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Yan, Y, Harper, S., Speicher, D.W. and Marmorstein, R. (2002) The catalytic mechanism of the ESAl histone acetyltransferase involves a self-acetylated intermediate. Nature Structural Biology,... 

Firmly in the iatrochemical tradition, Homberg believed that the analysis by fire revealed the familiar five principles, salt, sulphur, mercury, WATER, and EARTH. SuLPHUR was the active and earth the passive principle, the others having an intermediate nature. Earth never acts, but serves only as a receptacle or matrix for the other principles.These, of course, were the philosophical principles, and he spent some time describ-... 

The characteristic feature of all pericyclic reactions is the concertedness of all the bond making and bond breaking, and hence the absence of any intermediates. Naturally, organic chemists have worked hard, and devised many ingenious experiments, to prove that this is true, concentrating especially on the Diels-Alder reaction. The following is an oversimplified description of some of the most telling experiments. 

C. P. Schultz, Illuminating folding intermediates, Nature Struct. Biol. 2000, 7, 7-10. 

The general results in Chap. 3 permit us to claim that critical effects can be interpreted qualitatively in terms of the ideal adsorbed layer model. Detailed mechanisms applied to interpret these phenomena must necessarily include a step of interaction between various intermediates (naturally, in the absence of the auto-catalytic steps). 

Parry and Reeves (1966) reported a lustrine glauconitic mica that has a structural formula intermediate between glauconite and illite. Porrenga (1968) also reported a clay mineral of an intermediate nature (Table XXIII). 

Salmeen, A., J.N. Andersen, M.P. Myers, T.C. Meng, J.A. Hinks, N.K. Tonks, and D. Barford. 2003. Redox regulation of protein tyrosine phosphatase IB involves a sulphenyl-amide intermediate. Nature. 423 769-73. 

Menthol is used in many consumer products, such as toothpaste, chewing gum, cigarettes, and pharmaceutical products, with an estimated worldwide consumption estimated at 4500 tons per year (Chapter 31)4143 (-(-Menthol (22) is manufactured by Takasago Co. from myrcene (23), which is available from the cracking of inexpensive P-pinene (Scheme 12.6)4244 The key step in the process is the asymmetric isomerization of /V,/V-diethylgcranylarninc (24) catalyzed by either [Rh(L2)(5 -BINAP)]+BF f (where L is diene or solvent) or Rh(.S -BINAP)2]+BF f to the diethyl enamine intermediate 25 in 96-99% ee.3645 Citronellal (26) is obtained in 100% ee after hydrolysis of the enamine intermediate natural citronellal has an optical purity of 80%.35 A stereospecific acid-catalyzed cyclization followed by reduction produces 22.42... 

In their adsorption properties, carbon cloth samples JF516 and JF518 appear to be somewhat similar to the AMOCO carbon PX21 Also, we note the intermediate nature of the two samples JF142 and JF144 These and many other adsorption measurements confirm that it is now possible to produce a wide range of activated carbons in stable cloth-form with remarkably well-controlled pore structures... 

The key to understanding why the properties of nanomaterials differ from those of their macroscopic counterparts is the intermediate location of the nanoscale. The nanoscale range is usually taken to be from 1 to 100 nm (although some researchers use the range 1-lOOOnm). This scale is between those traditionally of interest to condensed matter physicists (e.g. a mole of copper atoms with a volume of 7.1 X 10 nm ) and chemists (e.g. the water molecule with a diameter of about 0.3 nm). Owing to its intermediate nature, this field of study is sometimes referred to as mesoscopic physics. 

Jahn TR, Parker MJ, Homans SW, Radford SE. Amyloid formation under physiological conditions proceeds via a native-like folding intermediate. Nature Struct. Mol. Biol. 2006 13 195-201. 

The reason for the different number of electrons, and consequently for the differences in products found in the two studies, may be the difference in the applied coulometric methods. The microcoulometric method applied in Reference 64 is not exhaustive as is the coulometric method applied in Reference 65, and the products formed in the former study may therefore be of an intermediate nature. Insoluble products formed in the bulk solution during microcoulometry precipitate and never get in contact with the electrode, whereas precipitation onto the mercury pool electrode in the exhaustive electrolysis allows further reduction of an insoluble intermediate. 

The majority cfclathrate compounds involve hydrogen bonding in (he host cages. Discuss how the intermediate nature of the hydrogen bond (i.e., stronger than van der Waals forces, weaker than ionic forces) is related to the prevalence of hydrogen bonded clathrates. 

The intermediate nature of the Na+ between the Li+ and K+ species is not surprising. It is, however, surprising that the olefinic nonafulvenolate 777a Na+ is reversibly transformed into the aromatic [9]annulene anion derivative 17Ia ( Na+ simply by lowering the temperature. This emphasizes the importance of ion pair effects (and their consequences) not only as a function of the gegenion M+ and the solvent S but also of the temperature T. 

The fact of transformation of SBA-8 synthesized at room temperature readily into MCM-41 through post-synthesis treatment confirms the intermediate nature of this phase. SBA-8 (c2mm) can be induced to transform into MCM-41 (p6mm) in the mother synthesis solution at 70-100 °C. When the as-made SBA-8 is treated in water at 100 °C (pH 7-10), the phase transformation to MCM-41 is completed within 2 h. 

Vocadlo DJ, Davies GJ, Laine R, Withers SG (2001) Catalysis by hen egg-white lysozyme proceeds via a covalent intermediate. Nature 412 835-838... 

Redox regulation of protein tyrosine phosphatase IB involves a sulphenyl-amide intermediate. Nature 423 769-773... 

Because of the intermediate nature of the density of fc>, this theory has come to be known as intermediate level structure (ILS), and the fast decay observed is often called dephasing. The theory appears to be completely correct, but conditions (1)—(4) are almost never completely fulfilled. The indiscriminate use of this theory for the interpretation of experimental results has therefore led to much confusion in the literature. 

Apart from platinum s intermediate nature on bonding, another point in platinum s favor is availability platinum can be purchased in various suitable forms at a reasonable price some noble metals are difficult to find and purchase. The word noble means here stable and of course that is a first point one wants in an electrocatalyst. It must be a catalyst, not enter into the reaction. It is meant to accelerate the reaction. It must itself be stable, thermally and electrochemically. On the last point, platinum is only fairly good because oxide-free platinum does start itself to dissolve around 1.0 V on the normal hydrogen scale. By using it in anodic reactions in a potential range anodic to 1.0 V, Pt(II) is likely to get into the solution and may be deposited on the cathode. 

Martin, J., Langer, T., Boteva, R., Schramel, A., Horwich, A. L., and Hard, F. U. (1991). Chaperonin-mediated protein folding at the surface of groEL through a molten globule -like intermediate. Nature 352, 36-42. 

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