Techniques for detecting and quantifying anaerobic transformations of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX) are needed to assess the feasibility of using in situ bioremediation to treat BTEX-contaminated groundwater aquifers. Deuterated surrogates of toluene (toluene-d8) and xylene (o-xylene-d10) were injected into BTEX-contaminated aquifers during single-well push-pull tests to mon...

A comprehensive suite of vertically-resolved volatile organic compound (VOC) measurements were conducted at the Bolder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) in Erie, Colorado from 18 February to 13 March 2011 as part of the Nitrogen, Aerosol Composition, and Halogens on a tall tower (NACHTT) campaign. The main purpose of this experiment was to investigate and quantify the contribution of monoterpene ox...

Ultraselective and sensitive detection of xylene and toluene with minimum interferences of other indoor air pollutants such as benzene, ethanol, and formaldehyde is achieved using NiO hierarchical nanostructures doped with Cr. Pure and 1.15-2.56 at% Cr-doped NiO flower-like hierarchical nanostructures assembled from nanosheets are prepared by a simple solvothermal reaction and their gas sensing...

This study presents levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) measured indoors for the first time in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and quantifies health risk children emphasizing urgent need to improve control indoor VOCs sources. The 583 samples collected at 144 sites, including new buildings, old apartments, schools, workplaces, kindergartens, baishin, Mongolian traditional gers, hospitals, shoppi...

The solubility ternary system was used to develop a hollow fiber-supported liquid membrane process for the extraction of gold (I) cyanide from electronics industry wastewater. Five kinds diluents (p-xylene, cyclohexene, 1-dodecanol, n-heptane, and n-dodecane) were applied systems (Aliquat336 + water diluents) at 303.2 K atmospheric pressure. p-xylene, cyclohexane selected because they are compl...

Dicationic sandwich complexes containing thiophene, 2-methylthiophene7 2,5-dimethylthiophene, and tetramethylthiophene react with ammonia to give salts of the formula [(ring)Ru(SC4R4NH2)lX where ring = CsMe6 or cymene. The thiophene, 2-methylthiophene, and 2,5-dimethylthiophene complexes undergo C-S cleavage to give iminium-thiolato derivatives. In the case of the 2,5-dimethylthiophene complex,...

Examples of singly-metallated derivatives of 1,1'-bis(o-carborane) have been prepared and spectroscopically and structurally characterised. Metallation of [7-(1'-1',2'-closo-C2B10H11)-7,8-nido-C2B9H10](2-) with a {Ru(p-cymene)}(2+) fragment affords both the unisomerised species [1-(1'-1',2'-closo-C2B10H11)-3-(p-cymene)-3,1,2-closo-RuC2B9H10] (2) and the isomerised [8-(1'-1',2'-closo-C2B10H11)-2...

Reactions of [(η(6)-cymene)Ru(μ-Cl)Cl]2 with acylpyrazolone ligands HQ' (HQ' in general; in detail, HQ(CH2Cl) = 2-chloro-1-(5-hydroxy-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)ethanone), HQ(hex) = 1-(5-hydroxy-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)heptan-1-one), HQ(nPe) = 1-(5-hydroxy-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)-3,3-dimethylbutan-1-one)), in the presence of base, gave the corresponding [(η(6)-cymene...