Proton spectroscopic factor of the12Cground state from the12C(11B,12C)11Belastic transfer reaction

2014 ◽  
Vol 90 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. T. Li ◽  
Z. H. Li ◽  
Y. J. Li ◽  
B. Guo ◽  
Y. B. Wang ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1450061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sh. Hamada ◽  
N. Burtebayev ◽  
N. Amangeldi

We have measured the angular distributions for 16 O elastically scattered on 12 C nuclei at energy 28 MeV and also for 12 C ion beam elastically scattered on 11 B target nuclei at energy 18 MeV. These measurements were performed in the cyclotron DC-60 INP NNC RK. Calculations were performed using both empirical Woods–Saxon and double folding optical model potentials. Both elastic scattering and transfer reaction were taken into consideration. We have extracted the spectroscopic factors for the configurations 16 O → 12 C + α and 12 C → 11 B + p and compared them with other calculated or extracted values at different energies from literature. The extracted spectroscopic factor for the configuration 12 C → 11 B + p from the current work is in the range 2.7–3.1, which is very close to Cohen–Kurath prediction. While for the configuration 16 O → 12 C + α, spectroscopic factors show fluctuation with energy which could be due to the well-known resonant-like behavior observed in 16 O + 12 C excitation function.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Short ◽  
Mina Shehata ◽  
Matthew Sanders ◽  
Jennifer Roizen

Sulfamides guide intermolecular chlorine transfer to gamma-C(sp<sup>3</sup>) centers. This unusual position-selectivity arises because accessed sulfamidyl radical intermediates engage in otherwise rare 1,6-hydrogen-atom transfer processes. The disclosed chlorine-transfer reaction relies on a light-initiated radical chain-propagation mechanism to oxidize C(sp<sup>3</sup>)-H bonds.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Roitberg ◽  
Pancham Lal Gupta

<div>Human Glycinamide ribonucleotide transformylase (GAR Tfase), a regulatory enzyme in the de novo purine biosynthesis pathway, has been established as an anti-cancer target. GAR Tfase catalyzes the formyl transfer reaction from the folate cofactor to the GAR ligand. In the present work, we study E. coli GAR Tfase, which has high sequence similarity with the human GAR Tfase with most functional residues conserved. E. coli GAR Tfase exhibits structural changes and the binding of ligands that varies with pH which leads to change the rate of the formyl transfer reaction in a pH-dependent manner. Thus, the inclusion of pH becomes essential for the study of its catalytic mechanism. Experimentally, the pH-dependence of the kinetic parameter kcat is measured to evaluate the pH-range of enzymatic activity. However, insufficient information about residues governing the pH-effects on the catalytic activity leads to ambiguous assignments of the general acid and base catalysts and consequently its catalytic mechanism. In the present work, we use pH-replica exchange molecular dynamics (pH-REMD) simulations to study the effects of pH on E. coli GAR Tfase enzyme. We identify the titratable residues governing the pH-dependent conformational changes in the system. Furthermore, we filter out the protonation states which are essential in maintaining the structural integrity, keeping the ligands bound and assisting the catalysis. We reproduce the experimental pH-activity curve by computing the population of key protonation states. Moreover, we provide a detailed description of residues governing the acidic and basic limbs of the pH-activity curve.</div>


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Short ◽  
Mina Shehata ◽  
Matthew Sanders ◽  
Jennifer Roizen

Sulfamides guide intermolecular chlorine transfer to gamma-C(sp<sup>3</sup>) centers. This unusual position-selectivity arises because accessed sulfamidyl radical intermediates engage in otherwise rare 1,6-hydrogen-atom transfer processes. The disclosed chlorine-transfer reaction relies on a light-initiated radical chain-propagation mechanism to oxidize C(sp<sup>3</sup>)-H bonds.


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