BACKGROUND: The aim of our investigation was to estimate the stability of alpha-tocopheryl O-glycosides in relation to activity of exoglycosidases in selected rat tissues. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Acetylated glycosides were obtained in glucosidation of alpha-tocopherol using the Helferich method. The activity of exoglycosidases was determined by the Zwierz et al. method. Protein concentrations wer...

A mol of creatine kinase (EC 2.7.3.2), an enzyme with two identical subunits can be titrated very rapidly and stoichiometrically with 2 mol of 2-chloromercuri-4-nitrophenol, an environmentally sensitive chromophoric probe specific for thiols. Chemical modification does not inactivate the enzyme nor can the reaction be prevented by a dead-end quaternary complex of enzyme, magnesium, ADP, and cre...

Structural water molecules adsorbed on Au nanoparticles in the form of {OH − ·H 2 O@Au NPs} were identified as catalytical-active sites 4-nitrophenol reduction, which is extremely sensitive to subtle changes surrounding microenvironment.

The 6SA-CASSCF(10, 10)/6-31G (d, p) quantum chemistry method has been applied to perform on-the-fly trajectory surface hopping simulation with global switching algorithm and to explore excited-state intramolecular proton transfer reactions for the o-nitrophenol molecule within low-lying electronic singlet states (S0 and S1) and triplet states (T1 and T2). The decisive photoisomerization mechani...

Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTMAB)-bentonite was produced by the exchange of cetyltrimethylammonium (CTMA) cations for inorganic ions on the internal and external surfaces of bentonite. CTMAB-bentonite was used to remove organic contaminants of varying polar character from water. The properties and mechanisms for CTMABbentonite to sorb benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, nitrobenzene, aniline, ...

Phenol and it derivatives are considered as one of the priority pollutants in waste water, because they are harmful to organisms even at very low concentrations. The control as well as removal of these organic compounds has become an important issue due to stringent measures introduced by various countries to enforce regulations concerning wastes originating from various industries. Hence, wast...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNP) are widely used for reaction catalysis. The common understanding is that the smaller particles, more reactive they are. It reported here this not always case citrate (Ct) or polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) stabilized AuNP in catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol with sodium borohydride (NaBH4), when total surface area kept constant. results prove size range 10–58 nm, reactiv...

Abstract It is challenging to develop a material which has low cost, high activity, good stability and recyclability under light exposure. Apart from these properties, the photocatalyst should also have visible region absorbance electron-hole pair recombination rate. Keeping all this in view, we designed simple scalable synthesis of ZnO–ZnS heterostructures for photocatalytic treatment industri...

The Henry's Law coefficient is a key physical parameter in the partitioning, and hence environmental fate, of a chemical species between air and water. Despite the acknowledged polluting potential of phenol, 2-methylphenol (o-cresol) and 2nitrophenol, there is extremely poor agreement in the literature of their Henry's law coefficients and, in particular, no apparent systematic measurement of t...