Core-shell polymer particles with different properties were produced through combined suspension-emulsion polymerizations and employed as supports for immobilization of lipase B from Candida antarctica. In order to evaluate how the morphology of the particles affects the immobilization parameters, empirical models were developed to describe the performance of the biocatalysts as a function of t...

Numerical simulation results are presented for a cellulose hydrolysis model which incorporates both the enzymatic glucan chain fragmentation kinetics and the hydrolytic substrate morphology evolution within the general framework of our companion article I. To test the local Poisson (LP) approximation employed in the site number formalism of I, we numerically compare it to the corresponding exac...

Vicagrel, a structural analog of clopidogrel, is now being developed as a thienopyridine antiplatelet agent in a phase II clinical trial in China. Some studies have shown that vicagrel undergoes complete first-pass metabolism in human intestine, generating the hydrolytic metabolite 2-oxo-clopidogrel via carboxylesterase-2 (CES2) and subsequently the active metabolite H4 via CYP450s. This study ...

Non-substituted racemic poly(DL-lactic acid) (PLA) and substituted racemic poly(DL-lactic acid)s or poly(DL-2-hydroxyalkanoic acid)s with different side-chain lengths, i.e., poly(DL-2-hydroxybutanoic acid) (PBA), poly(DL-2-hydroxyhexanoic acid) (PHA), and poly(DL-2-hydroxydecanoic acid) (PDA) were synthesized by acid-catalyzed polycondensation of DL-lactic acid (LA), DL-2-hydroxybutanoic acid (...

Sepsis is the leading cause of death in intensive care units and results from a deleterious systemic host response to infection. Although initially perceived as potentially deleterious, catalytic antibodies have been proposed to participate in removal of metabolic wastes and protection against infection. Here we show that the presence in plasma of IgG endowed with serine protease-like hydrolyti...

Escherichia coli is used as a model organism for elucidation of menaquinone biosynthesis, for which a hydrolytic step from 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl-coenzyme A (DHNA-CoA) to 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoate is still unaccounted for. Recently, a hotdog fold thioesterase has been shown to catalyze this conversion in phylloquinone biosynthesis, suggesting that its closest homolog, YbgC in Escherichia co...

Non-hydrolytic sol–gel strategies allow accessing all-ionic ionosilica ionogels containing up to 80 wt% of supported IL. These phases display modulable electrochemical properties.

synthesis and characterization of 6-(hydroxymethyl)-14, 16-dimethyl-13, 14, 16, 17-tetrahydro-6h-13, 17-epiminodibenzo [e, l] [1, 4] dioxacyclotridecin-15 (7h)-oneabstractnew 6-(hydroxymethyl)-14, 16-dimethyl-13, 14, 16, 17-tetrahydro-6h-13, 17-epiminodibenzo [e, l] [1, 4] dioxacyclotridecin-15 (7h)-one (2a) was synthesized in good yield by the petrenko–kritchenko reaction of 2, 2'-((3-hydroxyp...

schiff base sal-2,5-clan = 2-(2,5-dichlorobenzylideneamino)phenol used as a new precursor for preparation of poly-2-(2,5-dichlorobenzylideneamino)phenol (pdcbap). in an aqueous alkaline medium, naocl oxidant is capable of oxidative poly-condensation reaction (op). both sal-2,5-clan and pdcbap were characterized by solubility tests, ft-ir, 1h-nmr spectroscopy and tg-dta studies. ft-ir and 1h-nmr...