Determination of the Constants of Formation of Complexes of Iron(III) and acetohydroxamic acid

640 Pages·2011·42.08 MB·English

by  Mizutani

APPLICATION OF
THERMODYNAMICS
TO BIOLOGICAL AND
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Edited by Tadashi Mizutani
Application of Thermodynamics to Biological and Materials Science
Edited by Tadashi Mizutani
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Contents
Preface IX
Part 1 Application of Thermodynamics
to Biology and Medicine 1
Chapter 1 Thermodynamics of Protein Structure
Formation and Function 3
Dan W. Urry
Chapter 2 Thermodynamics of Natural
and Synthetic Inhibitor Binding to Human Hsp90 77
Vilma Petrikaitė and Daumantas Matulis
Chapter 3 Enthalpy, Entropy, and Volume Changes of Electron
Transfer Reactions in Photosynthetic Proteins 93
Harvey J.M. Hou
Chapter 4 Thermodynamics of Supramolecular
Structure Formation in Water 111
Tadashi Mizutani
Chapter 5 Role and Applications of Electrostatic
Effects on Nucleic Acid Conformational
Transitions and Binding Processes 129
Jeff D. Ballin and Gerald M. Wilson
Chapter 6 Tandem DNA Repeats: Generation and Propagation in the
Microgene Polymerization Reaction and in vivo 175
Mark Itsko, Eitan Ben-Dov,
Avinoam Rabinovitch and Arieh Zaritsky
Chapter 7 The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Host-tumor
Relationships: Concepts and Opportunities 203
Joseph Molnar, Zoltán G. Varga,
Elysia Thornton-Benko and Barry S. Thornton
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Chapter 8 Thermodynamics of the Heart 227
Uehara, Mituo and Sakane, Kumiko Koibuchi
Chapter 9 The Protein Surface as a Thermodynamic Frontier:
A Fractal Approache 243
Mariana Pereyra and Eduardo Méndez
Chapter 10 Biomimetics - Thermodynamics
to Study Wetting of Self-Cleaning Surfaces 259
Erwin Hüger, Jürgen Rost, Marion Frant,
Gerhard Hildebrand, and Klaus Liefeith
Chapter 11 Thermodynamics of Self-Assembly 289
L. Magnus Bergström
Chapter 12 Thermodynamics and Mesomechanics of Nanostructural
Transitions in Biological Membranes as Liquid Crystals 315
Lev Panin
Chapter 13 Adsorption Profiles and Solvation
of Ions at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces and Membranes 355
William Kung, Francisco J. Solis and Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Part 2 Application of Thermodynamics to Chemistry,
Solid State Physics and Materials Science 371
Chapter 14 Calorimetric: A Tecnique Useful
in Characterization of Porous Solid 373
Juan Carlos Moreno and Liliana Giraldo
Chapter 15 Dissociation Energies
of O−H Bonds of Phenols and Hydroperoxides 405
Denisov Evgeny and Denisova Taisa
Chapter 16 Determination of the Constants of Formation of
Complexes of Iron(III) and Acetohydroxamic Acid 441
Fabrice PL Andrieux, Colin Boxall and Robin J Taylor
Chapter 17 Obtaining Thermodynamic Properties and Fluid Phase
Equilibria without Experimental Measurements 459
Lin, Shiang-Tai and Hsieh, Chieh-Ming
Chapter 18 Complex Fluid Phase Equilibrium
Modeling and Calculations 483
Gholamreza Vakili-Nezhaad
Chapter 19 Thermodynamics of Viscodielectric Materials 513
R. Díaz-Calleja and E. Riande
Contents VII
Chapter 20 Volatile Precursors for Films Deposition:
Vapor Pressure, Structure and Thermodynamics 521
Igor K. Igumenov, Tamara V. Basova and Vladimir R. Belosludov
Chapter 21 Thermochemistry and Kinetics of the Reactions
of Apatite Phosphates with Acid Solutions 547
Mohamed Jemal
Chapter 22 The Sintering Behaviour of Fe-Mn-C Powder System,
Correlation between Thermodynamics and Sintering
Process, Manganese Distribution and Microstructure
Composition, Effect of Alloying Mode 573
Eduard Hryha and Eva Dudrova
Chapter 23 Molecular-dynamics Calculation
of Nanostructures Thermodynamics.
Research of Impurities Influence on Results 603
Igor Golovnev, Elena Golovneva and Vasily Fomin

Preface
Studies on effi ciency of thermal machines in the nineteenth century lead to the great
discovery of entropy and the second law of thermodynamics. Classical and quantum
statistical mechanics then emerged and thermodynamics played an important role in
bridging between the properties of microscopic particles such as molecules and the
properties of the macroscopic objects. Therefore, thermodynamics is a powerful tool
for all scientists/engineers working in the fi eld of biological science, chemistry, and
materials science. Thermodynamics is more powerful when it covers irreversible pro-
cesses and non-equilibrium systems, because important biological functions and ma-
terials functions arise from the non-equilibrium dynamic irreversible behaviour.
The fi rst section of the book treats various applications of thermodynamics to biologi-
cal studies. Recent progress in biology and molecular biology allowed us to visualise
the structures of complex macromolecules. By using thermodynamic analysis, we can
understand molecular mechanisms of a number of biological functions such as enzy-
matic catalysis, signal transduction, and gene duplication. In particular, the behaviours
of solvents and electrolytes and their important contributions to the equilibria and
kinetics are diffi cult to clarify by use of structural analysis, while the thermodynamic
analysis is a powerful tool for quantitative evaluation. Protein structure, ligand bind-
ing to proteins, nucleic acid conformation/binding/reactions are described in detail.
Cells and organs are also subjects of thermodynamic analysis, and cancer cell activity
and the function of the heart are studied by use of thermodynamics. Structure and
dynamics of interfaces, mesomechanics of biological membranes, and lyotropic liquid
crystals of biological importance are discussed.
The topics of the second section are related to materials science and technology. Gas
absorption and fi lm formation on the solid surface are studied by a calorimetric equip-
ment and thermodynamic analysis. Chemical equilibria and fl uid phase equilibria are
discussed. In the fi elds of ceramics and metallurgy, equilibria and phases of ceramics
and metal alloys are described. Extended irreversible thermodynamics was applied to
analyse the non-equilibrium behaviour of viscodielectric materials.

All these chapters demonstrate that thermodynamics is a useful tool to analyse biolog-
ical functions, materials properties, and the process to fabricate materials. Similarities
between biological functions and materials functions are obvious when viewed from
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the thermodynamic point. Readers can see how useful thermodynamics is in biological
science, materials science and the interdisciplinary research.
Tadashi Mizutani
Doshisha University, Kyoto
Japan