The present study deals with experiments so as to highlight the solute (drug albendazole) – solvent ( water) interactions and related thermodynamic modifications in presence of the hydrotropic agent nicotinamide at different temperatures T (= 298.15 to 313.15)K. Density and conductivity values of albendazole have been determined in water in (0.08 to 0.98) mol dm-3 aqueous solutions of nicotinam...

a series of copper and cobalt substituted nanospinel ferrites have been synthesized by the hydrothermal method. these compounds were characterized by ft-ir, xrd, edx, sem and vsm techniques. all of the synthesized nanospinel ferrites were found to be highly efficient and magnetically recoverable in the solvent-free synthesis of substituted 2,6-(2-hydroxybenzyl)-phenols (trisphenols). a wide ran...

Recombinant pharmaceutical proteins are being produced in different systems such as bacteria and mammalian cell cultures. The use of transgenic plants as bioreactors has recently arisen as an alternative system offering many practical and economic advantages. However, finding an optimum strategy for the downstream processing (DSP) of recombinant proteins from plants still remains a challenge. I...

Molecular dynamics simulations of the infrared spectrum of a generic simple polar diatomic in a liquid nonpolar solvent allow to reproduce the different prototypical experimental line shapes of this kind of systems. This is feasible by using different solute-solvent anisotropic potentials at fixed thermodynamic conditions. In the limit cases, the rotation of the diatomic is explained in terms o...

We have studied the micellization of surfactants SDS, CTAB and tweens-80 using a series of Ethylene glycol/water and formamide/water mixed solvents using surface tension, viscosity and conductance measurements. The results are compared with those reported in pure water for the same surfactants. The critical micelle concentration (cmc) shifts to lower values upon increasing the ratio of Ethylene...

An analytical description of the interface motion of a collapsing nanometer-sized spherical cavity in water is presented by a modification of the Rayleigh-Plesset equation in conjunction with explicit solvent molecular dynamics simulations. Quantitative agreement is found between the two approaches for the time-dependent cavity radius R(t) at different solvent conditions while in the continuum ...

In this work, the phase behavior of linear poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPA) in water–solvent mixtures was investigated. Several solvents, including low molecular weight alcohols, were selected and phase separation temperatures were determined through cloud point measurements. All the studied systems exhibited the cononsolvency effect, i.e. lower PNIPA compatibility within definite ranges of ...

A study was undertaken of the solvolysis of pivaloyl triflate in a variety of ionic liquid:alcohol solvent mixtures. The solvolysis is a kΔ process (i.e., a process in which ionization occurs with rearrangement), and the resulting rearranged carbocation intermediate reacts with the alcohol cosolvent via two competing pathways: nucleophilic attack or elimination of a proton. Five different ionic...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a major class of organic hydrocarbons with high molecular weight that originate from both natural and anthropogenic sources. Sixteen PAHs are included in the U.S Environmental Protection agency list of priority pollutants due to their mutagenic, carcinogenic, toxic and teratogenic properties. In this study, the development and optimization of a simpli...