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Targeted contrast agents are specific and directed to a specific molecular or cellular target with an appropriate targeting ligand molecule. Recombinant high density lipoprotein (HDL)-like nanoparticles, a specific contrast agent for MRI of atherosclerotic plaques, has been reported [86] (Fig. 25). 

So, if P, and P- are the frequencies of i-mers and y -mers in the population, we consider the process where an i-mer andy -mer combine to form an (i + y )-mer. Again, let the total number of molecules in the population be N = XJ , P, and suppose that in time step At, Nk(+)At molecules recombine to form larger species. Thus, Nk(])At molecules will be removed from the population and Nk0lAt/2 new molecules will be created (since two molecules combine to form a new molecule). It therefore follows that the number of molecules in the distribution will evolve according to dN/dt = -Nku>/2, implying that... 

We shall conclude this Section with an example of solvent cage effects of ion-molecule recombination reactions as found in the ozonolysis of alkenes in nonpolar solvents [739, 740]. According to the Criegee mechanism [424], unsymmetrically... 

Recombination is the exchange of segments between two DNA molecules. Recombination is important in some types of DNA repair as well as other processes such as meiosis, the generation of antibody diversity, and the life cycles of some viruses. Some recombination pathways are initialed by strand invasion, in which a single strand at the end of a DNA double helix forms base pairs with one strand of DNA in another double helix and displaces the other strand. A common intermediate formed in other recombination pathways is the Holliday junction, which consists of four strands of DNA that come together to form a crosslike structure. Recoinbinases promote recombination reactions through the introduction of specific DNA breaks and the formation and resolution of junction intermediates. 

Soon the molecules of sugar begin to break down. The black residue shows that sugar is composed partly of carbon. The other atoms which had been tied up in the sugar molecule recombine, steam off, and condense in droplets which spill into a beaker. These drops prove to be water. 

Detailed studies of the structure and function of a gene at the molecular level require large quantities of the individual gene in pure form. A variety of techniques, often referred to as recombinant DNA technology, are used in DNA cloning, which permits researchers to prepare large numbers of identical DNA molecules. Recombinant DNA is simply any DNA molecule composed of sequences derived from different sources. 

Another important kind of heavy-particle reaction is that between ions and molecules or atoms. Typical examples are charge exchange and ion-molecule recombination... 

Equation (II) has several useful properties. (1) The observed decay of atoms is independent of concurrent first-order atom decay processes, e.g. heterogeneous decay, and of second-order atom recombination (fcg[M]), provided first-order decay dominates this recombination. It may be helpful to increase the first-order decay (e.g. by adding NO to O atoms, NO -1- O -I- M NOj -f M) in order to suppress second-order recombination. (2) Any variation of with distance along the flow tube does not affect the results, provided is not a function of [R]. (3) The fixed observation point may be at room temperatures, whilst the reaction zone containing the reactant inlets is at an elevated temperature. The results then give a value for k at the elevated temperature. These useful properties have been exploited in series of studies over wide temperature ranges of rate constants for atom -f molecule recombination reactions, and for atom molecule transfer reactions. - - - - ... 

Table 4.7 shows a summary of atom-plus-molecule recombination reactions whose kinetics have been studied in discharge-flow systems the list is not exhaustive only selected data are tabulated. Since these recombination reactions are first-order in [A], only relative concentrations need be measured in order to obtain values for the rate constants. This fact, and the elimination of concurrent atom recombination processes by use of the fixed observation point method, account for the relatively large number of detailed rate studies in the literature. The superficially simple atom + O2 reactions are, for various reasons, more complex than the atom -)- NO reactions. The three reactions H -H NO -f M, O -j- NO -1- M and Cl -1- NO + M possess the following simple mechanism in the 1 torr total pressure region... 

Like poly(methyl methacrylate) and poly(a-methyl styrene), polytetrafluroethylene also undergoes 100% conversion to the monomer at elevated temperatures. However, it does so only at low pressures and high temperatures. At atmospheric pressure, the monomer molecules recombine to form dimer and other species. This polymer is one of the most thermally stable polyolefins known, but even so, it cannot withstand prolonged exposure to temperatures above about 350°C-400°C. 

Although resonances are at the heart of chemical processes such as atom-molecule recombination and Van der Waals molecule predissocia-... 

This cage effect, also known as the Franck-Rabinowitch effect, has other important consequences. In a photochemical reaction in solution, for example, a pair of free radicals produced initially may, owing to their being caged in by the surrounding molecules, recombine before they can separate from each other. This effect is known as primary recombination. 

From the breakdown graph of methanol (Fig. 6), it follows that when a ion in its ground state hits a methanol molecule, recombination is energetically possible, as RE is 11.26 eV. The molecular ion CH30H is then formed in a stable state. A metastable ion gives, on the other hand, fragmentation of the methanol ion due to the RF s 12.40 and 16.58 eV. The relative abundances, 60% and 40%, of the states seem therefore to follow immediately from the mass spectrum. 

Linde SV, Hase WL. Dynamics of ion-molecule recombination IV. Li +tCHj) association. Comp Phys Commun. 1988 51 17-34. 

Hase WL, Darling CL, Zhu I. Dynamics of ion-molecule recombination. V. A study of energy transfer pathways. J Chem Phys. 1992 96 8295-306. 

Half-molecules of rabbit IgG, consisting of one complete H chain and one L chain, can be prepared by selective reduction of the H-H disulfide bond, followed by acidification. Half-molecules recombine spontaneously at neutral pH through strong noncovalent forces acting between the Fc segments of the two H chains therefore, they remain as half-molecules only under dissociating conditions, such as low pH or the presence of detergent (54,55-57). 

This tentatively supports the earlier hypothesis which proposed (in the absence of strong evidence to the contrary) the formation of CifFio After elision of one CF2 unit from the nCsFi2 molecule recombination of the remaining fragments could occur leaving behind the shortened perf1uorinated alkane. 

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