A coordination cage with an elusive icosahedral geometry was obtained by K+-induced rearrangement of a hexanuclear [(cymene)Ru(pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate)]6 complex.

The remediation of groundwater contaminated with benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and the xylenes (BTEX) typically involves in situ biodegradation. Although the mechanisms of aerobic BTEX biodegradation in laboratory cultures have been well studied, less is known about the microorganisms responsible in mixed culture samples or at contaminated sites. In this study, the microorganisms responsible ...

OBJECTIVES Previous research on a group of workers occupationally exposed to styrene, ethylene glycol, toluene, p-xylene and their mixture showed elevated levels of the main products of lipid peroxidation: malondialdehyde and 4-hydroxynonenal (MDA+,4-HNE) in plasma [1]. Moreover, an earlier in vitro study indicated a synergistic interaction between styrene and ethylene glycol on lipid peroxidat...

New compounds having two indolizine nuclei in a molecule were prepared in low to moderate yields from the reactions of potassium 2-indolizinethiolates with 1,omega-dihalides such as 1,2-diiodoethane, 1,3-dibromopropane, 1,4-dibromobutane, alpha,alpha'-dichloro-o-xylene, and alpha,alpha'-dichloro-p-xylene. Most of the products had the conformation in which the two indolizine rings in the molecul...

Xylene is a hydrocarbon solvent found in various industrial preparations such as paint and is widely used in pathology laboratories. When inadvertently instilled into the eye significant ocular injury can occur with the potential for blindness. Such injuries to the ocular surface resemble those due to alkali. Ocular surface injury due to xylene has not been reported previously in the literature...

Construction of a hybrid strain which is capable of mineralizing components of a benzene, toluene, and p-xylene mixture simultaneously was attempted by redesigning the metabolic pathway of Pseudomonas putida. Genetic and biochemical analyses of the tod and the tol pathways revealed that dihydrodiols formed from benzene, toluene, and p-xylene by toluene dioxygenase in the tod pathway could be ch...

MIL-125 is a metal-organic framework with great potential for the adsorption and separation of xylene isomers. However, usually synthesized under anhydrous anaerobic conditions. In this study, homogeneously shaped highly crystalline was by introducing water-resistant titanium-containing oligomers into synthesis process. With assistance novel oligomers, can be in presence water, which meets batc...