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Effects of major nutrient additions on metal uptake in phytoplankton.

We examined the influences of major nutrients (N, P, Si) on the accumulation of three trace metals [Cd, Se(IV), and Zn] in four species of marine phytoplankton (diatom, green alga, dinoflagellate, prasinophyte). Relative metal uptake was quantified by the kinetic measurements of metal concentration factor over a short exposure period. Our study demonstrated that nutrient addition significantly influenced the metal uptake rate and the cell growth rate in all four phytoplankton species. An increase in ambient N concentration considerably enhanced metal uptake by the cells. The dry weight concentration factor increased by 2.4-14.9 times for Cd, 1.1-4.0 times for Se, and 1.1-5.4 times for Zn in all four phytoplankton species with an addition of 176.4 microM N. The effects of P or Si addition on metal uptake and cell growth were less pronounced than the effects of N addition. Under most circumstances the rate of metal uptake increased exponentially with increasing cell growth rate constant. Only Se(IV) uptake in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum was not correlated with cell growth rate. Se(IV) was not accumulated by the green algae Chlorella autotrophica at a high P concentration (7.2 microM), but appreciable accumulation was documented in cells inoculated without P addition. Our study therefore demonstrated that nutrient enrichments in many coastal waters can considerably affect trace metal uptake in phytoplankton and presumably metal trophic transfer in marine food chains.

Biological Availability↗

Additive analgesic effects of oxycodone and ibuprofen in the oral surgery model.

PURPOSE: A traditional approach to achieve greater analgesic efficacy is to combine an efficacious dose of a nonopioid with a dose of an opioid sufficient to produce additive analgesia without a substantial increase in the incidence of adverse effects. This study evaluated the additive analagesic effects of the combination of ibuprofen and oxycodone. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A dose of 400 mg ibuprofen was compared with 400 mg ibuprofen with oxycodone in doses of 2.5, 5, or 10 mg in the oral surgery model of acute pain. Analgesic efficacy was measured with category and visual analog scales at 15, 30, 45, and 60 minutes and hourly up to 6 hours. RESULTS: Ibuprofen plus 10 mg oxycodone produced significantly greater analgesia compared with the other three groups, as measured by the visual analog scale from 15 minutes after drug administration up to the 2-hour observation. All four treatments were similar from 3 to 6 hours, with the area under the pain intensity difference curve being similar across groups. Neither the 2.5-mg nor the 5-mg oxycodone dose provided any additive analgesia over ibuprofen at any points. Addition of oxycodone resulted in a dose-related increase in the number of patients reporting adverse effects, with significantly greater drowsiness and vomiting at the 10-mg dose. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that additive analgesia can be achieved for the combination of a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug and an orally effective opioid, with faster onset of relief for the combination of 400 mg ibuprofen and 10 mg oxycodone over the first 2 hours after administration, but at the expense of an increased incidence of adverse events.

Adult↗

Addition of cisplatin improves efficacy of 131I-labeled monoclonal antibody 323/A3 in experimental human ovarian cancer.

UNLABELLED: This study was conducted to determine whether the cytotoxic agent cisplatin (CDDP), also known as a radiosensitizer, can improve the efficacy of the 131I-labeled monoclonal antibody (MAb) 323/A3 in the treatment of experimental human ovarian cancer. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Nude mice bearing well-established subcutaneous FMa, OVCAR-3, or Ov.Pe xenografts were injected twice with a 2-week interval either with a bolus of CDDP, 131I-323/A3, or with a combination of both modalities. CDDP was injected at various timepoints when combined with 131I-323/A3. The efficacy of the treatment was expressed as the specific growth delay (SGD). The growth inhibitory effect of the combination was characterized to detect additivity or synergism, using the mean relative tumor volumes at 2, 4, and 6 weeks after the last injection as endpoints. RESULTS: The efficacy of 131I-323/A3 was superior to that of the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of CDDP (6 mg/kg) in all three xenografts. The addition of CDDP to 131I-323/A3 could increase the growth inhibition in the CDDP-responsive FMa and OVCAR-3 xenografts, but not in Ov.Pe xenografts. Although this improved antitumor effect was additive rather than synergistic, the combination was more effective when compared with that of the MTD of each of the modalities alone. The time interval between the administration of a bolus injection of CDDP and 131I-323/A3 had no effect on the extent of growth inhibition in OVCAR-3 xenografts. CONCLUSION: The addition of CDDP to 131I-323/A3 resulted in an additive inhibitory effect on the growth of CDDP-responsive xenografts. As the combination of radioimmunotherapy and CDDP was more effective in the inhibition of the tumor growth when compared with that of the MTD of each of the modalities alone, this treatment may therefore be considered of use in patients with ovarian cancer responsive to CDDP.

Animals↗

The additive factor method in rat information processing.

Sternberg introduced the additive factor method as a tool for discovering and studying in choice reaction time situations in human subjects. Underlying the method is the notion that if information processing consists of successive stages, then different factors affecting different stages must have additive effects on reaction-time measurements. The additive factor method has been extensively used in humans but few attempts have been made to examine whether or not additive reaction time patterns were obtainable in rats. In the present work, the subjects (13 Long-Evans rats) had to press down a lever and to respond to a visual (right or left) stimulus by releasing the lever and introducing the head into a lateral (right or left) operandum. The present findings show an additive pattern of effects of signal luminance and foreperiod duration on the mean reaction time which suggests that we have successfully manipulated two stages of rat information processing - the preprocessing stage and the motor adjustment stage, respectively. Accordingly, the present study sets the basis for the basis for investigating the effects of invasive manipulations (pharmacological and/or lesional) on information processing stages.

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Prediction of suitable amount of water addition for wet granulation.

The purpose of this study was to predict the amounts of water addition suitable for pharmaceutical formulations in wet granulation, using a high-speed mixer or a fluidized bed granulator, before granulation trials. In order to determine the suitable amount of water addition, each excipient was first subjected to kneading with water in a mortar and a refractive near-infrared moisture sensor (IR sensor) measured the amount of water at the powder surface. Further by analysis the plot (output value of the IR sensor vs. amount of added water) for each excipient, the amount of water addition for granulation was determined for it. As a second step, two model formulations were designed and suitable amounts of water for granulation were predicted by summation of the obtained excipient values. The predicted value was compared with the experimental value for high-speed mixer granulation. The predicted and experimental amounts of water addition corresponded for the two model formulations, suggesting that the above method is useful for estimating suitable amounts of addition of water for formulations before granulation trials.

Chemistry, Pharmaceutical↗

Effect of vigabatrin addition on carbamazepine blood serum levels in patients with epilepsy.

Because vigabatrin (VGB) is not metabolized by liver enzymes and does not bind with serum proteins, there is little theoretical chance of it interacting with other antiepileptic drugs. However, our observations have shown that if VGB is added to carbamazepine (CBZ) monotherapy, some patients respond with adverse, toxic symptoms suggesting possible carbamazepine-vigabatrin interaction. This article presents the results of a study of 66 epileptic patients (27 women and 39 men), age 10-66 years (mean, 28.2 years), with focal seizure onset with or without secondary generalization. In these patients, in addition to CBZ therapy with an average dose of 16.7 mg/kg per day (8.6-26.8), VGB, average dose 31.1 mg/kg per day (7.1-57.9), was added. CBZ concentration was measured twice: prior to VGB introduction and 5-12 weeks after the final dose of VGB was reached. In our study 69.7% of patients responded to VGB addition with a significant increase (by at least 10%) in CBZ concentration. A correlation between the value of the increase and the initial level of CBZ prior to VGB addition was found also. Correlational analysis (Pearson's r) revealed a negative correlation between CBZ concentration and increased concentration after VGB addition (r = -0.47, df = 64, P < 0.001). This negative correlation means that if the initial CBZ level is lower, its concentration value after VGB addition is higher.

Adolescent↗

Effects of addition of hydrophobic sucrose fatty acid oligoesters on crystallization rates of n-hexadecane in oil-in-water emulsions.

Ultrasonic velocity measurements were made on crystallization rates of n-hexadecane dispersed in an oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion (20 wt.% oil and 80 wt.% water) in which Tween 20 was employed for emulsification. Highly hydrophobic emulsifiers, sucrose fatty acid oligoesters involving stearic acid (S-170), lauric acid (L-195) and oleic acid (O-170) moieties, were added to n-hexadecane in an attempt to modify the crystallization rate of n-hexadecane. The crystallization process of n-hexadecane was monitored by variations in the ultrasonic velocity values, which increase with increasing amount of crystal fractions in the oil phase of the emulsion. In comparison with the results of the O/W emulsion systems with the additive P-170 (a sucrose palmitate) (N.Kaneko et al., J. Crystal Growth 197 (1999) 263), the following results were obtained: (a) the addition of S-170 accelerated the nucleation in the emulsion system in the same manner as P-170, no acceleration was revealed with the additive O-170, and L-195 showed moderate effects; (b) the rate of crystal growth was retarded by S-170 and L-195, but not by O-170; (c) the effects of acceleration of nucleation occurred singly in the emulsion system, but not in the bulk system; and (d) the acceleration of nucleation was exhibited through two stages with increasing concentrations of the additives. These results showed the remarkable influence of the fatty acid chain structures of sucrose oligoesters on the acceleration of heterogeneous nucleation of n-hexadecane in the O/W emulsions. The heterogeneous nucleation effected by the addition of S-170 and P-170 was discussed taking into account the adsorption at the oil-water interface and the formation of reversed micelles of the sucrose oligoesters added in the oil phase.

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Improved immunogold labeling of epoxy sections by the use of propylene oxide as additional agent in dehydration, infiltration and embedding.

The purpose of this study was to examine how the intensity of the immunogold labeling on epoxy sections was affected by the use of propylene oxide as an agent in addition to ethanol in the dehydration and infiltration, and also to examine the effect on the immunogold labeling by adding small amounts of propylene oxide to the embedding mixture. Increased knowledge of the mechanism for antigen detection on resin sections was another aim. Thyroid tissue, kidney tissue, and fibrin were embedded in epoxy resin; some with ethanol as the only dehydration agent and others with propylene oxide as an additional agent in dehydration, infiltration or embedding steps in different ways. Immunogold labeling was performed with anti-thyroglobulin, anti-IgG, and anti-fibrinogen, respectively. A higher degree of immunogold labeling was achieved by increasing the concentration of accelerator during infiltration and embedding (Brorson and Skjørten, 1996a, Micron, 27, 211-217). The immunogold labeling of the sections that were based on additional dehydration and infiltration with propylene oxide showed significantly more intense labeling than the sections of tissues that had only been exposed to ethanol in the dehydration and infiltration steps. The embedding of tissues in a mixture of epoxy resin and 5-10% propylene oxide gave higher yields of immunogold labeling than if pure epoxy resin was used for the embedding. The improved labeling is explained by higher amplitudes of protruding antigens on the surface of the sections because antigens are less tightly incorporated in the polymer network when using propylene oxide as additional agent in dehydration, infiltration or embedding. These results illustrate the advantage of using propylene oxide as an additional agent when preparing specimens for immunoelectron microscopy with epoxy resin embedding.

Animals↗

Roles for RNA in telomerase nucleotide and repeat addition processivity.

Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein reverse transcriptase with two subunits critical for catalytic activity, the protein telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and telomerase RNA. In this study, we establish additional roles of the telomerase RNA subunit by demonstrating that RNA motifs stimulate the processivity of nucleotide and repeat addition. These functions are both functionally and physically separable from the roles of other RNA motifs in establishing a properly defined template. Binding of Tetrahymena telomerase RNA stem IV to TERT enhances nucleotide addition processivity, while a cooperation of the RNA pseudoknot and stem IV promotes repeat addition processivity. The low processivity of DNA synthesis by telomerase ribonucleoproteins lacking the pseudoknot and/or stem IV can be rescued by addition of the deleted region in trans. These findings demonstrate RNA elements with roles in telomerase elongation processivity that are distinct from RNA elements that specify the internal template.

Amino Acid Motifs↗

Effects of glucose addition and light on current outputs in photosynthetic electrochemical cells using Synechocystis sp. PCC6714.

The effects of glucose addition and light on the current outputs in electrochemical cells using a cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6714 were investigated under photo- and chemoheterotrophical conditions. The addition of glucose to the anode solutions of the electrochemical cells resulted in a rapid increase in the current outputs under both light and dark conditions. Although the coulombic outputs were almost the same between under light and dark conditions, the rate of glucose consumption was faster under illumination than in the dark. The total sugar content in the cells of strain PCC6714 increased with the addition of glucose and the total sugar accumulated remained intact during the discharge under illumination, while it decreased gradually in the dark. When the light was switched off after the addition of glucose, the current output markedly increased. The coulombic outputs obtained after darkening were 10 to 80 times larger than that obtained by the addition of glucose under the continuous light or dark conditions. Synechocystis sp. completely incorporated 0.14 mM and 0.42 mM glucose for 1 h and 3 h, respectively, under illumination. There was no difference in the coulombic outputs between 1 h and 12 h illumination times in the electrochemical cells with 0.14 mM glucose. When the light was switched off after 1 h illumination in the electrochemical cells with 0.42 mM glucose, the coulombic output obtained from the electrochemical cell was lower than that in the electrochemical cell with 12 h illumination. This indicates that the current output was produced with higher efficiency with glucose incorporated under illumination than that in the case of glucose incorporated after darkening. The highest coulombic yield of 54% in this experiment was obtained by darkening in the electrochemical cell with 0.14 mM glucose.

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Neutral additive genetic variance in a metapopulation.

For neutral, additive quantitative characters, the amount of additive genetic variance within and among populations is predictable from Wright's FST, the effective population size and the mutational variance. The structure of quantitative genetic variance in a subdivided metapopulation can be predicted from results from coalescent theory, thereby allowing single-locus results to predict quantitative genetic processes. The expected total amount of additive genetic variance in a metapopulation of diploid individual is given by 2Ne sigma m2 (1 + FST), where FST is Wright's among-population fixation index, Ne is the eigenvalue effective size of the metapopulation, and sigma m2 is the mutational variance. The expected additive genetic variance within populations is given by 2Ne sigma e2(1-FST), and the variance among demes is given by 4FSTNe sigma m2. These results are general with respect to the types of population structure involved. Furthermore, the dimensionless measure of the quantitative genetic variance among populations, QST, is shown to be generally equal to FST for the neutral additive model. Thus, for all population structures, a value of QST greater than FST for neutral loci is evidence for spatially divergent evolution by natural selection.

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Michael addition-type 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal adducts in modified low-density lipoproteins: markers for atherosclerosis.

It has been proposed that plasma low-density lipoprotein (LDL) undergoes oxidative modification before it can give rise to foam cells in atherosclerosis. Oxidation of LDL generates a variety of reactive aldehyde products including 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal (HNE), which may covalently attach to the LDL apolipoproteins. We here present direct evidence that HNE derivatization of LDL forms Michael addition-type adducts of HNE with histidine and lysine residues of apolipoprotein B-100 (apoB) and also demonstrate the utility of an antibody specific to the HNE adducts generated in the LDL treated with HNE or oxidatively modified by Cu2+ or cultured endothelial cells. HNE adducts present in the LDL that had been treated with HNE were attested to be Michael addition-type adducts on the basis of the fact that incubation of LDL with 1 mM HNE (2 h, 37 degrees C) resulted primarily in the formation of Michael addition-type HNE-histidine (39.9 mol/mol of LDL) and HNE-lysine (19.3 mol/mol of LDL) adducts. An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and an SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE)/immunoblot analysis of HNE-modified LDL demonstrated that these HNE adducts were detectable with the HNE-specific antibody affinity-purified with the Michael adduct (HNE-histidine) as a ligand. The following lines of evidence indicated the presence of Michael addition-type HNE adducts in the oxidatively modified LDL in vitro: (i) Amino acid analysis of LDL that had been treated with Cu2+ (24 h, 37 degrees C) demonstrated the presence of a Michael addition-type HNE-histidine adduct (7-9 mol/mol of LDL).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Aldehydes↗

Requirement for an additional divalent metal cation to activate protein tyrosine kinases.

In addition to the magnesium ion needed to form the true phosphate-donating substrate (ATP-Mg complex), we have determined that at least one additional Mg2+ ion is essential for the activation of protein tyrosine kinases. This activation was investigated in detail using purified Csk, Src, and the fibroblast growth factor receptor kinase, which led to the following conclusions. (1) The catalytic activity of these kinases is dependent on the Mg2+ concentration present in the assay, approaching saturation at 5-8 mM MgCl2, while ATP was saturated at approximately 1 mM MgCl2. (2) Extrapolation to zero free Mg2+ at a constant ATP-Mg concentration predicts zero activity, suggesting that free magnesium ion in excess of that needed to bind to ATP is essential for the activation of these enzymes. (3) The free magnesium ion activates Csk and Src kinase activity by increasing the Vmax but does not change their apparent Km(ATP-Mg). In contrast, the free magnesium ion activates the fibroblast growth factor receptor kinase activity by increasing its Vmax and decreasing its apparent Km(ATP-Mg). These and previous studies with the insulin receptor tyrosine kinase suggest that receptor-type protein tyrosine kinases respond to the concentration of free Mg2+ differently than soluble protein tyrosine kinases. (4) With the phosphate-accepting substrate as the variable ligand, increases in the concentration of free Mg2+ resulted in increases in the apparent Vmax for all tyrosine kinases examined, but the apparent Km response is dependent on the enzyme and the substrate used. While these studies do not pinpoint a single kinetic mechanism, they do suggest that additional magnesium ion(s) is(are) an essential activator for protein tyrosine kinases in addition to being a part of the ATP-Mg complex. The difference among protein tyrosine kinases in their kinetic response to the additional divalent metal cation and the potential biological significance of such are discussed.

Adenosine Triphosphate↗

ADME evaluation in drug discovery. 2. Prediction of partition coefficient by atom-additive approach based on atom-weighted solvent accessible surface areas.

A novel method for the calculations of 1-octanol/water partition coefficient (log P) of organic molecules has been presented here. The method, SLOGP v1.0, estimates the log P values by summing the contribution of atom-weighted solvent accessible surface areas (SASA) and correction factors. Altogether 100 atom/group types were used to classify atoms with different chemical environments, and two correlation factors were used to consider the intermolecular hydrophobic interactions and intramolecular hydrogen bonds. Coefficient values for 100 atom/group and two correction factors have been derived from a training set of 1850 compounds. The parametrization procedure for different kinds of atoms was performed as follows: first, the atoms in a molecule were defined to different atom/group types based on SMARTS language, and the correction factors were determined by substructure searching; then, SASA for each atom/group type was calculated and added; finally, multivariate linear regression analysis was applied to optimize the hydrophobic parameters for different atom/group types and correction factors in order to reproduce the experimental log P. The correlation based on the training set gives a model with the correlation coefficient (r) of 0.988, the standard deviation (SD) of 0.368 log units, and the absolute unsigned mean error of 0.261. Comparison of various procedures of log P calculations for the external test set of 138 organic compounds demonstrates that our method bears very good accuracy and is comparable or even better than the fragment-based approaches. Moreover, the atom-additive approach based on SASA was compared with the simple atom-additive approach based on the number of atoms. The calculated results show that the atom-additive approach based on SASA gives better predictions than the simple atom-additive one. Due to the connection between the molecular conformation and the molecular surface areas, the atom-additive model based on SASA may be a more universal model for log P estimation especially for large molecules.

Drug Design↗

Enhanced contaminant desorption induced by phosphate mineral additions to sediment.

Apatite, Ca10(PO4)6(OH,F)2, has been successfully used as a soil amendment at numerous sites to immobilize metals and radionuclides. Such sites commonly contain multiple contaminants; the impact of apatite on these contaminants is expected to vary greatly. The objective of this study was to determine the influence of apatite on nontargeted sediment contaminants. Laboratory batch experiments were conducted under oxidized (several weekly wet/dry cycles) and reduced (water-saturated) conditions with a sediment collected from a wetland contaminated with numerous metals and radionuclides. Apatite additions resulted in the significant (p < or = 0.05) reduction of porewater Cd, Co, Hg, Pb, and U concentrations. However, apatite additions also resulted in the enhanced desorption of As, Se, and Th. Increases in porewater As and Se concentrations were the result of phosphate competitive exchange and not to the release of these contaminants directly from the apatite, which contained 29 mg kg(-1) As and 0.2 mg kg(-1) Se. Apatite additions increased porewater Th and organic C concentrations under oxidized (Eh = 497 mV) but not reduced (Eh = 65 mV) conditions. In the oxidized system, the leachate from the apatite treatment had a brown coloration and contained 226 mg L(-1) organic C, as compared to 141 mg L(-1) in the unamended samples. The desorbed organic C likely contained significant quantities of Th. This conclusion was supported by (i) the observation that porewater Th partitioned to hydrophobic resins, (ii) thermodynamic calculations which predicted that essentially all porewater Th existed as organic matter complexes, and (iii) there were significant correlations (r = 0.91, n = 8, p < or = 0.01) between porewater organic C and Th concentrations. Sediment additions of zero-valent iron particles along with the apatite eliminated the enhanced desorption of As, Se, and Th observed when only apatite was added. This study underscores the importance of monitoring the influence of sediment amendments on nontarget contaminants and provides examples of how the sediment additions of apatite can effectively immobilize some contaminants while enhancing the mobility of others.

Apatites↗

Exploring the influence of granular iron additives on 1,1,1-trichloroethane reduction.

Bimetallic reductants are frequently more reactive toward organohalides than unamended iron and can also alter product distributions, yet a molecular-level explanation for these phenomena remains elusive. In this study, surface characterization of six iron-based bimetallic reductants (Au/Fe, Co/Fe, Cu/Fe, Ni/Fe, Pd/Fe, and Pt/Fe) revealed that displacement plating produced a non-uniform overlayer of metallic additive on iron. Batch studies demonstrated that not all additives enhanced rates of 1,1,1-trichloroethane (1,1,1-TCA) reduction nor was there any clear periodic trend in the observed reactivity (Ni/Fe approximately Pd/Fe > Cu/Fe > Co/ Fe > Au/Fe approximately Fe > Pt/Fe). Pseudo-first-order rate constants for 1,1,1-TCA reduction (kobs values) did, however, correlate closely with the solubility of atomic hydrogen within each additive. This suggests absorbed atomic hydrogen, rather than galvanic corrosion, is responsible for the enhanced reactivity of bimetallic reductants. In addition, all additives shifted product distributions to favor the combined yield of ethylene plus ethane over 1,1-dichloroethane. In rate-enhancing bimetallic systems, branching ratios between 1,1-dichloroethane and the combination of ethylene and ethane were uniquely dependent on kobs values, indicating an intimate link between rate-determining and product-determining steps. We propose that our results are best explained by an X-philic pathway involving atomic hydrogen with a hydride-like character.

Chromatography, Gas↗

Key factors determining the course of methyl iodide oxidative addition to diamidonaphthalene-bridged diiridium(I) and dirhodium(I) complexes.

The course of methyl iodide oxidative addition to various nucleophilic complexes, [Ir2(mu-1,8-(NH)2naphth)(CO)2(PiPr3)2] (1), [IrRh(mu-1,8-(NH)2naphth)(CO)2(PiPr3)2] (2), and [Rh2(mu-1,8-(NH)2naphth)(CO)2(PR3)2] (R = iPr, 3; Ph, 4; p-tolyl, 5; Me, 6), has been investigated. The CH3I addition to complex 1 readily affords the diiridium(II) complex [Ir2(mu-1,8-(NH)2naphth)I(CH3)(CO)2(PiPr3)2] (7), which undergoes slow rearrangement to give a thermodynamically stable stereoisomer, 8. The reaction of the Ir-Rh complex 2 gives the ionic compound [IrRh(mu-1,8-(NH)2naphth)(CH3)(CO)2(PiPr3)2]I (10). The dirhodium compounds, 3-5, undergo one-center additions to yield acyl complexes of the formula (Rh2(mu-1,8-(NH)2naphth)I(COCH3)(CO)(PR3)2] (R = iPr, 12; Ph, 13; p-tolyl, 14). The structure of 12 has been determined by X-ray diffraction. Further reactions of these Rh(III)-Rh(I) acyl derivatives with CH3I are productive only for the p-tolylphosphine derivative, which affords the bis-acyl complex [Rh2(mu-1,8-(NH)2naphth)(CH3CO)2I2(P(p-tolyl)3)2] (15). The reaction of the PMe3 derivative, 6, allows the isolation of the bis-methyl complex [Rh2(mu-1,8-(NH)2naphth)(mu-I)(CH3)2(CO)2(PMe3)2]I (16a), which emanates from a double one-center addition. Upon reaction with methyl triflate, the starting materials, 1, 2, 3, and 6, give the isostructural cationic methyl complexes 9, 11, 17, and 18, respectively. The behavior of these cationic methyl compounds toward CH3I, CH3OSO2CF3, and tetrabutylamonium iodide is consistent with the role of these species as intermediates in the SN2 addition of CH3I. Compounds 18 and 17 react with an excess of methyl triflate to give [Rh2(mu-1,8-(NH)2naphth)(mu-OSO2CF3)(CH3)2(CO)2(PMe3)2][CF3SO3] (19) and [Rh2(mu-1,8-(NH)2naphth)(OSO2CF3)(COCH3)(CH3)(CO)(PiPr3)2][CF3SO3] (20), respectively. Upon treatment with acetonitrile, complexes 17 and 18 give the isostructural cationic acyl complexes [Rh2(mu-1,8-(NH)2naphth)(COCH3)(NCCH3)(CO)(PR3)2][CF3SO3] (R = iPr, 21; Me, 22). A kinetic study of the reaction leading to 21 shows that formation of these complexes involves a slow insertion step followed by the fast coordination of the acetonitrile. The variety of reactions found in this system can be rationalized in terms of three alternative reaction pathways, which are determined by the effectiveness of the interactions between the two metal centers of the dinuclear complex and by the steric constraints due to the phosphine ligands.

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Dinuclear oxidative addition of N-H and S-H bonds at chromium. Reaction of (*)Cr(CO)(3)(C(5)Me(5)) with [o-(HA)C(6)H(4)S-Cr(CO)(3)(C(5)Me(5))] (A = S, NH) yielding [eta(2)-o-(mu-A)C(6)H(4)S-Cr(C(5)Me(5))](2) and H-Cr(CO)(3)(C(5)Me(5)).

Reaction of the 17-electron radical (*)Cr(CO)(3)Cp* (Cp* = C(5)Me(5)) with 0.5 equiv of 2-aminophenyl disulfide [(o-H(2)NC(6)H(4))(2)S(2)] results in rapid oxidative addition to form the initial product (o-H(2)N)C(6)H(4)S-Cr(CO)(3)Cp*. Addition of a second equivalent of (*)Cr(CO)(3)Cp* to this solution results in the formation of H-Cr(CO)(3)Cp* as well as (1)/(2)[[eta(2)-o-(mu-NH)C(6)H(4)S]CrCp*](2). Spectroscopic data show that (o-H(2)N)C(6)H(4)S-Cr(CO)(3)Cp* loses CO to form [eta(2)-(o-H(2)N)C(6)H(4)S]Cr(CO)(2)Cp*. Attack on the N-H bond of the coordinated amine by (*)Cr(CO)(3)Cp* provides a reasonable mechanism consistent with the observation that both chelate formation and oxidative addition of the N-H bond are faster under argon than under CO atmosphere. The N-H bonds of uncoordinated aniline do not react with (*)Cr(CO)(3)Cp*. Reaction of the 2 mol of (*)Cr(CO)(3)Cp* with 1,2-benzene dithiol [1,2-C(6)H(4)(SH)(2)] yields the initial product (o-HS)C(6)H(4)S-Cr(CO)(3)Cp and 1 mol of H-Cr(CO)(3)Cp*. Addition of 1 equiv more of (*)Cr(CO)(3)Cp to this solution also results in the formation of 1 equiv of H-Cr(CO)(3)Cp*, as well as the dimeric product (1)/(2)[[eta(2)-o-(mu-S)C(6)H(4)S]CrCp*](2). This reaction also occurs more rapidly under Ar than under CO, consistent with intramolecular coordination of the second thiol group prior to oxidative addition. The crystal structures of [[eta(2)-o-(mu-NH)C(6)H(4)S]CrCp*](2) and [[eta(2)-o-(mu-S)C(6)H(4)S]CrCp*](2) are reported.

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