SITTING as it does astride the portal circulation, the liver is intimately connected with regulating the plasma concentrations of many, if not all, substances absorbed from the gut. Copper is no exception to this rule for although it is, physiologically speaking, a trace metal in man it is an ubiquitous element in nature and is found in many articles of diet and in significant amounts in drinki...

The synthesis, structure, and photoluminescence properties are described for the three-coordinate mononuclear and dinuclear complexes [H(2)B(3,5-(CF(3))(2)Pz)(2)]M(2,4,6-collidine), M(1)(), and [[3,5-(CF(3))(2)Pz]M(2,4,6-collidine)](2), M(2)(), respectively (M = Cu; Ag). The solids exhibit bright blue phosphorescence, at room temperature for the copper compounds and at 77 K for all compounds. A...

My group developed a simple method to prepare copper nitride fine particles from copper carboxylate in a solvent of long-chain alcohols without the use of high temperatures or high pressures. By selecting copper acetate or copper decanoate as the copper source, my group demonstrated that the morphology of the copper nitride fine particles varied between cubic and plate-like, respectively. Altho...

Copper, an essential transient element, can be toxic to cells when present in excess. Altered copper homeostasis is involved in pathological events of many diseases. Human CUTA isoform2 is a member of cation tolerance protein (CutA1) family. In this study, we examined the effect of CUTA isoform2 overexpression on copper toxicity. It was shown that overexpressed CUTA isoform2 sensitized HeLa cel...

Understanding the metal-binding properties and solution states of metallo-chaperones is a key step in understanding how they function in metal ion transfer. Using spectroscopic, bioanalytical and biochemical methods, we have investigated the copper-binding properties and association states of the putative copper chaperone of Bacillus subtilis, CopZ, and a variant of the protein lacking the two ...

the structure and properties of niobapyrimidinium complex were examined by density functionaltheory method (mpw1pw91). the effect of solvent on the structural parameters, frontier orbitalenergies and hyperpolarizability (
tot) of this molecule has been explored. the thermodynamicproperties of the title compound at different temperatures have been calculated. also, the parasubstitutionseffect on...

copper (ii) phthalocyanine and 2, 9, 16, 23 tetrakis nitro copper (ii) phthalocyanine has been synthesized respectively from phthalonitrile and 4-nitro phthalonitrile under solvent-free condition using two different catalysts over nanodimensional zeolites. 4-nitro phthalonitrile synthesized from phthaimide in three steps. the newly prepared compounds have been characterized by ir, uv-vis,1h nm...