Check gland secretions were collected from sexually mature male and female rats to identify the volatile compounds using gas chromatography linked mass spectroscopy with a modified head space technique. Twenty one volatile fractions including alkanes, aliphatic acids, esters and alcohols were found. Three compounds viz. 3-octen-1-ol (E) (I), cyclopentane undecanoic acid (II) and 2,4,6,8 tetrame...

Poly(tert-octyl acrylamide)-poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide) nanoparticles are prepared by RAFT dispersion polymerization at 70 °C in various n-alkanes. Thermoreversible flocculation occurs higher n-alkanes on cooling to 20 °C.

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Petroleum hydrocarbons are important energy resources used by industry and in our daily life, whose production contributes highly to environmental pollution. To control such risk, bioremediation constitutes an environmentally friendly alternative technology that has been established and applied. It constitutes the primary mechanism for the elimination of hydrocarbons from contaminated sites by ...

We compare the low bias conductance of a series of alkanes terminated on their ends with dimethyl phosphines, methyl sulfides, and amines and find that junctions formed with dimethyl phosphine terminated alkanes have the highest conductance. We see unambiguous conductance signatures with these link groups, indicating that the binding is well-defined and electronically selective. This allows a d...

Oxidation of n-alkanes in bacteria is normally initiated by an enzyme system formed by a membrane-bound alkane hydroxylase and two soluble proteins, rubredoxin and rubredoxin reductase. Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains PAO1 and RR1 contain genes encoding two alkane hydroxylases (alkB1 and alkB2), two rubredoxins (alkG1 and alkG2), and a rubredoxin reductase (alkT). We have localized the promoters...

A quadrupole-based mass spectrometer equipped with an electrospray ionization source was used to examine the gas-phase reactivity of various vanadium-oxide cations which mediate the oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of small alkenes and alkanes. For ion generation, a solution of V6O7(OMe)12 dissolved in deuterated methanol was subjected electrospray under very harsh conditions to obtain smaller v...

Millimolar bulk concentrations of the surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) induce spreading of alkanes, H(CH(2))(n)H (denoted C(n)) 12< or =n< or =21, on the water surface, which is not otherwise wet by these alkanes. The novel Langmuir-Gibbs film (LGF) formed is a liquidlike monolayer comprising both alkanes and CTAB tails. Upon cooling, an ordering transition occurs, yielding a he...

We report the structural and functional features of two new catalysts: a mononuclear [Fe(N5mpy)(CH3CN)] (BF4)2 (N5mpy = (N,N 0E,N,N0E)-N,N0-(pyridine-2,6-diylbis (ethan-1-yl-1-ylidene))bis(1-(pyridin-2-yl)methanamine)) complex and a binuclear {[Fe(N5mpy)]2O}(BF4)4 complex. Both compounds catalyze the oxidation of alkanes by H2O2, in MeCN or acetone to yield alcohols and ketones. Moderate to goo...