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To understand the complexation in solution and the sorption of iron(III) on soluble and solid fractions of lignin, a dimeric model (guaiacyl-beta-guaiacylglycerol ether, called beta-O-4) and a polymeric model (dehydrogenation polymer resulting from polymerization of coniferyl alcohol) of lignin have been synthesized and characterized with chromatographic, solution, and solid state (13)C CP-MAS NMR and XPS spectroscopies. The beta-O-4 dimer is a monoacid (HL). Potentiometric studies in aqueous solution at 25 degrees C and 1 mol L(-1) ionic strength (KNO(3)) indicated formation of two stable complexes, FeL(2+) and probably FeL(OH)(+), which shows that the soluble fraction of lignin binds metals, indicating that they are transported by water through the soils. The binding of iron(III) on the DHP polymer was then investigated. The sorption experiments have shown a great affinity of iron for the solid with a maximum of adsorption since pH 5. A pulsed-ESR study has revealed surface oxidation by the iron(III) cation, which leads to iron(II) and semiquinonic radicals on the polymer surface, with a radical concentration of about 5x10(17) spin/g. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.
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PMID:Structural Characterization and Iron(III) Binding Ability of Dimeric and Polymeric Lignin Models. 1139 46

The isotropic chemical shift and the nuclear quadrupole coupling constant for (14)N were obtained for 14 inorganic nitrates by solid-state MAS NMR measurements at two different field strengths, 9.4 and 11.7 T. The compounds studied were polycrystalline powders of AgNO(3), Al(NO(3))(3), Ba(NO(3))(2), Ca(NO(3))(2), CsNO(3), KNO(3), LiNO(3), Mg(NO(3))(2), NaNO(3), Pb(NO(3))(2), RbNO(3), Sr(NO(3))(2), Th(NO(3))(4)center dot4H(2)O, and UO(2)(NO(3))(2)center dot3H(2)O. Even though the spectra show broadening due to (14)N quadrupole interactions, linewidths of a few hundred hertz and a good signal-to-noise ratio were achieved. From the position of the central peaks at the two fields, the chemical shifts and the nuclear quadrupole coupling constants were calculated. The chemical shifts for all compounds studied range from 282 to 342 ppm with respect to NH(4)Cl. The nuclear quadrupole coupling constants range from 429 kHz for AgNO(3) to 993 kHz for LiNO(3). These data are compared with those available in the literature.
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PMID:14N chemical shifts and quadrupole coupling constants of inorganic nitrates. 1184 78

Endostatin, an important angiogenesis inhibitor, is very acid resistant. We are particularly interested in knowing that whether or not endostatin can form a folding intermediate during acid titration. 1H-NMR, CD spectrum, and ANS binding assay show that endostatin at pH 2.0 contains little tertiary structure, but retains substantial secondary structure with strong ANS binding, and Na2SO4 or TFE is found to strongly stabilize endostatin at pH 2.0. All these observations are consistent with the formation of a folding intermediate at pH 2.0. Kinetics studies show that sulfate anions significantly slow down the process for endostatin to reach its equilibrium state at pH 2.0. A regular increase in the amount of alpha-helix content of the intermediate of endostatin at pH 2.0 is found when the concentration of TFE is increased in the range of 0-40%, suggesting that endostatin has an intrinsic alpha-helical propensity.
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PMID:Detection and characterization of an acid-induced folding intermediate of endostatin. 1524 Jan 44

A ditopic, macrobicyclic receptor with adjacent anion and cation binding sites is able to extract a range of monovalent salts into chloroform solution. The structures of the receptor complexed with KAcO, LiNO(3), NaNO(3), KNO(3), and NaNO(2) are characterized in solution by NMR spectroscopy and in the solid state by X-ray crystallography. The sodium and potassium salts are bound to the receptor as contact ion-pairs, with the metal cation located in the receptor's crown ether ring and the trigonal oxyanion hydrogen bonded to the receptor NH residues. The solid-state structure of the LiNO(3) complex has a bridging water molecule between the cation and anion. In all solid-state structures, the trigonal oxyanion is not located symmetrically inside the receptor cavity. It appears that anion orientation is controlled by a complex interplay of steric factors, coordination bonding to the metal cation, and hydrogen bonding with the receptor NH residues. An important feature with this latter effect is the fact that hydrogen bonds directed toward the oxygen lone pairs on a trigonal oxyanion are stronger than hydrogen bonds to the pi-electrons. In solution, the (1)H NMR spectra of the nitrate and nitrite salt complexes are noteworthy because several receptor signals, including the NH protons, undergo unusual upfield movements in chemical shift upon complexation. This is a reflection of the diamagnetic anisotropy of these trigonal oxyanions. The magnetic shielding surface for the NO(3)(-) anion is calculated using density functional theory and shown to have a shielding region directly above the central nitrogen.
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PMID:Molecular recognition of trigonal oxyanions using a ditopic salt receptor: evidence for anisotropic shielding surface around nitrate anion. 1574 Jan 28

Formation constants and structures of copper(II) complexes with oxidized glutathione (L) have been determined by computer modelling of spectrophotometric and NMR relaxation measurements data over a wide range of pH (1-13) and metal and ligand concentrations in aqueous KNO(3) (1M) at 298K. Among 11 found complexes, four forms were characterized for the first time. Based on a comparison of thermodynamic, relaxation, and optical and EPR spectroscopy parameters the structural conclusions were made. In particular, the CuLH(2) and CuLH(-) complexes both contain two isomers which are similar to mono- and bis-aminoacid copper(II) complexes. In the Cu(2)L and Cu(3)L(2)(2-) species one of the copper atoms is bound only with the carboxylate or carbonyl groups and the others are coordinated similarly to aminoacid chelates. Along with the last, in Cu(2)LH(-2)(2-) two bridging OH(-) groups in one isomer or two chelate rings including deprotonated peptide nitrogen and glycinyl carboxylate oxygen in another are also present. In Cu(3)L(2)H(-4)(6-) the mixed variant of coordination between CuL(2-) (CuN(2)O(2)) and Cu(2)LH(-4)(4-)(CuN(3)O) is realized. The structures of polynuclear complexes have been optimized in density functional theory computations. Rate constants of ligand exchange reactions of Cu(LH)(2)(4-) and CuL(2)(6-) with participation of the LH(3-) and L(4-) forms were determined for the first time. Factors determining rates of these processes have been revealed and their proceeding by associative substitution mechanism shown.
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PMID:Structure, stability, and ligand exchange of copper(II) complexes with oxidized glutathione. 1591 88

In this work Paspalum notatum root material was used to elucidate the influence of acid leaching pre-treatment and of sorption medium on metal adsorption. Ground P. notatum root was leached with 0.14M HNO(3). Leached root material (LRM) and non-leached root material (NLRM) were employed to flow sorption of Ni(II), Cu(II), Al(III) and Fe(III) in 0.5M CH(3)COONH(4) medium at pH 6.5. For LRM the sorption was also studied in 0.5M KNO(3) medium. The acid pre-treatment increased the sorption capacity (SC) for all ions studied. For the KNO(3) medium, Cu(II) and Fe(III) sorption was higher than in CH(3)COONH(4) and the type of the Ni(II) isotherm's model changed. The Freundlich model was the most representative isotherm model to describe metallic ions sorption. The (1)H NMR spectra showed differences between LRM and NLRM and the acid-basic potentiometric titration elucidated that acid-leaching procedure affected the root material sorption sites once only two predominant sorption sites were found for LRM (phenolic and amine, both able cations sorption) and five sorption sites (two carboxylic, amine and two phenolic) were founded for NLRM.
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PMID:Effect of pre-treatment and supporting media on Ni(II), Cu(II), Al(III) and Fe(III) sorption by plant root material. 1728 Jul 2

The cyclic tetra-aza complexones cDOTA ([12]ane N(4).4ac), cTRITA ([13]ane N(4).4ac) and cTETA ([14]ane N(4).4ac) have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, titration, melting-point determination and NMR (and infrared) spectroscopy. The ionization constants and the stability constants of the MH(2)L, MHL and ML complexes formed with alkali, alkaline-earth and some transition metals were determined at 25.0 +/- 0.1 degrees and ionic strength 0.10M [KNO(3) and (CH(3))(4)NNO(3)]. It was confirmed that cDOTA forms the most stable Ca(2+) and Sr(2+) complexes but the reported inversion of the order of stability of the complexes of these two ions with cTRITA was not confirmed. Also, the values of the stability constants determined in this work differ substantially from those previously reported for ML species. cDOTA is an interesting alternative to classical non-cyclic complex-ones for the complexometric determination of Ca(2+) and Mg(2+) but neither this ligand nor the other two offer advantages over EDTA or DCTA for the complexometric titration of transition metals.
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PMID:Metal complexes of cyclic tetra-azatetra-acetic acids. 1896 44

Acid-base equilibria in aqueous solutions of cis-bis(trimethylphosphine)platinum(II) dinitrate at 25 degrees C, 0.2 M ionic strength (KNO(3)), have been investigated by potentiometry with a glass electrode. The procedure consisted of multiple addition of the investigated analyte to a supporting electrolyte solution ("multiple sample addition") and subsequent titration with strong base. For the treatment of potentiometric multiple sample addition data, a new linearization procedure, suitable for an acid dissociation equilibrium whose product dimerizes, has been devised and tested. The potentiometric results have been interpreted with the support of NMR data. By dissociation of the first acidic function of the solute diaquo cation, cis-[(PMe(3))(2)Pt(OH(2))(2)](2+), a dimeric ampholite, cis-[(PMe(3))(2)Pt(mu-OH)](2)(2+), is quantitatively formed which, in turn, can be converted into the di-hydroxo derivative cis-(PMe(3))(2)Pt(OH)(2). The two acid dissociation steps involving two molecules of solute and condensation of ampholyte have pK(a1(c)) = 3.89 and pK(a2(c)) = 22.17.
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PMID:Acid-base equilibria in aqueous solution of cis-bis(trimethylphosphine)platinum(II) dinitrate at 25 degrees C, 0.2 M ionic strength. A potentiometric study. 1896 72

A histidine-rich peptide HSHRDFQPVLHL-NH(2) (L), identical with the N-terminal fragment of the anti-angiogenic human endostatin has been synthesized. Endostatin is a recently identified broad spectrum angiogenesis inhibitor, which inhibits 65 different tumor types. The N-terminal 25-mer peptide fragment of human endostatin has the same antitumor effect as the entire protein. The zinc(II) binding is crucial for the antitumor effect in both cases. Our peptide may provide all critical interactions for zinc(II) binding present in the N-terminal 25-mer peptide fragment. In addition, the N-terminus of human endostatin has a supposedly high affinity binding site for copper(II), similar to human serum albumin. Since copper(II) is intimately involved in angiogenesis, this may have biological relevance. In order to determine the metal binding properties of the N-terminal fragment of endostatin, we performed equilibrium, UV-visible (UV-vis), CD, EPR and NMR studies on the zinc(II) and copper(II) complexes of L. In the presence of zinc(II) the formation of a stable [NH(2),3N(im),COO(-)] coordinated complex was detected in the neutral pH-range. This coordination mode is probably identical to that present in the zinc(II) complex of the above mentioned N-terminal 25-mer peptide fragment of human endostatin. Moreover, L has extremely high copper(II) binding affinity, close to those of copper-containing metalloenzymes, and forms albumin-like [NH(2),N(-),N(-),N(im)] coordinated copper(II) complex in the neutral pH-range, which may suggest that copper(II) binding is involved in the biological activity of endostatin.
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PMID:N-terminal fragment of the anti-angiogenic human endostatin binds copper(II) with very high affinity. 1944 99

The crystal structure of the as-yet-unknown salt K[Fe(III)(cydta)(H(2)O)].3H(2)O, where cydta = (+/-)-trans-1,2-cyclohexanediaminetetraacetate, has been resolved: orthorhombic space group Pbca with R1 = 0.0309, wR2 = 0.0700, and GOF = 0.99. There are two independent [Fe(III)(cydta)(H(2)O)](-) anions in the asymmetric unit, and the ligand is (R,R)-cydta in both cases. The coordination polyhedron is a seven-coordinate capped trigonal prism where the quadrilateral face formed by the four ligand donor oxygen atoms is capped by the coordinated water molecule. The speciation of [Fe(III)(cydta)(H(2)O)](-) in water was studied in detail by a combination of techniques: (i) Measurements of the pH dependence of the Fe(III/II)cydta redox potentials by cyclic voltammetry enabled the estimation of the stability constants (0.1 M KNO(3), 25 degrees C) of [Fe(III)(cydta)(H(2)O)](-) (log beta(III)(110) = 29.05 +/- 0.01) and [Fe(II)(cydta)(H(2)O)](2-) (log beta(II)(110) = 17.96 +/- 0.01) as well as pK(III)(a1OH) = 9.57 and pK(II)(a1H) = 2.69. The formation enthalpy of [Fe(III)(cydta)(H(2)O)](-) (DeltaH degrees = -23 +/- 1 kJ mol(-1)) was measured by direct calorimetry and is compared to the corresponding value for [Fe(III)(edta)(H(2)O)](-) (DeltaH degrees = -31 +/- 1 kJ mol(-1)). (ii) pH-dependent spectrophotometric titrations of Fe(III)cydta lead to pK(III)(a1OH) = 9.54 +/- 0.01 for deprotonation of the coordinated water and a dimerization constant of log K(d) = 1.07. These data are compared with those of Fe(III)pdta (pdta = 1,2-propanediaminetetraacetate; pK(III)(a1OH) = 7.70 +/- 0.01, log K(d) = 2.28) and Fe(III)edta (pK(III)(a1OH) = 7.52 +/- 0.01, log K(d) = 2.64). Temperature- and pressure-dependent (17)O NMR measurements lead to the following kinetic parameters for the water-exchange reaction at [Fe(III)(cydta)(H(2)O)](-) (at 298 K): k(ex) = (1.7 +/- 0.2) x 10(7) s(-1), DeltaH(++) = 40.2 +/- 1.3 kJ mol(-1), DeltaS(++) = +28.4 +/- 4.7 J mol(-1) K(-1), and DeltaV(++) = +2.3 +/- 0.1 cm(3) mol(-1). A detailed kinetic study of the effect of the buffer, temperature, and pressure on the reaction of hydrogen peroxide with [Fe(III)(cydta)(H(2)O)](-) was performed using stopped-flow techniques. The reaction was found to consist of two steps and resulted in the formation of a purple Fe(III) side-on-bound peroxo complex [Fe(III)(cydta)(eta(2)-O(2))](3-). The peroxo complex and its degradation products were characterized using Mossbauer spectroscopy. Formation of the purple peroxo complex is only observable above a pH of 9.5. Both reaction steps are affected by specific and general acid catalysis. Two different buffer systems were used to clarify the role of general acid catalysis in these reactions. Mechanistic descriptions and a comparison between the edta and cydta systems are presented. The first reaction step reveals an element of reversibility, which is evident over the whole studied pH range. The positive volume of activation for the forward reaction and the positive entropy of activation for the backward reaction suggest a dissociative interchange mechanism for the reversible end-on binding of hydrogen peroxide to [Fe(III)(cydta)(H(2)O)](-). Deprotonation of the end-on-bound hydroperoxo complex leads to the formation of a seven-coordinate side-on-bound peroxo complex [Fe(III)(cydta)(eta(2)-O(2))](3-), where one carboxylate arm is detached. [Fe(III)(cydta)(eta(2)-O(2))](3-) can be reached by two different pathways, of which one is catalyzed by a base and the other by deprotonated hydrogen peroxide. For both pathways, a small negative volume and entropy of activation was observed, suggesting an associative interchange mechanism for the ring-closure step to the side-on-bound peroxo complex. For the second reaction step, no element of reversibility was found.
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PMID:Detailed spectroscopic, thermodynamic, and kinetic studies on the protolytic equilibria of Fe(III)cydta and the activation of hydrogen peroxide. 1961 46


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