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Polyaspartate is an excellent Pb2+-binding agent in comparison with some polyaspartamide derivatives with different side chains, in that it possesses a higher Pb2+ uptake and a lower Pb2+ equilibrium concentration. Equilibrium sorption data for Pb2+ on polyaspartate can be well fitted with the Freundlich and Langmuir models. Experimental results show that a crosslinked polyaspartate hydrogel is superior to poly(acrylic acid)-based resins and polystyrene-based chelating resins. IR spectra and X-ray photoelectron spectra reveal that the polyaspartate hydrogel binds Pb2+ by both an ion-exchange mechanism and a chelating mechanism. The polyaspartate hydrogel is also an effective agent for the removal of Pb2+ from glycyrrhizin. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 97: 2215–2220, 2005

A sequential one-pot two-step tandem reaction for efficient synthesis of polysubstituted cyclopropanes has been developed. The three-component reaction of α-halogenated methylene compounds, aromatic aldehydes, and acetonitrile derivatives produced first the intermediates pyridinium salts and electron-deficient olefins, followed by cyclopropanation of pyridinium ylide with electron-deficient olefins in situ to afford polysubstituted cyclopropanes. Target compounds were obtained in high yields and were diastereomerically pure after recrystallization.

Polysubstituted pyrido[1,2-a]benzimidazole derivatives are efficiently produced in moderate yields in a novel one-pot, four-component reaction from pyridine or 3-picoline, chloroacetonitrile, malononitrile, and aromatic aldehyde in refluxing acetonitrile. The mechanism of this novel reaction was believed involving the formation of polysubstituted benzenes with subsequent substitution and annulation reaction of pyridine. All pyrido[1,2-a]benzimidazoles, polysubstituted benzenes, polysubstituted indoles, and some key reaction intermediates are characterized by 1H and 13C NMR, MS, IR spectra, and elemental analysis as well as X-ray crystallography.