Effect of maltodextrins on the surface activity of small-molecule surfactants

We report on the effect of commercially important polysaccharides (maltodextrins with variable dextrose equivalent (Paselli SA-2, MD-6 and MD-10) on the surface activity at the air–water interface of small-molecule surfactants (sms), possessing different hydrophobic–lipophilic balance ((SSL (Na⁺), the main component is a sodium salt of stearol–lactoyl lactic acid, and PGE (080), polyglycerol ester of C18 fatty acid), and widely used in food products. A marked change of the surface activity of sms was found in the presence of maltodextrins by tensiometry. The combined data of laser multiangle light scattering and mixing calorimetry have suggested that this result is governed by specific complex formation between maltodextrins and sms in aqueous medium. Measurements have been made of the molar mass, the second virial coefficient and the enthalpy of intermolecular interactions in aqueous solutions. The implication of a degree of polymerization of maltodextrins in this phenomenon was shown. The interrelation between the molecular parameters of the formed complexes and their surface activity at the air–water interface has been revealed and discussed.     

Medicinal Organometallic Chemistry: Designing Metal Arene Complexes as Anticancer Agents

The field of medicinal inorganic chemistry is rapidly advancing. In particular organometallic complexes have much potential as therapeutic and diagnostic agents. The carbon‐bound and other ligands allow the thermodynamic and kinetic reactivity of the metal ion to be controlled and also provide a scaffold for functionalization. The establishment of structure–activity relationships and elucidation of the speciation of complexes under conditions relevant to drug testing and formulation are crucial for the further development of promising medicinal applications of organometallic complexes. Specific examples involving the design of ruthenium and osmium arene complexes as anticancer agents are discussed.     

Ethylene polymerization by novel Ziegler–Natta‐type catalysts obtained in situ by the oxidative addition of 8‐hydroxyquinoline‐based ligands to bis(1,5‐cyclooctadiene)nickel(0) and methylaluminoxane

Novel catalytic systems, prepared in situ by the oxidative addition of 8‐hydroxyquinoline ligands to bis(1,5‐cyclooctadiene)nickel(0) and activated by methylaluminoxane, were studied in ethylene polymerization. When 8‐hydroxyquinoline was employed, only oligomeric products were obtained. On the contrary, 5,7‐dinitro‐8‐hydroxyquinoline gave linear polyethylene (PE), but with a modest activity. For the catalyst based on 5‐nitro‐8‐hydroxyquinoline, the productivity was largely dependent on the content of free trimethylaluminum (TMA) present in the commercial aluminoxane. The progressive optimization of the TMA/oligomeric methylaluminoxane ratio increased the productivity, which reached 700 kg of PE/(mol of Ni × h), by an order of magnitude. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 200–206, 2006     

Mixed Azines of Naloxone with Dihydromorphinone Derivatives

The mixed azines 4 and 5 were prepared by reaction of naloxazone ( 2 ) with either oxymorphone ( 6 ) or 14-O-methyloxymorphone ( 7 ) and tested in vitro using opioid receptor binding assays and in vivo using the AcOH-writhing test in mice. Compound 4 was found to be a partial agonist, while compound 5 was a potent opioid agonist with higher potency than morphine.     

Zur Darstellung von Oxiden cyclischer,sekundärer Arsine

Hydrolysis of 1-chloro-arsolane, C₄H₈AsCl, and 1-chloro-arsenane, C₅H₁₀AsCl, leads to oxides C₈H₁₀As₂O and C₁₀H₂₀As₂O, respectively. On direct alkylation of arsenic trioxide with 1.4-butane- and 1.5-pentane-bis-magnesium bromide these oxides are formed only in trifling amounts. Better results are gained by alkylation of N,N-dimethylaminodichloroarsane into amino-arsolane and amino-arsenane, which are also transformed into these oxides by hydrolysis. By hydrolysis of 1.4-dichloro-diarsenane only a small amount of 1.4-epoxo-arsenane is formed, whereas mainly a dimer of this oxide results. Solvolysis of 2.6-dichloro-diarsa-[3.3.0]-bicyclooctane with water, hydrogen sulphide or methylamine leads to 7-oxa-, 7-thia- and 7-methylaza-2.5-diarsa-noradamantane, respectively.     

Progress in the accuracy enhancement for elemental analysis by quadrupole-based plasma-SNMS

The elemental quantification in plasma-based SNMS is hampered by the matrix dependence of the detection efficiencies. The signals of elements of unknown compounds can only be converted to concentrations with mean detection factors resulting in concentrations with an uncertainty mainly given by the matrix effect. This situation can be considerably improved by energy measurements of the sputtered particles. The energy distribution (ED) can be used in two ways. First, the exact knowledge of the ED to each detected element allows an element specific integration of the directly sputtered atoms eliminating thermal species from resputtered wall deposition. For a set of copper compounds the spread of the Cu detection factors could be reduced from ± 63% for the conventional measurement to ± 35% using energy resolved data. Second, the shape of the ED of postionised atoms differs considerably from all interfering species, such as clusters as well as twice charged atoms which could superimpose on the atomic signals. A quantitative shape analysis of the measured ED was developed to correct for these interfering species. Examples are given for both superpositions with cluster intensities and interferences with twice charged intensities. To reduce the additional time necessary to obtain the ED, the number of energy resolved data points was reduced in steps down to 3 points only which still reduced a superposition error to half of the value without ED based correction.     

Solvent and temperature effects on the fluorescence and competitive photoreactions of cis-9-styrylanthracene

A fluorimetric and photochemical study of cis-9-styrylanthracene as a function of temperature has been carried out in different solvents with the aim of answering some open questions about the behavior of its first excited singlet state, S₁. In non-polar solvents, a parallel photoreactive pathway, leading to a cyclization adduct, was found to compete with fluorescence and isomerization already at 200 K, its contribution increasing markedly with temperature. The cis » trans photoisomerization occurs prevalently by a triplet mechanism, a detectable contribution of diabatic and adiabatic isomerization in S₁ being operative in these solvents from room temperature upwards. In polar solvents, the main deactivation pathway competitive with fluorescence is isomerization to trans, which occurs prevalently through a mixed singlet mechanism with a major diabatic and a minor adiabatic components.     

Zusammenh?nge zwischen Koordination und polarographischem Verhalten unterschiedlicher Alizarin S-Chelate

Zusammenfassung Alizarin S und seine 11-Metallchelate lassen sich an der Quecksilbertropfelektrode reduzieren. Aus der Beeinflussung der diffusionskontrollierten und der Adsorptionsstufe durch die Chelatbildung lassen sich Aussagen über die Konstitution und Ladung der adsorbierten Chelate machen: Beryllium wird in peri-, Aluminium und Gallium werden in ortho-Stellung des Alizarinmoleküls gebunden. Die 11-Chelate des Be und Al sind ungeladen. Das Ga-Chelat ist negativ geladen und enthält offensichtlich zusätzliche anionische Liganden.Wir danken der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, dem Minister für Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Landesamt für Forschung, sowie dem Verband der Chemischen Industrie, Fonds der Chemie, für Sachbeihilfen.     

Conformational equilibria and photoinduced tautomerization in 2-(2′-pyridyl)pyrrole

Depending on the polarity and protic abilities of the solvent, 2-(2′-pyridyl)pyrrole can exist in either syn or anti rotameric forms. In nonpolar solvents, intramolecular excited state single proton transfer is observed, manifested by the appearance of low-energy tautomeric emission. The solvent-assisted excited state double proton transfer reaction is also detected. DFT calculations confirm low barriers for both single and double proton transfer processes in the lowest excited singlet state and show different character of the tautomerization in both cases: in the intramolecular reaction, mutual approach of two nitrogen atoms plays an important role.