scholarly journals Total structure determination of surface doping [Ag46Au24(SR)32](BPh4)2 nanocluster and its structure-related catalytic property

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. e1500441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuxin Wang ◽  
Shan Jin ◽  
Sha Yang ◽  
Shuang Chen ◽  
Yongbo Song ◽  
...  

The structure effect is widely present in the catalysis of alloy systems. However, the surface structure of this system is still ambiguous because of the limitations of the current surface characterization tools. We reported the x-ray crystallographic structure of the first and the largest AgAu alloy nanocluster with a doping shell formulated as [Ag46Au24(SR)32](BPh4)2. This nanocluster consists of an achiral bimetallic Ag2@Au18@Ag20 core protected by a chiral Ag24Au6(SR)32 shell. The catalysis experiments further revealed that the surface structure affects the selectivity of products significantly. This is the first case to find the structure effect in atomically precise alloy nanoclusters. Our work will benefit the basic understanding of bimetal distribution, as well as the structure-related catalytic property of alloy nanoclusters at the atomic level.

2013 ◽  
Vol 88 ◽  
pp. 107-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.J. Nair ◽  
O.Q. Munro ◽  
M. Pošta ◽  
H.B. Papenfus ◽  
P. Beier ◽  
...  

The complete amino acid sequence of yeast phosphoglycerate mutase comprising 241 residues has been determined. The sequence was deduced from the two cyanogen bromide fragments, and from the peptides derived from these fragments after digestion by a number of proteolytic enzymes. Determination of this sequence now allows a detailed interpretation of the existing high-resolution X-ray crystallographic structure. A comparison of the sequence reported here with the sequences of peptides from phosphoglycerate mutases from other species, and with the sequence of erythrocyte diphosphoglycerate mutase, indicates that these enzymes have a high degree of structural homology. Autolysis of phosphoglycerate mutase by yeast extracts leads to the complete loss of mutase activity, and the formation of electrophoretically distinguishable forms (R. Sasaki, E. Sugimoto & H. Chiba, Archs Biochem. Biophys. 115, 53-61 (1966)). It is apparent from the amino acid sequence that these changes are due to the loss of an 8─12 residue peptide from the C-terminus.


1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (21) ◽  
pp. 3973-3978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Rodrigo ◽  
Susan M. Knabe ◽  
Nicholas J. Taylor ◽  
Dayananda Rajapaksa ◽  
Michael J. Chernishenko

ChemInform ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (24) ◽  
pp. no-no
Author(s):  
H. KAKUDA ◽  
T. SUZUKI ◽  
Y. TAKEUCHI ◽  
M. SHIRO

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