Part of the northern Palatinate region in Germany is characterized by elevated levels of arsenic and antimony in the soil due to the presence of ore sources and former mining activities. In a biomonitoring study, 218 residents were investigated for a putative increased intake of these elements. Seventy-six nonexposed subjects in a rural region in south lower Saxony were chosen as the reference ...

A few months ago we refused to publish in this journal an advertisement of an antimony preparation which was said to be a specific remedy for malaria in all forms. This preparation appeared to be an ordinary pentavalent one. In our present number we publish an article by P. C. Sen Gupta on malaria complicating kala-azar, in which it is recorded that malaria may occur during or immediately after...

The multilayer antimony-doped tin dioxide coating was obtained by cathodic deposition of multilayer metal-hydroxide coating with near 100-nm thickness layers on the alloy underlayer accompanied by the anodic oxidation of this coating. The potential regions of deposition of tin, antimony, tin-antimony alloy, and mixture of this metals and their hydroxides in the pyrophosphate-tartrate electrolyt...

The formation of chiral (R)-[2-(4-ethyl-2-oxazolinyl)phenyl]tellurium(IV) trihalides (trichloride (5), tribromide (6) and triiodide (7)) and (R)-[2-(4-ethyl-2-oxazolinyl)phenyl]tellurium(II) bromide (8) is described. The molecular structure of the first chiral organotellurium(IV) triiodide (7) is discussed. The most interesting feature of the structure of 5 is the observation of the shortest in...

A method for rapid and accurate determination of trace quantities of SbIII was developed based on its inhibitory effect on the decolorizing reaction of methyl orange in the presence of bromate and bromide ions in acidic media. Decolorization of methyl orange by the reaction products was used to monitor the reaction spectrophotometrically at 525 nm. The method allows determination of antimony in...

The single crystals of the new isostructural compounds Sb3O4F and Y0.5Sb2.5O4F and the two previously known compounds M-SbOF and α-Sb3O2F5 were successfully grown by a hydrothermal technique at 230 °C. The new compound Sb3O4F crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/c; a = 5.6107(5) Å, b = 4.6847(5) Å, c = 20.2256(18) Å, β = 94.145(8)°, z = 4. The replacing part of Sb with Y means a sligh...

17 Antimony-based drugs are still the mainstay of chemotherapy against Leishmania infections in 18 many endemic countries. Efficacy of antimonials has been compromised by increasing numbers of 19 resistant infections, the basis of which is not fully understood and likely involves multiple factors. 20 By using a functional cloning strategy he have recently identified a novel antimony resistance ...