Background: Blood glucose levels are elevated during the perioperative period as a result of the neuro-endocrine response to the stress of surgery. In nondiabetic patients, blood glucose levels are not a part of routine preoperative testing nor are they monitored during surgery or in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU). We measured blood glucose levels in nondiabetic patients during the periop...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, (C(14)H(17)N(2)S(2))[Ru(C(10)H(14))Cl(3)], contains a 1,3-bis-(thio-phen-2-ylmeth-yl)-3,4,5,6-tetra-hydro-pyrimidinium cation and a trichlorido(η(6)-p-cymene)ruthenate(II) anion. The Ru atom exhibits a distorted octa-hedral coordination with the benzene ring of the p-cymene ligand formally occupying three sites and three chloride atoms occupying the ot...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the chemical composition and antimicrobial activity of Satureja hortensis and Trachyspermum copticum essential oils against different kinds of microorganisms in vitro. MATERIAL AND METHODS The antimicrobial activity was evaluated by micro broth dilution assay and the chemical composition of essential oils was analyzed by GC and G...

The hydrogen-bonded arene ruthenium metalla-rectangle, [(p-cymene)2Ru2(OO∩OO)(UPy)2]2(4+), obtained from 1-(4-oxo-6-undecyl-1,4-dihydropyrimidin-2-yl)-3-(pyridin-4-ylmethyl)urea (UPy) and the dinuclear arene ruthenium clip (p-cymene)2Ru2(OO∩OO)Cl2 (OO∩OO = 2,5-dioxido-1,4-benzoquinonato), is investigated by means of solution-phase NMR spectroscopy. Rotating frame nuclear Overhauser effect measu...

Long-term ambulatory electrocardiographic (Holter) monitoring is frequently used to evaluate patients with various cardiovascular complaints, including palpitations, dyspnea, discomfort in the chest, dizziness, and syncope. In the present study, 518 consecutive 24-hour electrocardiographic recordings were reviewed to determine correlations between cardiac diagnoses, presenting complaints, and s...

Dissolution with suitable solvents is one of the cheapest and more efficient processes for polystyrene waste management. In this work the solubility of polystyrene foams in several solvents benzene, toluene, xylene, tetrahydrofuran, chloroform, 1,3-butanediol, 2-butanol, linalool, geraniol, d-limonene, p-cymene, terpinene, phellandrene, terpineol, menthol, eucalyptol, cinnamaldheyde, nitrobenze...

Cationic tetranuclear and hexanuclear opened metalla-assemblies incorporating 5,15-bis(4-pyridyl)-10,20-diphenylporphyrin (bpp) or 5,10,15-tris(4-pyridyl)-20-phenylporphyrin (tpp) panels and dinuclear arene ruthenium clips [(p-cymene)(2)Ru(2)(OO[intersection]OO)(2)](2+) (OO[intersection]OO = oxalato, 2,5-dioxydo-1,4-benzoquinonato (dobq)) have been assembled in the presence of silver triflate. ...

The tandem catalysis of ring-closing metathesis/atom transfer radical reactions was investigated with the homobimetallic ruthenium-indenylidene complex [(p-cymene)Ru(μ-Cl)₃RuCl(3-phenyl-1-indenylidene)(PCy₃)] (1) to generate active species in situ. The two catalytic processes were first carried out independently in a case study before the whole sequence was optimized and applied to the synthesi...

Ruthenium complexes are an object of great attention in the field of medicinal chemistry because of their selective antimetastatic properties and low systemic toxicity in comparison to cisplatin, the widely used antitumor drug. Ruthenium-para-cymene-μ-O-dichloride, a newly synthesised Ruthenium compound was used against Dalton’s lymphoma in vivo and in vitro to examine the cytotoxicity of the d...