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Flell S W and Stelzer E FI K 1992 Fundamental improvement of resolution with a four Pi-confocal... 

Muller D W, Fotiadis D and Engel A 1998 Mapping flexible protein domains at subnanometre resolution with the atomic force microscope FEBS Lett. 430 105... 

Molecules can be rendered as stick figures, ball and stick, CPK, and ribbons. Dot surfaces can also be included. Some regions were incorrectly shaded for small molecules on our test system running at 800 x 600 resolution with 24-bit color. The display uses a black background, but graphics are saved or printed with a white background. Overall, the rendering is adequate. 

For reasonable quantitative accuracy, peak maxima must be at least 4cr apart. If so, then Rs = 1.0, which corresponds approximately to a 3% overlap of peak areas. A value of Rs = 1.5 (for 6cr) represents essentially complete resolution with only 0.2% overlap of peak areas. These criteria pertain to roughly equal solute concentrations. 

The relationship between capacity factor and analysis time can be advantageous when a separation produces an acceptable resolution with a large b. In this case it may be possible to decrease b with little loss in resolution while significantly shortening the analysis time. 

The improvement in resolution with the reflectron is achieved at the expense of some loss in overall sensitivity due to loss of ions in the reflectron and in the second length of analyzer. 

For strongly retained components (Ic 1), the number of plates required to obtain a given resolution with a finite feed injection is approximated by ... 

One should compare capabilities to the electron beam X-ray emission methods of Chapter 3. The major difference is the higher lateral resolution with electron beams and the associated mapping capabilides. Another difference is the shorter probing depth possible with electrons, except when compared to the specialized TXRF method. Comparing electron-beam EDS to X-ray/particle EDS or electron-beam WDS to X-ray/particle WDS, the electron beams have poorer detection limits because of the greater X-ray bacl ound associated with electron... 

With the use of a microbeam, lateral resolution with NRA on the order of several pm is possible. Flowever, because of the small beam currents obtainable with microbeam systems, sensitivity is limited and reactions with relatively large cross sections are most useful. Only a few laboratories perform microbeam measurements. 

The chiral keto acid A could be obtained by resolution with (5)-(-)-a-methylben2ylamine. Another route from A to PC s is shown below ... 

Given limits to the time resolution with which wave profiles can be detected and the existence of rate-dependent phenomena, finite sample thicknesses are required. To maintain a state of uniaxial strain, measurements must be completed before unloading waves arrive from lateral surfaces. Accordingly, larger loading diameters permit the use of thicker samples, and smaller loading diameters require the use of measurement devices with short time resolution. 

The important parameters to consider are the selectivity (dKJdlogR), the ratio of pore volume, Vp, over void volume, Vq, the plate height, H, and the column length, L. The distribution coefficient, Kq, has a slight effect on resolution (with an optimum at Kp 0.3-0.5). In addition to this, extra column effects, such as sample volume, may also contribute to the resolution. 

Plow rate has a tremendous effect on resolution with aqueous GFC as shown in Fig. 4.20. Lower flow rates will decrease HETPs (up to a point) and increase resolution. In general, a flow rate range of 0.5-0.8 ml/minute is recommended for TSK-GEL PW analytical columns. 

The biologically important anti-/8-phenylalanine, /8-2-thienylalanine (39), has been resolved into antipodes through enzymatic resolution with carboxypeptidase/ The pharmacologically important 3-piperidino-l,i-bis-2-thienyl-l-butene (40), which crystallizes as. a conglomerate, has been resolved by hand picking. ... 

Improvement of column efficiency in terms of the number of theoretical plates realized by increasing column length often yields marginal increases in resolution, with a corresponding increase of analysis time to unacceptable levels. This... 

The above theoretical analysis of the total number of resolvable components in a complex mixture has shown that in LC, relative to the maximum peak content or peak capacity for closely spaced peaks, a random chromatogram will never contain more than about 37% of its potential peaks and furthermore that only 18% of such components will emerge as single-component peaks having a minimum specified resolution with respect to the neighbouring peaks. 

Typical normal-phase operations involved combinations of alcohols and hexane or heptane. In many cases, the addition of small amounts (< 0.1 %) of acid and/or base is necessary to improve peak efficiency and selectivity. Usually, the concentration of polar solvents such as alcohol determines the retention and selectivity (Fig. 2-18). Since flow rate has no impact on selectivity (see Fig. 2-11), the most productive flow rate was determined to be 2 mL miiT. Ethanol normally gives the best efficiency and resolution with reasonable back-pressures. It has been reported that halogenated solvents have also been used successfully on these stationary phases as well as acetonitrile, dioxane and methyl tert-butyl ether, or combinations of the these. The optimization parameters under three different mobile phase modes on glycopeptide CSPs are summarized in Table 2-7. 

Two recent reports described addition of nitrogen-centered nucleophiles in usefully protected fonn. Jacobsen reported that N-Boc-protected sulfonamides undergo poorly selective (salen) Co-catalyzed addition to racemic epoxides. However, by performing a one-pot, indirect kinetic resolution with water first (HKR, vide infra, Table 7.1) and then sulfonamide, it was possible to obtain highly enantiomer-ically enriched addition products (Scheme 7.39) [71]. These products were transformed into enantioenriched terminal aziridines in straightforward manner. 

Although several interesting nitrogen-centered nucleophiles have been developed with ARO reactions of epoxides (vide supra), kinetic resolutions with such reagents are unlikely to be of practical value for the recovery of enantioenriched terminal epoxides. This is due to the fact that these nucleophiles are too valuable to be discarded in a by-product of the resolution, are generally not atom-economical, and, particularly in the case of azide, may represent safety hazards. 

A very similar technique is atomic force microscope (AFM) [38] where the force between the tip and the surface is measured. The interaction is usually much less localized and the lateral resolution with polymers is mostly of the order of 0.5 nm or worse. In some cases of polymer crystals atomic resolution is reported [39], The big advantage for polymers is, however, that non-conducting surfaces can be investigated. Chemical recognition by the use of specific tips is possible and by dynamic techniques a distinction between forces of different types (van der Waals, electrostatic, magnetic etc.) can be made. The resolution of AFM does not, at this moment, reach the atomic resolution of STM and, in particular, defects and localized structures on the atomic scale are difficult to see by AFM. The technique, however, will be developed further and one can expect a large potential for polymer applications. 

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