Alkaline treatment of the Ectothiorhodospira sp. light harvesting system II induces monomerisation of the bacteriochlorophylls and a bleaching of the carotenoid absorption bands in the visible region. Concomitantly, the maximum of absorption observed around 373 nm shifts towards 354 nm. This shift does not result from the Soret band but from a change of the absorption properties of the caroteno...

Hydrogen peroxide is an environmentally friendly bleaching chemical that widely used in alkaline media the pulp and paper industry. In this study, unconventional reaction conditions of conventional P-stage were performed to evaluate its effect on cellulose. The objective was “tailor” cellulose degradation according different applications, such as dissolving pulps. Different operating studied: p...

A number of new binuclear complexes have been synthesised by interaction of stable Ni(II) and Cu(II) metal chelates of p-Methylisonitroacetosophenone with Alkaline earth metal salts having general formula[Ma(p-MeINAP)2MbL2 or MbX2]where Ma=Ni(II) or Cu(II),p-MeINAP = deprotonated pMethyiIsonitrosoacetophenone, Mb= Ca ++ or Mg ++ ,L = deprotonated ortho amino benzoic acid and 8hydroxyquinoline X...

With p-nitrophenyl phosphate as the substrate, there reportedly is no organ-specific inhibition of alkaline phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1) activity by L-phenylalanine. However, we found that at pH 10.0, with p-nitrophenyl phosphate as the substrate, L-phenylalanine obviously inhibits the alkaline phosphatase isoenzyme from human placenta, whereas there is little if any inhibition of the isoenzyme fro...

Monoclonal antibodies directed against several herpes simplex virus (HSV)-induced DNA-binding proteins were used to investigate protein interactions in HSV-infected cells. Q1 monoclonal antibody, which is specific for the HSV-induced alkaline nuclease, when used in an immunoadsorbant column resulted in the purification of the alkaline nuclease, to which large quantities of the major DNA-binding...

Purely inorganic reactions of silica, metal carbonates, and metal hydroxides can produce self-organized complex structures that mimic the texture of biominerals, the morphology of primitive organisms, and that catalyze prebiotic reactions. To date, these fascinating structures have only been synthesized using model solutions. We report that mineral self-assembly can be also obtained from natura...

Manganese oxides have a relatively long history in the world of battery chemistry, dating back to the work of Leclanché in the 1860s, which ultimately formed the basis for the now-ubiquitous primary 1.5 V Zn/ MnO2 alkaline cell.1 In the alkaline cell, manganese oxide (typically in the γMnO2 form) serves as the active cathode material, and stores charge via the insertion of protons from the aque...