• Macromolecular Research
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.19-24
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• 2003

Polymeric gene delivery system attracts profound attention as it shows less toxicity, versatility, and reasonable gene expression efficiency. Terplex system, a synthetic biopolymeric gene delivery system consisting of stearyl poly-L-lysine (stearyl-PLL) and low density lipoprotein (LDL) was evaluated for its body distribution of gene expression of exogenously administered pDNA after tail-vein injection in mice. Kidney and spleen are two major organs with highest gene expression, whereas liver and heart showed marginal gene expression among the organs examined. Hemolytic effect of the terplex system was evaluated using human red blood cells, where terplex system did not cause significant hemolysis at the concentrations above the experimental ranges, although unmodified PLL or stearyl-PLL without LDL did. Serum stability of terplex system against enzymatic degradation was also significantly enhanced, presumably due to the steric stabilization from the polymers. Based on these findings and along with its high in vitro transfection efficiency, terplex system could serve as a safe and efficient polymeric gene delivery system with many applications for the in vivo gene therapy.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.75-78
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• 1980

The interactions of iodine with toluidines (o-, m-, and p-) and N-methyltoluidines (o-, m-, and p-) in $CCl_4$ solution have been investigated through spectrophotometric measurements. The results indicate that toluidines and N-methyltoluidines form the one-to-one charge-transfer complexes with $I_2$ in solution. By comparing the values of the formation constants of the complexes, it is concluded that the relative stabilities of the $I_2$-amine complexes decrease in the following orders: p-toluidine >m-toluidine >aniline >o-toluidine, N-methyl-p-toluidine >N-methyl-m-toluidine >N-methylaniline >N-methyl-o-toluidine, N-methyltoluidines >toluidines. These results can be explained by the electron-releasing character and the steric effect of methyl group in the amine molecules.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.415-420
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• 1990

A series of copolymers of poly(1,4-phenylenevinylene-co-2,3,5,6-tetramethyl- 1,4-phenylenevinylene), poly(PV-co-TMPV), were prepared in film forms from the precursor polymer films. The sulfonium salt precursor polymers were synthesized by copolymerization of the mixtures of the respective bis(sulfonium salt) monomers. All of the copolymer films could be doped with $FeCl_3$ to have high electrical conductivities and they showed good air stability. The maximum conductivity of the $FeCl_3$-doped films ranged $10^{-3}\;to\;10^2Scm^{-1}$ depending on the composition of the copolymer films. However, these copolymer films could not be doped with iodine. The coplanarity of PV and TMPV units in the main chain appears to be affected by steric effect of the methyl groups in the TMPV units.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.478-483
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• 1994

Reactions of alkenes and alkynes with thexylhaloborane-methyl sulfide (ThxBHX${\cdot}$SMe$_2$, X= Cl, Br, I) were investigated in detail in order to elucidate the effect of halogen substituent in thexylborane and hence establish their usefulness as hydroborating agent. The reagents readily hydroborated alkenes at $50^{circ}C$and alkynes at $25^{circ}C$ in exceptional regioselectivity. Especially, the selectivity achieved by the bromo and iodo derivative reaches essentially 100%. In addition to that, $ThxBHX{\cdot}SMe_2$ was applied to the reduction of cyclic ketones to examine its stereoselectivity. The halogen substituent in thexylborane plays an important role in the stereoselective reduction. The stereoselectivity increased dramatically with increasing steric size of the substituent. Finally, the iodo derivative achieved highly stereoselective reduction, such selectivity being comparable to that previously achieved with trialkylborohydrides.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.560-564
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• 1991

The gas-phase pyrolysis reactions of iminoethers (Ⅱ), 2-alkoxypyridines (Ⅲ), 2-N-alkylated pyridones (Ⅳ) and N-alkylated acetamides (Ⅴ) have been studied MO theoretically with the AM1 method. The decomposition of these compounds proceeds by a concerted retro-ene process through a six-membered cyclic transition state. The reactivity decreases in the order (Ⅱ) > (Ⅲ) > (Ⅳ) > (Ⅴ), with a greater reactivity for the imine series, (Ⅱ) and (Ⅲ), compared to the amide series, (Ⅳ) and (Ⅴ), and a difference in basicity between the N and O atoms. Within a given series, however, the reactivity is dictated mainly by the aromaticity in the transition state. The reactivity order with respect to side alkyl chain of a species was found to increase as the steric crowding effect increases. The AM1 reactivity in this work agree well with the experimental results.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.243-249
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• 1998

The reaction of alcohol with a solution of thexylborane (ThxBH2) in tetrahydrofuran (THF) provides a new class of mild and selective reducing agents, thexylalkoxyboranes (ThxBHOR: R=Et, i-Pr, i-Bu, s-Bu, t-Bu, Ph). In order to elucidate the effect of the alkoxy group in reduction reactions, the reducing power of ThxBHOR toward selected organic compounds containing representative functional groups under practical conditions (THF, 25°, the quantitative amount of reagent to compound) has been investigated. Generally, the reactivity of ThxBHOR is largely dependent upon the alkoxy substituent. ThxBHOR can be synthesized from a variety of alcohols, thus allowing control of the steric and electronic environment of these reagents.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.289-293
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• 1986

The photocycloaddition reactivity of 5,7-dimethoxycoumarin (DMC) to thymidine is much higher than that of cis-syn 8-methoxypsoralen $<\array{4^{\prime},5\\5^{\prime},6}>$ thymidine monoadducts, due to the steric effect. The different rate is also due to the relative reactivity of the singlet rather than the triplet excited state of the compounds. The biadducts of 8-methoxypsoralen and thymidine are first splitted into 4',5'-monoadducts and thymidine, not into 3,4'-monoadducts and thymidine by 254 nm light.

• 한국해양학회지
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.22-30
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• 1985

The mean sea level(MSL) along the coast of Korea is high in summer and low in winter, mainly due to the inverse barometric effect and the steric departure. The MSL associated with the inverse barometric effect is spatially uniform and has an amplitude of 8.5$\pm$0.8cm. The thermal departure, with amplitude of 4~8cm, is most dominant in the Yellow Sea. The MSL in the South Sea of Korea is strongly affected by the haline departure, which has an amplitude up to 5cm. The annual range of MSL along the western and eastern coasts of Korea are about 40 and 20cm, respectively. The spatial inhomogeneity of the annual range of MSL arises mainly due to the influence of the Asian monsoon, which amplifies (weakens) the annual MSL along the western (eastern) coast of Korea.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.31 no.9
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• pp.2613-2617
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• 2010

Chloroprene is a chlorine substituent of 1,3-butadiene. Butadiene rubber (BR) and chloroprene rubber (CR) composites were thermally aged at 60, 70, 80, and $90^{\circ}C$ for 2 - 185 days in a convection oven and changes of the crosslink densities by the accelerated thermal aging were investigated. The crosslink densities increased as the aging time elapsed and as the aging temperature became higher. Degrees of the crosslink density changes of the BR composite were on the whole larger than those of the CR one except the short-term thermal aging at 60 and $70^{\circ}C$. The crosslink densities abnormally increased after themal aging at high temperatures for a long time. Activation energies for the crosslink density changes of the rubber composites tended to increase with increase of the aging time and the variation showed a local minimum. The activation energies of the CR composite were lower than those of the BR one. The experimental results were explained with a role of ligand of chlorine atom of CR in a zinc complex, steric hindrance by chlorine atom of CR, and oxidation of rubber chain.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.79-84
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• 2009

Understanding the polymer adsorption in particle/binder/solvent system is important to achieve successful film products. While most of the reported work has dealt with the suspension microstructure, a few studies have focused on film formation. We investigated the effect of adsorption on film formation through measurement of adsorption amount in suspension and stress development in drying film with respect to mixing time ($t_m$). All of the adsorption amount (PVA), characteristic stress ($\sigma_{ch}$) exhibited similarities expressed by the form of $1-e^{t_m/{\tau}}$. The porous and non-unifonn dried film at short tm became close-packed and uniform with longer $t_m$. We found that polymer adsorption plays the key role in film fonnation as it introduces steric repulsion in suspension and suppresses the flocculation during solvent evaporation. We also found that the mixing time for the saturated polymer adsorption is the important variable to acquire the consolidated and uniform film microstructure.