Differentiating between hydrogen and fluorine on a diamond surface

We have computed the interaction energies for pyridine (C₅H₅N) and (CH₃)₃PO with H and F atoms on the surface of diamond(111) as a function of the type of neighboring surface atom. The pyridine-H and -F interaction energies differ by about 5 kcal/mol, which is only about one-third of that found for a one-dimensional model for the surface. The difference in the interaction energies for (CH₃)₃PO is larger. However, the (CH₃)₃PO-neighbor interaction energy is larger than for pyridine, so that the (CH₃)₃PO-H interaction becomes repulsive for six neighboring F atoms. Substituting CN for F dramatically increases the repulsion between the surface atoms and molecules. The repulsion is sufficiently large that H/CN does not appear to be better than H/F as a possible way to store data on a surface. While pyridine shows some potential as a possible probe to differentiate between H and F on a diamond surface, it is not ideal. Received: 7 April 1997 / Accepted: 20 May 1997     

Voltammetric Studies on Chromotrope 2B‐Protein Interaction and Its Analytical Application

In this paper the interaction of chromotrope 2B (Ch2B) with proteins was studied by the electrochemical method. Ch2B is an azo dye and shows irreversible electrochemical responses on the mercury electrode in a pH 3.0 Britton‐Robinson (B‐R) buffer solution. After the addition of human serum albumin (HSA) into the Ch2B solution, an interaction took place, and a supramolecular complex was formed in the mixed solution. The electrochemical parameters of the Ch2B‐HSA interaction system were calculated and compared. The results showed that in the absence and presence of HSA in Ch2B solution, the electrochemical parameters such as the formal potential E⁰, the electrode reaction standard rate constant k_s, etc. showed no significant changes, which indicated that an electro‐inactive supramolecular biocomplex was formed. The free concentration of Ch2B in reaction solution was decreased, and this resulted in the decrease of the peak current. The binding constant and the binding ratio were calculated as 7.85 × 10⁹ and 1:2, respectively, and the interaction mechanism was discussed. Based on the decrease of the peak current, this new electrochemical method was proposed for the determination of HSA in the concentration range of 2.0?25.0 mg/L with the linear regression equation as ΔIp′ (nA) = 50.56C (mg/L) — 6.72 (γ = 0.995). This method was further used to determine other different kinds of proteins, such as bovine serum albumin (BSA), oval albumin, etc‥ The new method was successfully applied to detect the content of albumin in healthy human serum samples with the results in good agreement with the traditional Coomassie Brilliant Blue G‐250 spectrophotometric method.     

Diatomic interaction energies in the topological theory of atoms in molecules

Summary.  A partitioning of the ab initio total energy into one-center and two-center terms is proposed. The partitioning scheme is developed using the auxiliary function L˜(2, 1; 1, 2)=γ(2, 1)γ(1, 2) and the topological theory of atoms in molecules. It is shown that this scheme can be used at theoretical levels beyond Hartree–Fock. The numerical results indicate that the two-center terms follow the experimental trend of the dissociation energies for a series of related compounds. Received March 5, 1996/Final revision received August 19, 1996/Accepted August 29, 1996     

Computer-aided active-site-directed modeling of the Herpes Simplex Virus 1 and human thymidine kinase

Summary Thymidine kinase (TK), which is induced by Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV1), plays a key role in the antiviral activity of guanine derivatives such as aciclovir (ACV). In contrast, ACV shows only low affinity to the corresponding host cell enzyme. In order to define the differences in substrate binding of the two enzymes on molecular level, models for the three-dimensional (3-D) structures of the active sites of HSV1-TK and human TK were developed. The reconstruction of the active sites started from primary and secondary structure analysis of various kinases. The results were validated to homologous enzymes with known 3-D structures. The models predict that both enzymes consist of a central core -sheet structure, connected by loops and -helices very similar to the overall structure of other nucleotide binding enzymes. The phosphate binding is made up of a highly conserved glycine-rich loop at the N-terminus of the proteins and a conserved region at the C-terminus. The thymidine recognition site was found about 100 amino acids downstream from the phosphate binding loop. The differing substrate specificity of human and HSV1-TK can be explained by amino-acid substitutions in the homologous regions.To achieve a better understanding of the structure of the active site and how the thymidine kinase proteins interact with their substrates, the corresponding complexes of thymidine and dihydroxypropoxyguanine (DHPG) with HSV1 and human TK were built. For the docking of the guanine derivative, the X-ray structure of Elongation Factor Tu (EF-Tu), co-crystallized with guanosine diphosphate, was taken as reference. Fitting of thymidine into the active sites was done with respect to similar interactions found in thymidylate kinase. To complement the analysis of the 3-D structures of the two kinases and the substrate enzyme interactions, site-directed mutagenesis of the thymidine recognition site of HSV1-TK has been undertaken, changing Asp¹⁶² in the thymidine recognition site into Asn. First investigations reveal that the enzymatic activity of the mutant protein is destroyed.     

单取代烷烃液相生成焓估算新方法

根据烷基R和取代基X(Cl、Br、I、OH、SH、NO2、CN、NH2、CHO和COOH等)本身的电子效应, 应用烷基R的极化效应指数PEI和取代基X的电负性χX定量描述单取代烷烃RX中R和X间的相互作用, 再结合已提出的C—C键和C—H键的键连接矩阵的特征根, 建立了一个估算单取代烷烃RX液相生成焓的方程： ΔfH0(RX, l)＝－39.5001ΣX1CC＋33.5508NCC－0.0789ΣX1CH－25.7087NCH＋0.1557ΣSij＋0.9976H(X)－ 27.6642 PEI(R)×χX＋31.5043χX 此方程用于估算RX的生成焓, 不仅结果非常令人满意(其相关系数R达到0.9999, 标准偏差SD仅为2.87 kJ•mol^-1), 而且方程中各项参数的物理意义也非常明确, 便于人们深入地理解分子结构与性能的关系. 应用去一法(leave-one-out)对以上方程进行交叉验证分析表明该方程具有较好的稳定性和较强的预测能力. 研究发现, 著名的Luo氏方程是上述方程的一种特殊形式, 上述方程是对Luo氏方程的一个较大扩展. 该方法为研究更复杂体系内基团之间的相互作用提供了一种新的方法和思路.     

ZnO在NaY沸石表面的分散研究

利用ＸＲＤ、Ｒａｍａｎ光谱分析了影响ＺｎＯ在ＮａＹ表面分散的各种因素，发现延长干燥时间和多次浸渍能促进ＺｎＯ的分散，测量ＺｎＯ的最大分散量为０．４６ｇ／ｇＮａＹ，已远大于文献结果。与模型估算值进行了比较分析，探讨了ＺｎＯ在分子筛内表面的排布状态。     

应用反气相色谱法研究高分子-溶剂相互作用

应用反气相色谱法研究了聚乙二醇和若干溶剂的相互作用。实验表明以表面处理多孔硅胶为担体,为获得准确的保留体积,需考虑作固定相在担体上涂布量外推。据此计算出相互作用参数X和 ,可和静态蒸汽吸附法或混合体积测定等所得数据相比,并反映了聚乙二醇和溶剂相互作用的某些特点。     

泛函迭代法研究等同平行平板双电层间的相互作用

利用泛函分析理论中的迭代法, 分别计算了等同平行平板双电层在128、77、和25 mV电位下的相互作用能. 并以数值法所得结果为参照, 在各电位下分别与Debye-Huckel(DH)线性近似法、Langmuir 近似法所得的结果进行比较. 结果表明, DH线性近似法和Langmuir近似法均只能分别局限于极低或极高电位, 而泛函迭代法不但有简单的解析表达式, 而且在各种电位下都能得到较满意的结果.     

Complexes of 1,3‐Bis(diphenylphosphano)propane (dppp) with Dichloroplatinum(II) and Bis(chlorogold(I)): Intramolecular versus Intermolecular AuI–AuI Association of [(μ‐dppp)(AuCl)2] in catena and cyclo Forms

The compound [(μ‐dppp)(AuCl)₂], previously reported to associate intermolecularly in a chain (catena) structure through Au^I–Au^I interactions (3.316Å), was obtained from gold(III) precursors in a cyclo form with shortened intramolecular Au^I—Au^I contacts at 3.237Å and a puckered AuPCCCPAu seven‐membered ring. DFT calculations using a large relativistic basis to account for the d¹⁰–d¹⁰ interaction reproduce the observed molecular structure in the crystal of this “linkage isomer”, including the conspicuous distortion at one of the gold atoms. The chelate complex [(dppp)PtCl₂] was crystallized and structurally characterized as the dichloromethane solvate.