of each coefficient over temperature results in a unified solution, which takes temperature effects into account. The benefit of the proposed method is the low processing time required for analyzing online signals as well as the non-invasive sensor setup which can be used in pipelines. Also the ultrasonic signal sections used in the presented investigation were extracted out of buffer reflections which remain primarily unaffected by bubble and particle interferences.     

基于最小二乘支持向量机的番茄汁糖酸度分析研究

近红外光谱应用于农产品内部品质无损检测的方法引起人们的广泛关注,在分析过程中建立一个稳定可靠的模型用于处理非线性数据集是十分重要的,也是有一定难度的。目前常用的偏最小二乘(PLS)、主成分回归(PCR)以及逐步多元线性回归(SMLR)等方法还不能解决这类问题。文章提出了将基于统计学原理的最小二乘支持向量机(LS-SVM)回归方法用于番茄汁的近红外(NIR)光谱分析,预测番茄汁品质(糖度和有效酸度)。运用LS-SVM方法以67个番茄汁样本建模,采用高斯径向基函数(RBF)为核函数,对33个样本进行糖酸度预测,糖度的相关系数为0.990 25,均方根标准预测误差为0.0056° Brix;有效酸度的相关系数为0.967 5,均方根标准预测误差为0.024 5。结果表明,LS-SVM方法要优于PLS和PCR建模方法,是一种快速、准确的近红外光谱分析方法。     

Quantum-mechanical exploration of the properties of the sugar rings

Theab initio SCF method is used for computing the main electronic properties of the ribose unit of the nucleic acids. The present study is devoted to the ribose in the C₃-endo,gg conformation. The properties investigated include the distribution of the electronic charges, the electrostatic molecular potential around the four oxygens of the unit, the hydration and the Na⁺ binding schemes studied in the supermolecule approximation. The possibilities of through-water binding of the cation to the sugar are also explored. The predictions of the computation in particular with regard to cation binding to the ribose ring are correlated with recent experimental results.