Imaging properties of optical scanning holography and an aberration compensation filter.

We propose a numerical technique that analyses the imaging properties of optical scanning holography (OSH) constructed using real optical components in a real optical alignment situation. Using the proposing technique, we analyze the aberrations and the vulnerability of the OSH about the optical alignment. After that, we propose a digital filter that compensates the aberrations of the OSH.

Selective tuning of activity in a multifunctional enzyme as revealed in the F21W mutant of dehaloperoxidase B from Amphitrite ornata.

Possessing both peroxidase and peroxygenase activities with a broad substrate profile that includes phenols, indoles, and pyrroles, the enzyme dehaloperoxidase (DHP) from Amphitrite ornata is a multifunctional catalytic hemoglobin that challenges many of the assumptions behind the well-established structure-function paradigm in hemoproteins. While previous studies have demonstrated that the F21W variant leads to attenuated peroxidase activity in DHP, here we have studied the impact of this mutation on peroxygenase activity to determine if it is possible to selectively tune DHP to favor one function over another. Biochemical assays with DHP B (F21W) revealed minimal decreases in peroxygenase activity of 1.

A highly selective quinoline-based fluorescent sensor for Zn(II).

A quinoline-based simple receptor (bis(2-quinolinylmethyl)benzylamine = 1) as a Zn(2+) selective fluorescent chemosensor showed a large fluorescent enhancement with a blue shift in the presence of Zn(2+) which is attributed to a chelation enhanced fluorescence (CHEF) effect with inhibition of a photoinduced electron transfer (PET) process of 1. In particular, this receptor could clearly distinguish Zn(2+) from Cd(2+). The binding mode of 1 and Zn(2+) was found to be a 1:1 and confirmed by Job plot, (1)H NMR titration and ESI-mass spectrometry analysis.

A cap-type Schiff base acting as a fluorescence sensor for zinc(II) and a colorimetric sensor for iron(II), copper(II), and zinc(II) in aqueous media.

A simple and low cost chemosensor is described. This sensor could simultaneously detect three biologically important metal ions through fluorogenic (Zn(2+)) and chromogenic (Fe(2+), Cu(2+), and Zn(2+)) methods in aqueous solution. The sensor could function as a "turn-on" fluorescence receptor only to Zn(2+) ions.

5-Carbamoyl-2-methyl-1-(2-methyl-benz-yl)pyridinium bromide.

In the title mol-ecular salt, C(15)H(17)N(2)O(+)·Br(-), the benzene and pyridinium rings form a dihedral angle of 83.0 (1)°. In the crystal, N-H⋯Br and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the components into chains along [010].

3-Carbamoyl-1-(2-nitrobenzyl)pyridin-ium bromide.

In the title compound, C(13)H(12)N(3)O(3) (+)·Br(-), the benzene and pyridinium rings form a dihedral angle of 82.0 (1)°. In the crystal, N-H⋯Br and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the components into chains along [001].