BACKGROUND Acrylates constitute an important cause of occupational contact dermatitis. Isobornyl acrylate sensitization has been reported in only 2 cases. We encountered an industrial process operator with occupational contact dermatitis caused by isobornyl acrylate. OBJECTIVES (i) To investigate whether it is relevant to add isobornyl acrylate to the (meth)acrylate test series. (ii) To repor...

sFreidig A. P., Hermens J. L. M. (1995). Estimating the bioavailable aqueous concentra-tion of organic micropollutants with an equilibrium solid phase extraction. Second SETACWorld Congress, Vancouver, Canada.Freidig A., Verhaar H., Hermens J. (1997). A cell-physiological model for the acute toxic-ity of acrylates and methacrylates in fish, based on chemical reactivity. 18th...

BACKGROUND Chairs and sofas imported from China to Europe were shown to contain dimethyl fumarate (DMF), a sensitizing, volatile chemical. Many of the sensitized patients also had positive patch test reactions to acrylates. OBJECTIVES To analyse the occurrence and strength of DMF sensitization and the appearance of concomitant reactions. METHODS Patch testing with DMF in concentrations of 0...

A spin-forbidden reaction is a reaction in which the total electronic spin-state changes. The standard transition-state theory that assumes a reaction occurs on a single potential energy surface with spin-conservation cannot be applied to a spin-forbidden reaction directly. In this work, we derive the crossing coefficient based on the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) theory to quantify the effec...

Effect of alkyl group substituents on the thermal and enzymatic degradation of poly (n-alkyl acrylates) J. P. Mahalik and Giridhar Madras∗ Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-12 Abstract The effect of alkyl group substituents on the thermal degradation kinetics of poly (n-alkyl acrylate) was investigated in pyrolysis and in solution. The activation energie...

New tripodal gem-(bis-phosphonates) uranophiles were discovered by a screening method that allowed for the selection of ligands with strong uranyl-binding properties in a convenient microtiter-plate format. The method is based on competitive uranium binding by using Sulfochlorophenol S as chromogenic chelate. This dye compound was found to present high uranyl complexation properties and allowed...

α-Functionalized acrylamides have not been considered as an effective monomer design due to their poor polymerizability, although the analogues, α-functionalized acrylates, are attractive monomers of which polymers exhibit characteristic properties. In this article, we report the first example of radical polymerization of α-functionalized N,N-disubstituted acrylamide affording thermo-responsive...

Computer simulations are performed to study the polymerization behavior in a mixture of bifunctional groups such as olefins (A) and acrylates (B) in an effective solvent (a coarse description for vegetable oil derived macromonomers (VOMMs) in solution) on a cubic lattice. A set of interactions between these units and solvent (S) constituents and their relative concentrations (p(A), p(B), and p(...

CONTEXT Thiomers could prove to be suitable mucoadhesives for fabrication of ocular inserts. OBJECTIVE The study intends to explore the application of thiolated sodium alginate (TSA) to the preparation of bilayered ocular inserts of gatifloxacin. METHODS Cysteine moieties were grafted onto sodium alginate (SA) and the resultant thiomer was characterized for relevant physicochemical properti...

The validity of the time-intensity superposition principle for the photoinitiated polymerization of nanocomposites based on a monofunctional fluorinated acrylate and on a multifunctional hyperbranched polyether acrylate was investigated in this work. Master curves were obtained for the conversion as a function of time, measured by photo differential scanning calorimetry, by shifting on the time...