Glutamic acid light scattering

Fig. 3. Intrinsic viscosity-molecular weight relationship of poly-7-benzyl-L-glutamates. The open circles represent the randomly coiled form and other symbols the a-helical form. The line of steeper slope is a plot of Simha s equation. Abbreviations dichloroacetic acid, DCA chloroform saturated with formamide, C-F dimethyl formamide, DMF light scattering, L.S. weight-average molecular weight, A/m. Reproduced from Doty et al. (1956).

Figure 12. Solid curve the refractive index of water showing a simple, monotonic dispersion curve. Dotted curve the contribution of the 189 nm band of iV-methylacetamide at a 1 M concentration added on to the water curve using equation 19. The point to be made is that there is no way to match the background curve of a good solvent to the anomalous dispersion of a chromophoric system under study. Such matching is commonly attempted to remove light scattering problems which depend on the difference in refractive index of the particle, n, with that of the solvent, n, i.e., (tip—nf). The dashed curve adds the second dispersion term in equation 25. Also included is the calculated refractive index of particulate poly-L-glutamic acid (PGA) (see section 4(cKii))-...

Figure 41. Absorption (A) and circular dichroism (B) spectra of poly-L-glutamic acid, pH 3.85, as a function of particle size, which is achieved by sonication. As particle size increases, the ellipticity and absorption extrema are progressively dampened there is increased light scattering (curve b and c of A), and there is a marked red shifting of the CD extrema and crossover. These are distortions in the spectra due to the particulate nature of the optically active system. Adapted, with permission, from [110].

Figure 42. Differential scatter of left and right circularly polarized light by poly-L-glutamic acid particles. Curve a, mean residue rotation of PGA reference state plotted on right-hand ordinate. Curve b, contribution of differential scatter term only, (Asi. —Asr) 3300/Cl. Curve c, total change in mean residue ellipticity due to differential scatter, includes differential scatter component of the (Aol— 4or) term. Curve d, comparison of empirical lO " values with total differential scatter. Curve e, approxima-...

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