Degradation of bis(2-chloroethyl) ether (BCEE) was observed to occur in two bacterial strains. Strain ENV481, a Xanthobacter sp. strain, was isolated by enrichment culturing of samples from a Superfund site located in the northeastern United States. The strain was able to grow on BCEE or 2-chloroethylethyl ether as the sole source of carbon and energy. BCEE degradation in strain ENV481 was faci...

Ten novel 4-(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yloxy)phenoxy acetates and 4-(4,6-dimethylpyrimidin-2-yloxy)phenoxy acetates were synthesized with hydroquinone, 2-methylsulfonyl-4,6-disubstituted-pyrimidine and chloroacetic ester as starting materials. The products were characterized by IR, (1)H-NMR, MS spectra and elemental analyses. Preliminary bioassay indicates that the target compounds possess high ...

The N Q R of a quadrupolar probe nucleus is often used to investigate the effect of substituent in molecules. The inductive effect, based on a partial charge migration along the molecular skeleton is the only one present in saturated aliphatics, the conjugative effect appearing in conjugated molecules, especially aromatics. As the stepwise charge migration mechanism, formerly used to explain th...

The use of 4-amino-5-benzyl-4H-[1,2,4]triazole-3-thiol (1) as a precursor to synthesize some new biologically active heterocycles has been found to be effective. Condensation of 1 with appropriate aldehydes gave the new Schiff bases 2a, b, which either by cyclization with thioglycolic acid gave 3a, b, or by Mannich reaction using morpholine gave 4a, b. Reaction of 1 with different halogen compo...