NANOMECHANICAL MAPPING OF CARBON BLACK REINFORCED NATURAL RUBBER BY ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY

Atomic force microscopy （AFM） has the advantage of obtaining mechanical properties as well as topographic information at the same time. By analyzing force-distance curves measured over two-dimensional area using Hertzian contact mechanics, Young＇s modulus mapping was obtained with nanometer-scale resolution. Furthermore, the sample deformation by the force exerted was also estimated from the force-distance curve analyses. We could thus reconstruct a real topographic image by incorporating apparent topographic image with deformation image. We applied this method to carbon black reinforced natural rubber to obtain Young＇s modulus distribution image together with reconstructed real topographic image. Then we were able to recognize three regions; rubber matrix, carbon black （or bound rubber） and intermediate regions. Though the existence of these regions had been investigated by pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance, this paper would be the first to report on the quantitative evaluation of the interfacial region in real space.     

2-氯甲基-3-甲基-4-[(3-甲氧基)丙氧基]-吡啶盐酸盐的合成

以2,3-二甲基吡啶为原料,经6步反应合成了雷贝拉唑的关键中间体--2-氯甲基-3-甲基-4-[(3-甲氧基)丙氧基]-吡啶盐酸盐,总收率14.1%.     

高阶柯西中值定理中间点的渐近性及误差估计

利用洛必达法则研究长度趋于零和长度趋于无穷大的两类区间上高阶柯西值定理中间点的渐近性及其误差估计.     

Pulsed hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry for time‐resolved membrane protein folding studies

Kinetic folding experiments by pulsed hydrogen/deuterium exchange (HDX) mass spectrometry (MS) are a well‐established tool for water‐soluble proteins. To the best of our knowledge, the current study is the first that applies this approach to an integral membrane protein. The native state of bacteriorhodopsin (BR) comprises seven transmembrane helices and a covalently bound retinal cofactor. BR exposure to sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) induces partial unfolding and retinal loss. We employ a custom‐built three‐stage mixing device for pulsed‐HDX/MS investigations of BR refolding. The reaction is triggered by mixing SDS‐denatured protein with bicelles. After a variable folding time (10 ms to 24 h), the protein is exposed to excess D₂O buffer under rapid exchange conditions. The HDX pulse is terminated by acid quenching after 24 ms. Subsequent off‐line analysis is performed by size exclusion chromatography and electrospray MS. These measurements yield the number of protected backbone N–H sites as a function of folding time, reflecting the recovery of secondary structure. Our results indicate that much of the BR secondary structure is formed quite late during the reaction, on a time scale of 10 s and beyond. It is hoped that in the future it will be possible to extend the pulsed‐HDX/MS approach employed here to membrane proteins other than BR. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

新型5-取代吲哚-3-甲酰胺化合物的合成

以5-取代吲哚为原料,经维尔斯迈尔-哈克反应制得5-取代吲哚-3-甲醛(2a~2e); 2a~2e在DMF催化下,与盐酸羟胺反应制得5-取代吲哚-3-甲腈（3a~3e）; 3a~3e在H₂O₂和NaOH溶液中水解合成了5-取代吲哚-3-甲酰胺（4a~4e, 4b~4e为新化合物）,产率62.0%~75.0%,其结构经¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR和ESI-MS表征。     

Marinopyrrole A衍生物合成方法的优化

以双醛化合物1为原料, 通过取代基保护、 分步加成、 氧化、 脱Ts(对甲苯磺酰基)、 氯代和脱甲基等反应, 以9步反应13%的总收率合成了苯环6位含氟取代的Marinopyrrole A衍生物12, 所合成化合物的结构经IR, ¹H NMR, ¹³C NMR和HRMS分析确证. 分步加成和氧化的应用有效避免了原合成方法中环醚中间体3的生成, 提高了反应总收率, 为系列Marinopyrrole A 衍生物的合成提供了一种新方法.     

Calorimetry

Methods for determining the heat content E ^*/A of hot nuclei formed in energetic nuclear reactions are discussed. The primary factors involved in converting raw data into thermal physics distributions include: 1) design of the detector array, 2) constraints imposed by the physics of the reaction mechanism, and 3) assumptions involved in converting the filtered data into E ^*/A. The two primary sources of uncertainty in the calorimetry are the elimination of nonequilibrium emissions from the event components and accounting for the contribution of neutron emission to the excitation energy sum.     

Influence of momentum-dependent interactions on balance energy and mass dependence⋆

We aim to understand the role of momentum-dependent interactions in transverse flow as well as in its disappearance. For the present study, central collisions involving masses between 24 and 394 are considered. We find that the momentum-dependent interactions have different impact in lighter colliding nuclei compared to heavier colliding nuclei. In lighter nuclei, the contribution of the mean field towards flow is smaller compared to heavier nuclei where binary nucleon-nucleon collisions dominate the scene. The inclusion of momentum-dependent interactions also explains the energy of the vanishing flow in the ¹²C + ¹²C reaction which otherwise was not possible with the static hard equation of state. An excellent agreement of our theoretical attempt is found for balance energy with experimental data throughout the periodic table.     

Constraints on the time scale of nuclear breakup from thermal hard-photon emission

Measured hard-photon multiplicities from second-chance nucleon-nucleon collisions are used in combination with a kinetic thermal model to estimate the breakup times of excited nuclear systems produced in nucleus-nucleus reactions at intermediate energies. The obtained nuclear breakup time for the ¹²⁹Xe + ^natSn reaction at 50 A MeV is Δτ ≈ 100-300 fm/c for all reaction centralities. The lifetime of the radiating sources produced in seven other different heavy-ion reactions studied by the TAPS experiment is consistent with Δτ ≈ 100 fm/c, such relatively long thermal photon emission times do not seemingly support the interpretation of nuclear breakup as due to a fast spinodal process for the heavy nuclear systems studied.