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In the past ten years, numerous applications of fluorescence methods for monitoring homogeneous and heterogeneous immunoassays have been reported. Advances in the design of fluorescent labels have prompted the development of various fluorescent immunoassay schemes such as the substrate-labeled fluorescent immunoassay and the fluorescence excitation transfer immunoassay. As sophisticated fluorescence instrumentation for lifetime measurement became available, the phase-resolved and time-resolved fluorescent immunoassays have also developed. With the current emphasis on satellite and physician s office testing, future innovations in fluorescence immunoassay development will be expected to center on the simplification of assay protocol and the development of solid-state miniaturized fluorescence readers for on-site testing. 

Fluorescamine, or 4-phenylspiro[furan-2(3//),l/-phthalan]-3,3,-dione, is used to introduce a fluorescent label on electroblotted proteins via reaction with free amines. Transferred proteins are visualized on blot transfer membranes with UV light. This stain can be very sensitive and can be used in conjunction with a second detection method such as immunoblotting (also see Basic Protocol 3). However, the protein is irreversibly modified because fluorescamine reacts with available amino groups (i.e., lysines and the protein N terminus if it was not previously blocked). 

A MW-assisted protocol for the synthesis of azides, thiocyanates, and sulfones has been developed (Scheme 12) that has proved to be a useful alternative, as the use of environmentally deterimental volatile chlorinated hydrocarbons is avoided.All the reactions with these readily available halides or tosylates have shown significant increase in reactivity, thus reducing the reaction times with substantial improvement in the yields. Various functional groups such as ester, carboxylic acid, carbonyl, and hydroxyl were unaffected under the mild reaction conditions employed. This method involves simple experimental procedures and product isolation which avoids the use of phase-transfer catalysts, and is expected to contribute to the development of greener strategy for the preparation of various azides, thiocyanates, sulfones, and other useful compounds. 

Gel electrophoresis is a powerful and versatile method to resolve mixtures of different nucleic acid molecules and allows the fractionated molecules (i) to be viewed directly, (ii) to be recovered in pure form or (iii) to be characterized directly by hybridization. Hybridization of the probes to fractionated DNA ( Southern technique ) (Southern, 1975) or fractionated RNA ( Northern technique ) (Al-wine et al., 1979) can be achieved after the transfer of the resolved molecules to a membrane, but in some cases also directly in the gel using oligonucleotide probes ( unblot ) (Purrello and Balazs, 1983 Tsao et al., 1983). The steps in these protocols are summarized in Table 9.1. Simultaneous extraction of DNA and RNA (Section 3.4.3) (Chan et al., 1988) may be advantageous when the mass of tissue available is small. 

A variety of well-established macroscale SPE methods for nucleic acid extraction have been successfully transferred to microscale devices [10, 31-57]. Although the physical principles of these methods may be different (e.g., chaotropic interactions, electrostatic interactions, affinity interactions, etc.), micro-SPE protocols typically consist of three steps (1) selective adsorption of nucleic acids onto a solid phase (2) removal of contaminants by a washing step and (3) elution of the preconcentrated nucleic acids from the solid support using water or a low salt buffer [31]. Like their macroscale counterparts, micro-SPE devices possess a loading level of target material that is dependent upon the available surface area within the extraction bed and, thus, are manufactured either by packing the solid phase... 

Our existing route to the C10-C16 aldehyde fragment was clearly not appropriate for this new plan. Reduction of )3-hydroxyketone ent-26 with triacetoxyborohydride proffered a 1,3-diol intermediate (ent-27) with no obvious means available for distinguishing the two secondary carbinol moieties. On the other hand, the Evans-Hoveyda variant of the classical Tishchenko reduction would provide a method to effect diastereoselective reduction of ent-26 while at the same time allowing differentiation of the C13 and C15 hydroxyl groups. According to the Evans-Tishchenko reduction protocol, a /3-hydroxyketone 80 is treated with an aldehyde and a catalytic quantity of Sml2 (Scheme 14). Transfer of hydride from the... 

Methods must be devised for assessing carbon dioxide losses during transfer operations and also the leakage rates from each type of store. Several techniques are available or under development but these vary in applicability, site specificity and detection limits. The formulation of protocols for monitoring the hazards associated with carbon dioxide capture and transfer does not appear to present fundamentally new challenges, as similar protocols are part of standard environmental health and safety practices for toxic gases. 

We will start with a description of FDE and its ability to generate diabats and to compute Hamiltonian matrix elements—the EDE-ET method (ET stands for Electron Transfer). In the subsequent section, we will present specific examples of FDE-ET computations to provide the reader with a comprehensive view of the performance and applicability of FDE-ET. After FDE has been treated, four additional methods to generate diabatic states are presented in order of accuracy CDFT, EODFT, AOM, and Pathways. In order to output a comprehensive presentation, we also describe those methods in which wavefunctions methods can be used, in particular GMH and other adiabatic-to-diabatic diabatization methods. Finally, we provide the reader with a protocol for running FDE-ET calculations with the only available implementation of the method in the Amsterdam Density Functional software [51]. In closing, we outline our concluding remarks and our vision of what the future holds for the field of computational chemistry applyed to electron transfer. 

Atom-transfer radical cyclization (ATRC) is an atom-economical method for the formation of cyclic compounds, which proceeds under mild conditions and exhibits broad functional group tolerance. Okamura and Onitsuka described a planar-chiral Cp-Ru complex 124-catalyzed asymmetric auto-tandem allylic amidation/ATRC reaction in 2013. This protocol proceeds highly regio, diastereo, and enantioselec-tively to construct optically active y-lactams from readily available substrates in a one-pot manner (Scheme 2.32). In this process, a characteristic redox property of ruthenium complexes would work expediently in different types of catalyzes involving mechanistically distinct allylic substitutions (Ru /Ru ) and atom-transfer radical cyclizations (Ru /Ru ), thus leading to the present asymmetric auto-tandem reaction [48]. 

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