The interactions between contaminations of U(VI) and silicon oxide nanoparticles (SONPs), both of which have been widely used in modern industry and induced serious environmental challenge due to their high mobility, bioavailability, and toxicity, were studied under different environmental conditions such as pH, temperature, and natural organic matters (NOMs) by using both batch and spectroscop...

An active Neurospora-like assimilatory NADPH-nitrate reductase (EC 1.6.6.2), which can be formed in vitro by incubation of extracts of nitrate-induced Neurospora crassa mutant nit-1 with extracts of (a) certain other nonallelic nitrate reductase mutants, (b) uninduced wild type, or (c) xanthine oxidizing and liver aldehyde-oxidase systems was also formed by combination of the nit-1 extract with...

Chiral C(2)-symmetric electroactive bis(oxazolines) containing an EDT-TTF (ethylenedithio-tetrathiafulvalene) backbone, as promising multifunctional ligands and precursors for chiral molecular materials, were synthesized and structurally characterized, together with octahedral molybdenum and tungsten carbonyl complexes.

A terminal molybdenum arsenide complex is synthesized in one step from the reactive As(4) molecule. The properties of this complex with its arsenic atom ligand are discussed in relation to the analogous nitride and phosphide complexes.

Various natural and anthropogenic reasons lead to the presence of heavy metals in natural waters: (i) Mobilisation from soils or rocks during the natural water circulation, (ii) discharge of effluents of actual or former mining, (iii) discharge of waste effluents e.g. from the mineral processing and metal finishing industries, (iv) unlawful discharge of waste water into the underground by indiv...

The dioxomolybdenum(VI) complexes [MoO2Cl2] (1), [MoO2(acac)2] (2), [MoO2(S2CNEt2)2] (3), [CpMoO2Cl] (4), [MoO2(mes)2] (5) and the polymeric organotin-oxomolybdates [(R3Sn)2MoO4] [R = n-Bu (6), t-Bu (7), Me (8)] were examined as catalysts for the hydrosilylation of aldehydes and ketones with dimethylphenylsilane. Of these, [MoO2Cl2] (1) was the most efficient catalyst, affording quantitative yi...