4-Methyl-5-imidazolecarboxyaldehyde (HL) reacts with copper() perchlorate to give the complex [Cu(HL)3](ClO4)2. Its X-ray structure reveals that three ligands are bonded to the copper() ion in a bidentate chelate fashion through the imidazole nitrogens and aldehyde oxygen atoms, leading to a CuN3O3 chromophore. Carbonyl co-ordination to copper() is not usual, in fact there are very few re...

Formation damage has been observed in several oil reservoirs and production equipment in Iranian oil fields. Laboratory and field testing confirmed that the primary cause of damage was the build-up of calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate and strontium sulfate scale either in the perforation tunnels or in the formation sandstone nears the wellbore. Conventional acid treatments could dissolve this ...

The reaction of 1,3-bis(4,6-dimethylpyridyl-2-imino)isoindoline and palladium acetate in methanol selectively yields the expected acetato palladium N,N,N-chelate or a cyclometalated tetranuclear dimer depending on the stoichiometry of the reactants.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the response of physicochemical properties of gerbera (Gerbera Jamesonii L.) to silica nanoparticles (Nanoparticle-SiO2) and calcium chelate (Ca-Chelate) in nutrient solutions. A factorial experiment based on completely randomized design with two factors was conducted in four replicates. The first factor the concentration of Nanoparticle-SiO2 in nutr...

A theoretical study at the B3LYP/6-31++G(d,p) level was performed on the tatumerization of 7H-purine-2, 6-diamine into 9H-purine-2, 6-diamine. Such a tautomerism can take place via three different pathways namely A, B, and C. The energetic results associated with the gas phase reveal that pathways A, B, and C display a very high activation Gibbs free energy of 45.1, 68.6 and 48.9 kcal/mol, resp...

Diamine oxidase (histaminase) is an enzyme found in high concentrations in the intestinal mucosa of humans and other mammalian species. We investigated whether plasma and mucosal levels of diamine oxidase activity reflect both the maturational status of the mucosa during its development in the newborn rate and the degree of mucosal damage during its injury in the adult rat. Litter mates were re...

Plasma diamine oxidase levels were assayed in 66 patients who presented with pregnancy complicated by threatened abortion. Levels within the normal range were associated with continuing pregnancies, whereas levels below the normal range were associated with subsequent abortion. Among those patients in whom gestation was greater than eight weeks, 66.6% of diamine oxidase levels correctly predict...

New diamine coordination compounds with phenyllithium and allyllithium are presented. One of them is the first diamine complex containing two different, simple organolithium reagents. The formation of this unexpected compound is explained using quantum chemical calculations.

The angular correlation of the 173-247 keV gamma-ray cascade after the electron-capture decay of (111)In is strongly perturbed when the 1-p-nitrophenyl-ethylenediaminetetraacetate chelate of (111)In(8+) is added to a solution containing rabbit antibody to dinitrophenyl groups. The radioactive chelate can be displaced by the addition of dinitrophenyllysine or unlabeled chelate. The average assoc...

It is suggested that under physiological conditions (> 1 mM Mg(2+)) MgATP binds to myosin to form a chelate involving the two reactive sulfhydryl sites (SH(1) and SH(2)). The stability of the chelate structure results in marked inhibition of the myosin ATPase in the presence of millimolar magnesium ion. The inhibitory effect of magnesium ion can be eliminated chemically by blocking either the S...