An economical and environmental friendly method has been developed for the synthesis of Schiff base ligand N,N'bis(2-hydroxy-1-naphthylidene)-4-hydroxyphenylmethanediamine by one pot three components reaction of 2hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde , 4-hydroxy benzaldehyde and ammonium acetate salt in the presence of triethyl amine under solvent free condition at room temperature. Cu(II), Ni(II) and Zn(II...

A series of iron(III) 1-D polymeric materials of the general formula [Fe(III)(Schiff-base)(L)](BPh(4)).n(CH(3)OH) (Schiff base = N,N'-ethylenebis(salicylaldimine) (H(2)salen), N,N'-o-phenylenebis(salicylaldimine) (H(2)salophen) and N,N'-ethylenebis(acety1acetone)-2,2'-imine (H(2) acen); L = bridging di-pyridyl or di-imidazole ligand, n = 0-4) and analogues therein, have been synthesised and str...

Metal chelates, [M(HL)2(H2O)2]X2 (where M= Mn(II), Co(II), Cu(II), Ni(II) or Zn(II), X= NO3–or Cl– and HL= Schiff base moiety), have been prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, magnetic and spectroscopic measurements (infrared, X-ray powder diffraction and scanning electron microscopy). Elemental analysis of the metal complexes was suggested that the stoichiometry is 1:2 (metal-ligan...

Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy has been used to obtain the vibrational modes in the chromophore and apoprotein that change in intensity or position between light-adapted bacteriorhodopsin and the K and M intermediates in its photocycle and between dark-adapted and light-adapted bacteriorhodopsin. Our infrared measurements provide independent verification of resonance Raman r...

Ribonuclease A has been used as a model protein for studying the specificity of glycation of amino groups in protein under physiological conditions (phosphate buffer, pH 7.4, 37 degrees C). Incubation of RNase with glucose led to an enhanced rate of inactivation of the enzyme relative to the rate of modification of lysine residues, suggesting preferential modification of active site lysine resi...

Recent studies with carbamazepine on human serum albumin (HSA) columns have noted an appreciable degree of non-specifi c binding on supports prepared by the Schiff base immobilization method. This work examines an alternative immobilization method for HSA based on N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS)-activated silica. This support was prepared by reacting HPLC-grade silica directly with disuccinimidyl ca...

In order to understand how isomerization of the retinal drives unidirectional transmembrane ion transport in bacteriorhodopsin, we determined the atomic structures of the BR state and M photointermediate of the E204Q mutant, to 1.7 and 1.8 A resolution, respectively. Comparison of this M, in which proton release to the extracellular surface is blocked, with the previously determined M in the D9...

The aldolase catalytic cycle consists of a number of proton transfers that interconvert covalent enzyme intermediates. Glu-187 is a conserved amino acid that is located in the mammalian fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase active site. Its central location, within hydrogen bonding distance of three other conserved active site residues: Lys-146, Glu-189, and Schiff base-forming Lys-229, makes it a...