Concluding remarks and other directions

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 20375043, 20435030, and 20575071 for LM), 

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Reactivity toward nucleophiles and comparison with other electrophilic centers 152 Paths for nucleophilic substitution of sulfonyl derivatives 156 Direct substitution at sulfonyl sulfur stereochemistry 157 Direct substitution at sulfonyl sulfur stepwise or concerted 158 The elimination-addition path for substitution of alkanesulfonyl derivatives 166 Homolytic decomposition of a-disulfones 172 10 Concluding remarks 173 Acknowledgement 174 References 174... 

Janet G. Osteryoung, National Science Foundation I would like to make a few concluding remarks. One of them has already been made both directly and indirectly by others, but I want to reinforce it. There are a lot of people here from senior ACS leadership. Your presence is very noticeable, and we really appreciate it. I think there is a potential for doing some good things. 

The hydrolysis of neopentyl sulfamate (147) was studied with a view to estimating the catalytic efficiency of an S-N cleaving sulfamidase. Kinetic data were obtained at 473 K and pH 0-7, and, remarkably, it was concluded that there was no evidence for a pH neutral reaction, even in the alkaline region of the pH rate profile. This complicated efforts to determine eutrai(H20) and, therefore, directly estimate the catalytic rate acceleration of sulfamidase enzymes. The reader is invited to see the ingenious method the authors used to make a reasonable estimate. Suffice it to say that the acid-catalysed hydrolysis of neopentyl sulfamate (147) was unexceptional (Scheme 44) and was similar to that proposed previously for other alkyl sulfamates. 

We shall conclude this chapter with a few speculative remarks on possible future developments of nonlinear IR spectroscopy on peptides and proteins. Up to now, we have demonstrated a detailed relationship between the known structure of a few model peptides and the excitonic system of coupled amide I vibrations and have proven the correctness of the excitonic coupling model (at least in principle). We have demonstrated two realizations of 2D-IR spectroscopy a frequency domain (incoherent) technique (Section IV.C) and a form of semi-impulsive method (Section IV.E), which from the experimental viewpoint is extremely simple. Other 2D methods, proposed recently by Mukamel and coworkers (47), would not pose any additional experimental difficulty. In the case of NMR, time domain Fourier transform (FT) methods have proven to be more sensitive by far as a result of the multiplex advantage, which compensates for the small population differences of spin transitions at room temperature. It was recently demonstrated that FT methods are just as advantageous in the infrared regime, although one has to measure electric fields rather than intensities, which cannot be done directly by an electric field detector but requires heterodyned echoes or spectral interferometry (146). Future work will have to explore which experimental technique is most powerful and reliable. 

Direct observation of the CTI process in real time has been performed by use of femtosecond pulses. In 1991, two groups first reported femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of bovine rhodopsin [44,45], but their conclusions were remarkably divergent. One group excited bovine rhodopsin with a 35 fs pulse and probed with a 10 fs pulse, and concluded that product formation completed within 200 fs [44], In contrast, the other group measured transient absorption of bovine... 

In fig. 5.6 we plot the comparison of direct ionization for protons and antiprotons on hydrogen. It is a remarkable fact that protons and antiprotons have cross sections showing marked deviations from the Born result but are, by this measure, very close in value to each other. Why From our previous discussions on Dipole Dominance and the Glauber method one might conclude that here we have an example of the former, not unlike the 1S-2P transition. Or, a brilliant confirmation of the predictive power of the latter. And at the same time a demonstration of the poverty of the ideas of binding and polarization that should surely predict a cross section more symmetric about the Born result. Perhaps those ideas are only good for weak perturbative situations and our physical intuition lets us down when the interaction is strong. 

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