Determination of pamidronate in human whole blood and urine by reversed-phase HPLC with fluorescence detection

Pamidronate is a bisphosphonate that is effective in treating bone disease including osteopenia and osteoporosis in adults. A sensitive and reliable method for the analysis of pamidronate in whole blood and urine is key to the development of this drug for use in children. A previously described method for pamidronate analysis serum and urine did not consistently detect the drug at satisfactory levels in whole blood. The procedure involves co-precipitation of the bisphosphonates with calcium phosphate, pre-column derivitization with fluorescamine, HPLC utilizing a Nucleosil C(18) column, and fluorescence detection with excitation at 395 nm and emission at 480 nm.Changes to the original protocol included the use of a new internal standard (alendronate), the optimization of the concentration of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) for dissolving the precipitate, and the elimination of the acidification step prior to deproteinization. The optimum EDTA concentration, which had a significant effect on the labeling capability of fluorescamine, was determined to be 20 mm.A good separation between pamidronate and alendronate was achieved using a heated (40 degrees C ) Nucleosil C(18), 10 micro m particle size column. The mobile phase was an aqueous solution of 1 mm Na(2)EDTA-methanol (97:3, v/v) adjusted to pH 6.5 using a fl ow-rate of 1 mL/min. Fluorescence detection was set at 395 nm for excitation and at 480 nm for emission. The limit of quantitation for pamidronate was 0.5 micro g/mL in whole blood and 0.1 micro g/mL in urine. The method was applied to both whole blood and urine samples from pediatric patients.     

Contribution of Neutron Diffraction to the Crystal Structure Determination of 1-Hydroxy-1-Phosphono-Pentyl-Phosphonic Acid Dimethyl Ammonium Salt

The crystal structure of 1-hydroxy-1-phosphono-pentyl-phosphonic acid dimethylammonium salt has been determined by neutron diffraction measurements on single crystals at room temperature (triclinic, space group P-1, a=11.419(23) Å, b=10.447(18) Å, c=6.211(9) Å, α=92.041(2)°, β=95.870 (3)°, γ=110.408(2)°, V=689(2) ų). Refinements of the structure using 1195 observed structure factors converged to the final R=0.068. Results have put in evidence that acids of the hydroxybisphosphonic family can protonate volatile alkaline species like dimethylamine to give particularly stable crystals. The hydrogen bonds formed by the dimethylammonium cation link columns of hydroxybisphosphonate groups parallel to the [010] direction. The structure is built up by alternated hydrophobic/polar layers parallel to the (100) plane.     

Simple Synthesis of Geminal Diacetates (Acylals) of Aromatic Aldehydes

The geminal diacetates of aromatic aldehydes were prepared from corresponding aldehydes by refluxing with acetic anhydride without any catalysts or even any additional solvent.     

Construction of unique canonical coefficients for antisymmeterized geminal power states

Coefficients often defined to be canonical for a given geminal may not be unique. In this article we show by carefully examining a theorem by B. Zumino how to construct unique canonical coefficients for a geminal. This result leads to expansions of antisymmeterized geminal power states solely in terms of natural generalized spin orbitals and positive geminal occupation numbers. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2004     

29Si-13C spin-spin couplings over an Si-O-Csp3 link

(29)Si-(13)C spin-spin couplings over one, two, and three bonds as well as other NMR parameters [delta((29)Si), delta((13)C), delta((1)H), (1)J((13)C-(1)H), and (2)J((29)Si-C-(1)H)] were calculated and measured for a series of trimethylsilylated alcohols of the types Me(3)Si-O-(CH(2))(n)CH(3) and Me(3)Si-O-CH(3-n)R(n)(n = 0-3; R = Me, Ph, or Vi). The signs of the coupling constants determined for selected compounds can likely be extended to all such compounds, as supported by theoretical calculations. Similar to couplings between other pairs of nuclei, the 2-bond and 3-bond (29)Si-O-(13)C couplings are of opposite signs ((2)J > 0 and (3)J < 0), and their relative magnitudes depend on the extent of branching at the alpha-carbon.     

Experimental and theoretical investigation of NMR 2JHH coupling constant on six-membered ring systems containing oxygen or sulfur atoms

Theoretical and experimental 2JHH coupling constants for six-membered rings containing oxygen or sulfur atoms were studied to investigate whether the 2JHH coupling constant can be used for stereoelectronic studies in heterocyclohexanes, instead of 1JCH, because it is well known that experimental measurements of 2JHH coupling constants at low temperature are much easier to determine than the corresponding 1JCH couplings. For all compounds studied here, the 2JHH coupling constants are affected by sigma*C-H antibonding occupancy together with bond angle effects. For cyclohexane and oxygen-containing compounds, the influence on the geminal coupling for Hax-C2-Heq and for X1-C2-X3 (X=O and C), bond angles are more pronounced than for the sulfur derivatives.     

DFT studies of the conformational/structural dependencies of geminal 1H,1H scalar coupling 2J(H,H') in substituted methanes

A study is presented of the structural dependencies for scalar, interproton J-coupling across two bonds in a series of substituted methanes. The coupled perturbed, density functional theory method with a B3PW91 functional and aug-cc-pVTZ-J basis sets is used to examine coupling between geminal protons (2)J(H,H') in methane and a series of substituted compounds CH(3)X (X = CH3, CH(2)CH(3), CH=CH2, CH=O, and NH2) as functions of the dihedral angle phi measured about the C1-X2 bonds. All four contributions are obtained but all conformational effects are dominated by the Fermi contact term. Simple linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO)-molecular orbital (MO) sum-over-states methods are used to examine the relationships of the coupling constants with dihedral angles as well as internal H-C-H and H-C1-X2 angles. This study explores some novel aspects of geminal H-H coupling including an analysis of the asymmetry in the conformational dependencies arising from non-next-nearest neighbor interactions. For each of the substituted methanes, explicit trigonometric/exponential expressions are given and these accurately reproduce the (2)J(H,H') structural dependencies with standard deviations usually less than 0.03 Hz. The molecular structures for representative bicyclic molecules were fully optimized, and DFT results for (2)J(H,H') reproduce all the trends in the experimental data. A discussion is given on the applicability of the equations for H--H coupling in the substituted methanes to coupling in the bicyclic molecules.     

(NHC)NiH-Catalyzed Intermolecular Regio- and Diastereoselective Cross-Hydroalkenylation of Endocyclic Dienes with α-Olefins

Highly selective cross-hydroalkenylations of endocyclic 1,3-dienes at the least substituted site with α-olefins were achieved with a set of neutral (NHC)Ni^IIH(OTf) catalysts and cationic Ni^II catalysts with a novel NHC ligand. Under heteroatom assistance, skipped dienes were obtained in good yields, often from equal amounts of the two substrates and at a catalyst loading of 2–5 mol %. Rare 4,3-product selectivity (i.e., with the H atom at C4 and the alkenyl group at C3 of the diene) was observed, which is different from the selectivity of known dimerizations of α-olefins with both acyclic Co and Fe systems. The influence of the various substituents on the NHC, 1,3-diene, and α-olefin on the chemo-, regio-, and diastereoselectivity was studied. High levels of chirality transfer were observed with chiral cyclohexadiene derivatives.     

一锅法合成芳(杂环)胺亚甲基双膦酸四乙酯

以I₂为催化剂,原甲酸三乙酯、芳(杂环)胺和亚磷酸二乙酯为原料,室温无溶剂条件下,一锅合成了系列芳(杂环)胺亚甲基双膦酸四乙酯,收率96%~99%。 当I₂物质的量分数为5%时,产物收率最高。 本方法底物适用范围广,操作简单。 I₂作为催化剂,安全高效。