A moderately stable hexacoordinated sulfur(VI) compound with four different kinds of ligands, CF3SF2(CN)2C1, results when CF3SF4CI is reacted with (CH3)3SiCN. The latter compound also gives F2S(CN)2 and (CF3)2S(CN)2 with SF4 and (CF3)2SF2, respectively. These tetracoordinated suifur(IV) compounds decompose rapidly at 25 °C but are stable at lower temperatures. With OSCl2 and SC12, the white sol...

Calcineurin (CN), a calcium- and calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase, plays a significant role in the central nervous system. Previously, we reported that forebrain-specific CN knockout mice (CN mutant mice) have impaired working memory. To further analyze the behavioral effects of CN deficiency, we subjected CN mutant mice to a comprehensive behavioral test battery. Mutant mice showed inc...

Let n > m 2:: 4 be positive integers. The edge framing number efr( Cm, Cn) of Cm and Cn is defined as the minimum size of a graph every edge of which belongs to an induced Cm and an induced Cn. We show that efr(Cm,Cn) = n+4 ifn = 2m-4 and m 2:: 5, efr(Cm,Cn) = n+5 if n = 2m-6 and m ~ 7 and efr(Cm1 Cn) = n+6 if n = 2m-8 (m ~ 10) or m = n -1 (where n ~ 5 and n ¢ {6,S}) or m = n 2 (n = 6 or n 2:: ...

Our cyanylation (CN)-based methodology for determining disulfide structure of cystinyl proteins overcomes the limitations of conventional proteolytic methods. However, the CN-based method has the potential drawback that occasionally some CN-induced cleavage fragments may not be detected. We show that CN-based methods can overcome the failure to detect fragments by demonstrating the existence of...

Dedicated to Professor Heinrich Nöth on the occasion of his 85th birthday Recrystallization of silver pentacyanocyclopentadienide Ag[C5(CN)5] from N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) gives the polymeric 1 : 1 complex [Ag{C5(CN)5}(DMF)] (1). The Ag+ cation is coordinated by three N atoms of three different [C5(CN)5] anions and two O atoms of two DMF molecules. Each [C5(CN)5] is coordinated via three nei...