Photochemically initiated oxidative carbon-carbon bond-cleavage reactivity in chlorodiketonate Ni(II) complexes

Three mononuclear Ni(II) complexes containing a 2-chloro-1,3-diketonate ligand and supported by the 6-Ph(2)TPA chelate, as well as analogues that lack the 2-chloro substituent on the β-diketonate ligand, have been prepared and characterized. Upon irradiation at 350 nm under aerobic conditions, complexes containing the 2-chloro-substituted ligands undergo reactions to generate products resulting from oxidative cleavage, α-cleavage, and radical-derived reactions involving the 2-chloro-1,3-diketonate ligand. Mechanistic studies suggest that the oxidative cleavage reactivity, which leads to the production of carboxylic acids, is a result of the formation of superoxide, which occurs through reaction of reduced nickel complexes with O(2). The presence of the 2-chloro substituent was found to be a prerequisite for oxidative carbon-carbon bond-cleavage reactivity, as complexes lacking this functional group did not undergo these reactions following prolonged irradiation. The approach toward investigating the oxidative reactivity of metal β-diketonate species outlined herein has yielded results of relevance to the proposed mechanistic pathways of metalloenzyme-catalyzed β-diketonate oxidative cleavage reactions.     

碳载Pt-P催化剂对氧还原的电催化性能

用NaH2PO2液相还原方法制得碳载Pt-P(Pt-P/C)催化剂(m(Pt)∶m(P)=5∶1)。 X射线衍射谱测量表明,Pt-P/C催化剂的Pt衍射峰的2θ值稍大于Pt/C催化剂的相应值,表明P进入了Pt晶格,形成了Pt-P合金。 电化学测试表明,Pt-P/C催化剂对氧还原的电催化性能要比商品化的E-TEK Pt/C催化剂好,其还原电位正移了40 mV。 由于Pt-P/C催化剂中Pt-P粒子的平均粒径和相对结晶度与Pt/C催化剂相似,推测Pt-P/C催化剂对氧还原的电催化性能好于Pt/C催化剂的原因可能为P的作用。     

V2O5负载量对V2O5/Al2O3氧化活化正庚烷催化裂解反应的影响

采用X射线衍射, 低温氮气吸脱附, 氨气程序升温脱附和吡啶吸附红外光谱分析方法对不同活性组分负载量V2O5/Al2O3的性质进行了表征. 根据表面VOx单元密度, 推测V2O5负载量为20%-25% (w)对应着V2O5/Al2O3表面达单层覆盖状态; V2O5的负载使Al2O3表面Lewis酸量减少, 并出现Br?nsted酸, 对应着氧化态VOx单元中的V―OH; 随着负载量的增加, Brφnsted酸量增加至负载量为20%时达到最大值. 对V2O5/Al2O3中活性组分负载量对其氧化活化正庚烷催化裂解反应的影响进行了考察. 结果表明, 在V2O5负载量为20%-25%时,V2O5/Al2O3的引入对正庚烷在HZSM-5平衡剂上催化裂解反应的促进作用最明显, 此时VOx单元在V2O5/Al2O3表面形成单层覆盖状态, 可提供最大量的表面晶格氧, 因而对正庚烷具有最强的氧化活化作用; V2O5负载量继续增加形成体相的V2O5和AlVO4, 不利于晶格氧参与正庚烷的转化, 因而反应性能有所下降.     

竹红菌乙素镁、锌配位聚合物的光物理和光生物性质

竹红菌乙素(HB)能与Mg2+和Zn2+形成重复单元数为5-20的配位聚合物(Mg2+-HB,Zn2+-HB),利用紫外-可见(UV-Vis)吸收光谱,傅里叶变换红外(FTIR)光谱,核磁共振氢谱(1H NMR)对其进行了表征.Mg2+-HB和Zn2+-HB的单重态氧量子产率分别为HB的1.2倍和0.42倍.瞬态吸收实验表明:氧气能够猝灭Mg2+-HB和Zn2+-HB的三重态,其效率可超过96％.系间窜越效率(φT)和将能量传递给氧气并能产生单重态氧的三重态光敏剂的比例(fT△)对HB及其金属配合物的单重态氧量子产率有较大影响.电子自旋共振(EPR)实验结果表明:Mg2+-HB和Zn2+-HB产生半醌负离子自由基的能力较弱,进而降低了Mg2+-HB和Zn2+-HB光敏产生超氧负离子自由基的能力.紫外-可见吸收光谱与小牛胸腺脱氧核糖核酸(CT DNA)熔链温度实验表明:Mg2+-HB和Zn2+-HB可通过静电作用与DNA结合.有氧条件下,Mg2+-HB,HB和Zn2+-HB对小牛胸腺DNA的光敏损伤效率分别为32％,25％和22％.活性氧猝灭实验表明Mg2+-HB主要通过单重态氧光敏损伤DNA.     

煤炭燃烧过程中N2O消除反应机理的密度泛函理论研究

用密度泛函理论B3LYP方法对煤炭燃烧过程中N₂O的消除反应进行研究。选用6-311++G**和aug-cc-pVTZ基组,优化了反应通道上反应物、过渡态和产物的几何构型。预测了它们的热力学性质(总能量、焓、熵和吉布斯自由能)及其随温度的变化。预测N₂O+CO反应的活化能为200 kJ·mol^-1,与实验值193±8 kJ·mol^-1较一致。计算了500~1 800 K 温度范围的反应速率常数。在N₂O的分解中,N₂O与H和CN自由基的反应为动力学优先进行的反应,其活化能为50~55 kJ·mol^-1。在B3LYP/aug-cc-pVTZ level水平下,N₂O+CN反应是热力学最有利的自发反应,其吉布斯自由能变化为-407 kJ·mol^-1。     

TiO2‐assisted Photocatalytic Degradation of Vitamin B12 in Aqueous Solution:Influencing Factors,Kinetics, and Reaction Investigations

The photodegradation (λ=365 nm) of the biomolecule vitamin B₁₂, catalyzed by the photocatalyst TiO₂ nanoparticles (NPs), has been investigated in aqueous suspension. The photodegradation process of vitamin B₁₂ has been monitored by means of electronic absorption (Abs), Fourier‐transform infrared (FT‐IR), and resonance Raman (RR) spectroscopies, respectively. The results show that only under UV illumination in the presence of TiO₂ is there effective degradation, and the photocatalytic degradation of vitamin B₁₂ is strongly influenced by the amount of TiO₂ NPs, the pH, and the initial concentration of vitamin B₁₂. The photocatalytic reaction kinetics of vitamin B₁₂ conforms to a Langmuir‐Hinshelwood isotherm model. Changes involving the three structural units of the carbon‐metal bond C–Co, the organic corrin macrocycle combined with the benzimidazole nucleotide, and the inorganic CN in the vitamin B₁₂ molecule during the photocatalytic degradation are also discussed.     

Methane dehydro-aromatization over Mo/HZSM-5 catalysts in the absence of oxygen: Effect of steam-treatment on catalyst stability

The effect of steam-treatment to HZSM-5 zeolite and Mo/HZSM-5 with a steaming time range of 0.5-1 h on the catalytic performance of methane dehydro-aromatization (MDA) over Mo/HZSM-5 catalyst prepared with impregnation has been studied in detail in combination with the characterization of 1H MAS NMR technique. Both the deactivation rate constant (kd) and the Brnsted acid sites per unit cell were calculated to quantitatively evaluate the stability of Mo/HZSM-5 catalysts treated with steam at 813 K before and after impregnation of molybdenum species, and the corresponding variation of their Brnsted acid sites. The results reveal that a V-shape relationship between kd and the number of B1 acid sites per unit cell is presented on Mo/HZSM-5 catalyst under the tested steam-treatment and reaction conditions.     

Simultaneous separation and analysis of water- and fat-soluble vitamins on multi-modal reversed-phase weak anion exchange material by HPLC-UV

Several methods for the separation of vitamins on HPLC columns were already validated in the last 20 years. However, most of the techniques focus on separating either fat- or water-soluble vitamins and only few methods are intended to separate lipophilic and hydrophilic vitamins simultaneously. A mixed-mode reversed-phase weak anion exchange (RP-WAX) stationary phase was developed in our laboratory in order to address such mixture of analytes with different chemical characteristics, which are difficult to separate on standard columns. The high versatility in usage of the RP-WAX chromatographic material allowed a baseline separation of ten vitamins within a single run, seven water-soluble and three fat-soluble, using three different chromatographic modes: some positively charged vitamins are eluted in ion exclusion and ion repulsion modes whereas the negatively charged molecules are eluted in the ion exchange mechanism. The non-charged molecules are eluted in a classical reversed-phase mode, regarding their polarities. The method was validated for the vitamin analysis in tablets, evaluating selectivity, robustness, linearity, accuracy, and precision. The validated method was finally employed for the analysis of the vitamin content of some commercially available supplement tablets.     

On the solution of a mixed nonlinear integral equation

In this paper, we consider a mixed nonlinear integral equation of the second kind in position and time. The existence of a unique solution of this equation is discussed and proved. A numerical method is used to obtain a system of Harmmerstein integral equations of the second kind in position. Then the modified Toeplitz matrix method, as a numerical method, is used to obtain a nonlinear algebraic system. Many important theorems related to the existence and uniqueness solution to the produced nonlinear algebraic system are derived. The rate of convergence of the total error is discussed. Finally, numerical examples when the kernel of position takes a logarithmic and Carleman forms, are presented and the error estimate, in each case, is calculated.