Kinetics of the neutral hydrolysis of 4-nitrophenyl chloroacetate was investigated in water and in the presence of 1 mol % of ethanol, propanol, and -butyl n alcohol without sonication and under ultrasound at 25 kHz. Similarly, the kinetics of the acid-catalysed hydrolysis of -propyl n acetate in ethanol–water binary solutions was investigated without sonication and under ultrasound at 22 kHz. ...

Coalescence frequency and lifetimes of thin aqueous films formed between nitrogen bubbles were measured in dilute solutions of sodium lauryl suitate, «-amyl alcohol, and 1-butanol. The bubble pairs were formed on two adjacent capillary tubes by use of a microprocessor-controlled stepping motor, and the coalescence time was determined by an optical sensing method. For low-molecular weight alcoho...

A novel, high hydrolysis ratio sol-gel route for the biocompatible production of macroporous silica gels is presented. This route exploits the two step nature of the gelation reaction to remove undesired alcohol by-products from an acidic aqueous sol prior to gelation. These alcohol-free sols will gel when the pH is raised to the physiologic range in a two-step, acid/base catalyzed process. Fur...

Laser capture microdissection of frozen tissue sections allows homogeneous cell populations to be isolated for expression profiling. However, this requires striking a balance between retaining adequate morphology for accurate microdissection and maintaining RNA integrity. Various staining protocols were applied to frozen endometrial carcinoma tissue sections. Although alcohol-based methods were...

A unique supramolecular helix assisted by water tetramers is obtained by static evaporation of aqueous solution of a zwitterionic salt, 1,1'-bis(4-carboxylatebenzyl)-4,4'-bipyridinium; spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking occurs in crystallization; interestingly, redox chromism behavior of crystals upon exposure to alcohol atmosphere has been observed.