An Acyl-NHC Osmium Cooperative System: Coordination of Small Molecules and Heterolytic B–H and O–H Bond Activation

The hexahydride complex OsH6(PiPr3)2 (1) activates the C–OMe bond of 1-(2-methoxy-2-oxoethyl)-3-methylimidazolium chloride (2), in addition to promoting the direct metalation of the imidazolium group, to afford a five-coordinate OsCl(acyl-NHC)(PiPr3)2 (3) compound. The latter coordinates carbon monoxide, oxygen, and molecular hydrogen to give the corresponding carbonyl (4), dioxygen (5), and dihydrogen (6) derivatives. Complex 3 also promotes the heterolytic bond activation of pinacolborane (HBpin), using the acyl oxygen atom as a pendant Lewis base. The hydride ligand and the Bpin substituent of the Fischer-type carbene of the resulting complex 7 activate the O–H bond of alcohols and water. As a consequence, complex 3 is a metal ligand cooperating catalyst for the generation of molecular hydrogen, by means of both the alcoholysis and hydrolysis of pinacolborane, via the intermediates 7 and 6.

Semivolatile and Volatile Compound Evolution during Pyrolysis and Combustion of Colombian Coffee Husk

Thermal characterization of coffee husk (Coffea arabica) from Colombian coffee has been studied. Different products, mostly volatile and semivolatile compounds, were analyzed, paying special attention to 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) classified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) as priority pollutants, frequently used for checking toxicity in environmental samples. A fixed amount of raw material was exposed to different excess air ratios (λ = 0–2.33) and nominal temperature of 1123 K in a horizontal quartz reactor. The results show that coffee husk is a promising biomass for energetic exploitation with reduced formation of PAHs in a low air excess ratio. This implies reduction of carcinogenic potential in the limited presence of oxygen, demonstrated by calculating the carcinogenic potential (KE) for each experimental condition. Most volatile and semivolatile compounds followed different trends, with the oxygen presence prevailing their decomposition with increasing the air excess ratio.

Analisi del ciclo di lavorazione di un compound polimerico

La tesi riguarda il ciclo di lavorazione di un compound polimerico realizzato dall'impresa forlivese So.F.Ter. . Il prodotto in esame, Polifor E 30 TR/20 UV Nero, è un tecnopolimero a base di polipropilene utilizzato nel settore dell'automobile per la realizzazione del fascione sottoporta e del passaruota. La tesi si sviluppa su tre capitoli attraverso i quali si descrivono, nel primo capitolo, le materie plastiche in generale e i prodotti realizzati dall'impresa, nel secondo capitolo il ciclo di lavorazione completo partendo dalla fase di miscelazione arrivando all'estrusione e al taglio nei granuli plastici. Infine nel terzo capitolo si rappresentano le analisi fisiche, meccaniche e termiche realizzate in laboratorio.

Screening of the Open Source Malaria Box Reveals an Early Lead Compound for the Treatment of Alveolar Echinococcosis.

The metacestode (larval) stage of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis causes alveolar echinococcosis (AE), a very severe and in many cases incurable disease. To date, benzimidazoles such as albendazole and mebendazole are the only approved chemotherapeutical treatment options. Benzimidazoles inhibit metacestode proliferation, but do not act parasiticidal. Thus, benzimidazoles have to be taken a lifelong, can cause adverse side effects such as hepatotoxicity, and are ineffective in some patients. We here describe a newly developed screening cascade for the evaluation of the in vitro efficacy of new compounds that includes assessment of parasiticidal activity. The Malaria Box from Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), comprised of 400 commercially available chemicals that show in vitro activity against Plasmodium falciparum, was repurposed. Primary screening was carried out at 10 μM by employing the previously described PGI assay, and resulted in the identification of 24 compounds that caused physical damage in metacestodes. Seven out of these 24 drugs were also active at 1 μM. Dose-response assays revealed that only 2 compounds, namely MMV665807 and MMV665794, exhibited an EC50 value below 5 μM. Assessments using human foreskin fibroblasts and Reuber rat hepatoma cells showed that the salicylanilide MMV665807 was less toxic for these two mammalian cell lines than for metacestodes. The parasiticidal activity of MMV665807 was then confirmed using isolated germinal layer cell cultures as well as metacestode vesicles by employing viability assays, and its effect on metacestodes was morphologically evaluated by electron microscopy. However, both oral and intraperitoneal application of MMV665807 to mice experimentally infected with E. multilocularis metacestodes did not result in any reduction of the parasite load.

Identification and characterization of GABA, proline and quaternary ammonium compound transporters from Arabidopsis thaliana

Arabidopsis thaliana grows efficiently on GABA as the sole nitrogen source, thereby providing evidence for the existence of GABA transporters in plants. Heterologous complementation of a GABA uptake-deficient yeast mutant identified two previously known plant amino acid transporters, AAP3 and ProT2, as GABA transporters with Michaelis constants of 12.9±1.7 and 1.7±0.3 mM at pH 4, respectively. The simultaneous transport of [1-14C]GABA and [2,3-3H]proline by ProT2 as a function of pH, provided evidence that the zwitterionic state of GABA is an important parameter in substrate recognition. ProT2-mediated [1-14C]GABA transport was inhibited by proline and quaternary ammonium compounds.

Special occupational hazard review and control recommendations for nickel carbonyl /

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Tables of compound interest and annuities; 48 rates, proceeding by intervals of one-sixteenth per cent. for from 1 to 120 years or periods and carried to nine decimal places ... With miscellaneous tables appended.

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Die design and construction; lanking, piercing, compound, progressive, trimming, flanging, forming, and cam dies.

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A radical and expeditious cure for a recent catarrhous cough : preceded by some observations on respiration, with occasional and practical remarks on some other diseases of the lungs ; To which is added a chapter on the Vis Vitae, so far as it is concerned in preserving and reinstanting the health of an animal ; Accompanied with some strictures on the treatment of compound fractures /

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A radical and expeditious cure for a recent catarrhous cough : preceded by some observations on respiration, with occasional and practical remarks on some other diseases of the lungs ; To which is added a chapter on the Vis Vitae, so far as it is concerned in preserving and reinstanting the health of an animal ; Accompanied with some strictures on the treatment of compound fractures /

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Résultats obtenus à la Compagnie de l'Est, jusqu'au 1er octobre 1902, par l'emploi de tiroirs cylindriques sur les locomotives compound à quatre cylindres /

Extracted from "Mémoires de la Société des ingénieurs civils de France," (September 1902).

Cortone (cortisone, compound E) in veterinary medicine; a syllabus with annotated bibliography.

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