Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Yuzhong Wang.
Reaction of RLi with lead(II) bromide affords the diaryl lead(II) compounds PbR2 (R1 = 2,4,6-triphenylphenyl, 1; R2 = 2,6-bis(1'-naphthyl)phenyl, 2), which have monomeric, carbene-like structures with bent two-coordinate Pb(II) centers.
Potassium reduction of RZn(mu-I)2Li(OEt2)2 (R = [{(2,6-Pri2C6H3)N(Me)C}2CH]) affords the second compound with a Zn-Zn bond, RZn-ZnR. The air- and moisture-sensitive title compound was characterized by 1H NMR, elemental analyses, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The Zn-Zn bond was determined to be 2.3586(7) A; this value is only about 0.05 A longer than the Zn-Zn bond reported for Cp*Zn-ZnCp* (Cp* = C5Me5), the first reported compound with a Zn-Zn bond. In addition, density functional theory (DFT) computations on related model RZn-ZnR compounds provide insight into the intriguing Zn-Zn bond.
The zirconocene-complexed dibismuthene, Cp2Zr(BiR)2 (Cp = C5H5; R = C6H3-2,6-Mes2), was prepared by the reaction of sodium metal with Cp2ZrCl2 and RBiCl2. The air- and moisture-sensitive dark reddish/brown compound is the first organometallic compound containing Bi-Zr bonds and the only example of a ZrBi2 ring. Moreover, our computations on associated model systems offer insight into the nature of the interaction of the heaviest dipnictene with a metallocene center.
Urinary Iodine has been widely regarded as a biochemical marker for control of iodine deficiency disorders. Based on the Sandell-Kolthoff reaction, most colorimetric assay methods for urinary iodine (UI) determination that have been developed require pretreatment of urine sample. The non-Sandell-Kolthoff methods for UI assay provide alternative approaches for UI assay requiring only simple pretreatment or even without pretreatment. The selective ionophore-based iodide electrodes are highly applicable to the UI assay for large population due to their high selectivity and sensitivity to iodide, amenability to automation and ease of miniaturization. In this report, different assay methods are reviewed, including pretreatment procedures for Sandell-Kolthoff UI analysis. Finally, a summary of the state-of-the-art of the iodide ionophore-based ISEs that are suitable for UI assays are addressed.
Tongue diagnosis is one of the essential methods of traditional Chinese medical diagnosis. The accuracy of tongue diagnosis can be improved by tongue characterization. Tongue area segmentation and homogeneous regions segmentation in tongue are important contents of preprocess of tongue image. An algorithm based on edge detection and Gradient vector flow (GVF) active contour for tongue area segmentation and another algorithm based on unsupervised segmentation of color-texture for homogeneous regions segmentation in tongue were presented. Totally about 1500 tongue images were collected. Results of tongue area segmentation achieved accuracy rate of 94.3% and results of homogeneous regions segmentation in tongue were approved by traditional Chinese medical experts. The experiments results show robustness of the algorithms. This work establishes solid foundation for feature selecting of Tongue diagnosis.
Reaction of lead(II) chloride with biphenylmagnesium bromide yields Bp(3)Pb-PbBp(3) and [(THF)(3)Mg(mu-Cl)(3)Mg(THF)(3)][Pb(PbBp(3))(3)](Bp = biphenyl), which, upon single crystal X-ray crystallographic analysis, reveals an interesting variation of Pb-Pb bond distances.