High pressure effect on the main transition from the ripple gel P′β phase to the liquid crystal (Lα) phase in dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine. Microcalorimetric study

Scanning microcalorimetry has been used to study the high pressure effect on the main transition from the ripple gel P′_β phase to the liquid crystal (L_α) phase in DPPC (dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine). It has been demonstrated that an increase of the pressure by 200 MPa shifts the transition to higher temperatures by 36.4 degrees. The pressure increase does not affect the cooperativity of transition but reduces noticeably its enthalpy. The changes of the molar partial volume, isothermal compressibility as well as volume thermal expansibility during transition in DPPC suspension have been estimated. It has been shown that monovalent ions (Na⁺, Cl⁻) in solution slightly affect the main thermodynamic parameters of the transition. Calcium ions significantly decrease distinction in compressibility and thermal expansibility between liquid-crystal and ripple gel phases of lipid suspension, which in its turn reflects less difference in their volume fluctuations.     

Dictyoclostus cf.neoinflatus Licharew的拟内疹

有铰纲腕足动物的壳壁疹孔,具有分类及生态方面的意义。十九世纪中叶,M.D.Carpenter(1853)用光学显微镜,观察了穿孔贝类的壳壁穿孔。以后,K.M.Hatai(1940)、P.E.Cloud(1942)以及A.Williams(1956,1965)等,对此类构造均作过描述,并称之为内疹(Endopuncta)。1968年Williams利用电子显微镜,研究了现代穿孔贝内疹的超微形态,并对其成因和功能作了较详细的探讨。     

Spectroscopic properties of ironthiosemicarbazone compounds. Structure of [Fe(C7H7N4S)2]·1.25H2O

The reaction of FeCl₃ and HL, where HL=C₇H₈N₄S, pyridine-2-carbaldehyde thiosemicarbazone, at physiological pH values in air gives rise to a powder of composition C₁₄H₁₆Cl_0.3FeN₈O_1.2S₂ which contains iron(II)- and iron(III)-thiosemicarbazone species. This fact confirms the reducing character of the ligand in neutral and basic media. The [Fe(C₇H₇N₄S)₂]·1.25H₂O compound has been isolated. The crystal structure consists of discrete monomeric cationic entities containing low-spin iron(II) ions in a distorted octahedral environment. The metal ion is bonded to one sulfur and two nitrogen atoms of each thiosemicarbazone molecule. The powdered X-band EPR spectra of C₁₄H₁₆Cl_0.3FeN₈O_1.2S₂ show a significant variation with temperature which can be explained considering an ‘exchange narrowing’ phenomenon, in good accordance with the presence of antiferromagnetic interactions. The Mössbauer measurements are in good agreement with the existence of one iron(II) and two iron(III) low-spin species, with relative areas of 69, 17 and 14%, respectively.