We have developed a colorimetric assay for determining the degree of glycation of serum proteins that is unaffected by glycosylation residues. This was accomplished by reducing the proteins with sodium borohydride prior to periodate oxidation. Previous periodate-based methods, which offer several advantages over other glycation assays, cannot determine glycoprotein glycation because interferenc...

Surface oxidized carbon vulcane XC-72 is prepared as catalyst support and platinumnanoparticles are chemically anchored onto the modified surface. The nanoparticles of Pt weresynthesized by reduction of H2PtCl6 with sodium borohydride in a 5.5 M buffer solution ofsodium citrate; the complexation of citrate with metal ions is beneficial to the formation ofnanoparticles. The electro-oxidation of ...

Abstract Synthesis of silver nanoparticles was successfully synthesized by a chemical reduction method using nitrate (AgNO 3 ) as precursor and sodium borohydride (NaBH 4 reducing agent. The optical properties were studied based on their surface plasmon resonance (SPR) phenomenon UV-Visible spectrophotometry. absorbance spectra colloidal show the peak at wavelength range 380 nm to 450 nm. Collo...

The ‘living’ species selenide anion Se2, generated in situ by the reduction of 1,2-bis(bis(4-chlorophenyl)methyl)diselane with sodium borohydride, was treated with various organic halides to afford synthetically important organoselenium compounds including α,ω-diselenoethers and selenides bearing ester functionality, under mild and neutral conditions. These compounds have been characterized ana...

An analytical method for dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) in aqueous samples at nanomolar levels has been improved. DMSO was reduced to dimethyl sulfide (DMS), concentrated on an adsorbent, and measured by gas chromatography. In the presence of iron chloride, the sodium borohydride (NaBH4) reduction of DMSO proceeded smoothly and efficiently, and the repeatability of this reaction was significantly im...

Dihydrouridine residues in bakers’ yeast transfer RNA were reductively cleaved with sodium borohydride. The amino acid acceptor activity of three species of transfer RNA and the ribosoma binding of one species of transfer RNA were determined for these modified transfer RNAs. The data indicate that the reductive cleavage of the dihydrouridine residues in these transfer RNAs has no effect upon th...

Tritiated uridine-5'-diphosphogalactose (UDP-[3H]Gal) has been widely used to study oligosaccharide biosynthesis and structure. It can be synthesized either chemically or enzymatically using galactose oxidase to oxidize the hydroxyl moiety at C-6 to an aldehyde (6-aldo-UDP-Gal), which is then reduced back to the alcohol with tritiated sodium borohydride. Although the enzymatic approach is simpl...

A sensitive method is described for the detection of glycoproteins after polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Dansyl hydrazine is condensed with aldehydic functions generated by periodate oxidation of protein bound carbohydrate. The resulting hydrazones are reduced to the stable hydrazine derivatives with sodium borohydride. After destaining, the fluorescent-labeled glycoproteins are visualized ...

Both diastereoisomers of S-tert-butyl-beta-(trifluoromethyl)isocysteine have been synthesized stereoselectively by the sequential reactions of trifluoroacetimidoyl chloride with the lithium enolate of tert-butyl alpha-tert-butylthioacetate, followed by the diastereoselective reduction of the imino group with sodium borohydride in the presence of zinc(II) or di(ethylene glycol) dimethyl ether, a...

1. Conditions were established for the reaction of retinal with phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, ethanolamine and serine in chloroform, ethanol or ethanol-water solutions to form retinylidene compounds, or Schiff bases. 2. The Schiff bases were reduced to retinyl compounds with sodium borohydride. 3. Absorption maxima and molar extinction coefficients were determined for the variou...