CORRELATION OF ANNUAL CHANGE OF LUTEINIZING HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE (LH-RH) WITH GONADAL DEVELOPMENT IN AMPHIOXUS

The present study demonstrates for the first time by RIA that LH-RH is present in the heads as well as the bodies of the amphioxuses of both sexes. Gonadoliberin increases gradually during the course of gonadal development. At the time of gonadal maturity, LH-RH content reaches a maximum. The annual change of LH-RH correlates well with gonadal development and the gonadosomatic index (GSI). The reproductive season of the amphioxus covers about three months from May to July, and LH-RH content starts to increase in May (66.89±5.26 ng) and reaches the peak in June (158.57±3.17 ng), indicating that LH-RH is likely also to be involved in the reproductive activity of the chordate. This finding is of significance in understanding the evolutionary process of the reproductive endocrine in the vertebrate.     

H-SAPO-18催化甲醇制烯烃反应的芳烃烃池机理：基于范德华校正的密度泛函理论研究

由于可以从非石油资源如煤、天然气、生物质等出发制备低碳烯烃,分子筛催化甲醇制烯烃(MTO)反应在学术界和工业界引起了广泛的研究兴趣. H-SAPO-34是目前表现优异性能的分子筛催化剂之一,其双烯(乙烯+丙烯)的选择性在80%以上,已经实现了工业化应用.为了提升MTO反应的选择性,以及调控乙烯丙烯的选择性之比,非常有必要从反应机理出发来优化设计新的催化剂.然而,由于MTO催化反应产物复杂多样,对MTO反应机理的认识还存在很大的争议.目前基本能够接受的是MTO催化反应沿着烃池机理进行.在此反应机理中,无机分子筛和有机烃池活性中心形成共催化剂,甲醇进攻有机活性中心生成烷基链,此烷基链断裂得到烯烃产物.目前提出的烃池活性中心主要包括多甲基苯和烯烃自身,它们分别沿着各自的循环反应网络(芳烃循环和烯烃循环)生成烯烃产物.有文献指出在H-ZSM-5分子筛中芳烃循环主要生成乙烯,而烯烃循环主要生成丙烯等产物.因此,系统研究分子筛结构对两条循环网络相对贡献程度的影响规律,从而阐述分子筛结构和MTO催化性能之间的关系具有重要的意义. H-SAPO-18是一类结构上与H-SAPO-34相类似的分子筛,其笼由八元环孔道互联.实验研究指出,其也具有优异的MTO催化性能.在本工作中,我们利用包含范德华相互作用校正的交换相关泛函(BEEF-vdW),系统研究了H-SAPO-18分子筛中的芳烃循环反应机理.所有计算用VASP程序包完成, H-SAPO-18用48T周期性结构模型表示.利用静态吸附和相互转化的自由能变化情况,我们首先确认了反应条件下H-SAPO-18中最稳定的多甲基苯的结构.计算结果指出,1,2,4,5-四甲基苯的吸附能最强,而六甲基苯是主要存在的多甲基苯组分.多甲基苯在分子筛孔道内的稳定性主要由两个相反的作用共同影响：范德华相互作用引起的吸引,以及分子筛孔道结构引起的排斥.在芳烃循环路线中,乙基侧链的增长是反应的关键基元步.吉布斯自由能分析指出芳烃循环路线中,在反应温度673 K下H-SAPO-18中的六甲基苯并不比五甲基苯,四甲基苯的活性高,这与H-SAPO-34分子筛中的结果相一致. H-SAPO-18中的四甲基苯、五甲基苯和六甲基苯的总吉布斯自由能垒分别是208,215,239 kJ/mol.六甲基苯循环路线所表现出的高反应能垒的一个原因,是由于分子筛几何限域效应引起的熵增加所致.通过与烯烃循环路线的动力学进行比较,本文芳烃循环路线动力学的工作可以为MTO催化反应机理的研究提供一些启示.     

Gas chromatographic identification of chlorination products of aliphatic ketones

Chlorinated derivatives of aliphatic ketones are a class of organic compounds poorly characterized by both mass spectra and chromatographic retention indices up to present. It is caused by objective difficulties of isolation of individual products from reaction mixtures formed in the result of non-selective chlorination of parent carbonyl compounds. Nevertheless the differences of GC retention indices for structurally analogous chlorination products of different ketones and initial substrates indicate the constancy depending on the number and position of chlorine atoms in the molecules. This feature permits us to use the simplest kind of additive schemes in identification of such chlorinated derivatives, including diastereomeric α,α'-dichloro-k-alkanones (k>2). Hence, the identification of chlorination products of aliphatic ketones becomes possible for any compounds of this class without using mass spectrometric data only in the result of accurate measurement of their GC retention indices.     

Life cycle assessment and sustainability analysis of products, materials and technologies. Toward a scientific framework for sustainability life cycle analysis

There are many approaches to study the environmental and sustainability aspects of production and consumption. Some of these reside at the level of concepts, e.g., industrial ecology, design for environment, and cleaner production. Other approaches are based on the use of quantitative models, e.g., life cycle assessment, material flow accounting and strategic environmental assessment. This paper focuses on the development of a framework that is able to incorporate different models for environmental analysis, with the option of a broader scope that also includes economic and social aspects, thus covering the three pillars of sustainability. This framework builds on the ISO-framework for life cycle assessment, but takes a broader view, and allows us to move from micro questions on specific products, via meso questions on life styles up to macro questions in which the entire societal structure is part of the analysis.     

Characterization of the Insoluble Sludge from the Dissolution of Irradiated Fast Breeder Reactor Fuel

Insoluble sludge is generated in the reprocessing of spent fuel. The sludge obtained from the dissolution of irradiated fuel from the “Joyo” experimental fast reactor was analyzed to evaluate its chemical form. The sludge was collected by the filtration of the dissolved fuel solution, and then washed in nitric acid. The yields of the sludge weight were less than 1% of the total fuel weight. The chemical composition of the sludge was analyzed after decomposition by alkaline fusion. Molybdenum, technetium, ruthenium, rhodium, and palladium were found to be the main constituent elements of the sludge. X-ray diffraction patterns of the sludge were attributable to Mo₄Ru₄RhPd, regardless of the experimental conditions. The concentrations of molybdenum and zirconium in the dissolved fast reactor fuel solutions were low, indicating that zirconium molybdate hydrate is produced in negligible amounts in the process.     

平面图的圈基内插性质

图Ｇ的一个圈基的长度是该自基中所有圈的长度之和．设Ｃ－、Ｃ－分别是Ｇ的最小、最大圈基长度．如果对任一自然数Ｃ，Ｃ－＜Ｃ＜Ｃ－，都存在Ｇ的一个长为Ｃ的圈基，则称Ｇ有圈基内插性质．本文证明了无三角形的外平面图没有圈基内插性质，并说明存在围长任意大且有圈基内插性质的平面图．     

Synthesis,cytotoxicity, apoptosis and cell cycle arrest of a monoruthenium(II)-substituted Dawson polyoxotungstate

By 5-h reaction of cis-[Ru^IICl₂(DMSO)₄] (M2) with K₁₀[α₂-P₂W₁₇O₆₁] (M3) in ice-cooled, HCl-acidic aqueous solution, a water-soluble 1:2-type diamagnetic ruthenium(II) complex of formula K₁₈[Ru^II(DMSO)₂(P₂W₁₇O₆₁)₂]·35H₂O (M1) was unexpectedly obtained as an analytically pure, homogeneous tan-colored solid, in which two DMSO ligands are coordinated to the ruthenium(II) atom. The cytotoxic potential of the complex was tested on C33A, DLD-1, and HepG-2 cancer cells and human normal embryonic lung fibroblasts cell MRC-5; the viability of the treated cells was evaluated by MTT assay. The mode of cell death was assessed by morphological study of DNA damage and apoptosis assays. Compound M1 induced cell death in a dose-dependent manner, and the mode of cell death was essentially apoptosis though necrosis was also noticed. Cell cycle analysis by flow cytometry indicated that M1 caused cell cycle arrest and accumulated cells in S phase.     

Biotransformation of 20(R)-panaxatriol by the fungus Aspergillus flavus Link AS 3.3950

Microbial transformation of 20(R)-panaxatriol by the fungus Aspergillus flavus Link AS 3.3950 was performed. Four new (1–4), along with two previously reported metabolites (5 and 6), were obtained. Their chemical structures were elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analyses. Furthermore, the inhibitory effects of those compounds on K562/ADR, Du-145, Hela, MCF-7 and HepG2 cell lines were evaluated by MTT assay. Among them, compound 15β-hydroxy-20(R)-panaxatriol (4) exhibited selective inhibitory effects on human leukaemic progenitor cells K562/ADR through arresting cell cycle, which was associated with obvious decrease of cyclin B1, cyclin D1 and cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) 1/2/4/6 protein expression.     

Analysis and use of fragment-occurrence data in similarity-based virtual screening

Current systems for similarity-based virtual screening use similarity measures in which all the fragments in a fingerprint contribute equally to the calculation of structural similarity. This paper discusses the weighting of fragments on the basis of their frequencies of occurrence in molecules. Extensive experiments with sets of active molecules from the MDL Drug Data Report and the World of Molecular Bioactivity databases, using fingerprints encoding Tripos holograms, Pipeline Pilot ECFC_4 circular substructures and Sunset Molecular keys, demonstrate clearly that frequency-based screening is generally more effective than conventional, unweighted screening. The results suggest that standardising the raw occurrence frequencies by taking the square root of the frequencies will maximise the effectiveness of virtual screening. An upper-bound analysis shows the complex interactions that can take place between representations, weighting schemes and similarity coefficients when similarity measures are computed, and provides a rationalisation of the relative performance of the various weighting schemes.