Energy decomposition in molecular complexes: implications for the treatment of polarization in molecular simulations

This study examines the contribution of electrostatic and polarization to the interaction energy in a variety of molecular complexes. The results obtained from the Kitaura-Morokuma (KM) energy decomposition analysis at the HF/6-31G(d) level indicate that, for intermolecular distances around the equilibrium geometries, the polarization energy can be determined as the addition of the polarization energies of interacting blocks, as the mixed polarization term is typically negligible. Comparison of KM and QM/MM results shows that the electrostatic energy determined in the KM method is underestimated (in absolute value) by QM/MM methods. The reason of such underestimation can be attributed to the simplified representation of treating the interaction between overlapping charge distribution by the interaction of a QM molecule with a set of point charges. Nevertheless, the polarization energies calculated by KM and QM/MM methods are in close agreement. Finally, a consistent, automated strategy to derive charge distributions that include implicitly polarization effects in pairwise, additive force fields is presented. The strategy relies in the simultaneous fitting of electrostatic and polarization energies computed by placing a suitable perturbing particle at selected points around the molecule. The suitability of these charges to describe molecular interactions is discussed.     

Study of donepezil binding to serum albumin by capillary electrophoresis and circular dichroism

The interaction between human serum albumin (HSA) and the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor donepezil, has been studied by means of capillary electrophoresis frontal analysis (CE/FA) and circular dichroism. CE/FA enabled rapid and direct estimation of the quantity of free donepezil present at equilibrium with a physiological level of serum albumin (600 mol L^–1). Application of Scatchard analysis enabled estimation of the binding parameters of HSA towards donepezil, such as association constant and number of binding sites on one protein molecule. Furthermore, due to enantioseparation ability shown by HSA on donepezil in CE mode, displacement experiments were carried out using ketoprofen and warfarin as coadditives to the HSA based running buffer. The addition of these compounds reduced the enantioresolution of donepezil by HSA only when used at high concentration. These data were confirmed and corroborated by circular dichroism (CD) experiments. Using CD, bilirubin was also applied as a ligand specific to site III of HSA. The observed behaviour suggested that donepezil could be considered a ligand with independent binding to sites I and II; although site III is not the highest affinity site, indirect interaction (i.e. cooperative binding) can be assumed.     

荧光探针法研究可聚合有机分子(BMDM)/二苯醚的凝胶化过程

用荧光素作荧光探针 ,研究了可聚合凝胶因子 4,4′ 二 (α 甲基丙烯酰氧基 1 ,3 亚乙氧基羰基丙酰氨基 )二苯甲烷 (BMDM)在二苯醚的凝胶化过程中的聚集状态 .研究结果发现 ,与荧光素在二苯醚溶液中的荧光光谱相比 ,在凝胶中出现了 1 0～2 5nm的红移 ;而且发现分子凝胶的凝胶化时间随着BMDM浓度的增加而减小 .偏振荧光法研究分子凝胶的取向发现 ,该分子凝胶的形成过程是从各向同性的溶液(P0 =0 )向各向异性的溶胶 (P>0 )转变 ,再向各向同性的凝胶 (Pgel≈ 0 )转变的过程     

Regulation of plastic from a circular economy perspective

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Chemical shift driven geometry optimization

A new method for refinement of 3D molecular structures by geometry optimization is presented. Prerequisites are a force field and a very fast procedure for the calculation of chemical shifts in every step of optimization. To the energy, provided by the force field (COSMOS force field), a pseudoenergy, depending on the difference between experimental and calculated chemical shifts, is added. In addition to the energy gradients, pseudoforces are computed. This requires the derivatives of the chemical shifts with respect to the coordinates. The pseudoforces are analytically derived from the integral expressions of the bond polarization theory. Single chemical shift values attributed to corresponding atoms are considered for structural correction. As a first example, this method is applied for proton position refinement of the D-mannitol X-ray structure. A crystal structure refinement with 13C chemical shift pseudoforces is carried out.     

Conformational studies of basic poly (α-amino acid)s in reversed micelles

The conformation of various basic poly (-amino acid)s was investigated by CD measurements in aqueous solutions containing bis (2-ethylhexyl)sodium sulfosuccinate (AOT) as well as in the AOT reversed micelles. The addition of AOT into an aqueous solution of poly(L-lysine) induces the conformational transition from coil to ordered structure, followed by aggregation. On the other hand, poly(L-lysine) assumes-structure in the reversed micelles at low w_ovalue (w_o=[H₂O]/[AOT]). Similarly to poly(L-lysine), poly(L-ornithine) takes an ordered structure in the aqueous solution containing AOT and-structure in the reversed micelles. In this case, however, these ordered structures are not so stable, compared with that of poly(L-lysine). Poly(L-arginine) undergoes the conformational transition from coil to helix by addition of AOT into the aqueous solution. Further addition of AOT allows transformation into-structure. Copoly(L-lysyl-L-leucine) with 63% leucine residue was shown to take a stable helical conformation even in pure water. In the reversed micelles, however, this ordered structure is significantly changed probably because the hydrophobic interaction among the leucyl residues is lowered in the reversed micelles.     

Dynamics of photoexcited donor-acceptor complexes between C60 andN,N-diethylaniline. Polarization picosecond spectroscopy study

The kinetics of the formation and decay of photoexcited radical ion pairs of donoracceptor charge-transfer complexes between C₆₀ andN,N-diethylaniline (DEA) in chlorobenzene was studied by picosecond laser-induced diffraction gratings. It was established that the anisotropy of polarization of the diffraction signal decreases as the concentration of DEA increases. The radical ion states of the photoexcited C₆₀ ⁻...DEA⁺ complex have zero anisotropy. This effect is likely due to the isotropic intracomplex transfer of an electron from the local excited state to the radical ion state. The rate constant of quenching of the singlet excited C₆₀ byN,N-diethylaniline (1.4·10¹⁰ L mol⁻¹ s⁻¹) and the lifetimes of the solventseparated C₆₀ ⁻...DEA⁺ and tight [C₆₀ ⁻...DEA⁺] (95±7 and 31±4 ps, respectively) radical ion pairs were measured. Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 1605–1610, September, 1997.     

Synthesis and Characterization of [(1,4‐diamine)dichloro]platinum(II) Compounds Preliminary Studies on their Biological Activity

Two 1,4‐diamine ligands were synthesized having 1,2‐bis(aminomethyl)‐cyclohexane and 1,2‐bis(aminomethyl)‐benzene structures. The two ligands have different electron density in the six‐membered ring: a cyclohexane versus a phenyl ring. The organic synthesis of the ligands was carried out by synthetic pathways of seven and four steps, respectively, starting from 1,2,3,6‐tetrahydrophthalic anhydride and diethyl phthalate. The coordination of platinum to these ligands afforded platinum(II) complexes which are analogue to the clinical drug cisplatin but form a seven‐membered chelate ring. The interaction of the platinum compounds with DNA was studied in order to know the relationship between the electron density of ligands and their capability to chelate DNA, by using three techniques: Circular Dichroism, Agarose Gel Electrophoresis and Atomic Force Microscopy. The degree of interaction of both compounds with DNA was slightly different, but both complexes showed a cisplatin‐like behaviour and are promising candidates to follow an extensive study of their cytotoxic activity.     

Development and validation of HPLC methods for enantioseparation of mirtazapine enantiomers at analytical and semipreparative scale using polysaccharide chiral stationary phases

Novel HPLC methods were developed for the analytical and semipreparative resolution of new antidepressant drug mirtazapine enantiomers. At analytical scale, the separation of the mirtazapine enantiomers was investigated using both cellulose and amylose tris(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) (CDMPC and ADMPC) chiral stationary phases under normal-phases and polar organic modes. Good baseline enantioseparation was achieved using cellulose tris(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) chiral stationary phases under both normal-phases and polar organic modes. Furthermore, the elution order of mirtazapine enantiomic pairs was found reversed by changing the stationary phase from the amylose-based ADMPC–CSPs to its cellulose-based counterpart, CDMPC–CSPs. The validation of the analytical methods including linearity, limit of detection (LOD), limit of quantification (LOQ), recovery and precision, together with the semipreparative resolution of mirtazapine racemate were carried out using cellulose tris(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) chiral stationary phases and methanol as mobile phase without any basic additives under polar organic mode. At analytical scale, the elution times of both enantiomers were less than 6 min at normal temperature and 1.0 ml/min, with the separation factor () 1.99 and the resolution factor (Rs) 3.56. Then, the analytical methods were scaled up to semipreparative loading to obtain small quantities of both mirtazapine enantiomers. At semipreparative scale, about 16 mg/h enantiomers could be isolated and elution times of both enantiomers were less than 10 min at 2.0 ml/min. To increase the throughput, the technique of boxcar injections was used. One enantiomer ((−)-(R)-mirtazapine) was isolated with purity of >99.9% e.e. and >98.0% yield and another ((+)-(S)-mirtazapine) was isolated with purity of >97.0% e.e. and >99.0% yield. In addition, optical rotation and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy of both mirtazapine enantiomers isolated were also investigated.     

Dielectric analysis of polystyrene microcapsules using scanning dielectric microscope

 A dielectric imaging technique with a scanning dielectric microscope was applied to polystyrene microcapsules in an aqueous environment to study the electrical properties of individual ones. The dielectric images obtained over a frequency range from 10 kHz to 10 MHz showed frequency dependence, which indicated dielectric dispersion (or relaxation) due to interfacial polarization or the build up of charge on the boundaries between the microcapsule shell and the aqueous phases. The dielectric dispersion was analyzed based on an equivalent electrical circuit model and a shell-sphere model in which a spherical core is covered with an insulating shell. Received: 26 September 1997 Accepted: 26 December 1997