Monofunctionalised resorcinarenes

A convenient methodology for introducing single functional groups to the lower rim of resorcinarenes is described. The methodology allows for very convenient differential protection or derivatisation of the upper and lower rims, and a wide range of functional groups (alcohol, carboxylic acid, thiol, amine, carbamate, alkyl halide) can be incorporated as a single unit at the lower rim, opening up the way to further modification at this point and generally widening the scope for further utilising resorcinarenes. Furthermore, our approach has enabled us to link two resorcinarenes together to form novel resorcinarene dimers.     

A Note on Rings and Modules Graded by Some Special Groups

In this note we prove that the prime madicals of some graded rings and the scoles of some graded modules are also graded. The results on the relations between the prime radical and the graded prime radical are also presented. Moreover, the relations between a graded ring and its initial subring are studied.     

低密度聚乙烯光引发交联机理——Ⅱ.BNB自旋捕捉ESR研究

在光引发剂二苯甲酮(BP)存在下,紫外光辐照低密度聚乙烯(LDPE)所形成的自由基中间体已被自旋捕捉剂2,4,6-三特丁基亚硝基苯(BNB)所捕捉,其自旋加合物自由基已为电子自旋共振(ESR)所特征。现已检测和鉴定到二种自旋加合物:一种是叔碳自由基;另一种是仲碳自由基。它们分别是由BP的激发三重态从LDPE链的支化点和亚甲基团上夺氢所形成的自由基中间体同自旋捕捉剂BNB反应生成的。上述的证据表明:LDPE的光引发交联点主要发生在叔碳和仲碳原子上,且H-型交联点占主导地位。     

芦荟大黄素的电化学研究

用单扫示波极谱法研究了芦荟大黄素的电化学行为。在５％Ｎａ２ＣＯ３＋５％ＮａＯＨ（９＋１）底液中，芦荟大黄素于－０．８４Ｖ（Ｐ１）和－０．９７Ｖ（Ｐ２）处产生两个示波极谱峰，利用Ｐ１可测定芦荟大黄素，线性范围为 ０．１１－２４ｍｇ／Ｌ和３．０－２８．６ｍｇ／Ｌ，检测限为０．０６ｍｇ／Ｌ。将该法应用于中药大黄中的芦荟大黄素的测定，结果满意。另外，讨论了芦荟大黄素清除由邻苯三酚自氧化产生的超氧自由基（Ｏ２）的作用。     

氧极谱催化波法测定二苯胺

本文报道一种极谱测定二苯胺的新方法,它是基于二苯胺引起的氧极谱催化波.这个氧极谱催化波是由于二苯胺催化了电生超氧离子O_2~(-)的歧化反应产生的.本方法简单方便,有良好选择性.应用本方法测定了化工原料二苯胺的含量,结果令人满意.     

电泳中介微分析法测定超氧化物歧化酶

基于超氧化物歧化酶(SOD)对邻苯三酚自氧化的抑制作用和电泳中介微分析(EMMA)技术建立了一种测定SOD的新方法。采用“三明治”式不同pH缓冲液部分填充法,有利于邻苯三酚的自氧化反应,便于观察SOD的抑制作用,有利于反应产物与反应物的分离。对溶液填充模式、反应条件等实验参数进行了优化。在最优条件下,邻苯三酚自氧化反应的抑制率I与SOD浓度C在1.00×102~6.00×102μg/L范围内呈良好的线性关系,回归方程为:I(%)=0.0895C(μg/L) 17.633(r=0.9973)。     

Quantum chemistry investigation on the active site of Mn-SOD

In this paper, we carried out a theoretical study on the active site structures of the Mn-SOD with ab initio Hartree–Fock SCF method, and analyzed the molecular orbital energies, charges and atomic orbital contribution to the frontier molecular orbital.     

Kinetic and structural characterization of human manganese superoxide dismutase containing 3-fluorotyrosines

Incorporation of 3-fluorotyrosine and site-specific mutagenesis have been used with stopped-flow spectrophotometry and pulse radiolysis to investigate the catalytic properties of human manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD). All of the nine tyrosine residues in each of the four subunits of the homotetramer of human MnSOD were replaced with 3-fluorotyrosine. Previous studies showed that the crystal structures of the unfluorinated and fluorinated human MnSOD are nearly superimposable with the root-mean-square deviation for 198 -carbon atoms at 0.3 Å. However, the catalytic activity k_cat/K_m of the fluorinated MnSOD at 30 μM⁻¹ s⁻¹ was less than unfluorinated wild type at 800 μM⁻¹ s⁻¹. Comparison of the values of k_cat/K_m for fluorinated and unfluorinated wild-type andY34F MnSOD showed that this decrease for the fluorinated enzyme was in significant part due to 3-fluorotyrosine residues distant (>7 Å) from the active-site metal, not to 3-fluorotyrosine at position 34 close (5 Å) to the metal. Although many rate constants for the catalysis are decreased by this fluorination, the rate of dissociation of the product-inhibited complex appears unchanged by the presence of fluorinated tyrosines. These results suggest that Tyr34 is not a proton donor in the release of the product-inhibited complex, which involves protonation of a peroxo complex of the metal with release of hydrogen peroxide.     

Radical anions of nitrobenzothiazoles: EPR study of conjugative properties of benzothiazolyl systems

The electrochemical reduction in DMSO of the five isomers of nitrobenzothiazole (NBTZ) gave quite persistent radical anions that could be easily characterised by EPR spectroscopy. By contrast, the chemical reduction in alkaline solution, that is by t-BuOK in DMSO or by glucose and MeOK in MeOH, presented some problems with 6- and 4-NBTZ, and in the case of 2-NBTZ did not provide any detectable paramagnetic species. The internal consistency of coupling constants of the nitrobenzothiazole radical anions is in good agreement with the conjugative properties of the various benzothiazolyl systems and allows rectifying a recent EPR characterisation of 6-NBTZ radical anion.     

Titanocene(III) mediated radical cyclization of α-bromo carbonyl compounds: synthesis of tri-substituted tetrahydrofurans

A novel and efficient methodology has been developed for the construction of synthetically important tri-substituted tetrahydrofuran derivatives from bromo-alkenes and bromo-alkynes by radical cyclization reactions using the radical initiator Cp₂TiCl, generated in situ from commercially available titanocene dichloride and Zn dust in tetrahydrofuran under argon.